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On Saxony Road, in Kensington
What it's like at L7 8RT: every home that has sold on Saxony Road 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.
22 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Saxony Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
38 of the 71 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1a, Saxony RoadTerraced | Sept 2001 | £32,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Saxony RoadTerraced | Dec 2022 | £80,000 | 115 m² | £696/m² | 1 |
| 5, Saxony RoadTerraced | Jul 2006 | £89,950 | 114 m² | £789/m² | 2 |
| 7, Saxony RoadTerraced | Feb 2017 | £115,000 | 74 m² | £1,554/m² | 1 |
| 8, Saxony RoadTerraced | Oct 2021 | £153,000 | 86 m² | £1,779/m² | 3 |
| 9, Saxony RoadTerraced · company-owned | Mar 2003 | £28,500 | 84 m² | £339/m² | 1 |
| 11, Saxony RoadTerraced | Jul 2024 | £190,000 | 104 m² | £1,827/m² | 3 |
| 13, Saxony RoadTerraced · company-owned | Aug 2020 | £142,500 | 125 m² | £1,140/m² | 3 |
| 15, Saxony RoadTerraced · company-owned | Sept 2015 | £92,500 | 107 m² | £864/m² | 1 |
| 17, Saxony RoadTerraced | Aug 2004 | £87,500 | 72 m² | £1,215/m² | 2 |
| 19, Saxony RoadTerraced | Sept 2019 | £90,000 | 85 m² | £1,059/m² | 1 |
| 21, Saxony RoadTerraced · company-owned | Mar 2020 | £184,000 | 89 m² | £2,067/m² | 1 |
| 23, Saxony RoadTerraced · company-owned | Nov 2023 | £118,750 | 84 m² | £1,414/m² | 2 |
| 25, Saxony RoadTerraced · company-owned | Jul 2024 | £139,000 | 60 m² | £2,317/m² | 2 |
| 27, Saxony RoadTerraced · company-owned | Oct 2021 | £200,000 | 84 m² | £2,381/m² | 2 |
The nearest station is Edge Hill, about a 15-minute walk (1.2 km), with 210k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Liverpool Lime Street.
The nearest bus stop is Guelph Place, 150 m away, with a bus about every 3 minutes on weekdays (routes 10A, 10B, 10, 9); 126 departures an hour from the 6 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 13 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
59% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School and Nursery, a few minutes' walk (250 m); 66% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Whitefield Primary School (0.8 km).
The nearest secondary is The Academy of St Francis of Assisi, 1.1 km away; Attainment 8: 35.8 · 7.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Archbishop Blanch CofE High School (1.7 km) and Liverpool College (3.9 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Blue Coat School (3.2 km) and St Anselm's College (6.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is Best Foods Mega, 350 m away, with Mohammad's Newsagent closer still (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Kensington Park General Practice (350 m), with Davey's Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Snowy's is 250 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 10 restaurants and cafés, 6 pubs and bars.
Detrioter / Dessert Club is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and Kensington Fields Community Centre the nearest pub (250 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (17 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 150 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 13% flats and 6% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 67% were built before 1919.
It's growing: about 529 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Phythian Park, 200 m away; for exercise, Momentum Leisure (700 m).
50 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.
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%.
27 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 L7 8RT →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
A swim is a short trip away: Wallasey, 8.7 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 14.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 11 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 45 km.
Many neighbours rent: 49% of households rent privately and 26% socially.
It's young: 38% of residents are aged 15–29.
This is a student area: 30% of adults were full-time students at the 2021 census, so expect shared houses, busy term times and quiet summers.
The nearest university is University of Liverpool, 850 m away (TEF Gold).
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.
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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 71 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 69 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.8% | 0.9% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 95.8% | 82.8% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.6% | 15.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 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.
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Nearest: Waterworld (Stoke-On-Trent) · about 59 min
Nearest: East Lancashire Railway · 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.