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On Park Drive South, in Vicars Cross & Hoole East
What it's like at CH2 3JT: every home that has sold on Park Drive South 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.
Sales and extensions on Park Drive South; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 18 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, Park Drive SouthDetached | Dec 2016 | £355,000 | 132 m² | £2,689/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Park Drive SouthSemi-detached | Mar 2022 | £395,000 | 112 m² | £3,527/m² | 4 |
| 5, Park Drive SouthSemi-detached | Jun 2006 | £203,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 6, Park Drive SouthSemi-detached | Feb 1998 | £73,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 7, Park Drive SouthSemi-detached | Jul 2022 | £373,000 | 83 m² | £4,494/m² | 1 |
| 8, Park Drive SouthSemi-detached | Nov 2003 | £169,950 | – | – | 2 |
| 10, Park Drive SouthSemi-detached | Dec 2023 | £405,023 | 96 m² | £4,219/m² | 3 |
| 11, Park Drive SouthSemi-detached | Oct 1999 | £96,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 12, Park Drive SouthSemi-detached | Jul 2017 | £268,400 | 89 m² | £3,016/m² | 2 |
| 13, Park Drive SouthSemi-detached | Mar 2005 | £196,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 14, Park Drive SouthSemi-detached | Apr 2007 | £220,000 | 81 m² | £2,716/m² | 2 |
| 16, Park Drive SouthSemi-detached | Jun 2011 | £204,000 | 89 m² | £2,292/m² | 1 |
| 17, Park Drive SouthSemi-detached | Nov 2019 | £262,000 | 84 m² | £3,119/m² | 1 |
| 18, Park Drive SouthSemi-detached | Mar 2021 | £410,000 | 90 m² | £4,556/m² | 4 |
| 19, Park Drive SouthDetached | Nov 1999 | £85,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 20, Park Drive SouthSemi-detached | Jul 2013 | £241,250 | 92 m² | £2,622/m² | 2 |
| 24, Park Drive SouthSemi-detached | Mar 2017 | £365,000 | 114 m² | £3,202/m² | 4 |
| 28, Park Drive SouthDetached | Jul 2020 | £353,000 | 143 m² | £2,469/m² | 3 |
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 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 Pine Grove, 250 m away, with a bus about every 32 minutes on weekdays (route 9); 13 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is St Martin's Academy Chester, a few minutes' walk (450 m); 96% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Boughton Heath Academy (1.7 km), with 2 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Upton-by-Chester High School, 1.5 km away; Attainment 8: 48.8 · 12.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Premier Roberts Family Stores, 400 m away; Queens Road Shop (650 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Park Medical Centre (550 m), with Swettenhams Chemists the closest pharmacy (850 m).
For a haircut, Prima Donna is 350 m away.
The nearest full A&E is The Countess of Chester Hospital, 2.6 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 3 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Bren Brews is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and The piper the nearest pub (600 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 29 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 7% flats and 16% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Coronation Recreation Ground, 200 m away; for exercise, Chester Fit Clinic (650 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.7 µg/m³).
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 15 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 42 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 43% of households own their home outright.
The nearest university is University of Chester, 2.2 km 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.
32 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%.
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 CH2 3JT →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
On this street: 1 of 12 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.0% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.8% | 0.8% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 95.8% | 88.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 4.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.1% | 5.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 2.2% | 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 34 min
Nearest: Llangollen Railway · about 39 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Cheshire West and Chester since 2011.
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 18 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.