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On Westbourne Road, in Chester City & Garden Quarter
What it's like at CH1 5BA: every home that has sold on Westbourne Road 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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Sales and extensions on Westbourne Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 56 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 3, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Sept 1996 | £49,950 | – | – | 1 |
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| 5, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached · company-owned | Jan 1996 | £55,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 7, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2004 | £148,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 9, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2013 | £150,000 | 78 m² | £1,923/m² | 2 |
| 11, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | May 2023 | £228,000 | 80 m² | £2,850/m² | 1 |
| 15, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2019 | £190,000 | 77 m² | £2,468/m² | 3 |
| 17, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2021 | £220,000 | 78 m² | £2,821/m² | 4 |
| 19, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2002 | £94,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 21, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2022 | £212,500 | 62 m² | £3,427/m² | 1 |
| 25, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2025 | £205,000 | 66 m² | £3,106/m² | 1 |
| 27, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2021 | £215,000 | 66 m² | £3,258/m² | 4 |
| 29, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2025 | £270,000 | 83 m² | £3,253/m² | 3 |
| 31, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2006 | £150,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 33, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2006 | £155,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 35, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | May 2006 | £147,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 37, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Jun 1999 | £62,000 | 78 m² | £795/m² | 1 |
| 39, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2018 | £178,000 | 78 m² | £2,282/m² | 5 |
| 41, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2019 | £201,000 | 77 m² | £2,610/m² | 4 |
| 43, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2024 | £260,000 | 70 m² | £3,714/m² | 4 |
| 47, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | May 2023 | £240,000 | 67 m² | £3,582/m² | 2 |
| 49, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2008 | £133,750 | – | – | 2 |
| 51, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2017 | £176,450 | 77 m² | £2,292/m² | 4 |
| 59, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2020 | £210,000 | 74 m² | £2,838/m² | 4 |
| 61, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2023 | £217,000 | 83 m² | £2,614/m² | 4 |
| 65, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2025 | £278,000 | 71 m² | £3,915/m² | 5 |
| 67, Westbourne RoadOther | Sept 2023 | £270,000 | 82 m² | £3,293/m² | 1 |
| 69, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2022 | £170,000 | 77 m² | £2,208/m² | 3 |
| 73, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2024 | £235,000 | 63 m² | £3,730/m² | 2 |
| 75, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2005 | £140,000 | 73 m² | £1,918/m² | 3 |
| 79, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2013 | £153,500 | 72 m² | £2,132/m² | 2 |
| 87, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2015 | £142,500 | 74 m² | £1,926/m² | 2 |
| 89, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2026 | £258,000 | 68 m² | £3,794/m² | 2 |
| 91, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached · company-owned | Nov 1996 | £50,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 93, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2020 | £166,000 | 67 m² | £2,478/m² | 1 |
| 95, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2003 | £99,950 | 66 m² | £1,514/m² | 2 |
| 97, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2020 | £190,000 | 68 m² | £2,794/m² | 1 |
| 99, Westbourne RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2021 | £227,000 | 66 m² | £3,439/m² | 3 |
| 101, Westbourne RoadOther | Oct 2021 | £1,840 | 105 m² | £18/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Bache, a short drive or bike ride (1.3 km), with 495k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Chester.
The nearest bus stop is The Lodge, 250 m away, with a bus about every 15 minutes on weekdays (route 14A); 27 departures an hour from the 6 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 Highfield Community Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (750 m); 50% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Blacon High School, A Specialist Sports College, 1.6 km away; Attainment 8: 33.2 · 3.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Few families with young children: only 6% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Aldi, 600 m away, with Morrisons Daily closer still (500 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Garden Lane Medical Ctr. (1.3 km), with Boots the closest pharmacy (800 m).
For a haircut, Aesthetics 2 Cosmetic is 500 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.
Little Owl is the closest café or restaurant (600 m), and St Theresas Centre the nearest pub (800 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 Countess of Chester Country Park, 900 m away; for exercise, King George V Community Sports Hub (450 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.
9 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.
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%.
12 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 5BA →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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, 950 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: 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.
On this street: 1 of 37 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 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% | 0.7% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 69.6% | 88.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 4.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 29.2% | 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.
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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 56 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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