Viola Close Kirkby, Knowsley

15 addresses across 2 postcodes (L33), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 19502076.

  • Sales: 33 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £185,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 4).
  • Flood: 2 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 B; Band D in Knowsley costs £2,488 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Headbolt Lane, about 790 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 70 m away, and Tower Hill Park (14 hectares) is about 370 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 29 to 30 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 15 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Dr Maassarani & Partners, about 470 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 470 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 74% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 110 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
20253£185,000£180,000£195,000
20231£155,000£155,000£155,000
20201£129,995£129,995£129,995
20151£93,500£93,500£93,500
20121£92,500£92,500£92,500
20101£110,000£110,000£110,000
20071£129,995£129,995£129,995
20061£119,950£119,950£119,950
20052£74,500£30,000£119,000
20031£82,000£82,000£82,000
20024£57,500£56,995£62,000
20011£59,950£59,950£59,950
Most recent sales (33)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Dec 202517 L33 1SYSemi-detached£180,000
7 Feb 20259 L33 1SYSemi-detached£185,000
17 Jan 20252 L33 1SYSemi-detached£195,000
14 Jul 202311 L33 1SYSemi-detached£155,000
17 Dec 20218 L33 1SYSemi-detached£117,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Aug 202015 L33 1SYSemi-detached£129,995
9 Jan 201517 L33 1SYSemi-detached£93,500
4 Apr 201210 L33 1SYSemi-detached£92,500
4 Jun 201015 L33 1SYSemi-detached£110,000
27 Apr 20079 L33 1SYSemi-detached£129,995
21 Apr 20065 L33 1SYSemi-detached£119,950
24 Jun 20058 L33 1SYSemi-detached£119,000
22 Mar 200517 L33 1SYSemi-detached£30,000
1 Aug 20032 L33 1SYSemi-detached£82,000
31 May 20029 L33 1SYSemi-detached£58,000
7 May 20023 L33 1SYSemi-detached£62,000
12 Apr 20028 L33 1SYSemi-detached£56,995
28 Feb 20028 L33 1SYSemi-detached£57,000
14 Dec 20019 L33 1SYSemi-detached£59,950
7 Apr 20003 L33 1SYSemi-detached£53,995
11 Feb 200017 L33 1SYSemi-detached£56,995New build.
19 Mar 19992 L33 1SYSemi-detached£56,495New build.
12 Mar 199910 L33 1SYSemi-detached£49,950New build.
26 Feb 19994 L33 1SYSemi-detached£53,170New build.
15 Jan 19996 L33 1SYSemi-detached£52,995New build.
15 Jan 19998 L33 1SYSemi-detached£52,995New build.
23 Dec 19983 L33 1SYSemi-detached£53,495New build.
21 Dec 19985 L33 1SYSemi-detached£53,495New build.
11 Dec 199811 L33 1SYSemi-detached£58,995New build.
11 Dec 199815 L33 1SYSemi-detached£46,995New build.
20 Nov 19989 L33 1SYSemi-detached£60,000New build.
13 Nov 19987 L33 1SYSemi-detached£60,000New build.
24 Sep 19981 L33 1SYSemi-detached£60,000New build.

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 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (10). Built: 1996-2002 (6); 1991-1995 (3); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Knowsley in 2026-27: Band D £2,488 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,659£1,935£2,212£2,488£3,041£3,594£4,147£4,977

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (53% of about 830 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.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 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
L33 1SYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 2 unlikely
L33 1SSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 15 addresses are between 29 m and 30 m above sea level (29 m on average).

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

Broadband

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

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
L33 1SS100%100%100%0%
L33 1SY100%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 stationsHeadbolt Lane 1.4 million journeys in 2024–25790 m (0.5 miles)
Kirkby (Merseyside) 1.6 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Maghull 1.3 million journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 32 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bank Lane Tower Hill100 m
Bus or coach stationBootle Bus Station8.2 km (5.1 miles)
Ferry terminalLiverpool Belfast Ferry Terminal Bootle9.5 km (5.9 miles)
Car parksTree View Court Car Park2.8 km (1.8 miles)
EV charging pointsPoGo Charge3 km (1.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL18.2 km (11 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 Dr Maassarani & Partners470 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy330 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Primary Resource Centre470 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalAshworth Hospital Healthcare Registry2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationKirkby Police Station1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machinesATM940 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha70 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Tower Hill Park 14 ha370 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 150 m²450 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,020 m²530 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsDelaware Allotments 7,290 m²1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 34 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Standing cross 30m south of the tower of the parochial chapel, in the old churchyard, a scheduled monument, 1.9 km (1.2 miles) west. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Standing cross 30m south of the tower of the parochial chapel, in the old churchyardScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Cross base 25m south of the tower of the parochial chapel, in the old churchyardScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Shacklady's PlantationWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Old RoughWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Big WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
Massam's WoodWood2.5 km (1.5 miles) north
Woodwards PlantationWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Bickerstaffe Delf PondLake or reservoir4.2 km (2.6 miles) north-east

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)9.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

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
55 to 5910
Under 551415

1 of the street's 15 addresses is 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 Knowsley: see them on the Knowsley 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
Ravenscroft Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11460 m (0.3 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
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11890 m (0.6 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
Eastcroft Park SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Millbrook Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Melling Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Kirkby CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
All Saints Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Northwood Community Primary School (With Designated Special Provision)Primary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Marie's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Westvale Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): 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: Needs attention; Early years: Expected 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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Windmill L33 1ZNPub/bar/nightclub340 m5 Very good12 Nov 2019
Zhejiang Garden Takeaway L33 2DLTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m4 Good14 Aug 2026
Go Local L33 2DLRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)2 Improvement necessary26 Feb 2025
Little Gems Nursery L33 1XTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Jun 2026
Ravenscroft Community Primary School L33 1XTSchool/college/university480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Jun 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.

110 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences51
Criminal damage and arson19
Anti-social behaviour13
Public order8
Other theft7
Drugs5
Other crime3
Burglary1
Bicycle theft1
Possession of weapons1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near St Peters Close (31); On or near Salvia Way (11); On or near Riesling Drive (9); On or near Iris Grove (8); On or near Hosta Close (8).

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: 465 residents in 187 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 age3440
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)74%61%
Owned outright19%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented25%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work75%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)56%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)32%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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

Hyacinth Avenue · Salvia Way · Sedum Grove · Aster Drive · Iris Grove · Hosta Close · Bellis Grove · Clements Way · Gibson Close · Brett Close · Purbeck Road · St Pauls Close

All the streets in L33 and across Knowsley.

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.