Sorrel Close Chester

26 addresses across 2 postcodes (CH3), about 170 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 6901625.

Sales: 42 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £316,300 across 1 sale.
Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (C: 10, D: 5, 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 Cheshire West and Chester costs £2,517 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Chester, about 2.5 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden, Caldy Nature Park, is about 40 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 12 to 19 m above sea level.
Noise: 3 of its 26 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Heath Lane Medical Centre, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 49% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 15 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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2025	1	£316,300	£316,300	£316,300
2022	3	£499,000	£450,000	£542,000
2021	2	£407,258	£397,015	£417,500
2019	1	£382,500	£382,500	£382,500
2016	1	£315,000	£315,000	£315,000
2013	1	£300,000	£300,000	£300,000
2012	2	£217,500	£200,000	£235,000
2011	1	£305,000	£305,000	£305,000
2010	1	£222,000	£222,000	£222,000
2009	1	£295,000	£295,000	£295,000
2007	3	£280,000	£262,500	£320,000
2006	3	£250,000	£238,500	£272,000

Most recent sales (42)
Date	Address	Type	Price
22 Sep 2025	4 CH3 6SB	Detached	£316,300
28 Sep 2022	5 CH3 6SB	Detached	£450,000
4 Feb 2022	14 CH3 6SB	Detached	£542,000
7 Jan 2022	19 CH3 6SB	Detached	£499,000
24 May 2021	21 CH3 6SB	Detached	£417,500
20 Jan 2021	15 CH3 6SB	Detached	£397,015
2 Aug 2019	2 CH3 6SB	Detached	£382,500
12 Dec 2016	23 CH3 6SB	Detached	£315,000
2 Sep 2013	6 CH3 6SB	Detached	£300,000
24 Jul 2012	19 CH3 6SB	Detached	£235,000
15 Jun 2012	21 CH3 6SB	Detached	£200,000
24 Nov 2011	2 CH3 6SB	Detached	£305,000
18 Jun 2010	19 CH3 6SB	Detached	£222,000
23 Oct 2009	5 CH3 6SB	Detached	£295,000
19 Apr 2007	18 CH3 6SB	Detached	£320,000
9 Feb 2007	24 CH3 6SB	Detached	£280,000
12 Jan 2007	21 CH3 6SB	Detached	£262,500
23 Nov 2006	19 CH3 6SB	Detached	£238,500
12 May 2006	5 CH3 6SB	Detached	£272,000
31 Mar 2006	20 CH3 6SB	Detached	£250,000
11 Nov 2005	15 CH3 6SB	Detached	£265,000
20 Sep 2005	3 CH3 6SB	Detached	£245,000
8 Jul 2005	4 CH3 6SB	Detached	£218,000
15 Jul 2004	14 CH3 6SB	Detached	£298,000
29 Oct 2003	9 CH3 6SB	Detached	£235,000
6 Dec 2002	11 CH3 6SB	Detached	£186,950
14 Nov 2002	20 CH3 6SB	Detached	£173,000
9 Oct 2002	23 CH3 6SB	Detached	£162,000
3 May 2002	21 CH3 6SB	Detached	£122,000
8 Mar 2002	24 CH3 6SB	Detached	£159,950
25 Jan 2002	3 CH3 6SB	Detached	£131,000
16 Oct 2000	21 CH3 6SB	Detached	£119,950
6 Oct 2000	12 CH3 6SB	Detached	£141,500
3 Mar 2000	3 CH3 6SB	Detached	£113,000
29 Oct 1999	19 CH3 6SB	Detached	£111,000
25 Jun 1999	8 CH3 6SB	Detached	£106,500
21 May 1999	20 CH3 6SB	Detached	£117,000
22 Dec 1997	12 CH3 6SB	Detached	£108,500
27 Mar 1997	15 CH3 6SB	Detached	£98,000
2 Aug 1996	3 CH3 6SB	Detached	£71,000
20 Oct 1995	17 CH3 6SB	Detached	£86,000
24 Mar 1995	24 CH3 6SB	Detached	£101,000

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

C10

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 113 m². Most common: House, detached (13); Bungalow, detached (3). Built: 1983-1990 (9); 1991-1995 (3); 1996-2002 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire West and Chester in 2026-27: Band D £2,517 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,678	£1,958	£2,238	£2,517	£3,077	£3,636	£4,196	£5,035

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (30% of about 560 homes).

A4%

B29%

C30%

D13%

E11%

F2%

G13%

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.

Postcode	Planning zone	Addresses at high / medium / low risk	Groundwater
CH3 6SB	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 0	unlikely
CH3 6SD	not 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 26 addresses are between 12 m and 19 m above sea level (15 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
CH3 6SB	100%	100%	100%	0%
CH3 6SD	100%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Chester 5.3 million journeys in 2024–25	2.5 km (1.5 miles)
	Bache 495,000 journeys in 2024–25	4 km (2.5 miles)
	Mouldsworth 26,000 journeys in 2024–25	10.6 km (6.6 miles)
Bus stops	16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 22 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Trefoil Close Huntington	120 m
Bus or coach station	Chester Bus Interchange	2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Car parks	Apcoa Parking	1.7 km (1 mile)
EV charging points	1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Retirement Villages - Boughton Heath Chester	1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	Liverpool John Lennon Airport LPL	17.6 km (11 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Heath Lane Medical Centre	1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies	1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Heath Lane Pharmacy	1.2 km (0.8 miles)
NHS dentists	1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest White House Dental Practice	310 m
Hospital	Grosvenor Nuffield Hospital	2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Police station	Chester Town Hall Police Station	2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machines	Chester Convenience Store	1.6 km (1 mile)

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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Caldy Nature Park 9.0 ha	40 m
Play area	7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,580 m²	590 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.3 ha	540 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments	Boughton Heath Allotments 2.0 ha	1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 10 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Huntington Hall moated site, a scheduled monument, 1.4 km (0.9 miles) south. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Huntington Hall moated site	Scheduled monument	1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Heronbridge Roman site	Scheduled monument	1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Grosvenor Park	Registered park or garden, Grade II*	2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Roman quarry including Edgar's Cave and the rock-cut figure of Minerva on Edgar's Field, 150m south west of Dee Bridge	Scheduled monument	2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Overleigh Road Cemetery	Registered park or garden, Grade II	2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Battle of Rowton Heath 1645	Registered battlefield	3.6 km (2.2 miles) south-east

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Gallows Hill	Hill	1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Half Moon Plantation	Wood	2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Eccleston Hill	Hill	2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Gamon's Rough	Wood	2.9 km (1.8 miles) west
Crook of Dee	Lake or reservoir	3.4 km (2.1 miles) south
Bellevue Wood	Wood	3.5 km (2.2 miles) north-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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	7.8	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	6.1	20	5
Particles (PM10)	11.0	40	15

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
55 to 59	3	0
Under 55	23	26

3 of the street's 26 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 Cheshire West and Chester: see them on the Cheshire West and Chester 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
Huntington Community Primary School	Primary	3–11	810 m (0.5 miles)	Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Bishops' Blue Coat Church of England High School	Secondary	11–18	840 m (0.5 miles)	Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Boughton Heath Academy	Primary	4–11	1.1 km (0.7 miles)	Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cherry Grove Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.6 km (1 mile)	No published inspection
Christleton Primary School	Primary	4–11	1.7 km (1.1 miles)	No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Queen's Park High School	Secondary	11–18	1.8 km (1.1 miles)	No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Chester International School	Secondary	14–19	1.8 km (1.1 miles)	Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Overleigh St Mary's Church of England Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.9 km (1.2 miles)	No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
Rake & Pikel CH3 6BS	Pub/bar/nightclub	280 m	3 Generally satisfactory	8 Apr 2025
Spicy.com @ Chester CH3 6BT	Takeaway/sandwich shop	300 m	3 Generally satisfactory	10 Apr 2026
Huntington Village store CH3 6BT	Retailers - other	300 m	5 Very good	4 Mar 2024
Fresh Kebab & Pizza Huntington CH3 6BT	Takeaway/sandwich shop	300 m	5 Very good	6 Jul 2026
Deewater Grange CH3 6BS	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	310 m	5 Very good	29 Oct 2025
Huntington Under 5S Pre-school CH3 6DB	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	370 m	5 Very good	21 May 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.

15 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	7
Public order	3
Vehicle crime	2
Criminal damage and arson	1
Drugs	1
Other theft	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Lupin Drive (4); On or near Orchid Close (3); On or near Bluebell Close (3); On or near Lucerne Close (3); On or near Columbine Close (1).

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: 269 residents in 113 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 street	England
Median age	45	40
Children under 15	18%	17%
Aged 65 and over	18%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	87%	61%
Owned outright	48%	33%
Shared ownership	0%	1%
Social rented	0%	17%
Private rented	13%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	67%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	4%	6%
Retired (of adults)	23%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	under 1%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	44%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	50%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	0%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	under 1%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	3%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	54%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	9%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	49%	34%
No qualifications	5%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	4%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	99%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	0%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.

CH3 6SB: 25 addresses of 27 in the postcode
CH3 6SD: 1 address of 27 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Orchid Close · Willowherb Close · Harebell Close · Lupin Drive · Butterbur Close · Campion Close · Trefoil Close · Mallow Close · Caldy Valley Road · Columbine Close · Bluebell Close · Mallow Close

All the streets in CH3 and across Cheshire West and Chester.

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.