Swan Hey Maghull, Sefton

28 addresses across 2 postcodes (L31), about 40 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 34103459.

  • Sales: 25 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £99,000 across 4 sales.
  • Energy: 21 homes have an energy certificate (C: 21).
  • Flood: 14 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 D; Band D in Sefton costs £2,583 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Maghull, about 150 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 390 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 18 to 19 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Maghull Family Surgery, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 520 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 60% of households owned their home and 34% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 52 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20234£99,000£95,000£105,000
20222£100,000£92,000£108,000
20211£92,000£92,000£92,000
20204£88,000£86,500£92,500
20191£93,000£93,000£93,000
20172£90,500£86,000£95,000
20151£92,000£92,000£92,000
20131£89,950£89,950£89,950
20121£70,000£70,000£70,000
20081£85,500£85,500£85,500
20041£77,950£77,950£77,950
20021£52,500£52,500£52,500
Most recent sales (25)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Nov 20233 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£105,000Leasehold.
23 Oct 20237 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£100,000Leasehold.
13 Mar 20235 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£98,000Leasehold.
20 Jan 20231 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£95,000Leasehold.
7 Dec 20229 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£108,000Leasehold.
22 Jun 202217 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£92,000Leasehold.
10 Jun 202125 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£92,000Leasehold.
17 Nov 202021 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£86,500Leasehold.
23 Oct 202023 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£88,500Leasehold.
22 Jul 202011 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£92,500Leasehold.
26 May 202020 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£87,500Leasehold.
19 Nov 201912 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£93,000Leasehold.
30 Nov 20179 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£86,000Leasehold.
25 Aug 201724 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£95,000Leasehold.
11 Sep 201516 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£92,000Leasehold.
8 Nov 201310 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£89,950Leasehold.
4 Apr 201215 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£70,000New build. Leasehold.
28 Aug 20085 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£85,500Leasehold.
16 Aug 20046 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£77,950Leasehold.
30 Aug 200225 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£52,500New build. Leasehold.
29 Jun 20017 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£47,950New build. Leasehold.
3 Mar 200027 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£44,000New build. Leasehold.
6 Nov 199817 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£42,000New build. Leasehold.
16 Dec 199619 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£41,500
6 Nov 199522 L31 3HPFlat or maisonette£42,500New build. Leasehold.

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 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

21 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 61 m². Most common: Flat (21). Built: 1983-1990 (12); 1976-1982 (4); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16).

Each home's certificates and sales (15 addresses)

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (22% of about 740 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 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, 10 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 15 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 63 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 19 low and 0 very low.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

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

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
L31 3HPzone 2 6 / 2 / 6 unlikely
L31 3HUnot in 2 or 3 4 / 2 / 9 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 28 addresses are between 18 m and 19 m above sea level (18 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
L31 3HP100%100%100%0%
L31 3HU100%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 stationsMaghull 1.3 million journeys in 2024–25150 m
Maghull North 614,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Old Roan 963,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Maghull Interchange Kennessee Green100 m
Bus or coach stationBootle Bus Station7.1 km (4.4 miles)
Ferry terminalLiverpool Belfast Ferry Terminal Bootle8.5 km (5.3 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tree View Court Car Park100 m
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge170 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL19.8 km (12 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 Maghull Family Surgery1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Station Pharmacy50 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Liverpool Road South (Dental Surgery)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalAshworth Hospital Healthcare Registry1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationMaghull Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machinesCostcutter Cashzone900 m (0.6 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.1 ha390 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,350 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.4 ha200 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 6,120 m²1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 7.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Maghull Chapel, a listed building (Grade II*), 850 m (0.5 miles) north-west. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Maghull ChapelListed building, Grade II*850 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Cross base 25m south of the tower of the parochial chapel, in the old churchyardScheduled monument1.4 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Standing cross 30m south of the tower of the parochial chapel, in the old churchyardScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Maghull Manor moated siteScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Big WoodWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-east
Massam's WoodWood2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-east
Holt GreenWood3.6 km (2.2 miles) north
Shacklady's PlantationWood3.8 km (2.4 miles) east
Buckley HillHill3.9 km (2.4 miles) south-west
Old RoughWood4.2 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)9.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)11.04015

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
60 to 6406
55 to 5964
Under 552218

6 of the street's 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 10 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
Maricourt Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18410 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Summerhill Primary SchoolPrimary4–11460 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St George's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11620 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Hudson Primary SchoolPrimary3–11720 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Andrews Church of England Primary School, MaghullPrimary4–11900 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Deyes High SchoolSecondary11–181 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Maghull High SchoolSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Northway Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) 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
Jax Kitchen L31 3DBTakeaway/sandwich shop60 m5 Very good4 Dec 2025
Great Mogul L31 3DEPub/bar/nightclub70 m5 Very good25 Mar 2025
Delightful Desserts L31 3HFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m4 Good12 Aug 2026
Bernies Maghull L31 3HFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good3 Jun 2026
Tree View Takeaway L31 3HFTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good3 Dec 2025
One Stop Store L31 3HFRetailers - other100 m5 Very good3 Dec 2025
Butlers Bakery L31 3HFRetailers - other100 m5 Very good21 Oct 2026
Your Local L31 3HFRetailers - other110 mAwaiting inspection
The Coffee Carriage L31 3DERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good8 Jul 2024
The Kensington House Sports & Leisure Club L31 3DFPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good23 Oct 2019
Taylorshaw@Maricourt Catholic High School (Newman) L31 3EESchool/college/university300 m5 Very good1 Oct 2025
St George's Social Centre L31 3DFPub/bar/nightclub310 m4 Good24 Sep 2019
Seabreeze Fish Bar L31 5LRTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m4 Good14 Mar 2025
LT Food & Wine L31 5LRRetailers - other380 m5 Very good13 Feb 2023
Happy Garden L31 5LRTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good17 Dec 2025

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.

52 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour19
Violence and sexual offences10
Robbery5
Criminal damage and arson4
Public order3
Burglary3
Shoplifting3
Vehicle crime2
Other crime1
Bicycle theft1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Kennessee Close (11); On or near Frank Hornby Close (9); On or near Gatley Drive (8); On or near Station Road (8); On or near Swan Walk (4).

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: 521 residents in 289 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 age6240
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over47%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)60%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership7%1%
Social rented18%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work39%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)52%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van44%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)42%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)34%34%
No qualifications26%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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 Butlers Bakery (retailers - other, L31 3HF) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 21 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

Swan Walk · Tree View Court · Melling Lane · Rutherford Road · Kennessee Close · Station Road · Frank Hornby Close · The Gables · Gatley Drive · Tailor's Lane · Little Acre · Willow Hey

All the streets in L31 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.