Tolver Street St Helens, St. Helens

53 addresses across 7 postcodes (WA10,WA9), about 370 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 37501953.

  • Sales: 5 recorded sales since 1995; in 2019 the median was £65,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 37 homes have an energy certificate (C: 26, D: 10, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in St. Helens costs £2,403 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is St Helens Central, about 180 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Fosters Park, is about 300 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 32 to 39 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 20 of its 53 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hall Street Medical Centre, about 210 m away, with 9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,450 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 30% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 270 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
20191£65,000£65,000£65,000
20111£40,000£40,000£40,000
Most recent sales (5)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 Aug 202425 WA10 1ELOther£39,999Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 May 202460A WA10 1ELOther£32,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Mar 202060A WA10 1ELOther£15,250Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jun 20192 WA10 1ELTerraced£65,000Leasehold.
22 Nov 2011107 WA10 1JETerraced£40,000

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

37 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 45 m². Most common: Flat (36); House, end-terrace (1). Built: before 1900 (16); 1900-1929 (11); 2018 (8). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (26); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (91% of about 2,570 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 3 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: 1.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 30 September 2026 to 2 October 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 53 addresses are between 32 m and 39 m above sea level (38 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
WA10 1EL100%100%100%0%
WA10 1GH100%100%100%0%
WA10 1GN100%0%0%0%
WA10 1JE100%100%100%0%
WA10 1JG100%100%100%0%
WA10 1LJ100%100%100%0%
WA9 1EL100%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 stationsSt Helens Central 669,000 journeys in 2024–25180 m
Thatto Heath 149,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Lea Green 401,000 journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 61 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hollingsworth Court St Helens110 m
Bus or coach stationSt Helens Bus Station140 m
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Birchley Street Car Park330 m
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station600 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL15.4 km (9.6 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 surgeries9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hall Street Medical Centre210 m
Pharmacies15 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Millennium Pharmacy220 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery290 m
HospitalSt Helens Hospital1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationSt Helens Police Station410 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cashpoint® 13-15 Hardshaw Street Lloyds Bank340 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fosters Park 7.4 ha300 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,240 m²380 m
Playing fieldParr Recreation Ground 3.8 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsRecreation Street Allotments 1.3 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 10 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Statue of Queen Victoria, a listed building (Grade II*), 310 m west. 14 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Statue of Queen VictoriaListed building, Grade II*310 m west
Tank house, beside canal at Crown Glass WorksListed building, Grade II*620 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Number nine Tank House: the Jubilee glassworks 100m south west of the Government Offices on Chalon WayScheduled monument630 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Cannington Shaw Bottle Shop, Sherdley WorksScheduled monument770 m (0.5 miles) south
Landscape associated with the former Pilkingtons Headquarters complexRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Borough Cemetery, St HelensRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Grove's DamLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Dobb's WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Delph WoodWood2 km (1.2 miles) south
Hall CoppiceWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Big DamLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) west
Bleak HillHill2.9 km (1.8 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)13.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

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

Road and rail noise

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

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 59200
Under 553353

20 of the street's 53 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), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Holy Cross Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11130 m 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
Parish Church of England Primary School, St HelensPrimary3–11270 m 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
St Helens College16 plus14–99670 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Mary & St Thomas CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11780 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Merton Bank Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Allanson Street Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Rivington Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Queen's Park CofE/Urc Primary School Church of England/United Reformed ChurchPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Devon Street Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.7 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Cowley International CollegeSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
North West Museum of Road Transport WA10 1DURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good13 Aug 2026
Best One Plus WA10 1LHRetailers - other70 m1 Major improvement necessary18 Feb 2026
Hippodrome Bingo WA10 1EQOther catering premises120 m5 Very good27 Sep 2025
Cafe Millais WA10 1HJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good8 Apr 2026
Pear Tree Cafe WA10 1DZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good2 Jun 2026
Premier Barcode House WA10 1ENRetailers - other160 m5 Very good11 May 2026
La Casa Vieja WA10 1DHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good18 Apr 2026
Holy Cross School WA10 1LNSchool/college/university170 m5 Very good10 Jun 2025
Late Mates Club & Breakfast Club WA10 1LNSchool/college/university170 m5 Very good15 Sep 2026
Royal Alfred WA10 1DHPub/bar/nightclub190 m5 Very good11 Sep 2025
Thai Jaa Restaurant WA10 1DLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good30 Jul 2025
Ba'Bursi Restaurant WA10 1DARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good18 Apr 2026
Lily's Victorian Tearooms WA10 1DLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m4 Good16 Jul 2025
Appetites WA10 1DLOther catering premises240 m4 Good13 Feb 2026
Union Inn WA10 1EPPub/bar/nightclub240 m2 Improvement necessary6 Feb 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.

270 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences112
Public order32
Anti-social behaviour30
Drugs28
Criminal damage and arson21
Other theft20
Burglary11
Vehicle crime5
Bicycle theft3
Shoplifting2
Other crime2
Possession of weapons2
Theft from the person1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shaw Street (119); On or near Lower Hall Street (26); On or near Haydock Street (23); On or near Hall Street (18); On or near Corporation Street (13).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,445 residents in 705 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 age3840
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)30%61%
Owned outright18%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented29%17%
Private rented39%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)10%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications29%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)90%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 2 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

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

What has changed

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

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

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

  • WA10 1GN: 25 addresses
  • WA10 1JE: 18 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • WA10 1EL: 6 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • WA10 1GH: 1 address of 51 in the postcode
  • WA10 1JG: 1 address of 27 in the postcode
  • WA10 1LJ: 1 address of 7 in the postcode
  • WA9 1EL: 1 address of 24 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Brynn Street · Cansfield Street · Standish Street · Bickerstaffe Street · Vincent Street · Library Street · College Street · Haydock Street · Clifton Street · Hardshaw Street · Corporation Street · Shaw Street

All the streets in WA10, 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.
  • 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.