Sheldon Avenue Urmston, Trafford

8 addresses across 2 postcodes (M41), about 40 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 41002543.

  • Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £330,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 4, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 Trafford costs £2,292 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chassen Road, about 230 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Abbotsfield Park, is about 60 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 23 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 8 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Flixton Road Medical Centre, about 230 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 76% of households owned their home and 48% 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
20251£330,000£330,000£330,000
20212£279,000£275,000£283,000
20182£232,000£231,000£233,000
20171£210,000£210,000£210,000
20142£159,500£149,000£169,999
20131£160,380£160,380£160,380
20072£155,500£155,000£156,000
20061£137,500£137,500£137,500
20051£110,000£110,000£110,000
20022£62,498£40,000£84,995
20003£59,000£57,000£63,000
19981£49,950£49,950£49,950
Most recent sales (23)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
8 Aug 20257 M41 5DQTerraced£330,000
6 Jul 20217 M41 5DQTerraced£283,000
14 May 20213 M41 5DQTerraced£275,000
5 Dec 201811 M41 5DQTerraced£231,000
18 May 20183 M41 5DQTerraced£233,000
18 Aug 20171 M41 5DQTerraced£210,000
12 May 20141 M41 5DQTerraced£169,999
11 Feb 20143 M41 5DQTerraced£149,000
6 Dec 201311 M41 5DQTerraced£160,380
18 May 20075 M41 5DQTerraced£156,000
21 Mar 20071 M41 5DQSemi-detached£155,000
19 May 200611 M41 5DQTerraced£137,500
9 Feb 20051 M41 5DQSemi-detached£110,000
11 Sep 200213 M41 5DQTerraced£40,000
16 Aug 20027 M41 5DQTerraced£84,995
24 Aug 20005 M41 5DQTerraced£59,000
31 May 20007 M41 5DQTerraced£63,000
10 Feb 20003 M41 5DQTerraced£57,000
26 Feb 19987 M41 5DQTerraced£49,950
26 Sep 199711 M41 5DQTerraced£50,000
17 Jun 19967 M41 5DQTerraced£47,000
2 May 199611 M41 5DQTerraced£24,000
31 Jul 19959 M41 5DQTerraced£22,000

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 February 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 91 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (4); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1900-1929 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Trafford in 2026-27: Band D £2,292 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,528£1,782£2,037£2,292£2,801£3,310£3,820£4,583

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (40% of about 630 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.

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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
M41 5DQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
M41 5DDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 addresses are about 23 m above sea level.

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
M41 5DD100%100%100%0%
M41 5DQ100%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 stationsChassen Road 42,000 journeys in 2024–25230 m
Urmston 371,000 journeys in 2024–25810 m (0.5 miles)
Flixton 119,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Princess Road Flixton120 m
Bus or coach stationThe Trafford Centre Bus Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Car parksTrafford Centre Car Park2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station610 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN12.4 km (7.7 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Flixton Road Medical Centre230 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Reeds Pharmacy340 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery230 m
HospitalTrafford General Hospital770 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationUrmston Police Station860 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Eden News, Eden Square Shopping Centre, Urmston Cashzone710 m (0.4 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Abbotsfield Park 4.5 ha60 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 560 m²180 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.4 ha290 m
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha160 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 6.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Firs PlantationWood3 km (1.8 miles) south
Foxhill GlenValley3 km (1.8 miles) north-west
Brook WoodWood3 km (1.9 miles) south
Black WoodWood3.8 km (2.3 miles) north-west
Birchmoss CovertWood3.8 km (2.4 miles) south
Waters MeetingLake or reservoir3.9 km (2.5 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)11.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

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, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59100
Under 55788

1 of the street's 8 addresses is 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 Trafford: see them on the Trafford 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
Flixton Girls SchoolSecondary11–16410 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Urmston Grammar AcademySecondary11–18450 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Urmston Primary SchoolPrimary3–11500 m (0.3 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
English Martyrs' RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11500 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Flixton Primary SchoolPrimary4–11880 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Mary's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11930 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Our Lady of the Rosary RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's CofE (Aided) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Davyhulme Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woodhouse Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Monica's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Highfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

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
Kids Planet M41 5EDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m5 Very good12 Nov 2025
Flixton Conservative Club M41 5DFPub/bar/nightclub150 m5 Very good3 Feb 2025
Urmston Fish Bar M41 5BGTakeaway/sandwich shop220 m5 Very good16 Jan 2026
The Copper Hatch (Y NOT) M41 5BGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good5 Mar 2025
Bright Futures M41 5BGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good10 Oct 2025
Dou Bagels & Coffee M41 5BGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good2 Oct 2026
The Copper Hatch M41 5BGPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good5 Feb 2025
Reeds Chemist M41 9FDRetailers - other340 mExempt
Equal Tea M41 9FDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good14 Aug 2026
Heilen General Store M41 9FDRetailers - other350 m4 Good20 May 2026
Hidden Wok M41 9FDPub/bar/nightclub350 m5 Very good7 Oct 2026
Brewchimp M41 9FDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m5 Very good7 Oct 2026
Canton Taste Chinese M41 5ALTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m5 Very good5 Feb 2025
Bargain Booze M41 5ALRetailers - other370 m5 Very good18 Jan 2019
Little Explorers M41 5ALRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good18 Sep 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 (metropolitan).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 279 residents in 108 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 age4040
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)76%61%
Owned outright38%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented14%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van43%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)48%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%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.

  • M41 5DQ: 7 addresses of 9 in the postcode
  • M41 5DD: 1 address of 9 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Holly Avenue · Spennithorne Road · Lime Avenue · Pickering Close · Finghall Road · Stamford Road · Stamford Road · Princess Road · Monksdale Avenue · Parkfield Avenue · Victoria Road · Weston Avenue

All the streets in M41 and across Trafford.

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.