Stuart Road Birkenhead, Wirral

72 addresses across 3 postcodes (CH42), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44503417.

  • Sales: 36 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £200,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 61 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 17, D: 34, E: 8, F: 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 Wirral costs £2,501 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Green Lane, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Victoria Park, is about 260 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 44 to 53 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 27 of its 72 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Catherine's Surgery, about 440 m (0.3 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 610 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 55% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 101 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£200,000£200,000£200,000
20252£154,000£145,000£163,000
20233£185,000£130,000£225,000
20221£164,000£164,000£164,000
20211£140,000£140,000£140,000
20192£157,500£155,000£160,000
20182£128,500£125,000£132,000
20161£150,000£150,000£150,000
20152£134,750£123,000£146,500
20122£114,500£105,000£124,000
20101£110,000£110,000£110,000
20072£134,500£124,000£145,000
Most recent sales (36)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Jul 202651 CH42 7LETerraced£200,000
4 Dec 202512 CH42 7LESemi-detached£163,000
27 Jun 20254 CH42 7LETerraced£145,000
1 Dec 202318 CH42 7LETerraced£225,000
21 Jul 20236 CH42 7LETerraced£130,000
24 Jan 202326 CH42 7LESemi-detached£185,000
17 Aug 202249 CH42 7LETerraced£164,000
23 Sep 202145 CH42 7LETerraced£140,000
15 Nov 201918 CH42 7LETerraced£160,000
28 Oct 201928 CH42 7LETerraced£155,000
17 Aug 201849 CH42 7LETerraced£125,000
25 May 201845 CH42 7LETerraced£132,000
22 Apr 201643 CH42 7LESemi-detached£150,000
9 Oct 201541 CH42 7LESemi-detached£146,500
17 Jul 201545 CH42 7LETerraced£123,000
20 Jul 201245 CH42 7LETerraced£105,000
5 Apr 201249 CH42 7LETerraced£124,000
26 Feb 20106 CH42 7LETerraced£110,000
29 Nov 200749 CH42 7LETerraced£124,000
5 Apr 200726 CH42 7LESemi-detached£145,000
18 Dec 200633 CH42 7LESemi-detached£161,600
5 Jun 200628 CH42 7LETerraced£147,000
7 Apr 20066 CH42 7LETerraced£114,950
16 Mar 200626 CH42 7LESemi-detached£107,000
9 Dec 200545 CH42 7LETerraced£132,000
31 Aug 200437 CH42 7LESemi-detached£120,000
24 Oct 200312 CH42 7LESemi-detached£91,000
17 Jul 200347 CH42 7LETerraced£76,000
5 Jun 200349 CH42 7LETerraced£70,000
14 Apr 20036 CH42 7LETerraced£59,950
20 Dec 200233 CH42 7LESemi-detached£74,000
27 Jul 200120 CH42 7LESemi-detached£53,000
19 Apr 200118 CH42 7LETerraced£54,000
24 Aug 199951 CH42 7LETerraced£42,500
7 May 199710 CH42 7LETerraced£25,000
10 May 199549 CH42 7LETerraced£36,500

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

61 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 49 m². Most common: Flat (39); House, end-terrace (7); House, mid-terrace (7). Built: 1983-1990 (27); 1900-1929 (16); before 1900 (8). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (22); owner-occupied (17); rented (private) (17).

Council tax

What each band costs in Wirral in 2026-27: Band D £2,501 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,667£1,945£2,223£2,501£3,056£3,612£4,168£5,001

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (43% of about 700 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.

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

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 72 addresses are between 44 m and 53 m above sea level (51 m on average); the ground rises about 9 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
CH42 7JN100%100%100%0%
CH42 7LE100%100%100%0%
CH42 7LP100%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 stationsGreen Lane 375,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Rock Ferry 686,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Birkenhead Central 644,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops25 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 74 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stuart Road Devonshire Park30 m
Bus or coach stationBirkenhead Bus Station1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Ferry terminalWoodside Birkenhead Ferry Terminal2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Car parksBridge Street Car Park2.3 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL12.7 km (7.9 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Catherine's Surgery440 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies13 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Catherines Pharmacy440 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Devonshire Park Dental Centre120 m
HospitalSt. Catherines Hospital440 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationPyramids Town Centre Police Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM320 m

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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Victoria Park 11 ha260 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 840 m²430 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha460 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,690 m²350 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 20 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Birkenhead Priory, a scheduled monument, 1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east. 14 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Birkenhead PrioryScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Birkenhead ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade I2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Outer BasinLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Tranmere BeachBeach1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
The Princess DockLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Marsh Hey CovertWood2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Storeton HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Prenton DellValley2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-west

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)10.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.94015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road 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
55 to 59270
Under 554572

27 of the street's 72 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 Wirral: see them on the Wirral 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
Mersey Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11360 m No published inspection
Devonshire Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11420 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Well Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–11630 m (0.4 miles) Inadequate (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woodchurch Road AcademyPrimary3–11690 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): 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 Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead Roman CatholicPrimary4–11760 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bedford Drive Primary SchoolPrimary3–11790 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Prenton High School for GirlsSecondary11–16830 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Birkenhead Christ Church CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Werburgh's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woodlands Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Rock Ferry Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Oxton St Saviour's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Sportsmans Arms CH42 7LQPub/bar/nightclub150 m5 Very good4 Aug 2023
Prenton Pop-In CH42 0NERetailers - other170 m3 Generally satisfactory18 Aug 2025
Golden Dragon CH42 0LJTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Mar 2026
Andrews butchers CH42 0LJRetailers - other210 m5 Very good12 Nov 2024
Champions corner cafe CH42 0LJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good19 Feb 2026
Tranmere Residents & Communities CH42 0LLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good3 May 2022
Mr Shawarma CH42 0LDTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good2 Nov 2025
Khan Tandoori CH42 0LDTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m4 Good12 Jun 2025
Dhillons News CH42 0LDRetailers - other230 m5 Very good16 Dec 2025
Beehive Public House CH42 0LHPub/bar/nightclub280 m5 Very good24 Jun 2021
Higher Tranmere Express CH42 6PURetailers - other310 m4 Good17 Feb 2026
Cafe Siena CH42 6PURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m4 Good23 Apr 2026
Victoria Kebab & Pizza House CH42 6PUTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m4 Good8 May 2025
Mersey Park Primary School CH42 0PHSchool/college/university320 m4 Good15 Jun 2026
Captain Tony's Cafe CH42 9JGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m4 Good24 Jul 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.

101 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences36
Drugs13
Criminal damage and arson12
Public order10
Other theft10
Vehicle crime8
Burglary3
Other crime3
Theft from the person2
Possession of weapons2
Anti-social behaviour2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Tower Road (15); On or near Prenton Road East (14); On or near B5148 (12); On or near Heathbank Road (9); On or near Greenbank Road (7).

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: 610 residents in 299 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 age4740
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)55%61%
Owned outright31%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented19%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)85%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)27%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

  • CH42 7LE: 40 addresses of 41 in the postcode
  • CH42 7LP: 31 addresses of 35 in the postcode
  • CH42 7JN: 1 address of 11 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Hawthorne Road · Maritime View · Tower Road · Tower Hill · Greenway Road · Heathbank Road · Dial Road · Rocky Bank Road · Greenbank Road · Prenton Road East · Walker Place · Mallory Road

All the streets in CH42 and across Wirral.

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.