Wells Close Mickle Trafford, Cheshire West and Chester

39 addresses across 2 postcodes (CH2), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 6901877.

  • Sales: 84 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £248,750 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 27 homes have an energy certificate (C: 15, D: 11, E: 1).
  • 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 Cheshire West and Chester costs £2,517 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bache, about 4.3 km (2.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 12 to 14 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 13 of its 39 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Park Medical Centre, about 3.5 km (2.2 miles) away.
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 50% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 13 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
20262£248,750£247,500£250,000
20225£245,000£170,000£286,000
20213£215,000£134,000£246,000
20201£200,000£200,000£200,000
20194£183,250£155,000£188,500
20183£186,000£184,000£191,500
20173£183,000£176,500£239,000
20152£179,750£174,500£185,000
20143£167,500£163,495£175,000
20131£155,000£155,000£155,000
20122£155,000£150,000£160,000
20113£159,550£149,950£190,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 84)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Aug 202623 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£247,500
19 Jun 202640 CH2 4DZTerraced£222,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 May 202620 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£250,000
20 Oct 202240 CH2 4DZTerraced£170,000
30 Sep 202219 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£255,000
30 Sep 202246 CH2 4DZTerraced£245,000
21 Jul 20228 CH2 4DZTerraced£286,000
24 May 202216 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£243,500
7 Sep 202115 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£215,000
21 Jul 202126 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£134,000
23 Jun 202121 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£246,000
11 Jun 202017 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£200,000
22 Jul 201918 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£188,500
10 Jul 20195 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£180,000
14 May 201938 CH2 4DZTerraced£155,000
1 Feb 201912 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£186,500
19 Mar 201820 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£184,000
28 Feb 201815 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£186,000
26 Jan 20188 CH2 4DZTerraced£191,500
5 Jul 20177 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£183,000
12 Jun 20179 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£239,000
21 Mar 201716 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£176,500
1 Jul 201519 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£185,000
13 May 20153 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£185,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Feb 201514 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£174,500
5 Nov 201424 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£175,000
2 Sep 201436 CH2 4DZTerraced£163,495
10 Jun 201412 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£167,500
7 Jun 201340 CH2 4DZTerraced£155,000
23 Mar 201211 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£160,000
10 Feb 201217 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£150,000
12 Aug 201116 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£159,550
1 Jul 20116 CH2 4DZTerraced£190,000
10 Jun 201130 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£149,950
31 Mar 20109 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£179,000
11 Sep 20097 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£170,000
11 Sep 200912 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£152,000
6 Mar 200834 CH2 4DZTerraced£156,000
11 Jan 200819 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£185,000
10 Aug 200718 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£174,950
7 Dec 200632 CH2 4DZTerraced£165,000
30 Jun 200610 CH2 4DZDetached£175,000
8 May 20063 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£157,000
10 Sep 200420 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£158,000
15 Jul 200411 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£172,950
16 Jan 200410 CH2 4DZDetached£140,000
12 Dec 200334 CH2 4DZTerraced£128,000
28 Feb 200318 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£119,950
20 Feb 200324 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£109,950
19 Nov 200217 CH2 4DZSemi-detached£115,000

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 August 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

27 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 67 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (17); House, mid-terrace (6); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 1976-1982 (15); 1983-1990 (5); 1967-1975 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (18); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (19 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire West and Chester in 2026-27: Band D £2,517 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,678£1,958£2,238£2,517£3,077£3,636£4,196£5,035

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (22% of about 510 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: yes, Cheshire West and Chester.

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 10 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
CH2 4DZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 5 unlikely
CH2 4DSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 5 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 39 addresses are between 12 m and 14 m above sea level (13 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
CH2 4DS100%100%100%0%
CH2 4DZ100%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 stationsBache 495,000 journeys in 2024–254.3 km (2.7 miles)
Chester 5.3 million journeys in 2024–254.3 km (2.7 miles)
Ince and Elton (Cheshire) 100 journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Methodist Church Mickle Trafford160 m
Bus or coach stationChester Bus Interchange4.9 km (3.1 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL12.5 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 surgeriesPark Medical Centre3.5 km (2.2 miles)
PharmaciesSwettenhams Chemists3 km (1.9 miles)
NHS dentistsGuilden Sutton Dental Practice1.7 km (1.1 miles)
HospitalBowmere Hospital4.6 km (2.9 miles)
Police stationCheshire Police - Mickle Trafford Police Station230 m
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Kingsway - Chester, Newton3 km (1.9 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 gardenUnnamed 1.1 ha2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 110 m²240 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,540 m²290 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,520 m²2.7 km (1.7 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is St Plegmund's Well 200m east of Bankfield Farm, a scheduled monument, 1 km (0.6 miles) east. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
St Plegmund's Well 200m east of Bankfield FarmScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fox CovertWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) west
Ferma WoodWood2 km (1.3 miles) east
Bellevue WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Barrow HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) east
Sealion PoolLake or reservoir3.1 km (1.9 miles) west
The DaleValley4.4 km (2.7 miles) 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)7.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.8205
Particles (PM10)9.74015

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
55 to 59120
Under 552639

13 of the street's 39 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 Cheshire West and Chester: see them on the Cheshire West and Chester 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
Mickle Trafford Village SchoolPrimary4–11190 m Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Guilden Sutton CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) 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
Mickle Trafford Convenience Store and Post office CH2 4DZRetailers - other20 m5 Very good15 May 2026
The Clubhouse CH2 4EFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good7 Oct 2024
S4YC @ Mickle Trafford Preschool CH2 4EFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good4 Sep 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.

13 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences5
Criminal damage and arson2
Public order2
Other theft2
Other crime1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near York Drive (7); On or near School Lane (2); On or near Police Station (1); On or near Wells Close (1); On or near Grindley Bank (1).

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: 292 residents in 121 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 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright37%33%
Shared ownership8%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)57%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)50%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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.

  • CH2 4DZ: 38 addresses of 45 in the postcode
  • CH2 4DS: 1 address of 29 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Regency Court · Reece Close · Wilbraham Close · York Drive · School Lane · Grindley Bank · Dane Grove · Wayside Court · Holly Close · Weaver Grove · Barnston Court · Springfields

All the streets in CH2 and across Cheshire West and Chester.

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.