Warwick Close Birkenhead, Wirral

23 addresses across 1 postcode (CH43), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44504397.

  • Sales: 1 recorded sales since 1995; in 2006 the median was £52,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 5, D: 6).
  • 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 A; Band D in Wirral costs £2,501 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Birkenhead Central, about 890 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Birkenhead Park, is about 250 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 18 to 21 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 23 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Whetstone Lane Med Ctr, about 320 m away, with 9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 180 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 11% of households owned their home and 13% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 557 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
20061£52,500£52,500£52,500
Most recent sales (1)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 Dec 20066 CH43 4YFTerraced£52,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from May 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (8); House, end-terrace (4); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1983-1990 (10); 1976-1982 (2); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (9); owner-occupied (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Wirral in 2026-27: Band D £2,501 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,667£1,945£2,223£2,501£3,056£3,612£4,168£5,001

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (91% of about 1,040 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 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 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 23 addresses are between 18 m and 21 m above sea level (20 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
CH43 4YF100%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 stationsBirkenhead Central 644,000 journeys in 2024–25890 m (0.6 miles)
Conway Park 630,000 journeys in 2024–25940 m (0.6 miles)
Birkenhead Park 670,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Bus stops17 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 59 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Eastbourne Street Birkenhead Park150 m
Bus or coach stationBirkenhead Bus Station810 m (0.5 miles)
Ferry terminalWoodside Birkenhead Ferry Terminal1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Car parksBridge Street Car Park1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station510 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL13.6 km (8.5 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whetstone Lane Med Ctr320 m
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Asda Pharmacy300 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery540 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSt. Catherines Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationPyramids Town Centre Police Station380 m
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone240 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Birkenhead Park 55 ha250 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 320 m²390 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.2 ha330 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,690 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 56 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Grand Entrance Gateway With North and South Lodges, a listed building (Grade II*), 680 m (0.4 miles) north. 91 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Grand Entrance Gateway With North and South LodgesListed building, Grade II*680 m (0.4 miles) north
Birkenhead ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade I820 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Birkenhead PrioryScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Flaybrick Memorial GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Egerton DockLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Vittoria DockLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Tranmere BeachBeach2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Taylor's WoodWood2.5 km (1.6 miles) west
Bidston HillHill2.8 km (1.7 miles) west
Prenton DellValley3.1 km (1.9 miles) south-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)10.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

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 552123

2 of the street's 23 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 Wirral: see them on the Wirral 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
St Werburgh's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11350 m Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Birkenhead Christ Church CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11420 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woodlands Primary SchoolPrimary2–11540 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): 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: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Birkenhead Park SchoolSecondary11–16620 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Priory Parish CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–11780 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Cathcart Street Primary SchoolPrimary2–11870 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Woodchurch Road AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): 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
St Anselm's College Roman CatholicSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Wirral Metropolitan College16 plus16–991 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Birkenhead High School AcademyAll-through3–191.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mersey Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Cavendish CH41 4BZPub/bar/nightclub60 m5 Very good27 Jun 2023
New Chung wah Fish & Chip CH41 4BZTakeaway/sandwich shop60 m1 Major improvement necessary25 Sep 2026
Chegone Takeaway CH41 4BZTakeaway/sandwich shop70 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Feb 2026
Sultan Tandoori Indian Takeaway CH41 4DBTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m3 Generally satisfactory13 Mar 2025
Cramstones Cafe CH41 4DBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m4 Good17 May 2023
Papa G's Pizza CH43 4XNTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Sep 2025
Best desserts in town CH41 4DBTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Jul 2025
MES-Cuts CH41 4DBTakeaway/sandwich shop90 mUnknown30 Apr 2026
Grange road west premier CH41 4DBRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets90 m2 Improvement necessary4 Dec 2024
Dilqush CH41 4BYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m4 Good4 Sep 2024
Mr Waffle CH41 4BYTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m4 Good19 Jan 2026
News and Booze CH41 4DARetailers - other110 m4 Good24 Sep 2026
Hala Market CH41 4BYRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets110 m4 Good3 Sep 2025
PIZZALAND OXTON ROAD LTD CH41 2TWTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m5 Very good8 Apr 2026
Yun Kee Kitchen CH41 2TWTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m3 Generally satisfactory14 Apr 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.

557 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences185
Anti-social behaviour83
Drugs64
Criminal damage and arson53
Public order48
Shoplifting27
Other theft23
Other crime16
Vehicle crime14
Robbery14
Burglary13
Possession of weapons11
Bicycle theft6

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cartmel Close (64); On or near Parking Area (60); On or near Merton Place (54); On or near Theatre/Concert Hall (52); On or near Henthorne Street (29).

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: 182 residents in 111 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 age4840
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)11%61%
Owned outright6%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented81%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work34%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)16%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)9%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus11%8%
On foot or by bicycle23%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)13%34%
No qualifications40%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, mid-terrace (lodged 28 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, semi-detached (lodged 28 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band D, house, end-terrace (lodged 27 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, mid-terrace (lodged 27 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Le vert (restaurant/cafe/canteen, CH41 2PH) now 4 Good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 25 September 2026) found 31 October 2026

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

Henthorne Street · Barton Street · Grange Place · Carlisle Mews · Grange Road West · Westbourne Road · Maritime Park · Clayton Street · Clarendon Close · Midland Street · Bentinck Place · Cole Street

All the streets in CH43 and across Wirral.

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.