Windmill Close Denton, Tameside

9 addresses across 2 postcodes (M34), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 39309308.

  • Sales: 4 recorded sales since 1995; in 2004 the median was £130,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 2 homes have an energy certificate (D: 2).
  • 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 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Denton, about 910 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 490 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 87 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Family Surgery, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 83% of households owned their home and 32% 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
20041£130,000£130,000£130,000
20011£76,000£76,000£76,000
19972£50,250£44,500£56,000
Most recent sales (4)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Sep 20043 M34 2EUSemi-detached£130,000Leasehold.
15 Aug 20013 M34 2EUSemi-detached£76,000Leasehold.
22 Oct 19971 M34 2EUSemi-detached£56,000Leasehold.
14 Mar 19973 M34 2EUSemi-detached£44,500Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from November 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

2 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 74 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1967-1975 (2).

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 (72% of about 740 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 29 September 2026 to 5 October 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard 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.

© 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 87 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
M34 2EJ100%100%100%0%
M34 2EU100%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 stationsDenton 100 journeys in 2024–25910 m (0.6 miles)
Reddish North 163,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.7 miles)
Reddish South 100 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.3 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dane Road Dane Bank110 m
Bus or coach stationHyde Bus Station4 km (2.5 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rcp Parking - Thompson Street470 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN14.6 km (9.1 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Family Surgery1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Windmill Pharmacy170 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wood Family Dental Practice1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalSt Thomas Hospital5.8 km (3.6 miles)
Police stationGreater Manchester Police - Denton Police Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM130 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,050 m²490 m (0.3 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 2,120 m²810 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.3 ha450 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsWilton Allotments 4.4 ha1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Section of an early medieval boundary ditch known as the Nico Ditch on Denton golf course 320m south west of Lodge Farm, a scheduled monument, 1.2 km (0.8 miles) north.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Section of an early medieval boundary ditch known as the Nico Ditch on Denton golf course 320m south west of Lodge FarmScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Denton WoodWood670 m (0.4 miles) south
Holt WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Top Mill PondLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Bottom Mill PondLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.8 miles) south
Castle HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Tiviot DaleValley3.3 km (2 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)13.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

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, 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
Under 55999

None of the street's 9 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, railways or aircraft.

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), 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
Denton West End Primary SchoolPrimary3–11580 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Dane Bank Primary SchoolPrimary3–11650 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Vale View Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Greswell Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oasis Academy AspinalPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Denton Community AcademySecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Inadequate (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Reddish Vale High SchoolSecondary11–161.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Thomas More RC College Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
St Mary's RC Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Russell Scott Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Reddish, a Voluntary AcademyPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Wright Robinson CollegeSecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Exceptional; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Exceptional; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Dane Bank Hotel M34 2EYPub/bar/nightclub50 m4 Good12 Jan 2026
Weatherheads Butchers M34 2ETRetailers - other170 m5 Very good13 May 2024
Barakat Balti Also T/A Shimul Ltd M34 2ETTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m3 Generally satisfactory26 Nov 2025
Denton West Cricket Club M34 5EEPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good11 Jun 2024
Denton West Community Association M34 2WZOther catering premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Jun 2024
The Chippy M34 2WZTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Jul 2026
Julia Restaurant M34 2WZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Jan 2026
Julia Restaurant M34 2WZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

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 (derbyshire).

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: 269 residents in 119 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 age4640
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)83%61%
Owned outright46%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van72%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%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)32%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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.

  • M34 2EU: 7 addresses of 8 in the postcode
  • M34 2EJ: 2 addresses of 14 in the postcode

Nearby streets

High Bank · Delamere Road · Epping Road · Danebank Mews · Rydal Close · Coniston Close · Mere Close · Heatley Close · Bowland Road · Sherwood Road · Dane Road · Ashbrook Close

All the streets in M34 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.