Smallbrook Road Shaw, Oldham

90 addresses across 7 postcodes (OL2), about 1 km (0.6 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 29401495.

  • Sales: 48 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £139,950 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 60 homes have an energy certificate (B: 7, C: 38, D: 9, E: 4, F: 2).
  • Flood: 24 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 A; Band D in Oldham costs £2,602 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rochdale, about 4.8 km (3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Dun Wood Park, is about 140 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 172 to 236 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 80 of its 90 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Oak Gables Medical Practice, about 530 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 53% of households owned their home and 23% 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
20221£139,950£139,950£139,950
20211£132,000£132,000£132,000
20202£100,000£75,000£125,000
20181£97,500£97,500£97,500
20171£107,400£107,400£107,400
20161£135,000£135,000£135,000
20153£115,000£95,000£116,000
20143£79,950£78,000£98,000
20132£82,500£75,000£90,000
20121£124,995£124,995£124,995
20101£68,000£68,000£68,000
20081£100,000£100,000£100,000
Most recent sales (48)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 May 202435 OL2 7TTTerraced£145,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Apr 202235 OL2 7TTTerraced£135,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Mar 2022117 OL2 7UHTerraced£139,950Leasehold.
22 Oct 202157 OL2 7UQTerraced£132,000Leasehold.
19 Mar 202135 OL2 7TTTerraced£123,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Nov 2020127 OL2 7UHTerraced£75,000Leasehold.
11 Sep 202032 OL2 7UQTerraced£125,000
2 Aug 201951 OL2 7UQOther£95,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Jun 201833 OL2 7TTTerraced£87,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Apr 201821 OL2 7TTTerraced£97,500Leasehold.
6 Jan 201735 OL2 7TTTerraced£107,400Leasehold.
21 Oct 201636 OL2 7UQTerraced£135,000
26 Jun 2015131 OL2 7UHTerraced£95,000Leasehold.
10 Mar 201532 OL2 7UQTerraced£116,000
10 Mar 201537 OL2 7TTTerraced£115,000
18 Dec 201417 OL2 7TTTerraced£98,000Leasehold.
1 Sep 201421 OL2 7TTTerraced£79,950Leasehold.
20 Jan 20147 OL2 7TTTerraced£78,000Leasehold.
14 Jun 201355 OL2 7UQTerraced£75,000Leasehold.
20 Feb 201311 OL2 7TTTerraced£90,000Leasehold.
14 Dec 2012129A OL2 7UHTerraced£124,995Leasehold.
11 Aug 201017 OL2 7TTTerraced£68,000Leasehold.
25 Apr 200815 OL2 7TTTerraced£100,000Leasehold.
26 Sep 200635 OL2 7TTTerraced£115,000Leasehold.
23 Feb 200637 OL2 7TTTerraced£91,500
10 Oct 200557 OL2 7UQTerraced£95,000Leasehold.
19 Aug 200531 OL2 7TTTerraced£98,000Leasehold.
16 Jul 2004123 OL2 7UHTerraced£108,000Leasehold.
20 Jan 200431 OL2 7TTTerraced£84,000Leasehold.
1 Dec 200357 OL2 7UQTerraced£70,000Leasehold.
31 Oct 20021 OL2 7TTSemi-detached£52,000Leasehold.
30 Oct 2002125 OL2 7UHTerraced£73,700Leasehold.
4 Sep 200232 OL2 7UQSemi-detached£72,950
12 Jul 200213 OL2 7TTTerraced£48,500Leasehold.
12 Jul 200235 OL2 7TTTerraced£44,000Leasehold.
24 May 200231 OL2 7TTTerraced£50,000Leasehold.
4 May 20011 OL2 7TTSemi-detached£32,000Leasehold.
1 Dec 200011 OL2 7TTTerraced£46,500Leasehold.
3 Jul 200015 OL2 7TTTerraced£46,900Leasehold.
18 May 200027 OL2 7TTTerraced£10,000Leasehold.
7 Jul 199936 OL2 7UQTerraced£51,950
26 Mar 199957 OL2 7UQTerraced£42,500Leasehold.
21 Nov 19975 OL2 7TTTerraced£41,500Leasehold.
21 Nov 1997129A OL2 7UHTerraced£40,000Leasehold.
3 Jul 199711 OL2 7TTTerraced£30,000Leasehold.
26 Jun 199749 OL2 7UQTerraced£17,750Leasehold.
31 May 199613 OL2 7TTTerraced£38,950Leasehold.
1 Aug 199523 OL2 7TTTerraced£30,000Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from January 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

60 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 48 m². Most common: Flat (27); House, mid-terrace (16); House, end-terrace (6). Built: 1983-1990 (20); 1900-1929 (12); 1967-1975 (7). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (28); owner-occupied (17); rented (private) (5).

Council tax

What each band costs in Oldham in 2026-27: Band D £2,602 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,735£2,024£2,313£2,602£3,181£3,759£4,337£5,204

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (38% of about 2,130 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 3 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: yes, Oldham.

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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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, 14 addresses are in areas at high risk, 10 at medium risk and 9 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 62 homes the Environment Agency counts, 11 are in areas at high risk, 1 medium, 1 low and 0 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
OL2 7UQnot in 2 or 3 4 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL2 7TTnot in 2 or 3 1 / 5 / 4 unlikely
OL2 7UHzone 2 7 / 1 / 0 unlikely
OL2 7UAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
OL2 7UZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL2 7UJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL2 8BEnot in 2 or 3 2 / 4 / 4 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 90 addresses are between 172 m and 236 m above sea level (175 m on average); the ground rises about 64 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
OL2 7TT100%100%100%0%
OL2 7UA100%100%100%0%
OL2 7UH100%100%100%0%
OL2 7UJ29%0%0%0%
OL2 7UQ100%95%95%0%
OL2 7UZ100%100%100%0%
OL2 8BE100%95%95%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 stationsRochdale 1.6 million journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Smithy Bridge 191,000 journeys in 2024–255.1 km (3.2 miles)
Castleton (Manchester) 141,000 journeys in 2024–255.8 km (3.6 miles)
Underground, metro or tramNewhey (Manchester Metrolink)1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Shaw and Crompton (Manchester Metrolink)1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dunwood Park Courts Shaw180 m
Bus or coach stationRochdale Interchange5.2 km (3.2 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN29.5 km (18 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 Oak Gables Medical Practice530 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lifestyle Pharmacy1.2 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalThe Royal Oldham Hospital4.4 km (2.7 miles)
Police stationGreater Manchester Police5.3 km (3.3 miles)
Cash machinesBest One, Shaw880 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dun Wood Park 8.6 ha140 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 290 m²380 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.8 ha340 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,750 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 8.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Ellenroad Ring Mill, a scheduled monument, 1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Ellenroad Ring MillScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Ley WoodWood730 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Jep WoodWood760 m (0.5 miles) north
Brushes Clough ReservoirLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) east
Cliffe PlantationWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Dog HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Brushes CloughValley2 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)9.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)10.34015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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
65 to 6910
60 to 64520
55 to 59270
Under 551090

80 of the street's 90 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 Oldham: see them on the Oldham page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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
Rushcroft Primary SchoolPrimary3–11530 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Buckstones Primary SchoolPrimary4–11820 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
East Crompton St James CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11940 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Beal Vale Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
East Crompton St George's CofE School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
The Crompton House Church of England AcademySecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Thomas' Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 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
St Mary's CofE Primary School High Crompton Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Crompton Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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 5 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,298 residents in 618 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 age4640
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)53%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented33%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%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)23%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 9 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.

  • OL2 7UQ: 49 addresses of 50 in the postcode
  • OL2 7TT: 21 addresses of 22 in the postcode
  • OL2 7UH: 9 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • OL2 7UA: 7 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • OL2 7UZ: 2 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • OL2 7UJ: 1 address of 12 in the postcode
  • OL2 8BE: 1 address of 29 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Park Parade · Dunwoods Park Courts · Smallbrook Road · Shore Avenue · Railway View · Milnrow Road · Woodhouse Road · Cross Field Close · Dingle Avenue · Bridge Street · Compton Fold · Upper Cliff Hill

All the streets in OL2 and across Oldham.

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.