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On Croft Avenue, in Lower Bebington & Bromborough Pool
What it's like at CH62 2BP: every home that has sold on Croft Avenue 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 Croft Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 35 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 26, Croft AvenueDetached · company-owned | Feb 2025 | £655,000 | 298 m² | £2,198/m² | 2 |
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From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Bromborough Rake, about a 10-minute walk (650 m), with 223k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Liverpool Central.
The nearest bus stop is Croft Avenue, 300 m away, with a bus about every 11 minutes on weekdays (routes 1, 17, X1, 38); 28 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Co-op Academy Woodslee, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 41% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Brackenwood Infant School (1.3 km), with 2 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Wirral Grammar School for Boys, 2.3 km away; Attainment 8: 65.4 · 22.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Liverpool College (5.8 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Wirral Grammar School for Boys (1.3 km) and Wirral Grammar School for Girls (1.5 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tk Maxx, 550 m away; Best One (500 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Orchard Surgery (650 m), with Harrison Healthcare Bromborough the closest pharmacy (600 m).
For a haircut, Salons Direct is 800 m away.
The nearest full A&E is New Royal Liverpool University, 7.0 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 48% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 63% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 35 restaurants and cafés, 2 pubs and bars.
Wirral Tandoori Restaurant is the closest café or restaurant (500 m), and The Bromborough the nearest pub (500 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 64 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 101 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 12% flats and 16% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1930s.
The nearest park is Dibbinsdale Community Tree Nursery, 150 m away; for exercise, PureGym (900 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Wallasey, 11 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 9.6 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 48 km.
26 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.
Ellesmere Port and Bromborough constituency: Justin Madders MP (Labour), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 16,908 (40.3%), turnout 59%. Vote shares: Labour 58%, Reform UK 17%, Conservative 12%, Green Party 6%.
6 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 CH62 2BP →
Most households own their home, 16% rent privately.
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 50 min
Nearest: Southport Pier · about 52 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 35 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 25 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 4 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.7% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 95.7% | 94.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.1% | 4.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 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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