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On Bowring Park Avenue, in Court Hey & Swanside
What it's like at L16 2NJ: every home that has sold on Bowring Park 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.
4 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Bowring Park Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 109 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 4, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2009 | £145,000 | 83 m² | £1,747/m² | 1 |
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| 6, Bowring Park AvenueTerraced | Jul 2015 | £170,000 | 86 m² | £1,977/m² | 1 |
| 8, Bowring Park AvenueTerraced | Nov 2020 | £208,000 | 77 m² | £2,701/m² | 3 |
| 10, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2017 | £176,000 | 77 m² | £2,286/m² | 1 |
| 12, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2017 | £195,000 | 64 m² | £3,047/m² | 3 |
| 16, Bowring Park AvenueTerraced | Nov 2017 | £130,500 | 80 m² | £1,631/m² | 1 |
| 18, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2015 | £155,000 | 62 m² | £2,500/m² | 2 |
| 20, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 1997 | £56,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 22, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 2014 | £189,000 | 89 m² | £2,124/m² | 1 |
| 24, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 2001 | £52,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 28, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2005 | £155,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 30, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2025 | £285,000 | 70 m² | £4,071/m² | 1 |
| 32, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2018 | £180,000 | 84 m² | £2,143/m² | 1 |
| 38, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2018 | £175,000 | 87 m² | £2,011/m² | 1 |
| 40, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2026 | £385,000 | 117 m² | £3,291/m² | 3 |
| 42, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2020 | £210,000 | 78 m² | £2,692/m² | 1 |
| 44, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2004 | £150,000 | 163 m² | £920/m² | 1 |
| 46, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2023 | £276,140 | 141 m² | £1,958/m² | 1 |
| 52, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | May 2002 | £96,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 56, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2002 | £123,000 | 88 m² | £1,398/m² | 2 |
| 58, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2019 | £293,000 | 122 m² | £2,402/m² | 3 |
| 60, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 2007 | £189,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 62, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 2015 | £90,000 | 89 m² | £1,011/m² | 1 |
| 64, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2024 | £250,000 | 130 m² | £1,923/m² | 2 |
| 66, Bowring Park AvenueTerraced | Jun 2007 | £182,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 68, Bowring Park AvenueTerraced | Jan 2021 | £244,000 | 85 m² | £2,871/m² | 1 |
| 70, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2019 | £195,000 | 90 m² | £2,167/m² | 1 |
| 72, Bowring Park AvenueTerraced | Oct 2020 | £230,000 | 99 m² | £2,323/m² | 1 |
| 78, Bowring Park AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 1997 | £65,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 80, Bowring Park AvenueTerraced | Feb 2021 | £255,000 | 110 m² | £2,318/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Roby, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km), with 201k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Liverpool Lime Street.
The nearest bus stop is Rimmer Avenue, 300 m away, with a bus about every 29 minutes on weekdays (routes 3A, 61, 619); 4 departures an hour from the 2 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is St Paschal Baylon Catholic Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (550 m); 69% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Gateacre School, 1.7 km away.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Liverpool College (4.5 km) and Archbishop Blanch CofE High School (4.5 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Blue Coat School (3.2 km) and Wirral Grammar School for Girls (11.4 km).
The nearest supermarket is The Co-operative, 1.1 km away, with Rimmer News closer still (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Valley Medical Centre (800 m), with Valley Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (850 m).
For a haircut, Ann Marie's is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Alder Hey Children's Hospital, 1.8 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 86% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 66% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 2 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Espositos is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and Bowring Park Hotel the nearest pub (200 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 30 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 6% flats and 11% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 66% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Court Hey Park, 350 m away; for exercise, Yoga for the People (750 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Wallasey, 14 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.9 µg/m³).
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 8.8 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 40 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 41% of households own their home outright.
15 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.
Knowsley constituency: Anneliese Midgley MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 18,319 (50.8%), turnout 50%. Vote shares: Labour 67%, Reform UK 16%, Green Party 8%, Conservative 4%.
7 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 L16 2NJ →
The nearest university is Liverpool Hope University, 2.1 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.
On this street: 0 of 71 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 2 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.6% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.3% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 97.2% | 95.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.6% | 3.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.0% | 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.
Nearest: Waterworld (Stoke-On-Trent) · about 53 min
Nearest: East Lancashire Railway · about 37 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 109 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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