Wilmere Lane Halton

43 addresses across 9 postcodes (WA8), about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 16100253.

  • Sales: 34 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £385,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 5, D: 7, E: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas 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 Halton costs £2,367 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Widnes, about 2.3 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Birchfield Gardens, is about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 45 to 54 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 40 of its 43 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Fir Park Medical Centre, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,010 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 91% of households owned their home and 41% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 6 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
20242£385,000£260,000£510,000
20231£470,000£470,000£470,000
20221£180,000£180,000£180,000
20212£286,250£250,000£322,500
20191£285,000£285,000£285,000
20172£202,000£144,000£260,000
20152£157,475£134,950£180,000
20112£114,500£104,000£125,000
20081£162,000£162,000£162,000
20071£168,000£168,000£168,000
20061£625,000£625,000£625,000
20021£107,000£107,000£107,000
Most recent sales (34)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Sep 2024139 WA8 5UPSemi-detached£260,000
12 Jul 202460 WA8 5URDetached£510,000
22 Sep 20231 WA8 5UWSemi-detached£555,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jul 2023LILYCROSS CARE CENTRE WA8 5UYOther£4,410,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Apr 202380 WA8 5URDetached£470,000
30 May 202264 WA8 5URTerraced£322,181Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Apr 202211 WA8 5UWTerraced£180,000
18 May 20211 WA8 5UWSemi-detached£250,000
26 Feb 2021143 WA8 5UPDetached£322,500
30 Dec 201964 WA8 5UROther£925,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Dec 201964 WA8 5UROther£525,701Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Apr 201982 WA8 5URDetached£285,000
16 Mar 201864 WA8 5UROther£375,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Jun 201715 WA8 5UWTerraced£144,000
20 Jan 20177 WA8 5UWDetached£260,000
2 Dec 2015139 WA8 5UPSemi-detached£180,000
1 Apr 201521 WA8 5UWSemi-detached£134,950
24 Oct 201115 WA8 5UWTerraced£125,000
19 Aug 201115 WA8 5UWTerraced£104,000
18 Feb 20089 WA8 5UWTerraced£162,000
9 Feb 200713 WA8 5UWSemi-detached£168,000
15 Mar 2006LILYCROSS CARE CENTRE WA8 5UYDetached£625,000
18 Apr 2002139 WA8 5UPSemi-detached£107,000
10 Aug 2001145 WA8 5UPDetached£120,000
29 Jan 200111 WA8 5UWTerraced£50,250
30 Sep 1999139 WA8 5UPSemi-detached£52,950
12 Mar 199913 WA8 5UWSemi-detached£36,000
16 Mar 1998WILMERE PARK WA8 5UPDetached£115,000
16 May 19979 WA8 5UWTerraced£52,000
6 Sep 199664 WA8 5URDetached£144,000
28 Jun 19964 WA8 5UWDetached£83,000
26 Apr 19969 WA8 5UWTerraced£50,000
4 Apr 199662 WA8 5URSemi-detached£75,000
25 Aug 19957 WA8 5UWDetached£86,000

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 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 125 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (3); House, detached (3); House, semi-detached (3). Built: 1900-1929 (5); 1950-1966 (2); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Halton in 2026-27: Band D £2,367 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,578£1,841£2,104£2,367£2,893£3,418£3,944£4,733

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (29% of about 1,190 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, Halton.

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 31 October 2026

  • 29 October 2026 to 30 October 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 7 August 2026 to 11 August 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Disconnection or alteration of supply, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 4 August 2026 to 6 August 2026: HALTON BOROUGH COUNCIL, Works for road purposes, two-way signals, on the verge (minor works)

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, 1 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
WA8 5UPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WA8 5UWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WA8 5URnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA8 5UYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA8 5AZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA8 5BLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA8 5BNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA8 5BYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
WA8 5EBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 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 43 addresses are between 45 m and 54 m above sea level (47 m on average); the ground rises about 10 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
WA8 5AZ100%100%100%0%
WA8 5BL100%100%100%0%
WA8 5BN100%100%100%0%
WA8 5BY100%100%100%0%
WA8 5EB100%100%100%0%
WA8 5UP100%85%85%0%
WA8 5UR100%83%83%0%
WA8 5UW100%100%100%0%
WA8 5UY0%0%0%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 stationsWidnes 428,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.5 miles)
Rainhill 186,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Lea Green 401,000 journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wilmere House Upton Rocks10 m
Bus or coach stationPrescot Bus Station5.8 km (3.6 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL10.5 km (6.5 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 surgeriesFir Park Medical Centre2.1 km (1.3 miles)
PharmaciesPharmacy Services Direct2 km (1.2 miles)
NHS dentistsDental Surgery2.2 km (1.4 miles)
HospitalHighfield Hospital2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationSutton Police Station3.8 km (2.3 miles)
Cash machinesJays Store, Sutton Manor1.4 km (0.9 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 gardenBirchfield Gardens 7,670 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 400 m²580 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 14 ha490 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsMilton Street Allotments 1.2 ha1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Cranshaw Hall moated site, a scheduled monument, 870 m (0.5 miles) south-east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cranshaw Hall moated siteScheduled monument870 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Standing cross in St Luke's churchyard, Farnworth, beside the south porchScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Micklehead Green moated siteScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pex HillHill1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Cronton WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
The FieldWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
School Lane WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
The RoughWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Sutton Mill DamLake or reservoir3.2 km (2 miles) north-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)10.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)12.34015

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 6960
60 to 64210
55 to 59130
Under 55343

40 of the street's 43 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 Halton: see them on the Halton 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
St Bartholomew's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Lunts Heath Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Sutton Manor Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Farnworth Church of England Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rainhill High SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Family Catholic Primary School & Nursery Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.9 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
Cygnet Paddocks WA8 5UYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m3 Generally satisfactory20 Nov 2025
Olivers Cafe and Bistro WA8 5UPOther catering premises410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Jul 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.

6 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences2
Public order2
Burglary1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (6).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,013 residents in 375 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 age4140
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)91%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work66%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)49%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)41%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%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 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Utility repair and maintenance works, 29 October 2026 to 30 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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.

  • WA8 5UP: 16 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • WA8 5UW: 12 addresses
  • WA8 5UR: 7 addresses of 8 in the postcode
  • WA8 5UY: 3 addresses of 5 in the postcode
  • WA8 5AZ: 1 address of 18 in the postcode
  • WA8 5BL: 1 address of 12 in the postcode
  • WA8 5BN: 1 address of 19 in the postcode
  • WA8 5BY: 1 address of 15 in the postcode
  • WA8 5EB: 1 address of 61 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Wilmere Lane · Warrington Road · Wilmere Lane · Wilmere Lane · Wilmere Lane

All the streets in WA8 and across Halton.

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.