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On Garden Lane, in Chester City & Garden Quarter
What it's like at CH1 4EN: every home that has sold on Garden Lane 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.
7 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 4 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 Garden Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
32 of the 114 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 8, Garden LaneOther · company-owned | Jan 2019 | £240,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11, Garden LaneTerraced | May 2004 | £135,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 13, Garden LaneTerraced | Jun 2021 | £181,000 | 82 m² | £2,207/m² | 2 |
| 15, Garden LaneTerraced | Jan 1997 | £41,500 | 83 m² | £500/m² | 2 |
| 18, Garden LaneTerraced · company-owned | Sept 2025 | £280,000 | 138 m² | £2,029/m² | 3 |
| 20, Garden LaneTerraced · company-owned | Mar 2019 | £288,000 | 140 m² | £2,057/m² | 3 |
| 22, Garden LaneSemi-detached · company-owned | Dec 2021 | £275,000 | 138 m² | £1,993/m² | 2 |
| 26, Garden LaneSemi-detached · company-owned | Jan 2023 | £337,000 | 124 m² | £2,718/m² | 2 |
| 27, Garden LaneSemi-detached | Dec 2020 | £210,000 | 57 m² | £3,684/m² | 3 |
| 28, Garden LaneSemi-detached | Aug 2007 | £189,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 29, Garden LaneTerraced | Jul 2002 | £91,000 | 140 m² | £650/m² | 2 |
| 30, Garden LaneTerraced | Apr 2026 | £315,000 | 94 m² | £3,351/m² | 3 |
| 31, Garden LaneOther · company-owned | Jun 2023 | £270,000 | 121 m² | £2,231/m² | 2 |
| 32, Garden LaneTerraced | Apr 2022 | £259,950 | 121 m² | £2,148/m² | 3 |
| 33, Garden LaneSemi-detached | May 2023 | £285,000 | 86 m² | £3,314/m² | 2 |
| 35, Garden LaneSemi-detached · company-owned | Nov 2003 | £175,000 | 124 m² | £1,411/m² | 1 |
| 37, Garden LaneTerraced · company-owned | Jun 2025 | £310,000 | 114 m² | £2,719/m² | 3 |
| 38, Garden LaneTerraced | Mar 2013 | £136,000 | 81 m² | £1,679/m² | 3 |
| 39, Garden LaneTerraced · company-owned | Aug 2017 | £227,000 | 122 m² | £1,861/m² | 3 |
| 40, Garden LaneTerraced · company-owned | Jan 2022 | £145,000 | 92 m² | £1,576/m² | 2 |
| 41, Garden LaneTerraced | Mar 2002 | £69,950 | 117 m² | £598/m² | 2 |
| 43, Garden LaneTerraced | May 2019 | £156,500 | 94 m² | £1,665/m² | 1 |
| 44, Garden LaneTerraced | Jul 2017 | £142,500 | – | – | 3 |
| 45, Garden LaneTerraced | Mar 2005 | £150,000 | 115 m² | £1,304/m² | 1 |
| 46, Garden LaneDetached | Nov 2003 | £180,000 | 120 m² | £1,500/m² | 2 |
| 47, Garden LaneSemi-detached | Jan 1995 | £28,500 | 42 m² | £679/m² | 1 |
The nearest station is Chester, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km), with 5.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Liverpool Lime Street.
The nearest bus stop is Canal Street, 100 m away, with a bus about every 15 minutes on weekdays (route 14A); 94 departures an hour from the 12 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 7 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
The nearest primary school is Chester Blue Coat Church of England Primary School, a few minutes' walk (200 m); 61% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Queen's Park High School, 1.4 km away; Attainment 8: 44.2 · 9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Few families with young children: only 6% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 200 m away, with Armando's Deli closer still (under 50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Garden Lane Medical Ctr. (under 50 m), with Well Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (100 m).
For a haircut, B @ 49 is 50 m away.
The nearest full A&E is The Countess of Chester Hospital, 1.8 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: 182 restaurants and cafés and 48 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Ela?s Kitchen is the closest café or restaurant (under 50 m), and the Bouverie the nearest pub (100 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (43 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 357 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 547 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 49% flats and 5% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 178 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Water Tower Gardens, 450 m away; for exercise, The Gym Group Chester City Centre (200 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 16 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 45 km.
71 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Northgate Church | II | 140 m |
| Number 5 and Warehouse Adjacent to House, Including Railings and Post | II | 180 m |
| 11a, 11b and 13, Upper Northgate Street | II | 180 m |
| Garden Court | II | 190 m |
| Almshouses of Hospital of St John Baptist | II | 190 m |
| Northgate Lock Keepers Cottage | II | 200 m |
| 5 and 7, Upper Northgate Street | II | 200 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.
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%.
21 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 4EN →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Many neighbours rent: 46% of households rent privately and 11% socially.
It's young: 48% of residents are aged 15–29.
This is a student area: 37% of adults were full-time students at the 2021 census, so expect shared houses, busy term times and quiet summers.
The nearest university is University of Chester, 400 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.
Nearest 8 shown. Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
On this street: 0 of 85 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 12 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.2% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.8% | 0.8% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 69.6% | 88.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 4.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 29.1% | 5.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.3% | 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 39 min
Nearest: Llangollen Railway · about 41 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 114 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.