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On Pond Walk, in Derbyshire Hill
What it's like at WA9 3SA: every home that has sold on Pond Walk 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 Pond Walk; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
8 of the 20 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 3, Pond WalkTerraced | Oct 2002 | £18,611 | 73 m² | £255/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Pond WalkSemi-detached · company-owned | Nov 2021 | £70,000 | 70 m² | £1,000/m² | 1 |
| 5, Pond WalkTerraced | Jun 2021 | £90,900 | 89 m² | £1,021/m² | 2 |
| 6, Pond WalkSemi-detached · company-owned | Aug 2024 | £100,000 | 79 m² | £1,266/m² | 4 |
| 7, Pond WalkTerraced · company-owned | May 2021 | £44,000 | 71 m² | £620/m² | 4 |
| 8, Pond WalkTerraced | May 2023 | £122,500 | 70 m² | £1,750/m² | 4 |
| 10, Pond WalkTerraced · company-owned | Apr 2013 | £45,000 | 85 m² | £529/m² | 1 |
| 13, Pond WalkSemi-detached | Jul 2007 | £83,500 | 65 m² | £1,285/m² | 2 |
| 14, Pond WalkTerraced · company-owned | Oct 2025 | £50,000 | 71 m² | £704/m² | 1 |
| 17, Pond WalkSemi-detached | Mar 2024 | £125,000 | 89 m² | £1,404/m² | 2 |
| 19, Pond WalkSemi-detached | Sept 2024 | £125,000 | 69 m² | £1,812/m² | 1 |
| 21, Pond WalkSemi-detached | Jul 2004 | £69,995 | 116 m² | £603/m² | 1 |
| 22, Pond WalkTerraced | Jun 2019 | £65,000 | 87 m² | £747/m² | 1 |
| 24, Pond WalkSemi-detached | Jan 2003 | £18,500 | 71 m² | £261/m² | 1 |
| 25, Pond WalkSemi-detached · company-owned | Aug 2020 | £57,000 | 72 m² | £792/m² | 2 |
| 26, Pond WalkSemi-detached | Nov 2002 | £21,000 | 71 m² | £296/m² | 1 |
| 28, Pond WalkSemi-detached · company-owned | Aug 2020 | £61,600 | 78 m² | £790/m² | 2 |
| 31, Pond WalkSemi-detached | Aug 2002 | £31,825 | 81 m² | £393/m² | 1 |
| 32, Pond WalkSemi-detached | Nov 2004 | £72,000 | 75 m² | £960/m² | 1 |
| 34, Pond WalkSemi-detached · company-owned | Aug 2020 | £61,700 | 72 m² | £857/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is St Helens Junction, a short drive or bike ride (1.3 km), with 206k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Liverpool Lime Street.
The nearest bus stop is Downway Lane, 150 m away, with a bus about every 15 minutes on weekdays (routes 31, 741, C40, 774); 20 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Broad Oak Community Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (650 m); 57% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is St Cuthbert's Catholic Academy, 550 m away.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Ashton-in-Makerfield (5.4 km).
It's a family area: 21% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Morrisons Daily, 800 m away, with Schooner Wines closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Berrymead Family Med.Ctr. (450 m), with Peak Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, The Barber's Shop is 100 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Whiston Hospital, 6.7 km away, rated requires improvement 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 65% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 4 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Bold Miners Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and We Are Bold the nearest pub (300 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 142 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 12% flats and 10% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is The Duckeries, 450 m away; for exercise, Bold Miners ARLFC (300 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 16 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 30 km.
Most households own their home, 19% rent privately.
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.
31 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.
St Helens North constituency: David Baines MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 12,169 (30.1%), turnout 54%. Vote shares: Labour 53%, Reform UK 23%, Conservative 11%, Green Party 9%.
23 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 WA9 3SA →
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in St. Helens 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 20 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
On this street: 1 of 20 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 | 3.4% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.1% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 91.2% | 95.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 7.8% | 3.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 0.7% | 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 32 min
Nearest: Waterworld (Stoke-On-Trent) · about 52 min
Nearest: East Lancashire Railway · about 37 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.