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On Temple Lane, in Central & Islington
What it's like at L2 5BA: every home that has sold on Temple Lane 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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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Temple Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
7 of the 50 homes on the street are owned by companies (3 overseas).
| Apartment 21, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Sept 2015 | £84,000 | 59 m² | £1,424/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apartment 24, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Apr 2006 | £132,450 | 49 m² | £2,703/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 19, 5, Temple LaneFlat · company-owned | Dec 2017 | £85,000 | 58 m² | £1,466/m² | 2 |
| Apartment 17, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Jul 2014 | £75,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Apartment 20, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Oct 2021 | £60,000 | 61 m² | £984/m² | 2 |
| Apartment 14, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Feb 2006 | £128,950 | 51 m² | £2,528/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 1, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Feb 2006 | £145,950 | 75 m² | £1,946/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 25, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Feb 2006 | £139,950 | 56 m² | £2,499/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 27, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Sept 2018 | £167,500 | 139 m² | £1,205/m² | 4 |
| Apartment 7, 5, Temple LaneFlat · company-owned | Feb 2006 | £131,450 | 68 m² | £1,933/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 28, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Dec 2014 | £120,000 | 72 m² | £1,667/m² | 3 |
| Apartment 11, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Jan 2014 | £62,500 | 42 m² | £1,488/m² | 2 |
| Apartment 18, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Apr 2022 | £125,000 | 59 m² | £2,119/m² | 3 |
| Apartment 12, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Jul 2014 | £90,000 | 58 m² | £1,552/m² | 2 |
| Apartment 9, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Apr 2025 | £125,000 | 90 m² | £1,389/m² | 2 |
| Apartment 2, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Feb 2006 | £118,950 | 62 m² | £1,919/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 10, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Apr 2017 | £110,000 | 67 m² | £1,642/m² | 3 |
| Apartment 5, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Nov 2019 | £116,000 | 83 m² | £1,398/m² | 2 |
| Apartment 3, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Feb 2006 | £95,450 | 51 m² | £1,872/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 6, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Feb 2006 | £150,950 | 57 m² | £2,648/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 4, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Feb 2006 | £143,950 | 68 m² | £2,117/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 26, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Mar 2007 | £125,000 | 50 m² | £2,500/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 15, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Oct 2017 | £90,000 | 59 m² | £1,525/m² | 2 |
| Apartment 16, 5, Temple LaneFlat · company-owned | Feb 2006 | £113,450 | 49 m² | £2,315/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 8, 5, Temple LaneFlat | Aug 2014 | £98,000 | 66 m² | £1,485/m² | 2 |
| Apartment 29, 5, Temple LaneFlat · company-owned | Feb 2006 | £133,950 | 57 m² | £2,350/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 23, 5, Temple LaneFlat · company-owned | Aug 2018 | £115,000 | 58 m² | £1,983/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Moorfields, a few minutes' walk (150 m), with 6.6m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Kirkby (Merseyside).
The nearest bus stop is Moorfields, 50 m away, with a bus about every 4 minutes on weekdays (routes 10A, 27, 18); 280 departures an hour from the 29 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 5 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
71% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Holy Cross Catholic Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (650 m); 52% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Purple Ruler, 400 m away.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Archbishop Blanch CofE High School (2.5 km) and Liverpool College (4.4 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Blue Coat School (4.3 km) and St Anselm's College (5 km).
Few families with young children: only 2% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Express, 150 m away; Baltic Bears (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Brownlow At Marybone (450 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, Unit Six Barbers is 50 m away.
The nearest full A&E is New Royal Liverpool University, 950 m 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).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 185 restaurants and cafés and 148 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
La Famiglia is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and OMG Liverpool the nearest pub (50 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (101 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 750 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 50% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Castle Street, Duke Street).
There are 239 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (93%).
It's new: 74% of homes were built since 2000.
It's growing: about 300 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Chavasse Park, 400 m away; for exercise, JD Gyms (100 m).
65 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Royal Insurance Building | II* | 40 m |
| the Temple | II | 50 m |
| Fowler'S Buildings | II* | 60 m |
| Ventilation Station to the Mersey Road Tunnel | II | 60 m |
| Melbourne Buildings | II | 60 m |
| Prudential Assurance Building | II | 60 m |
| Regina House | II | 70 m |
| 6-20, Stanley Street | II | 80 m |
| Rigby'S Buildings | II | 80 m |
| Buckleys Buildings | II | 80 m |
| Guardian Assurance Buildings | II | 80 m |
| Trident House | II | 80 m |
Nearest 12 shown. 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.
Liverpool Riverside constituency: Kim Johnson MP (Labour), since December 2019. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 14,793 (45.7%), turnout 45%. Vote shares: Labour 62%, Green Party 16%, Reform UK 10%, Liberal Democrat 5%.
37 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 L2 5BA →
A swim is a short trip away: Wallasey, 7.3 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 17.6 µg/m³).
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 12 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 47 km.
Many neighbours rent: 74% of households rent privately and 14% socially.
It's young: 82% of residents are aged 15–29.
This is a student area: 72% of adults were full-time students at the 2021 census, so expect shared houses, busy term times and quiet summers.
The nearest university is Liverpool John Moores University, 900 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.
Nearest 8 shown. Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
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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 50 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 48 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 48 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.0% | 0.9% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 11.0% | 82.8% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 84.3% | 15.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 4.6% | 1.1% | 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: Nantwich Leisure Centre · about 60 min
Nearest: Southport Pier · about 43 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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