Waters Reach Mossley, Tameside

51 addresses across 2 postcodes (OL5), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 39309558.

  • Sales: 92 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £195,500 across 4 sales.
  • Energy: 41 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 34, D: 5).
  • 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 C; Band D in Tameside costs £2,447 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 74% to 76% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Greenfield, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Roughtown Green, is about 930 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 149 to 157 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 51 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Pike Medical Practice, about 1.7 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 210 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 41% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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
20264£195,500£139,000£450,000
20253£350,000£225,000£408,000
20243£228,000£140,000£337,000
20225£245,000£123,842£461,000
20212£322,750£287,500£358,000
20201£120,000£120,000£120,000
20181£105,000£105,000£105,000
20173£240,000£195,000£242,500
20166£232,000£205,000£300,000
20152£161,875£155,750£168,000
20141£279,000£279,000£279,000
20135£193,000£130,000£270,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 92)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 Jun 202638 OL5 9FGDetached£450,000Leasehold.
15 May 202632 OL5 9FGFlat or maisonette£151,000Leasehold.
1 May 202617 OL5 9FGSemi-detached£240,000Leasehold.
17 Feb 202612 OL5 9FGFlat or maisonette£139,000Leasehold.
5 Dec 202546 OL5 9FGDetached£408,000Leasehold.
19 Sep 202539 OL5 9FGTerraced£350,000Leasehold.
19 Sep 20257 OL5 9FGTerraced£225,000Leasehold.
5 Aug 202428 OL5 9FGFlat or maisonette£140,000Leasehold.
5 Jul 20243 OL5 9FGTerraced£228,000Leasehold.
15 Mar 202427 OL5 9FGSemi-detached£337,000Leasehold.
23 Sep 202232 OL5 9FGFlat or maisonette£145,000Leasehold.
26 Aug 202251 OL5 9FGTerraced£440,000Leasehold.
18 Aug 202211 OL5 9FGTerraced£245,000Leasehold.
5 Aug 202248 OL5 9FGDetached£461,000Leasehold.
29 Apr 202224 OL5 9FGFlat or maisonette£123,842Leasehold.
19 Nov 202133 OL5 9FGTerraced£287,500Leasehold.
27 Aug 20212 OL5 9FGDetached£358,000Leasehold.
12 Jun 202032 OL5 9FGFlat or maisonette£105,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 May 20203 OL5 9FGTerraced£120,000Leasehold.
21 Feb 202028 OL5 9FGFlat or maisonette£100,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Jan 202018 OL5 9FGFlat or maisonette£92,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Oct 201816 OL5 9FGFlat or maisonette£105,000Leasehold.
24 Nov 20179 OL5 9FGTerraced£195,000Leasehold.
18 Sep 201743 OL5 9FGTerraced£242,500Leasehold.
3 May 201749 OL5 9FGTerraced£240,000Leasehold.
2 Dec 201627 OL5 9FGSemi-detached£235,000Leasehold.
18 Nov 201637 OL5 9FGTerraced£232,000Leasehold.
2 Sep 201638 OL5 9FGDetached£300,000Leasehold.
27 May 201641 OL5 9FGTerraced£230,000Leasehold.
18 Mar 201621 OL5 9FGTerraced£232,000Leasehold.
19 Feb 20168 OL5 9FGDetached£205,000Leasehold.
18 Mar 201511 OL5 9FGTerraced£168,000Leasehold.
27 Feb 201519 OL5 9FGTerraced£155,750Leasehold.
4 Sep 201414 OL5 9FGFlat or maisonette£89,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Aug 201430 OL5 9FGFlat or maisonette£98,050Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Apr 201448 OL5 9FGDetached£279,000Leasehold.
16 Dec 20139 OL5 9FGTerraced£157,500Leasehold.
29 Nov 201323 OL5 9FGTerraced£195,000Leasehold.
20 Aug 20135 OL5 9FGTerraced£130,000Leasehold.
13 Aug 201333 OL5 9FGTerraced£193,000Leasehold.
28 Feb 201348 OL5 9FGDetached£270,000Leasehold.
3 Oct 201231 OL5 9FGTerraced£193,000Leasehold.
16 Apr 201051 OL5 9FGTerraced£248,000Leasehold.
10 Jul 200933 OL5 9FGTerraced£195,000Leasehold.
31 Mar 200933 OL5 9FGTerraced£175,000Leasehold.
29 Aug 200825 OL5 9FGTerraced£239,950New build. Leasehold.
22 Aug 200839 OL5 9FGTerraced£229,950New build. Leasehold.
23 May 200831 OL5 9FGTerraced£239,950New build. Leasehold.
2 May 200841 OL5 9FGSemi-detached£239,950New build. Leasehold.
28 Mar 200845 OL5 9FGSemi-detached£235,800Leasehold.

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 November 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

41 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 92 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (12); Flat (12); House, detached (8). Built: 2003-2006 (15); 2007-2011 (14); 2007 onwards (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (27); rented (private) (8).

Each home's certificates and sales (24 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Tameside in 2026-27: Band D £2,447 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,631£1,903£2,175£2,447£2,991£3,535£4,079£4,894

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (36% of about 910 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.

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 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
OL5 9FGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
OL5 9BLnot 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 51 addresses are between 149 m and 157 m above sea level (152 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
OL5 9BL74%74%74%0%
OL5 9FG100%76%76%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 stationsGreenfield 351,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Mossley (Manchester) 260,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Stalybridge 840,000 journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Moorings Roaches60 m
Bus or coach stationOldham Mumps Interchange5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Car parksCo-Op Grotton, Oldham Car Park2 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN26 km (16 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 surgeriesPike Medical Practice1.7 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mckeevers Chemists1.6 km (1 mile)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apollonia House Dental & Health Care LTD640 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalTameside General Hospital5 km (3.1 miles)
Police stationLancashire Police - Uppermill Police Station2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Mossley, Mossley1.7 km (1 mile)

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 gardenRoughtown Green 1,280 m²930 m (0.6 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 380 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 4,690 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 7,260 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Landmarks

29 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Noonsun HillHill940 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Holly BankHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Doles PitLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) north
Wickens CloughValley2 km (1.3 miles) north-east
AlphinHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) east
Scout GreenWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) south

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)9.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)10.14015

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
65 to 6910
60 to 6410
55 to 5920
Under 554751

4 of the street's 51 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 Tameside: see them on the Tameside 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
Friezland Primary SchoolPrimary4–11530 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Mossley Hollins High SchoolSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Milton St John's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Anne's CofE Lydgate Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Micklehurst All Saints CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Greenfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) 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
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St George's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) 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: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Greenfield St Mary's CofE School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Livingstone Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Jul 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: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Lal Quilla OL5 9BLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good29 Oct 2025
Castle Top Private Day Care Nursery OL5 9BWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises130 m5 Very good4 Aug 2026
The Royal George OL3 7HXPub/bar/nightclub200 m5 Very good18 Oct 2024
Tollemache Arms OL5 9BGPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good21 Nov 2025
Tumbles Catering Limited OL5 9BQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good11 Sep 2025
Fire Station Day Nursery OL5 9BBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m5 Very good7 Jul 2026
Dysarts Arms OL5 9BTPub/bar/nightclub380 m5 Very good1 Oct 2025
Saddleworth Cricket, Bowling & Tennis Club OL3 7HYPub/bar/nightclub450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Aug 2023
The Roaches Lock OL5 9BBPub/bar/nightclub470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good11 Mar 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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (hertfordshire).

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: 206 residents in 92 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 age3940
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright22%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%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)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%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)41%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.

  • OL5 9FG: 49 addresses of 54 in the postcode
  • OL5 9BL: 2 addresses of 23 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Hob Mill Rise · Lockside View · Calf Lane · Spring Mill Drive · Claybank Terrace · Canalside Close · The Moorings · Vale View · Shadows Lane · Dysarts Close · Wharmton View · Shadworth Close

All the streets in OL5 and across Tameside.

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.