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On The Copse, in Marple Bridge & Mellor
What it's like at SK6 5QQ: every home that has sold on The Copse 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on The Copse; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 15 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, The CopseDetached | May 1997 | £167,500 | 287 m² | £584/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, The CopseDetached | Nov 2020 | £595,000 | 118 m² | £5,042/m² | 4 |
| 5, The CopseDetached | May 2026 | £780,000 | 146 m² | £5,342/m² | 3 |
| 6, The CopseDetached | Oct 2017 | £480,000 | 128 m² | £3,750/m² | 1 |
| 8, The CopseDetached | Sept 1997 | £140,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 9, The CopseDetached | Feb 2025 | £650,000 | 124 m² | £5,242/m² | 1 |
| 10, The CopseDetached | Dec 2017 | £442,500 | 117 m² | £3,782/m² | 3 |
| 12, The CopseDetached | Jul 2023 | £625,000 | 152 m² | £4,112/m² | 2 |
| 13, The CopseDetached | Oct 2016 | £440,000 | 149 m² | £2,953/m² | 2 |
| 14, The CopseDetached | Jul 2001 | £240,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 15, The CopseDetached | Oct 2006 | £440,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 17, The CopseDetached | Apr 2019 | £625,000 | 163 m² | £3,834/m² | 2 |
| 19, The CopseDetached | Oct 2013 | £390,000 | 120 m² | £3,250/m² | 3 |
| 20, The CopseDetached | Mar 2004 | £420,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 23, The CopseDetached | Nov 2011 | £375,000 | 147 m² | £2,551/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 51% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Marple, about a 10-minute walk (1.0 km), with 326k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Manchester Piccadilly.
The nearest bus stop is Glossop Road, 350 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 394, 808); 1 departures an hour from the 2 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 43 minutes away by public transport (19 by car).
This is car country: only 7% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is St Mary's Catholic Voluntary Academy, about a 5-minute walk (550 m); 73% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Marple Hall School, 3.1 km away.
The nearest supermarket is Asda, 1.7 km away, with Marple Bridge Stores closer still (800 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Marple Bridge Surgery (800 m), with Well the closest pharmacy (800 m).
For a haircut, Harry Thomas Hairdressing is 750 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Stepping Hill Hospital, 6.2 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 63% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 62% 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, 4 pubs and bars.
Big View Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (650 m), and The Windsor Castle the nearest pub (550 m).
There are 46 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 58% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
Bungalow country: 21% of homes are bungalows.
The nearest park is Brabyns Park, 1.0 km away; for exercise, Farmer Johns MTB Park (900 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.0 µg/m³).
For holidays, Manchester is 16 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 54% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 28% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 55% of adults have a degree.
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.
5 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.
Hazel Grove constituency: Lisa Smart MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 6,500 (14.1%), turnout 63%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 38%, Labour 24%, Conservative 20%, Reform UK 15%.
13 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 SK6 5QQ →
No crimes recorded "on or near" The Copse in the last 12 months.
On this street: 0 of 11 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 | 1.6% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.0% | 0.3% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 92.0% | 91.7% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 3.8% | 0.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.5% | 7.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.2% | 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: Wallasey · about 64 min
Nearest: Hathersage Outdoor Swimming Pool · about 42 min
Nearest: East Lancashire Railway · about 34 min
Nearest: Gulliver's World Resort · about 46 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.