Waterloo Place Birkenhead, Wirral

1 address across 1 postcode (CH41), about 150 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44503764.

  • 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 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 280 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 500 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 6 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hamilton Med Ctr, about 590 m (0.4 miles) away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 37% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 101 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

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 (92% of about 980 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 31 October 2026.

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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 address is about 6 m above sea level.

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

Broadband

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

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CH41 9DF100%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 2024–25280 m
Green Lane 375,000 journeys in 2024–25510 m (0.3 miles)
Conway Park 630,000 journeys in 2024–25730 m (0.5 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 40 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Marys Gate Birkenhead280 m
Bus or coach stationBirkenhead Bus Station510 m (0.3 miles)
Ferry terminalWoodside Birkenhead Ferry Terminal900 m (0.6 miles)
Car parksBridge Street Car Park820 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL12.6 km (7.8 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hamilton Med Ctr590 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy560 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hamilton Square Dental Practice650 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalSt. Catherines Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationPyramids Town Centre Police Station630 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Birkenhead Station NatWest730 m (0.5 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,910 m²500 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 1.5 ha570 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 550 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.1 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,690 m²1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 2.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Remains of Birkenhead Priory, a listed building (Grade I), 380 m north-east. 87 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 6 of them Grade I and 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Remains of Birkenhead PrioryListed building, Grade I380 m north-east
Birkenhead PrioryScheduled monument400 m (0.2 miles) north-east
Chapter House Chapel at Birkenhead PrioryListed building, Grade II*400 m (0.2 miles) north-east
Old Hsbc Bank BuildingListed building, Grade II*440 m (0.3 miles) north
Number 4 Dry DockListed building, Grade II*500 m (0.3 miles) east
Birkenhead ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade I1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Princess DockLake or reservoir460 m (0.3 miles) east
Outer BasinLake or reservoir550 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Tranmere BeachBeach1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Marsh Hey CovertWood3.5 km (2.2 miles) south-west
Storeton HillHill3.6 km (2.2 miles) south
Prenton DellValley3.8 km (2.4 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)12.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)10.64015

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
65 to 6910
Under 5501

1 of the street's 1 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 Wirral: see them on the Wirral 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
Wirral Metropolitan College16 plus16–99670 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Woodlands Primary SchoolPrimary2–11690 m (0.4 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
St Werburgh's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11930 m (0.6 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cathcart Street Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 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
Mersey Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Birkenhead Christ Church CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Priory Parish CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.4 km (0.8 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
Well Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Inadequate (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rock Ferry Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Woodchurch Road AcademyPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) 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
Birkenhead Park SchoolSecondary11–161.8 km (1.1 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
Devonshire Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
McDonalds CH41 9DFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good24 Feb 2026
Home Bargains CH41 9DFRetailers - other80 m5 Very good15 Jun 2026
The Food Warehouse by Iceland CH41 9DFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets80 m5 Very good2 Oct 2026
B & M Store CH41 9DFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets80 m5 Very good8 Jun 2026
Wickes Unit 1 Rock Retail Park CH41 9DFRetailers - other80 mExempt
Glen Affric Brewery CH41 5JWPub/bar/nightclub220 m3 Generally satisfactory14 May 2025
Sally Salon Services Ltd CH41 5JWRetailers - other260 mExempt
The Waterloo CH41 5FDPub/bar/nightclub270 m5 Very good15 Feb 2023
The Accountancy Partnership CH41 5FERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good19 Feb 2026
Central Cafe CH41 5FDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m2 Improvement necessary20 May 2026
DADDY’S Chicken & Pizza CH41 5FDTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m4 Good22 May 2025
Argyle pizza CH41 5FDTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Sep 2026
Premier Inn CH41 6HTHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house300 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Oct 2025
Pryal Tobacconists CH41 6AGRetailers - other330 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Aug 2026
The George And Dragon CH41 6DYPub/bar/nightclub350 m5 Very good25 Mar 2019

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.

101 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour24
Shoplifting22
Violence and sexual offences16
Drugs14
Public order8
Other theft5
Robbery3
Criminal damage and arson3
Other crime2
Burglary1
Possession of weapons1
Bicycle theft1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Waterloo Place (70); On or near Thomas Street (21); On or near Borough Road East (5); On or near Tunnel Road (2); On or near Abbey Street (2).

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: 315 residents in 169 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 age4040
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)37%61%
Owned outright18%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented49%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)11%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van45%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle23%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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

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.

  • CH41 9DF: 1 address of 15 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Borough Road · Borough Road East · Blackpool Street · Thomas Street · King's Square · Hind Street · Borough Road East · Abbey Street · Abbey Close · Grange Road East · Chester Street · St Mary's Gate

All the streets in CH41 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.