The Pines Leigh, Wigan

19 addresses across 1 postcode (WN7), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44103280.

  • Sales: 19 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £380,000 across 3 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Wigan cost £194,393 in August 2026 (+2.8% on a year); private rents averaged £749 a month.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 4).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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.
  • Storm overflows: 5 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 62 times (477 hours) in 2025.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Wigan costs £2,153 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Atherton, about 5.3 km (3.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Pennington Garden, is about 140 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 17 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Leigh Sports Village, about 740 m (0.5 miles) away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 82% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20243£380,000£265,000£412,500
20231£400,000£400,000£400,000
20221£525,000£525,000£525,000
20201£320,000£320,000£320,000
20191£320,000£320,000£320,000
20181£335,000£335,000£335,000
20173£265,000£200,000£277,500
20151£257,500£257,500£257,500
20061£282,200£282,200£282,200
20051£56,975£56,975£56,975
20011£126,000£126,000£126,000
20001£131,500£131,500£131,500
All 19 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Jul 20241 WN7 3JSDetached£380,000
30 Jun 20172 WN7 3JSDetached£200,000
22 Jul 19984 WN7 3JSDetached£113,500
15 Nov 20066 WN7 3JSDetached£282,200
14 Aug 20158 WN7 3JSDetached£257,500
28 Jul 202312 WN7 3JSDetached£400,000
15 Feb 201912 WN7 3JSDetached£320,000
6 Mar 201712 WN7 3JSDetached£265,000
2 May 202416 WN7 3JSDetached£412,500
18 Dec 202016 WN7 3JSDetached£320,000
7 Feb 200518 WN7 3JSDetached£56,975
13 Jul 200118 WN7 3JSDetached£126,000
8 Dec 200018 WN7 3JSDetached£131,500
16 Nov 201824 WN7 3JSDetached£335,000
9 Sep 199724 WN7 3JSDetached£92,950
16 Jun 201728 WN7 3JSDetached£277,500
28 Oct 202232 WN7 3JSDetached£525,000
21 Aug 199832 WN7 3JSDetached£80,000
6 Jun 202434 WN7 3JSDetached£265,000

House prices and rents in Wigan

A typical home in Wigan cost £194,393 in August 2026, 2.8% more than a year before. That is 26% more than five years earlier and 66% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£316,388
Semi-detached£202,942
Terraced£157,752
Flat or maisonette£106,371
Bought by a first-time buyer£175,758

Private renters in Wigan paid £749 a month on average in September 2026, 6.4% more than a year before. That is 41% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£544
Two bedrooms£703
Three bedrooms£842
Four or more bedrooms£1,147

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 August 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 115 m². Most common: House, detached (8); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1983-1990 (7); 1996-2002 (1); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 14,996 kWh of it on average in 2024, 59% more than the district's 9,428 kWh, and 4,293 kWh of electricity, 49% more than the district's 2,880 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the 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 WN7.

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 Wigan in 2026-27: Band D £2,153 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,435£1,674£1,913£2,153£2,631£3,109£3,588£4,305

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (38% of about 640 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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

1 energy project near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Whitehead Landfill Wigan A/02/55506 Landfill Gas 5.3 MW Operational Sep 2002 4.7 km (2.9 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 27 October 2026: BT, Remedial works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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

Flood risk

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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre 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

5 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 62 times, for 477 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Pennington Brook Via Sws, Pennington Brook (Glaze), Pennington Brook.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Newlands Road Cso United Utilities Pennington Brook Via Sws 1 0 140 m
Pennington Mill Bridge Cso United Utilities Pennington Brook (Glaze) 12 21 180 m
Mather Lane United Utilities Pennington Brook 2 1 270 m
Leigh Wwtw United Utilities; monitored 86% of the year Pennington Brook 0 0 270 m
Leigh Wwtw United Utilities; monitored 86% of the year Pennington Brook 47 455 270 m

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

This postcode is 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 postcode is in a 1 km square in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

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

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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 addresses are about 17 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
WN7 3JS100%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 stationsAtherton 218,000 journeys in 2024–255.3 km (3.3 miles)
Hag Fold 74,000 journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.3 miles)
Daisy Hill 195,000 journeys in 2024–255.7 km (3.6 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 32 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Drive Pennington90 m
Bus or coach stationLeigh Bus Station820 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest BE.EV Charging Station500 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN22.2 km (14 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Leigh Sports Village Good Sep 2019740 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy660 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery890 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalLeight Infirmary Good Feb 20201.9 km (1.2 miles)
Care homes3 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lyndhurst Residential Care Home Good Apr 20191.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationLeigh Police Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machinesCashpoint® 28-30 Ellesmere Street Lloyds Bank920 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 Pennington Garden 4.8 ha140 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Pennington Flash Country Park 252 ha500 m (0.3 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,480 m²440 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha260 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,010 m²310 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 257 hectares in all.

Landmarks

9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Taylor's HoleLake or reservoir490 m (0.3 miles) west
Hope CarrWetland830 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Aspull CommonWood1.6 km (1 mile) west
The FlashLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Ackers Whitley's BasinLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) west
Fir Tree FlashLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.6 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)11.74010
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
55 to 5920
Under 551719

2 of the street's 19 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 Wigan: see them on the Wigan page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
Christ Church CofE Primary School, Pennington Church of EnglandPrimary4–11570 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) 43% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 57% in 2023)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Leigh Roman CatholicPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 45% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 74% in 2024 and 70% in 2023)
Leigh St Mary's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 43% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 47% in 2023)
Leigh CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 49% in 2024 and 62% in 2023)
Leigh Central Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 55% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 27% in 2023)
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Leigh Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement 51% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 49% in 2024 and 33% in 2023)
St Thomas' CofE Primary School, Leigh Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 48% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 42% in 2024 and 59% in 2023)
Bedford Hall Methodist Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
Gilded Hollins Community SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection 97% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 97% in 2024 and 97% in 2023)
Leigh St John's CofE Primary Church of EnglandPrimary5–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 80% in 2024 and 70% in 2023)
Leigh St Peter's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 46% 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

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.3 km (0.8 miles); the nearest is 400 m (0.2 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
The Beeches Pre School WN7 3LJ Full day care 16 Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 400 m (0.2 miles)
Fairfield Nursery WN7 4HW Full day care 84 Good (Aug 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 490 m (0.3 miles)
First Steps Private Day Nursery Limited WN7 3UQ Full day care 73 Not inspected yet 610 m (0.4 miles)
Leigh South Community Nursery WN7 3ET Sessional day care 15 Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 640 m (0.4 miles)
Twist Lane Nursery WN7 4BZ Full day care 34 Good (Nov 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 810 m (0.5 miles)
Joe's Zone At St Josephs Catholic Primary School WN7 2PW Out-of-school day care 25 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
Little Rainbows' 2 Nursery WN7 1BP Full day care 52 Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
ABC Castle Nursery WN7 1AZ Full day care 51 Good (Feb 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Katherine Price At Kip Mcgrath Leigh WN7 1AZ Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
The Ducklings Day Nursery WN7 3XF Full day care 72 Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Ofsted also registers 109 childminders and 14 home childcarers (nannies) in Wigan. 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 4 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
Brookdale Court WN7 3HWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good30 Jul 2026
Caffeina WN7 3JDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m4 Good7 Aug 2026
Leigh Cricket, Tennis & Bowling Club WN7 3LHPub/bar/nightclub360 m4 Good24 Jul 2025
No 1 Convenience Store WN7 4HARetailers - other380 m2 Improvement necessary10 Feb 2025
Fairfield Private Day Nursery WN7 4HWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Feb 2026
The Centurion WN7 4HWPub/bar/nightclub490 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory22 Jul 2025
Leopards Den WN7 4HWPub/bar/nightclub490 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory12 Mar 2026
Lees Bakery WN7 4HWRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Dec 2025
J & M Convenience Store WN7 4HWRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory17 Sep 2025
Wok Inn WN7 4HWTakeaway/sandwich shop490 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory22 Jul 2026
Cube Desserts WN7 4HWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory4 Nov 2025
Spuddies Catering WN7 4HBMobile caterer490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Jul 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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (lancashire).

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.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

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 Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 283 residents in 130 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 age5040
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over31%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)82%61%
Owned outright50%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)37%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)53%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)39%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Remedial works, 26 October 2026 to 29 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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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.

Nearby streets

The Drive · Beechfield Drive · Chestnut Avenue · Pennington Road · Pennington Gardens · Birchwood Close · Beech Crescent · Pennington Road · Bonnywell Road · Moorlands Avenue · Woodlands Avenue · Langford Drive

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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.