Thackeray Drive Chester

67 addresses across 5 postcodes (CH3), about 510 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 6901739.

  • Sales: 59 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £255,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 36 homes have an energy certificate (C: 16, D: 14, E: 4, F: 2).
  • Flood: 3 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 C; Band D in Cheshire West and Chester costs £2,517 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chester, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Queens Road Community Park, is about 460 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 31 to 37 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 12 of its 67 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Heath Lane Medical Centre, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 880 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 24 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
20262£255,000£240,000£270,000
20255£325,000£162,000£490,000
20244£245,000£200,000£270,000
20233£255,000£230,000£317,500
20222£382,500£300,000£465,000
20212£218,875£192,500£245,250
20201£258,000£258,000£258,000
20193£230,000£187,000£270,000
20181£332,000£332,000£332,000
20171£290,000£290,000£290,000
20161£152,500£152,500£152,500
20132£162,250£146,500£178,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 59)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Feb 202634 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£270,000
6 Feb 202640 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£240,000
27 Oct 202513 CH3 5LPSemi-detached£162,000
12 Sep 202557 CH3 5LPDetached£490,000
15 Aug 202522 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£325,000
2 Jul 202553 CH3 5LPDetached£395,000
30 Jan 202512 CH3 5LRDetached£250,000
13 Dec 202442 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£200,000
21 Jun 202436 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£260,000
7 Jun 20244 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£230,000
16 Feb 20243 CH3 5LPSemi-detached£270,000
13 Nov 20238 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£230,000
18 Aug 202311 CH3 5LPSemi-detached£255,000
21 Apr 202320 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£317,500
29 Nov 202265 CH3 5LPDetached£465,000
18 Aug 202222 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£300,000
24 Nov 20219 CH3 5LPSemi-detached£245,250
30 Jul 202119 CH3 5LPDetached£192,500
3 Feb 202024 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£258,000
31 Oct 201934 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£187,000
20 Sep 201911 CH3 5LPSemi-detached£230,000
10 Jan 201918 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£270,000
13 Feb 201841 CH3 5LPDetached£332,000
6 Oct 201717 CH3 5LPDetached£290,000
17 Aug 20169 CH3 5LPSemi-detached£152,500
9 Oct 201336 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£178,000
1 Oct 20136 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£146,500
18 Oct 201226 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£168,000
5 Oct 201217 CH3 5LPDetached£155,000
29 Aug 201234 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£165,000
19 May 201269 CH3 5LPDetached£125,000
4 Aug 201145 CH3 5LPSemi-detached£230,000
23 Jul 20094 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£155,000
27 Mar 200963 CH3 5LPDetached£180,000
9 Nov 200712 CH3 5LRDetached£187,000
21 Sep 200651 CH3 5LPDetached£249,950
10 Jun 200511 CH3 5LPSemi-detached£179,000
22 Oct 200431 CH3 5LPDetached£220,000
7 Sep 200446 CH3 5LRDetached£230,000
15 Jul 200432 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£186,500
21 May 200438 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£156,000
9 Sep 200322 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£134,000
30 Jun 20033 CH3 5LPSemi-detached£120,000
11 Oct 200238 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£112,000
22 Feb 200220 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£119,000
29 Sep 200028 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£87,000
29 Sep 20008 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£78,000
11 Feb 200030 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£84,000
15 Jan 199922 CH3 5LRSemi-detached£70,250
31 Jul 19981 CH3 5LPSemi-detached£64,500

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.

36 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 86 m². Most common: House, detached (14); House, semi-detached (12); Bungalow, semi-detached (7). Built: 1967-1975 (24); 1976-1982 (6); 1950-1966 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (26); rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (16 addresses)

Council tax

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

ABCDEFGH
£1,678£1,958£2,238£2,517£3,077£3,636£4,196£5,035

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (65% of about 650 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.

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 13 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
CH3 5LPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
CH3 5LRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CH3 5HZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
CH3 5LLnot in 2 or 3 3 / 0 / 3 unlikely
CH3 5LTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 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 67 addresses are between 31 m and 37 m above sea level (34 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
CH3 5HZ100%100%100%0%
CH3 5LL100%100%100%0%
CH3 5LP100%97%100%0%
CH3 5LR100%100%100%0%
CH3 5LT100%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 stationsChester 5.3 million journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bache 495,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Mouldsworth 26,000 journeys in 2024–258.8 km (5.5 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shops Vicars Cross240 m
Bus or coach stationChester Bus Interchange2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Car parksApcoa Parking1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station770 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL15.3 km (9.5 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Heath Lane Medical Centre1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Vicars Cross Pharmacy250 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Vicars Cross Dental Practice250 m
HospitalCountess Of Chester Hospital (Coc NHS Trust)3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Police stationChester Town Hall Police Station2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shell Chester, Vicars Cross Cashzone450 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 Queens Road Community Park 2.5 ha460 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,240 m²120 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.1 ha120 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 4,600 m²810 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 2.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Part of a Roman camp at Hoole 200m south of Hoole Hall, a scheduled monument, 850 m (0.5 miles) north. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Part of a Roman camp at Hoole 200m south of Hoole HallScheduled monument850 m (0.5 miles) north
Grosvenor ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Battle of Rowton Heath 1645Registered battlefield4.7 km (2.9 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bellevue WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Gallows HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Donkey FieldWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Gowy GorseWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Sealion PoolLake or reservoir3.7 km (2.3 miles) north-west
The DaleValley4.2 km (2.6 miles) north-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)8.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.1205
Particles (PM10)10.84015

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
70 to 7410
65 to 6920
55 to 5990
Under 555567

12 of the street's 67 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Cheshire West and Chester: see them on the Cheshire West and Chester page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 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
Oldfield Primary SchoolPrimary4–11190 m No published inspection
Hoole Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Cherry Grove Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Boughton Heath AcademyPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Martin's Academy ChesterPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Werburgh's and St Columba's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Christleton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
The Bishops' Blue Coat Church of England High SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Guilden Sutton CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Christleton High SchoolSecondary11–182 km (1.2 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Oldfield Pre-School CH3 5LBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good27 Mar 2026
Oldfield Primary School CH3 5LBSchool/college/university180 m5 Very good20 Mar 2026
Centurion Community Action Group LTD CH3 5LNPub/bar/nightclub200 m5 Very good10 Apr 2026
Spar CH3 5LBRetailers - other240 m5 Very good12 Mar 2026
Sheradon Grill CH3 5LBTakeaway/sandwich shop240 mUnknown24 Aug 2026
Vicars Cross United Reformed Church CH3 5LLOther catering premises290 m5 Very good12 Mar 2026
Slimming world franchise CH3 5LLMobile caterer290 mExempt
Chester Rugby FC CH3 7DBPub/bar/nightclub450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 Oct 2014
Kids Planet Chester CH3 7DBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Jan 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.

24 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences15
Other theft4
Vehicle crime2
Public order1
Anti-social behaviour1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Oldfield Drive (5); On or near George Close (5); On or near Green Lane (4); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (3); On or near Bridgewater Drive (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 881 residents in 387 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 age4540
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright50%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)39%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)60%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)39%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • CH3 5LP: 39 addresses of 40 in the postcode
  • CH3 5LR: 24 addresses
  • CH3 5HZ: 2 addresses of 18 in the postcode
  • CH3 5LL: 1 address of 44 in the postcode
  • CH3 5LT: 1 address of 33 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Langport Drive · Makepeace Close · George Close · Winscombe Drive · Dulverton Avenue · Bridgewater Drive · Oldfield Drive · Oldfield Drive · Vicars Cross Road · Green Lane · Grove Avenue · Tarvin Road

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

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.