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On Lees Street, in Openshaw & Gorton North
What it's like at M11 1NW: every home that has sold on Lees Street 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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Lees Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 26 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 79, Lees StreetTerraced | Oct 2013 | £61,000 | 80 m² | £763/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 89, Lees StreetTerraced | Jan 2024 | £155,000 | 90 m² | £1,722/m² | 1 |
| 91, Lees StreetTerraced | Oct 2012 | £39,000 | – | – | 6 |
| 93, Lees StreetTerraced | Nov 1999 | £21,000 | 69 m² | £304/m² | 1 |
| 95, Lees StreetTerraced | Aug 2004 | £40,000 | 121 m² | £331/m² | 2 |
| 101, Lees StreetSemi-detached | Aug 2005 | £45,000 | 103 m² | £437/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Gorton, a few minutes' walk (250 m), with 58k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Manchester Piccadilly.
The nearest bus stop is Lees Street, 50 m away, with a bus about every 38 minutes on weekdays (routes 172, 171); 71 departures an hour from the 12 stops within a 5-minute walk.
44% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Varna Community Primary School, a few minutes' walk (150 m); 39% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Wright Robinson College, 1.1 km away; Attainment 8: 49.1 · 13.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Co-op Academy Belle Vue (1.6 km) and Laurus Ryecroft (3.5 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Stretford Grammar School (9.2 km) and Sale Grammar School (11.4 km).
It's a family area: 25% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Lidl, 250 m away; Jay's (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Lime Square Medical Centre (300 m), with Peak Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, Lemon Nails & Beauty is 300 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Manchester Royal Infirmary, 4.1 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 59% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% 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: 18 restaurants and cafés, 6 pubs and bars.
Subway also T/as Fresh forward 2 is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and Lord Raglan the nearest pub (250 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (17 of them).
It's a mix of homes: 18% flats and 6% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1930s.
It's growing: about 321 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Lees Street Recreation Ground, 150 m away; for exercise, The Gym (300 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 15.5 µg/m³).
For holidays, Manchester is 15 km away.
Most households own their home, 26% rent privately.
The nearest university is University of Manchester, 4.4 km away (TEF Silver).
41 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.
Manchester Central constituency: Lucy Powell MP (Labour (Co-op)), since November 2012. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 13,797 (34.7%), turnout 47%. Vote shares: Labour 51%, Green Party 16%, Reform UK 12%, Liberal Democrat 8%.
43 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 M11 1NW →
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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
On this street: 0 of 23 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.7% | 0.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.8% | 0.4% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 97.6% | 70.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.4% | 28.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 1.0% | 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: Formby · about 56 min
Nearest: Waterworld (Stoke-On-Trent) · about 54 min
Nearest: Gulliver's World Resort · about 35 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Manchester since 2011.
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 26 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.