Vale View Lowca, Cumberland

49 addresses across 3 postcodes (CA28), about 250 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 9201631.

  • Sales: 20 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £70,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 24 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 17, E: 5, F: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 A; Band D in Cumberland costs £2,511 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Parton, about 1.4 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.8 km away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 2.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 53 to 67 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 49 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Distington Surgery, about 2.4 km away.
  • People: About 820 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1 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
20231£70,000£70,000£70,000
20212£89,000£75,000£103,000
20181£126,000£126,000£126,000
20162£89,000£83,000£95,000
20151£70,000£70,000£70,000
20122£78,500£70,000£87,000
20072£87,000£80,000£94,000
20061£100,000£100,000£100,000
20052£56,975£24,000£89,950
20031£13,834£13,834£13,834
20001£26,250£26,250£26,250
19982£31,250£30,000£32,500
Most recent sales (20)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 Dec 202312 CA28 6QDTerraced£70,000
6 May 202236 CA28 6QDTerraced£61,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Dec 202142 CA28 6QDTerraced£75,000
7 Jun 202116 CA28 6QDSemi-detached£103,000
21 Nov 201829 CA28 6QDSemi-detached£126,000
27 May 201639 CA28 6QDSemi-detached£95,000
15 Jan 20167 CA28 6QDSemi-detached£83,000
6 Mar 201541 CA28 6QDSemi-detached£72,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Feb 20153 CA28 6QDTerraced£70,000
1 Feb 201234 CA28 6QDSemi-detached£87,000
6 Jan 20127 CA28 6QDSemi-detached£70,000
3 Dec 20078 CA28 6QDSemi-detached£94,000
19 Jan 200735 CA28 6QDTerraced£80,000
14 Jul 200643 CA28 6QDSemi-detached£100,000
26 Aug 200513 CA28 6QDTerraced£89,950
10 Jan 200532 CA28 6QDSemi-detached£24,000
19 Nov 200342 CA28 6QDTerraced£13,834
21 Nov 200015 CA28 6QDSemi-detached£26,250
25 Sep 199846 CA28 6QDSemi-detached£32,500
3 Aug 19988 CA28 6QDSemi-detached£30,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

24 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 86 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (20); House, mid-terrace (3); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1950-1966 (18); 1930-1949 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (social) (7); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Cumberland in 2026-27: Band D £2,511 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,674£1,953£2,232£2,511£3,069£3,627£4,186£5,023

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (84% of about 1,350 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 2 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: 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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
CA28 6QDnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 2 unlikely
CA28 6PSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CA28 6QEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 49 addresses are between 53 m and 67 m above sea level (61 m on average); the ground rises about 14 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
CA28 6PS100%100%100%0%
CA28 6QD100%100%100%0%
CA28 6QE100%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 stationsParton 13,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km
Whitehaven 285,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km
Harrington 36,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m, 9 within 800 m; nearest Post Office Lowca380 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station (W) Workington7.0 km
EV charging pointsSenhouse St Car Park Whitehaven GeniePoint3.7 km
Airport with scheduled flightsGlasgow Prestwick Airport PIK121.0 km

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 surgeriesDistington Surgery2.4 km
PharmaciesTesco Instore Pharmacy3.5 km
NHS dentistsOasis Dental Care LTD.3.7 km
HospitalWest Cumberland Hospital5.7 km
Police stationCumbria Constabulary - Whitehaven Police Station3.9 km
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Distington, Distington Cashzone2.6 km

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 gardenUnnamed 6,820 m²1.8 km
Play area2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,710 m²230 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha290 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,170 m²1.6 km

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Moresby Hall, a listed building (Grade I), 920 m south-west. 7 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Moresby HallListed building, Grade I920 m south-west
Parton Roman fortScheduled monument1.1 km south-west
Hayes CastleScheduled monument1.6 km north-east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Moresby WoodWood940 m south
Micklam PointWetland1.0 km west
Lowca PointWetland1.0 km west
Providence BayBay1.1 km south-west
Watch HillHill1.7 km south-east
Hallcat GillValley2.0 km north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)2.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.1205
Particles (PM10)6.74015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 554849

1 of the street's 49 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Lowca Community SchoolPrimary3–11440 m Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Bridget's CofE School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.5 km Report card (May 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: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Lowca Community Club CA28 6PTPub/bar/nightclub220 m5 Very good7 Mar 2018
Lowca Community School CA28 6QSSchool/college/university370 m5 Very good25 Sep 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.

1 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Meadow View (1).

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: 817 residents in 345 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 age4140
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright39%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented14%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van67%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 3 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.

Nearby streets

Meadow View · Ghyll Bank · Stamford Hill · Copperas Close · Solway Road · Croft Head View · Church View · Ghyll Grove · East Road

All the streets in CA28 and across Cumberland.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside.

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