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On Solway Close, in Houghton Green & Fearnhead
What it's like at WA2 0UP: every home that has sold on Solway Close 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 Solway Close; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 31 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, Solway CloseDetached | Apr 2002 | £139,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Solway CloseDetached | Nov 1995 | £96,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 5, Solway CloseDetached | Sept 1999 | £111,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 6, Solway CloseDetached | Sept 2001 | £144,250 | 130 m² | £1,110/m² | 2 |
| 7, Solway CloseDetached | Oct 1999 | £109,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 8, Solway CloseDetached | Jun 2010 | £270,000 | 115 m² | £2,348/m² | 2 |
| 8a, Solway CloseTerraced | Dec 2013 | £105,000 | 52 m² | £2,019/m² | 3 |
| 10, Solway CloseSemi-detached | Dec 1997 | £38,500 | 44 m² | £875/m² | 1 |
| 11, Solway CloseDetached | Jan 2022 | £430,000 | 105 m² | £4,095/m² | 4 |
| 12, Solway CloseTerraced | Aug 2025 | £230,000 | 93 m² | £2,473/m² | 6 |
| 16, Solway CloseDetached | May 2000 | £135,000 | 135 m² | £1,000/m² | 2 |
| 17, Solway CloseDetached | Oct 1996 | £94,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 22, Solway CloseDetached | Mar 2025 | £370,000 | 114 m² | £3,246/m² | 3 |
| 24, Solway CloseDetached | Nov 2006 | £274,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 25, Solway CloseDetached | Feb 2026 | £285,000 | 81 m² | £3,519/m² | 2 |
| 26, Solway CloseDetached | Nov 1997 | £94,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 30, Solway CloseDetached | Nov 2023 | £365,000 | 109 m² | £3,349/m² | 1 |
| 32, Solway CloseDetached | Mar 2018 | £210,000 | 96 m² | £2,188/m² | 2 |
| 34, Solway CloseDetached | Jun 2021 | £275,000 | 83 m² | £3,313/m² | 2 |
| 36, Solway CloseDetached | Aug 2025 | £302,500 | 76 m² | £3,980/m² | 2 |
| 38, Solway CloseDetached | Dec 1998 | £102,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 39, Solway CloseDetached | Sept 2001 | £150,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 40, Solway CloseDetached | Apr 2008 | £275,000 | 122 m² | £2,254/m² | 2 |
| 41, Solway CloseDetached | Sept 1997 | £93,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 43, Solway CloseDetached | Oct 2011 | £160,000 | 92 m² | £1,739/m² | 1 |
| 45, Solway CloseDetached | Feb 2003 | £166,000 | 110 m² | £1,509/m² | 1 |
| 47, Solway CloseDetached | Nov 2025 | £200,525 | 173 m² | £1,159/m² | 2 |
| 49, Solway CloseDetached | Nov 2003 | £165,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 51, Solway CloseDetached | Oct 1996 | £75,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 53, Solway CloseDetached | May 2016 | £277,000 | 115 m² | £2,409/m² | 4 |
| 61, Solway CloseDetached | Apr 2019 | £280,000 | 117 m² | £2,393/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Padgate, a short drive or bike ride (1.9 km), with 118k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Manchester Piccadilly.
The nearest bus stop is Solway Close, 150 m away, with a bus about every 55 minutes on weekdays (route 25); 8 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Cinnamon Brow Church of England Primary School, a few minutes' walk (400 m).
The closest top-rated primary is St Peter's Catholic Primary School (2 km).
The nearest secondary is Padgate Academy, 1.3 km away; Attainment 8: 39.4 · 4.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Altrincham Grammar School for Girls (13.4 km) and Urmston Grammar Academy (13.4 km).
Few families with young children: only 14% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Co-op, 1.3 km away, with One Stop closer still (650 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Fearnhead Cross Med.Ctr. (1.3 km), with Well the closest pharmacy (1.3 km).
For a haircut, Health Matters is 1.3 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Warrington Hospital, 4.4 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 54% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 65% 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: 7 restaurants and cafés, 3 pubs and bars.
Cinnamon Brew Tea Rooms is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and CBCA The Farm Club the nearest pub (400 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 56 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 2% flats and 39% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
Bungalow country: 21% of homes are bungalows.
The nearest park is Enfield Park, 350 m away; for exercise, Birchwood Leisure & Tennis Centre (2.2 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, Manchester is 20 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 44% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 25% are 65 or over.
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.
7 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.
Warrington North constituency: Charlotte Nichols MP (Labour), since December 2019. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 9,190 (23.0%), turnout 57%. Vote shares: Labour 47%, Reform UK 24%, Conservative 16%, Liberal Democrat 7%.
10 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 WA2 0UP →
On this street: 0 of 19 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 | 2.0% | 0.9% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 97.9% | 93.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.7% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.8% | 5.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.1% | 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Warrington 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 31 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Formby · about 38 min
Nearest: Waterworld (Stoke-On-Trent) · about 42 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.