Spring Close Southport, Sefton

12 addresses across 2 postcodes (PR8), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 34102700.

  • Sales: 11 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £270,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 3).
  • Flood: 16 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 B; Band D in Sefton costs £2,583 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 66% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Birkdale, about 450 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 560 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 7 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 12 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Grange Surgery, about 130 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 580 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 79% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 30 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
20251£270,000£270,000£270,000
20241£370,000£370,000£370,000
20231£324,000£324,000£324,000
20211£305,000£305,000£305,000
20181£268,000£268,000£268,000
20161£215,000£215,000£215,000
20121£215,000£215,000£215,000
20061£220,000£220,000£220,000
20051£210,000£210,000£210,000
20021£133,000£133,000£133,000
19971£96,000£96,000£96,000
Most recent sales (11)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Oct 202511 PR8 2BADetached£270,000Leasehold.
29 Oct 202412 PR8 2BADetached£370,000Leasehold.
2 Nov 20232 PR8 2BADetached£324,000Leasehold.
16 Jul 20213 PR8 2BADetached£305,000
6 Jul 20182 PR8 2BADetached£268,000Leasehold.
16 Mar 20162 PR8 2BADetached£215,000Leasehold.
25 Oct 20122 PR8 2BADetached£215,000Leasehold.
24 Jan 20066 PR8 2BADetached£220,000Leasehold.
29 Apr 20052 PR8 2BADetached£210,000Leasehold.
22 Mar 20025 PR8 2BASemi-detached£133,000Leasehold.
4 Jul 19979 PR8 2BADetached£96,000Leasehold.

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 December 2020 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 138 m². Most common: House, detached (5). Built: 1967-1975 (3); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5).

Council tax

What each band costs in Sefton in 2026-27: Band D £2,583 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,722£2,009£2,296£2,583£3,157£3,731£4,305£5,166

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (20% of about 1,860 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 2 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): Southport HMO.
  • Tree preservation orders: 1 protected tree on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

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

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

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 23 September 2026 to 25 September 2026: SEFTON METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 13 at medium risk and 6 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
PR8 2BAnot in 2 or 3 1 / 6 / 3 unlikely
PR8 2AJnot in 2 or 3 2 / 7 / 3 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 7 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
PR8 2AJ100%97%66%0%
PR8 2BA100%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 stationsBirkdale 1.1 million journeys in 2024–25450 m (0.3 miles)
Southport 3.8 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Hillside 642,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 46 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Alma Road Birkdale80 m
Car parksMorrisons Car Park - Southport930 m (0.6 miles)
EV charging pointsbp Pulse1.6 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL35.3 km (22 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Grange Surgery130 m
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy120 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ten Dental920 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalHartley Hospital1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationSouthport Police Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Southport Weld Parade, Birkdale Cashzone420 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,240 m²560 m (0.3 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 1,000 m²920 m (0.6 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 6,040 m²890 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 8,270 m²1.5 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 74, Liverpool Road, a listed building (Grade II*), 710 m (0.4 miles) south. 36 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
74, Liverpool RoadListed building, Grade II*710 m (0.4 miles) south
King's Gardens and South Marine GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Hesketh ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Marine LakeLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
The Bog BreastWetland2.2 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Southport BeachBeach2.3 km (1.4 miles) north
Birkdale SandsBeach2.7 km (1.7 miles) west
Birkdale HillsHills3.1 km (1.9 miles) south-west
King's CovertWood3.3 km (2 miles) south

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)5.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.4205
Particles (PM10)8.44015

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 6912
60 to 6415
55 to 5912
Under 5593

3 of the street's 12 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 9 from railways, 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 Sefton: see them on the Sefton 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
Linaker Primary SchoolPrimary3–11550 m (0.3 miles) Requires improvement (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Birkdale Primary SchoolPrimary3–11740 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Philip's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Christ The King Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Southport Education Group16 plus16–991.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School, SouthportPrimary5–111.7 km (1 mile) Report card (Jun 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
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 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
Birkdale Tandoori PR8 5NATakeaway/sandwich shop130 m4 Good22 Oct 2025
Kellen's Kitchen PR8 5NATakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good9 Dec 2024
Kellens Butchers PR8 5NARetailers - other140 m5 Very good3 Apr 2025
L Rowland & Co PR8 5NARetailers - other160 mExempt
Home Bargains PR8 7RGRetailers - other250 m5 Very good24 Mar 2021
The Upsteps PR8 5NDPub/bar/nightclub270 m5 Very good21 May 2019
Birkdale Wines PR8 5NDRetailers - other270 m4 Good5 May 2026
57 Orient Takeaway PR8 5NDTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m5 Very good10 Jun 2026
One Stop Stores Ltd PR8 1LYRetailers - other330 m5 Very good3 Dec 2024
Dukes Mini Mart PR8 1JERetailers - other350 m5 Very good4 Mar 2026
Barrique PR8 4ARRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good26 Nov 2025
The Beer Den PR8 5BTPub/bar/nightclub380 m5 Very good5 Jun 2024
Lucky House PR8 5BTTakeaway/sandwich shop390 m5 Very good1 Jul 2026
Croziers of Birkdale PR8 4ARTakeaway/sandwich shop390 m5 Very good20 May 2026
Bistrot Verite PR8 4ARRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good15 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.

30 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences13
Public order6
Vehicle crime3
Drugs3
Other theft2
Possession of weapons1
Burglary1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Aughton Mews (8); On or near Spring Close (4); On or near Glenrose Terrace (4); On or near Fernley Road (3); On or near York Gardens (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 578 residents in 298 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 age5740
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over36%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)79%61%
Owned outright56%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)41%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van46%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)49%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 6 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Platform X (restaurant/cafe/canteen, PR8 2DS) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 20 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Cove (restaurant/cafe/canteen, PR8 4AR) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 16 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The Wine Rack (retailers - other, PR8 2DT) newly listed: 5 Very good (rated 20 October 2026) found 30 October 2026

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

Aughton Mews · Lyons Road · Grove Terrace · Glenrose Terrace · Napier Terrace · Alma Road · York Road · Albert Terrace · York Avenue · York Gardens · The Walk · Fernley Road

All the streets in PR8 and across Sefton.

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.