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On Black Diamond Street, in Chester Boughton West & Hoole
What it's like at CH1 3EX: every home that has sold on Black Diamond Street since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
3 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Black Diamond Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 31 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Mar 2012 | £193,745 | 69 m² | £2,808/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Mar 2014 | £130,000 | 66 m² | £1,970/m² | 3 |
| 4, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Mar 2012 | £233,745 | 109 m² | £2,144/m² | 1 |
| 5, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Jan 2011 | £124,950 | 60 m² | £2,083/m² | 3 |
| 6, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | May 2012 | £225,000 | 112 m² | £2,009/m² | 1 |
| 8, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Mar 2012 | £234,995 | 112 m² | £2,098/m² | 1 |
| 9, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Dec 2000 | £59,950 | 55 m² | £1,090/m² | 2 |
| 10, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Jun 2017 | £116,500 | 57 m² | £2,044/m² | 1 |
| 11, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Feb 2007 | £135,000 | 61 m² | £2,213/m² | 5 |
| 12, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | May 2025 | £145,000 | 57 m² | £2,544/m² | 2 |
| 13 - 15, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Jun 2006 | £119,950 | – | – | 2 |
| 14, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Mar 2012 | £228,750 | 112 m² | £2,042/m² | 1 |
| 17, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Mar 2023 | £214,300 | 81 m² | £2,646/m² | 3 |
| 18, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | May 2012 | £210,000 | 111 m² | £1,892/m² | 2 |
| 19, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Sept 2004 | £114,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 22, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Feb 2009 | £188,500 | 112 m² | £1,683/m² | 1 |
| 24, Black Diamond StreetTerraced · company-owned | Aug 2022 | £220,000 | 57 m² | £3,860/m² | 2 |
| 25, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Apr 2002 | £77,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 26, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Mar 2024 | £210,000 | 62 m² | £3,387/m² | 3 |
| 28, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Dec 2008 | £130,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 29, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Jun 2012 | £125,000 | 72 m² | £1,736/m² | 3 |
| 30, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Nov 2021 | £283,500 | 120 m² | £2,363/m² | 3 |
| 32, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Aug 2023 | £290,000 | 124 m² | £2,339/m² | 3 |
| 34, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Jul 2019 | £262,500 | 116 m² | £2,263/m² | 3 |
| 41, Black Diamond StreetSemi-detached | Jul 2021 | £150,000 | 70 m² | £2,143/m² | 2 |
| 45, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Apr 2013 | £115,500 | 83 m² | £1,392/m² | 3 |
| 47a, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Jan 2016 | £149,575 | 66 m² | £2,266/m² | 2 |
| 47c, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Nov 2024 | £218,000 | 62 m² | £3,516/m² | 4 |
| 51, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Jan 2023 | £165,000 | 57 m² | £2,895/m² | 1 |
| 53, Black Diamond StreetTerraced | Feb 2024 | £170,000 | 52 m² | £3,269/m² | 4 |
| 57, Black Diamond StreetOther · company-owned | Mar 2017 | £200,000 | 122 m² | £1,639/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Chester, a few minutes' walk (450 m), with 5.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Liverpool Lime Street.
The nearest bus stop is Hoole Way, 200 m away, with a bus about every 4 minutes on weekdays (routes 1, 5, 53, 4); 83 departures an hour from the 15 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Chester Blue Coat Church of England Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (700 m); 61% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Mill View Primary School (1.5 km), with 2 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Queen's Park High School, 1.5 km away; Attainment 8: 44.2 · 9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Few families with young children: only 8% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Istanbul Supermarket, 200 m away; J J News & Booze (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Grange Clinic (400 m), with Well the closest pharmacy (500 m).
For a haircut, Halo Hair and Beauty is 150 m away.
The nearest full A&E is The Countess of Chester Hospital, 1.7 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 50% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 68% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 41 restaurants and cafés and 12 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
The Green Rooms is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and The Deva Tap the nearest pub (200 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (16 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 129 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 59 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (56%).
The typical home here was built in 1983-1992.
It's growing: about 130 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Black Diamond Park, 50 m away; for exercise, Northgate Arena (350 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.0 µg/m³).
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 15 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 44 km.
Many neighbours rent: 39% of households rent privately and 24% socially.
It's young: 29% of residents are aged 15–29.
66 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Christ Church | II | 140 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Chester North and Neston constituency: Samantha Dixon MP (Labour), since December 2022. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 11,870 (26.6%), turnout 64%. Vote shares: Labour 50%, Conservative 23%, Reform UK 13%, Green Party 9%.
19 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near CH1 3EX →
It's highly educated: 45% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is University of Chester, 800 m away (TEF Silver).
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
On this street: 0 of 27 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.1% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.7% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 63.9% | 88.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 4.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 34.6% | 5.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 1.4% | 0.4% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
Nearest: Nantwich Leisure Centre · about 37 min
Nearest: Llangollen Railway · about 42 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 31 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.