Severn Drive Milnrow, Rochdale

34 addresses across 4 postcodes (OL16), about 250 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32001785.

  • Sales: 38 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £255,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 3, D: 8, E: 5).
  • Flood: 5 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Rochdale costs £2,601 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Smithy Bridge, about 2.5 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Memorial Park, is about 910 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 174 to 182 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 8 of its 34 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Milnrow Village Practice, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 860 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 92% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£255,000£255,000£255,000
20251£315,000£315,000£315,000
20232£245,000£210,000£280,000
20221£240,000£240,000£240,000
20211£240,500£240,500£240,500
20202£212,750£212,000£213,500
20191£255,000£255,000£255,000
20181£160,000£160,000£160,000
20171£185,000£185,000£185,000
20163£175,000£142,000£210,000
20152£163,750£160,000£167,500
20131£200,000£200,000£200,000
Most recent sales (38)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Apr 202622 OL16 3ETSemi-detached£255,000
27 Aug 202523 OL16 3ESDetached£315,000
1 Dec 202318 OL16 3ETDetached£280,000
10 Mar 202324 OL16 3ETSemi-detached£210,000
25 Feb 20227 OL16 3ESDetached£240,000
19 Nov 20214 OL16 3ETDetached£240,500
1 Sep 202018 OL16 3ETDetached£212,000
12 Jun 20206 OL16 3ETDetached£213,500
4 Oct 201923 OL16 3ESDetached£255,000
8 Jun 201821 OL16 3ESSemi-detached£160,000
18 Aug 201728 OL16 3EUDetached£185,000
21 Oct 201623 OL16 3ESDetached£210,000
14 Oct 201629 OL16 3ESSemi-detached£142,000
31 Mar 20163 OL16 3ESDetached£175,000
17 Dec 201513 OL16 3ESDetached£160,000
17 Jul 20155 OL16 3ESDetached£167,500
26 Jul 201326 OL16 3EUDetached£200,000
27 Apr 20129 OL16 3ESSemi-detached£140,000
8 Jan 20105 OL16 3ESDetached£125,000
11 May 200923 OL16 3ESDetached£191,500
11 Jul 200813 OL16 3ESDetached£190,000
13 Dec 200711 OL16 3ESSemi-detached£172,000
12 Jan 200726 OL16 3EUDetached£160,000
15 Dec 20063 OL16 3ESDetached£180,000
16 Dec 200523 OL16 3ESDetached£190,000
30 Sep 20052 OL16 3ETSemi-detached£150,000
3 Feb 200518 OL16 3ETDetached£167,000
17 Sep 200413 OL16 3ESDetached£131,000
8 Oct 200318 OL16 3ETDetached£124,000
19 Sep 200311 OL16 3ESSemi-detached£112,000
18 Oct 200215 OL16 3ESSemi-detached£110,000
19 Jul 200221 OL16 3ESSemi-detached£76,000
17 May 20024 OL16 3ETDetached£82,000
26 Apr 200210 OL16 3ETDetached£95,000
31 Jul 200111 OL16 3ESSemi-detached£63,500
10 Nov 200020 OL16 3ETDetached£74,000
15 Oct 199921 OL16 3ESSemi-detached£59,950
25 Sep 199611 OL16 3ESSemi-detached£48,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from November 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 96 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (8); Bungalow, semi-detached (6); House, detached (3). Built: 1967-1975 (10); 1950-1966 (4); 1976-1982 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Rochdale in 2026-27: Band D £2,601 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,734£2,023£2,312£2,601£3,179£3,757£4,335£5,202

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (45% of about 510 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 10 December 2026 to 16 December 2026: SP Electricity North West, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 2 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
OL16 3ESnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL16 3ETnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL16 3EUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL16 3HLnot in 2 or 3 3 / 1 / 2 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 34 addresses are between 174 m and 182 m above sea level (179 m on average); the ground rises about 8 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
OL16 3ES100%100%100%0%
OL16 3ET100%100%100%0%
OL16 3EU100%100%100%0%
OL16 3HL100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsSmithy Bridge 191,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.5 miles)
Littleborough 378,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Rochdale 1.6 million journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Underground, metro or tramMilnrow (Manchester Metrolink)900 m (0.6 miles)
Newhey (Manchester Metrolink)1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Kingsway Business Park (Manchester Metrolink)1.5 km (1 mile)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pennine Drive Milnrow250 m
Bus or coach stationRochdale Interchange3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Car parksLake Bank Car Park2.2 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN31.6 km (20 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Milnrow Village Practice1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dale Street Dental Practice770 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalBirch Hill Hospital3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Police stationRochdale Police Station4 km (2.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Milnrow, Milnrow Cashzone800 m (0.5 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or gardenMemorial Park 3.6 ha910 m (0.6 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 760 m²1 km (0.7 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.4 ha330 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,520 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Ellenroad Ring Mill, a scheduled monument, 1.3 km (0.8 miles) south. 15 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Ellenroad Ring MillScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cliffe PlantationWood880 m (0.5 miles) south
Annis HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Low House FoldHill1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Bib Knowl PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Rag Hole CloughValley1.6 km (1 mile) east
Ogden ReservoirLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)12.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)12.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5980
Under 552634

8 of the street's 34 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Rochdale: see them on the Rochdale page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Hollingworth AcademySecondary11–16410 m (0.3 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Crossgates Primary SchoolPrimary4–11510 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Milnrow Parish Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11610 m (0.4 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Moorhouse AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas' Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Newhey Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Courtyard Rochdale OL16 1NDPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good31 Jul 2024
Eliza Says OL16 3TROther catering premises350 mAwaiting inspection
Urban Spirit Vodka OL16 3ENManufacturers/packers460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 May 2026
Crossgates Primary School OL16 3TRSchool/college/university460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Feb 2025
Hollingworth Academy OL16 3DRSchool/college/university480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Feb 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (lancashire).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 864 residents in 374 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age5140
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over30%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)92%61%
Owned outright54%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Trent Avenue · Avon Close · Cleveland Drive · Humber Road · Newfield View · Cambrian Drive · Thames Road · Derwent Avenue · Mendip Drive · Pennine Drive · Kensington Close · Cotswold Crescent

All the streets in OL16 and across Rochdale.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.