Widgeon Close Poynton, Cheshire East

24 addresses across 2 postcodes (SK12), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 24102516.

  • Sales: 42 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £383,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 9, E: 4).
  • 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 D; Band D in Cheshire East costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Poynton, about 640 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 96 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 24 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bramhall Health Centre, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 210 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 89% of households owned their home and 47% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 26 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
20252£383,000£280,000£486,000
20231£337,000£337,000£337,000
20223£280,000£265,000£290,000
20181£245,000£245,000£245,000
20161£205,000£205,000£205,000
20151£217,500£217,500£217,500
20142£215,225£180,450£250,000
20132£166,000£162,000£170,000
20112£177,500£160,000£194,999
20092£151,750£138,500£165,000
20063£165,000£165,000£169,000
20052£163,750£162,000£165,500
Most recent sales (42)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Nov 202512 SK12 1XLTerraced£330,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Mar 20254 SK12 1XLTerraced£280,000Leasehold.
17 Mar 20251 SK12 1XLDetached£486,000Leasehold.
11 Apr 202313 SK12 1XLSemi-detached£337,000
29 Jul 20227 SK12 1XLSemi-detached£290,000
27 May 202211 SK12 1XLSemi-detached£280,000
9 Mar 202220 SK12 1XLTerraced£265,000Leasehold.
15 Jul 201915 SK12 1XLOther£1,170Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Nov 201813 SK12 1XLSemi-detached£245,000
30 Sep 20166 SK12 1XLTerraced£205,000Leasehold.
21 Dec 201519 SK12 1XLTerraced£217,500Leasehold.
27 Oct 201414 SK12 1XLTerraced£180,450
1 Oct 20141 SK12 1XLDetached£250,000Leasehold.
16 Dec 201322 SK12 1XLTerraced£162,000Leasehold.
24 Jun 20132 SK12 1XLTerraced£170,000Leasehold.
1 Jul 201113 SK12 1XLSemi-detached£160,000
23 Jun 201119 SK12 1XLTerraced£194,999Leasehold.
30 Oct 200921 SK12 1XLTerraced£165,000Leasehold.
31 Jul 200920 SK12 1XLTerraced£138,500Leasehold.
27 Apr 200622 SK12 1XLTerraced£165,000Leasehold.
12 Apr 200611 SK12 1XLSemi-detached£165,000
23 Mar 20066 SK12 1XLTerraced£169,000Leasehold.
12 Dec 200512 SK12 1XLTerraced£162,000
24 Jun 20056 SK12 1XLTerraced£165,500Leasehold.
7 Aug 200322 SK12 1XLTerraced£126,000Leasehold.
4 Mar 20032 SK12 1XLTerraced£119,000Leasehold.
28 May 200222 SK12 1XLTerraced£100,000Leasehold.
5 Apr 200212 SK12 1XLTerraced£94,950
28 Jan 200213 SK12 1XLSemi-detached£92,000
11 Dec 20016 SK12 1XLTerraced£76,000Leasehold.
8 Sep 20002 SK12 1XLTerraced£88,000Leasehold.
18 Aug 20003 SK12 1XLDetached£110,000
30 Jun 200020 SK12 1XLTerraced£73,000Leasehold.
22 Jun 200013 SK12 1XLSemi-detached£84,000
26 Oct 19993 SK12 1XLDetached£110,000
28 May 199911 SK12 1XLSemi-detached£67,000
22 Mar 19993 SK12 1XLDetached£78,500
29 May 199822 SK12 1XLTerraced£59,000Leasehold.
23 Jan 19984 SK12 1XLTerraced£57,000Leasehold.
30 Oct 19975 SK12 1XLDetached£84,000Leasehold.
3 Nov 199512 SK12 1XLTerraced£45,500
27 Oct 199516 SK12 1XLTerraced£46,000

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

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (6); House, semi-detached (5); House, detached (3). Built: 1967-1975 (12); 1976-1982 (4); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (12 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire East in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,909£2,182£2,455£3,000£3,546£4,091£4,910

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (34% of about 620 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.

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
SK12 1XLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
SK12 1XHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 addresses are about 96 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
SK12 1XH100%100%100%0%
SK12 1XL100%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 stationsPoynton 210,000 journeys in 2024–25640 m (0.4 miles)
Bramhall 214,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Adlington (Cheshire) 25,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tern Drive Poynton190 m
Bus or coach stationStockport Interchange6.7 km (4.2 miles)
Car parksVIP Parking Services1.6 km (1 mile)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN9 km (5.6 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 surgeriesBramhall Health Centre1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well1.6 km (1 mile)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.2 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalStepping Hill Hospital3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Police stationCheadle Heath Police Station5.7 km (3.5 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM1.6 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 gardenUnnamed 9,890 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,710 m²470 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.1 ha390 m

Landmarks

3 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
Wigwam WoodWood620 m (0.4 miles) east
Great Reddish WoodWood2 km (1.3 miles) north
Lady's WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
Sandholes MossWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Poynton PoolLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Potters CloughValley3.2 km (2 miles) east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59100
Under 55232424

1 of the street's 24 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 Cheshire East: see them on the Cheshire East 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
Lostock Hall Primary SchoolPrimary3–11220 m Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lower Park SchoolPrimary4–11820 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Queensgate Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woodford Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Paul's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Vernon Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ladybrook Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Lostock Hall Primary Breakfast Club SK12 1XGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises130 m5 Very good14 Feb 2025
Lostock Hall Primary School SK12 1XGSchool/college/university170 m5 Very good30 Jan 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.

26 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences10
Public order5
Other theft3
Burglary3
Anti-social behaviour2
Criminal damage and arson2
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bittern Close (5); On or near Gull Close (5); On or near Snipe Close (3); On or near Tern Drive (3); On or near Merton Road (3).

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: 207 residents in 83 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 age4740
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)89%61%
Owned outright42%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work69%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)59%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)47%34%
No qualifications4%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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.

  • SK12 1XL: 23 addresses of 24 in the postcode
  • SK12 1XH: 1 address of 12 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Petrel Avenue · Teal Avenue · Puffin Avenue · Tern Drive · Swan Close · Brent Close · Snipe Close · Fulmar Close · Grebe Close · Mallard Crescent · Pochard Drive · Bittern Close

All the streets in SK12 and across Cheshire East.

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.