Willow Road Uppermill, Oldham

17 addresses across 2 postcodes (OL3), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 29403473.

  • Sales: 15 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £350,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 2, 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 Oldham costs £2,602 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Greenfield, about 1.0 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Brownhill Countryside Centre, is about 1.0 km away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 187 to 201 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 17 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Saddleworth Medical Practice, about 480 m away.
  • People: About 570 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 85% of households owned their home and 44% 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
20241£350,000£350,000£350,000
20231£360,000£360,000£360,000
20122£205,000£190,000£220,000
20081£179,950£179,950£179,950
20051£145,000£145,000£145,000
20041£195,000£195,000£195,000
20021£115,000£115,000£115,000
20012£105,000£105,000£105,000
19984£80,225£75,000£83,000
19961£59,995£59,995£59,995
Most recent sales (15)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Jul 20242 OL3 6JPSemi-detached£350,000Leasehold.
8 Dec 20231 OL3 6JPSemi-detached£360,000Leasehold.
2 Nov 20123 OL3 6JPSemi-detached£220,000Leasehold.
25 Oct 20121 OL3 6JPSemi-detached£190,000Leasehold.
25 Feb 200814 OL3 6JPSemi-detached£179,950Leasehold.
8 Apr 200514 OL3 6JPSemi-detached£145,000Leasehold.
23 Aug 200412 OL3 6JPSemi-detached£195,000Leasehold.
5 Jul 20023 OL3 6JPSemi-detached£115,000Leasehold.
29 Jun 200112 OL3 6JPSemi-detached£105,000Leasehold.
2 Apr 20017 OL3 6JPDetached£105,000Leasehold.
28 Aug 19981 OL3 6JPDetached£75,000Leasehold.
14 Jul 19983 OL3 6JPSemi-detached£83,000Leasehold.
6 Mar 19985 OL3 6JPSemi-detached£78,450Leasehold.
9 Jan 19987 OL3 6JPDetached£82,000Leasehold.
2 Sep 19965 OL3 6JPSemi-detached£59,995Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from May 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 93 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (2); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1967-1975 (3); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Oldham in 2026-27: Band D £2,602 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,735£2,024£2,313£2,602£3,181£3,759£4,337£5,204

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (46% of about 1,110 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 1.0 km

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

Started, not reported finished by 30 September 2026

  • 30 September 2026 to 2 October 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the footway, carriageway (immediate - urgent works)

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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.

Height above sea level

The street's 17 addresses are between 187 m and 201 m above sea level (194 m on average); the ground rises about 14 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
OL3 6JN100%100%100%0%
OL3 6JP100%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 stationsGreenfield 351,000 journeys in 2024–251.0 km
Mossley (Manchester) 260,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km
Stalybridge 840,000 journeys in 2024–257.8 km
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m, 18 within 800 m; nearest Carr Lane Greenfield340 m
Bus or coach stationOldham Mumps Interchange6.7 km
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km; nearest Osprey Charging Station1.0 km
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN28.5 km

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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Saddleworth Medical Practice480 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Strachan's Chemist510 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Bridge Street (Dental Surgery)420 m
HospitalTameside General Hospital7.5 km
Police stationLancashire Police - Uppermill Police Station620 m
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest The Cooperative Food Uppermill, Upermill Cashzone490 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 gardenBrownhill Countryside Centre 2.5 ha1.0 km
Play area2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 310 m²360 m
Playing field3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha190 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,910 m²820 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Higher Kinders, a listed building (Grade II*), 670 m south. 59 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Higher KindersListed building, Grade II*670 m south
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Priest CloughValley870 m north-east
Yarns HillHill880 m south-east
Wickens CloughValley930 m west
Capper CloughValley1.2 km north-east
Mill PondLake or reservoir1.8 km north-west
Yeoman Hey PlantationWood2.0 km east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)7.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)9.64015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 551617

1 of the street's 17 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Saddleworth SchoolSecondary11–16780 m Requires improvement (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Chad's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–11900 m Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Greenfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–11950 m 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
Greenfield St Mary's CofE School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.4 km Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Trinity CofE Dobcross Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.7 km No published inspection

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Uppermill Sports Club OL3 6HGPub/bar/nightclub240 m5 Very good19 Aug 2022
Saddleworth Pool OL3 6HQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 mExempt
Saddleworth Voluntary Services Luncheon Club for the Elderly OL3 6AEOther catering premises400 m5 Very good13 Aug 2025
Reclamation Room OL3 6AERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m5 Very good19 Mar 2026
Suzanne Thorp at The Frostery OL3 6HDRetailers - other420 m5 Very good18 Sep 2024
No Thirty OL3 6HRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m5 Very good27 Jun 2024
Granby Arms OL3 6HRPub/bar/nightclub450 m4 Good4 Mar 2022
The Waggon Inn OL3 6HRPub/bar/nightclub450 m5 Very good17 Apr 2026
Sorella Restaurant OL3 6HRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m5 Very good5 Oct 2026
Kobe OL3 6HRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m5 Very good8 Jan 2026
Hot Duck OL3 6HXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m5 Very good27 Jun 2024
42 High Street OL3 6HARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m2 Improvement necessary21 May 2026
Our Place OL3 6HARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m3 Generally satisfactory12 May 2026
The Cellar Pot Cafe OL3 6HARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m4 Good13 Aug 2025
Little Shop OL3 6HARetailers - other450 m5 Very good7 Jul 2022

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 (metropolitan).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 568 residents in 242 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 age5140
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over29%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)85%61%
Owned outright57%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)34%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)54%65%
Work 30 km or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)44%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%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.

Nearby streets

Birch Road · Grove Road · Redwood Road · Rush Hill Road · Rush Grove · Shaws · Bankside Avenue · Greave Park · Bankside Close · The Meadows · Springburn Way · Rush Hill Road

All the streets in OL3 and across Oldham.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.