Tall Trees St Helens, St. Helens

37 addresses across 2 postcodes (WA9), about 300 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 37502988.

  • Sales: 59 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £228,000 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in St. Helens cost £186,445 in August 2026 (+5.1% on a year); private rents averaged £811 a month.
  • Energy: 28 homes have an energy certificate (C: 12, D: 16).
  • Flood: 5 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Landfill: 4 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Sherdley Road, is 20 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 38 times (62 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 5 to 10% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 3 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Sutton Heath Road, is 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in St. Helens costs £2,403 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Lea Green, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Sutton Park, is about 320 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 34 to 37 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 37 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Marshalls Cross Medical Centre, about 360 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,060 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 64% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 87 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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
20252£228,000£220,000£236,000
20241£305,000£305,000£305,000
20231£252,500£252,500£252,500
20221£190,500£190,500£190,500
20211£139,950£139,950£139,950
20181£127,000£127,000£127,000
20171£152,500£152,500£152,500
20161£160,000£160,000£160,000
20131£130,000£130,000£130,000
20124£142,000£125,000£190,000
20101£152,000£152,000£152,000
20091£140,000£140,000£140,000
All 59 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Oct 20051 WA9 5GHDetached£193,000New build. Leasehold.
21 Apr 20052 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£130,000New build. Leasehold.
3 Nov 20043 WA9 5GHDetached£170,000New build. Leasehold.
24 Jun 20054 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£130,000New build. Leasehold.
28 Mar 20255 WA9 5GHDetached£236,000Leasehold.
15 Nov 20166 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£160,000Leasehold.
14 Jul 20056 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£130,000New build. Leasehold.
2 May 20087 WA9 5GHDetached£202,500Leasehold.
21 Apr 20067 WA9 5GHDetached£186,000Leasehold.
20 Sep 20128 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£156,000Leasehold.
9 Aug 20249 WA9 5GHDetached£305,000Leasehold.
19 Jul 20059 WA9 5GHDetached£191,500Leasehold.
2 Feb 201711 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£152,500Leasehold.
5 Oct 200711 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£157,000Leasehold.
9 Jul 200411 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£120,000New build. Leasehold.
20 Aug 200715 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£166,000Leasehold.
18 Jun 200415 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£120,000New build. Leasehold.
11 Jun 200717 WA9 5GHDetached£225,000New build. Leasehold.
22 Oct 201318 WA9 5GHTerraced£130,000Leasehold.
17 Jan 201218 WA9 5GHTerraced£128,000Leasehold.
20 Dec 200218 WA9 5GHTerraced£79,950New build. Leasehold.
14 Feb 200819 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£150,000Leasehold.
12 Feb 200419 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£110,000New build. Leasehold.
25 Jul 201820 WA9 5GHTerraced£127,000Leasehold.
30 Mar 200720 WA9 5GHTerraced£129,000Leasehold.
18 Jul 200320 WA9 5GHTerraced£79,950New build. Leasehold.
19 Mar 200421 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£110,000New build. Leasehold.
27 Jan 200322 WA9 5GHTerraced£76,950New build. Leasehold.
29 Aug 202523 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£220,000Leasehold.
8 Dec 200323 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£110,000New build. Leasehold.
28 Mar 200324 WA9 5GHTerraced£79,950New build. Leasehold.
26 Mar 200425 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£134,000Leasehold.
2 Feb 200425 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£110,000New build. Leasehold.
18 Jun 202126 WA9 5GHTerraced£139,950Leasehold.
14 Oct 200526 WA9 5GHTerraced£120,000Leasehold.
17 Apr 200326 WA9 5GHTerraced£79,950New build. Leasehold.
5 Jan 200727 WA9 5GHDetached£155,000Leasehold.
18 Dec 200327 WA9 5GHDetached£135,000New build. Leasehold.
2 May 200028 WA9 5GHDetached£65,000
2 Sep 200329 WA9 5GHDetached£145,000New build. Leasehold.
31 Jan 200330 WA9 5GHTerraced£79,950New build. Leasehold.
29 Jun 201232 WA9 5GHTerraced£125,000Leasehold.
17 Apr 200332 WA9 5GHTerraced£79,950New build. Leasehold.
7 Feb 200334 WA9 5GHTerraced£76,950New build. Leasehold.
27 Jul 201236 WA9 5GHDetached£190,000Leasehold.
20 Dec 200238 WA9 5GHDetached£127,950New build. Leasehold.
18 Jan 202340 WA9 5GHDetached£252,500Leasehold.
14 May 200440 WA9 5GHDetached£155,000New build. Leasehold.
11 Jul 200542 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£154,000Leasehold.
28 Nov 200342 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£105,000New build. Leasehold.
18 Mar 202244 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£190,500Leasehold.
1 Feb 200644 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£154,000Leasehold.
29 Sep 200344 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£105,000New build. Leasehold.
12 Mar 200446 WA9 5GHDetached£149,950New build. Leasehold.
30 Jul 201048 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£152,000Leasehold.
10 Dec 200348 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£110,000New build. Leasehold.
18 Sep 200950 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£140,000Leasehold.
11 Jul 200350 WA9 5GHSemi-detached£90,000New build. Leasehold.
11 Aug 200352 WA9 5GHDetached£142,500New build. Leasehold.

House prices and rents in St. Helens

A typical home in St. Helens cost £186,445 in August 2026, 5.1% more than a year before. That is 28% more than five years earlier and 65% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£305,687
Semi-detached£201,418
Terraced£155,878
Flat or maisonette£98,994
Bought by a first-time buyer£169,943

Private renters in St. Helens paid £811 a month on average in September 2026, 6.9% more than a year before. That is 44% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£596
Two bedrooms£742
Three bedrooms£907
Four or more bedrooms£1,307

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 March 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

28 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 98 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (12); House, detached (10); House, end-terrace (4). Built: 2003-2006 (15); 1996-2002 (12); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (26); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (28 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 8,029 kWh of it on average in 2024, 15% less than the district's 9,436 kWh, and 2,892 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
WA9 5GH362,606 kWh 368,672 kWh
WA9 5GP582,281 kWh 626,649 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is WA9.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in St. Helens in 2026-27: Band D £2,403 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,602£1,869£2,136£2,403£2,937£3,472£4,006£4,807

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (37% of about 1,090 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.

Energy projects nearby

3 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 3 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Sutton Heath Road St. Helens P/2016/0804/FUL Energy from waste (incinerator) 15 MW Permission granted, not yet built Mar 2017 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
St Helens Green Hydrogen Facility St. Helens P/2024/0459/FUL Hydrogen 15 MW Permission granted, not yet built May 2025 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Biffa Electricity Generating Compound, Burtonhead Road - Battery Storage St. Helens P/2022/0557/FUL Battery storage 1 MW Permission granted, not yet built Oct 2022 1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 12 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
WA9 5GHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WA9 5GPnot in 2 or 3 4 / 1 / 11 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 38 times, for 62 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Sutton Brook Trib Sankey Brook.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Gaskell Street Cso United Utilities Sutton Brook Trib Sankey Brook 38 62 920 m (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

2 of the street's 2 postcodes are in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 5 to 10%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

By postcode centre: 3 to 5% (2); 5 to 10% (1).

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

4 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 20 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Sherdley Road St. Helens, Merseyside 1967 to 1973 Inert, industrial, liquid sludge 20 m
Marshalls Cross Road St. Helens, Merseyside until 1954 Inert 210 m
Baxters Lane St. Helens, Merseyside until 1954 Not recorded 350 m
Lyons Yard Ravenhead Park, Burtonhead Road, St. Helens, Merseyside Not recorded Inert, industrial 490 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 37 addresses are between 34 m and 37 m above sea level (37 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
WA9 5GH100%100%100%0%
WA9 5GP100%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 stationsLea Green 401,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
St Helens Central 669,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (1 mile)
St Helens Junction 206,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 27 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Helens Hospital Sutton220 m
Bus or coach stationSt Helens Bus Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Car parksBirchley Street Car Park1.9 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station490 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL14.3 km (8.9 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 Marshalls Cross Medical Centre360 m
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ipharm460 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Talking Teeth Dental Practice1.5 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalSt Helens Hospital Good Jan 2023360 m
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Elizabeth Court Inadequate Aug 20251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationSutton Police Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Compass Group - St Helens Hospital Cashzone330 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sutton Park 8.2 ha320 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Sherdley Park 47 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 70 m²360 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.1 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsParr Depot Allotments 1.2 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 81 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Cannington Shaw Bottle Shop, Sherdley Works, a scheduled monument, 1 km (0.6 miles) north-west. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cannington Shaw Bottle Shop, Sherdley WorksScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Number nine Tank House: the Jubilee glassworks 100m south west of the Government Offices on Chalon WayScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Landscape associated with the former Pilkingtons Headquarters complexRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Taylor ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.7 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Delph WoodWood360 m south-west
Grove's DamLake or reservoir590 m (0.4 miles) west
Round WoodWood770 m (0.5 miles) south
Dobb's WoodWood830 m (0.5 miles) west
Garden WoodWood930 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Eccleston HillHill3.2 km (2 miles) 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)10.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

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

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
55 to 5910
Under 553537

2 of the street's 37 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 St. Helens: see them on the St. Helens page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Robins Lane Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11360 m Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) 54% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 43% in 2024 and 50% in 2023)
Eaves Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 79% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 70% in 2024 and 80% in 2023)
Allanson Street Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
Sutton Oak CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 54% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
St Anne's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 35% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 58% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Sherdley Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 54% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 44% in 2024 and 57% in 2023)
The Sutton AcademySecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 45.5 (43.1 in 2025 and 43.1 in 2024); 45.6% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade D+; 0% AAB or better; progress well below average
St Cuthbert's Catholic Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection None published
St Helens College16 plus14–991.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection None published
Holy Cross Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 44% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 52% in 2024 and 32% in 2023)
Merton Bank Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 28% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 41% in 2024 and 52% in 2023)
Parish Church of England Primary School, St HelensPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 66% in 2024 and 72% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

7 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 390 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
St Helens Kumon Centre WA9 3NF Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 390 m
General Day Nursery & After School WA9 5AB Full day care 96 Good (Dec 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 390 m
Small Wonders WA9 3BN Full day care 110 Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 590 m (0.4 miles)
Early Learners Nursery – Sutton WA9 3UG Full day care 73 Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 790 m (0.5 miles)
Little Journeys Day Nursery WA9 3UU Full day care 36 Good (Oct 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Raring Stars - Eaves Primary WA9 3UB Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Kip McGrath St Helens Sutton WA9 3EZ Full day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 40 childminders and 4 home childcarers (nannies) in St Helens. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 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
Hope & Recovery Centre WA9 3DAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises270 m5 Very good16 Sep 2025
AKL Convenience Store WA9 3NFRetailers - other300 m5 Very good6 Jun 2025
Wing Wah WA9 5ADTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m5 Very good22 Oct 2024
Robins Lane Primary School WA9 3NFSchool/college/university360 m5 Very good24 Jun 2026
General Day Nursery WA9 5ABHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good13 Oct 2026
Spice of Life - St Helens Hospital Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good29 Oct 2025
Costa Coffee Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good25 Apr 2025
Ward Kitchens Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good27 Mar 2026
Marshals Convenience Store WA9 3BJRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good10 Feb 2026
The Glass Horse WA9 5TQPub/bar/nightclub420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Apr 2025
BETTER BASKETS LTD WA9 5JDDistributors/Transporters460 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Vegums WA9 5JDRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Feb 2025
McDonald's WA9 5DTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Mar 2026
Asda Express PFS Sherdley Park WA9 5DTRetailers - other500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Jun 2026
Big Bundles WA9 5JDDistributors/Transporters500 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

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.

87 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences34
Drugs15
Public order12
Anti-social behaviour10
Criminal damage and arson8
Vehicle crime3
Other crime2
Burglary1
Other theft1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Scorecross (22); On or near Broadgate Avenue (17); On or near Bridle Court (16); On or near Marshall Avenue (14); On or near Bay Tree Grove (8).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 3 slight. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a motorcyclist. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202210
202300
202410
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
23 Jan 2024 08:50 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
10 Jan 2022 18:10 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
22 Jun 2021 19:05 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 1,062 residents in 434 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 age4040
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%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)32%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%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.

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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.

  • WA9 5GH: 36 addresses of 38 in the postcode
  • WA9 5GP: 1 address of 78 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Thornham Avenue · Walnut Grove · Green End Lane · Sullivan's Way · Broadgate Avenue · Marshall Avenue · Dellside Grove · Bay Tree Grove · Scorecross · Bridle Court · Brook Cottage Close · Delph Court

All the streets in WA9 and across St. Helens.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.