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On Wensley Road, in Gatley North
What it's like at SK8 1QH: every home that has sold on Wensley 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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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.
Sales and extensions on Wensley Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 22 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Wensley RoadDetached | Mar 2026 | £605,000 | 169 m² | £3,580/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2a, Wensley RoadDetached | Jul 2005 | £350,000 | 154 m² | £2,273/m² | 2 |
| 6, Wensley RoadDetached | Sept 2017 | £449,950 | 143 m² | £3,147/m² | 2 |
| 7, Wensley RoadDetached | Mar 2014 | £350,625 | 125 m² | £2,805/m² | 1 |
| 8, Wensley RoadDetached | Jan 2018 | £580,000 | 173 m² | £3,353/m² | 2 |
| 9, Wensley RoadDetached | May 2016 | £440,000 | 147 m² | £2,993/m² | 2 |
| 10, Wensley RoadDetached | Apr 2019 | £410,000 | 113 m² | £3,628/m² | 1 |
| 11, Wensley RoadDetached | Aug 2016 | £368,000 | 106 m² | £3,472/m² | 3 |
| 12, Wensley RoadDetached | Jan 2015 | £350,000 | 119 m² | £2,941/m² | 3 |
| 13, Wensley RoadDetached | Jun 2022 | £360,500 | 74 m² | £4,872/m² | 2 |
| 14, Wensley RoadDetached | Mar 2016 | £346,000 | 116 m² | £2,983/m² | 1 |
| 15, Wensley RoadDetached | Mar 2011 | £202,500 | 58 m² | £3,491/m² | 2 |
| 16, Wensley RoadDetached | Nov 2018 | £370,000 | 101 m² | £3,663/m² | 1 |
| 17, Wensley RoadDetached | Jun 2013 | £229,950 | 71 m² | £3,239/m² | 2 |
| 18, Wensley RoadDetached | Jun 2008 | £265,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 20, Wensley RoadDetached | Jul 2000 | £182,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 24, Wensley RoadDetached | Jul 2001 | £241,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 26, Wensley RoadDetached | Dec 2011 | £200,000 | 94 m² | £2,128/m² | 1 |
| 28, Wensley RoadDetached | Feb 1999 | £117,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 32, Wensley RoadDetached | Aug 2006 | £341,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 36, Wensley RoadDetached | Aug 2025 | £347,276 | 79 m² | £4,396/m² | 1 |
| 38, Wensley RoadDetached | Apr 2005 | £205,000 | – | – | 1 |
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: 44% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Gatley, about a 5-minute walk (600 m), with 374k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Manchester Piccadilly.
The nearest bus stop is High Grove Road, 200 m away, with a bus about every 12 minutes on weekdays (routes 11, 370, 371, 818); 32 departures an hour from the 9 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Cheadle Village Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (600 m); 56% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Gatley Primary School (0.3 km), with 2 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is The Kingsway School, 800 m away; Attainment 8: 46.5 · 9.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Laurus Cheadle Hulme (2.5 km) and Didsbury High School (4.3 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Sale Grammar School (6 km) and Saint Ambrose College (6.1 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Express, 350 m away; P&E T/A Cheadlewhsmith Local Post Office (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Cheadle Medical Practice (550 m), with High Street Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (550 m).
For a haircut, Jane Alexandra is 600 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Wythenshawe Hospital, 3.9 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: 20 restaurants and cafés, 1 pubs and bars.
Bellini's is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and White Hart the nearest pub (300 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (15 of them).
It's a mix of homes: 12% flats and 29% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 53% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Hall Street Green, 200 m away; for exercise, Life Leisure Cheadle (1.2 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 13.7 µg/m³).
For holidays, Manchester is 5.1 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 41% of households own their home outright.
It's highly educated: 49% of adults have a degree.
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.
Cheadle constituency: Tom Morrison MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 12,235 (24.1%), turnout 68%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 47%, Conservative 23%, Labour 16%, Reform UK 10%.
9 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 SK8 1QH →
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.
No crimes recorded "on or near" Wensley Road in the last 12 months.
Nearest: Wallasey · about 49 min
Nearest: Waterworld (Stoke-On-Trent) · about 44 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 16 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 | 0.7% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.3% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 88.6% | 91.7% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 10.8% | 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.
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