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On Victoria Road, in Chester City & Garden Quarter
What it's like at CH2 2BJ: every home that has sold on Victoria 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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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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Victoria Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
3 of the 46 homes on the street are owned by companies.
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Chester, about a 10-minute walk (900 m), with 5.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Liverpool Lime Street.
The nearest bus stop is Northgate Avenue, 50 m away, with a bus about every 33 minutes on weekdays (routes 51, 52); 111 departures an hour from the 15 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 (250 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, 1.6 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, 250 m away; Majestic Wine (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Elms Medical Centre (250 m), with Well the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Saks is 300 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.
Georgie's Cafe / Rice Box Republik / Burger Bandits / Bomb Burritos is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and George & Dragon 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 St Anne's Field Play Area, 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.
72 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbey Gate School | II | 120 m |
| George and Dragon Public House and Signpost | II | 120 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%.
22 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 CH2 2BJ →
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, 350 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.
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 23 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 14 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
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 46 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.