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On Smithy Lane, in Culcheth West & Croft
What it's like at WA3 7HQ: every home that has sold on Smithy Lane 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 Smithy Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 10 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 9, Smithy LaneSemi-detached | Jun 2023 | £295,000 | 97 m² | £3,041/m² | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13, Smithy LaneSemi-detached | May 1997 | £50,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 17, Smithy LaneSemi-detached | Mar 2022 | £281,600 | 87 m² | £3,237/m² | 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: 42% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Birchwood, a drive away (3.3 km), with 437k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Manchester Oxford Road.
The nearest bus stop is The Horseshoe, 100 m away, with a bus about every 50 minutes on weekdays (routes 19, P4); 5 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Croft Primary School, a few minutes' walk (500 m); 73% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Birchwood Community High School, 2.8 km away; Attainment 8: 47.9 · 9.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Golborne High School (5 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Urmston Grammar Academy (11.2 km) and Loreto Grammar School (13.4 km).
Few families with young children: only 14% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 2.9 km away, with Croft Golf Centre closer still (750 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Culcheth Medical Centre (2.6 km), with Tims & Parker Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (2.6 km).
For a haircut, Ashben Hair Studio is 2.8 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Warrington Hospital, 8.4 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: 16 restaurants and cafés, 7 pubs and bars.
Curry Junction is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and Horseshoe Inn the nearest pub (100 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 21 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 53% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Croft Playing Fields, 100 m away; for exercise, Birchwood Leisure & Tennis Centre (2.9 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.0 µg/m³).
For holidays, Manchester is 20 km away.
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%.
7 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 WA3 7HQ →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 49% of households own their home outright.
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.
On this street: 1 of 8 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 | 1.6% | 0.9% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.9% | 0.2% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 90.1% | 93.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 6.1% | 0.7% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.5% | 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.
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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 10 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Formby · about 39 min
Nearest: Waterworld (Stoke-On-Trent) · about 47 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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