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On Heath Drive, in Kelsall, Tarvin & Ashton Hayes
What it's like at CH3 8LS: every home that has sold on Heath Drive 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 Heath Drive; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 15 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 21, Heath DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2003 | £148,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23, Heath DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2001 | £94,500 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 41% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Mouldsworth, a drive away (4.9 km), with 26k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Chester.
The nearest bus stop is Broomheath Lane, 400 m away, with a bus about every 32 minutes on weekdays (route 84).
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 46 minutes away by public transport (24 by car).
This is car country: only 7% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Tarvin Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 82% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Kelsall Primary and Nursery School (1.5 km).
The nearest secondary is Christleton High School, 4.5 km away; Attainment 8: 54.8 · 16.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Co-Op, 650 m away, with Greenacres Garage closer still (500 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Kelsall Medical Centre (3.7 km), with Ian Littler Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (550 m).
For a haircut, MD Glamorous is 550 m away.
The nearest full A&E is The Countess of Chester Hospital, 11 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 11 restaurants and cafés, 5 pubs and bars.
Wing Hing Chinese Restaurant is the closest café or restaurant (450 m), and Indie Hops the nearest pub (600 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 38 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 56% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
Bungalow country: 20% of homes are bungalows.
The nearest park is Greysfield House Communal Park, 2.9 km away; for exercise, King George's Fields (4.2 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.1 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 16 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 35 km.
21 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 South and Eddisbury constituency: Aphra Brandreth MP (Conservative), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 3,057 (5.8%), turnout 71%. Vote shares: Conservative 38%, Labour 32%, Reform UK 12%, Liberal Democrat 10%.
2 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 CH3 8LS →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 48% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 27% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 46% of adults have a degree.
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: Wallasey · about 33 min
Nearest: Llangollen Railway · about 46 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: 0 of 11 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 3 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 | 1.2% | 0.7% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 87.1% | 88.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 9.1% | 4.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.7% | 5.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.4% | 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.
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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 15 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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