Smithills Close Chorley

19 addresses across 2 postcodes (PR6), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 7400487.

  • Sales: 18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £180,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 8, 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 A; Band D in Chorley costs £2,430 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chorley, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Community Garden, is about 910 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 100 to 104 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 14 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Chorley Surgery, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 82% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 85 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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£180,000£180,000£180,000
20251£228,000£228,000£228,000
20231£166,000£166,000£166,000
20211£156,000£156,000£156,000
20201£150,000£150,000£150,000
20181£130,000£130,000£130,000
20172£127,750£120,500£135,000
20141£122,500£122,500£122,500
20132£95,000£80,000£110,000
20072£117,500£111,000£124,000
20011£51,000£51,000£51,000
20002£45,750£45,000£46,500
Most recent sales (18)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
4 Mar 202619 PR6 0EGSemi-detached£180,000
14 Feb 20252 PR6 0EGDetached£228,000
12 Sep 20233 PR6 0EGSemi-detached£166,000
19 Nov 202110 PR6 0EGSemi-detached£156,000
19 Nov 202017 PR6 0EGSemi-detached£150,000
3 Aug 20184 PR6 0EGSemi-detached£130,000
29 Sep 201717 PR6 0EGSemi-detached£120,500
28 Jul 20178 PR6 0EGSemi-detached£135,000
20 Oct 201411 PR6 0EGSemi-detached£122,500
3 Oct 201311 PR6 0EGSemi-detached£80,000
24 May 20135 PR6 0EGSemi-detached£110,000
2 Nov 20079 PR6 0EGSemi-detached£124,000
31 Aug 20074 PR6 0EGSemi-detached£111,000
27 Jul 20011 PR6 0EGSemi-detached£51,000
22 Sep 20005 PR6 0EGSemi-detached£45,000
24 May 20007 PR6 0EGSemi-detached£46,500
12 May 199719 PR6 0EGSemi-detached£47,000
23 Apr 19962 PR6 0EGDetached£63,950

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 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 63 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (7); Bungalow, semi-detached (2); House, detached (1). Built: 1967-1975 (6); 1950-1966 (3); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Chorley in 2026-27: Band D £2,430 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,620£1,890£2,160£2,430£2,970£3,510£4,050£4,860

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (54% of about 670 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 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 19 addresses are between 100 m and 104 m above sea level (102 m on average).

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
PR6 0EG100%100%100%0%
PR6 0EQ100%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 stationsChorley 716,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Buckshaw Parkway 355,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Euxton Balshaw Lane 76,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Peters Eaves Lane140 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Chorley Town Centre1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Car parksHollinshead Street Car Park1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL39.4 km (25 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 The Chorley Surgery1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Evergreen Pharmacy300 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Oaks1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalChorley And South Ribble Hospital1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationChorley Police Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Froom Stores Cashzone480 m (0.3 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 gardenCommunity Garden 280 m²910 m (0.6 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 340 m²370 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha340 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,000 m²60 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Astley Hall, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.8 km (1.1 miles) west. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Astley HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lower Healey WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Nab WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Temple WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Number 1Lake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
South HillHill2.5 km (1.6 miles) north
Twitch-Hills CloughValley4.2 km (2.6 miles) south-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)10.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

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
60 to 6430
55 to 59110
Under 55519

14 of the street's 19 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 Chorley: see them on the Chorley 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
St Peter's CofE Primary School Chorley Church of EnglandPrimary4–11120 m Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Chorley Roman CatholicPrimary4–11420 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Highfield Nursery SchoolNursery0–5650 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Highfield Community Primary SchoolPrimary5–11700 m (0.4 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chorley St James' Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11890 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chorley, the Parish of St Laurence Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's Church of England High SchoolSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Chorley Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Duke Street Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Duke Street Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Albany AcademySecondary11–162 km (1.2 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Buckshaw Primary SchoolPrimary2–112 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
St Peters C Of E Primary School PR6 0DXSchool/college/university120 m5 Very good1 Jul 2026
Rise And Shine And Stay Late Club PR6 0DXSchool/college/university120 m5 Very good18 Jun 2025
Tesco Express PR6 0DXRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets120 m5 Very good10 Mar 2024
Jasmine Court Care Home PR6 0JWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 m5 Very good5 Aug 2026
Nature Trail Nursery PR6 0JNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good15 Oct 2025
Go Local PR6 0HURetailers - other220 m5 Very good18 Feb 2024
Pepes Piri Piri Chorley PR6 0DRTakeaway/sandwich shop220 mAwaiting inspection
Morrisons Daily PR6 0DRRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets230 m5 Very good10 Mar 2024
Fry Days Fish Bar PR6 0HYTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m1 Major improvement necessary5 Aug 2026
Evergreen Pharmacy PR6 0ETRetailers - other250 mExempt
Aldi Stores Ltd PR6 0HURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets280 m5 Very good31 Jan 2025
Fosterfield Day Care Centre PR6 0EYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good12 Nov 2025
The Masons Arms PR6 0HUPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good17 Jan 2025
Wing Sing PR6 0ETTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m5 Very good2 Dec 2024
Shathi PR6 0ETTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m4 Good17 Jun 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.

85 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences36
Shoplifting16
Anti-social behaviour11
Other theft6
Public order5
Drugs4
Criminal damage and arson2
Burglary1
Other crime1
Theft from the person1
Possession of weapons1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Nab Road (26); On or near Granville Court (14); On or near Granville Road (10); On or near Mason Street (9); On or near Morris Road (7).

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: 337 residents in 150 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 age4840
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)82%61%
Owned outright50%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented11%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)29%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 van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification11%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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

Moorfields · Withnell Grove · Holcombe Grove · Dunscar Drive · Nab Road · Talbot Close · Talbot Close · Bagganley Lane · Daisy Fold · Turton Drive · St Peters Street · Marlborough Street

All the streets in PR6 and across Chorley.

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.