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In Winstanley. What's changing around Moreton Close
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| 5, Moreton CloseWN3 6LE | 12 Jun 2026 | £430,000 | Detached |
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| 5, Moreton CloseWN3 6LE | 11 May 2018 | £202,500 | Detached |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Pemberton, a short drive or bike ride (1.3 km), with 49k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Manchester Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is Tan House Lane, 150 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 667, 952, 660, 661); 9 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Winstanley Community Primary School, a few minutes' walk (200 m); 68% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is Dean Trust Wigan, 2.6 km away; Attainment 8: 33.1 · 0.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Ashton-in-Makerfield (4.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-operative Group, 450 m away; Bargain Booze (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Saxena L (500 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, Scizza Sistar is 1.3 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, 4.7 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 43% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 61% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 13 restaurants and cafés, 4 pubs and bars.
Poacher's Arms is the closest café or restaurant (450 m), and Goose Green Cricket Club the nearest pub (450 m).
It's a mix of homes: 0% flats and 35% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 283 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Kipling Park, 2.0 km away; for exercise, Total Fitness (1.7 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.9 µg/m³).
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 24 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 32 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 46% 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.
14 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.
Checked at WN3 6LE; a long street can cross an Article 4 boundary, so check the exact postcode.
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No crimes recorded "on or near" Moreton Close in the last 12 months.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.1% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.1% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 98.2% | 95.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.0% | 3.9% | 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.
HMO planning rules: unknown here. Wigan has not published HMO Article 4 areas to the national planning data platform, so we cannot tell whether HMOs need planning permission here. Ask the council's planning team. About HMOs
Local Housing Allowance, Wigan rental area, 2026-27, a month: Shared room £340 · 1 bed £400 · 2 beds £500 · 3 beds £595 · 4 beds £775. The most a tenant on Universal Credit or Housing Benefit gets towards rent here, set at the cheapest 30% of local rents in 2023 and frozen since April 2024.
Gross LHA yields at this neighbourhood's 2025 prices: 2-bed vs terraced houses 2.96% · 3-bed vs semis 3.52%.
None of the 26 injury collisions in Winstanley over the same years were on Moreton Close.
Police-reported collisions where someone was hurt (DfT STATS19), on the nearest named road within 30 m. A main road through the area naturally collects more than a side street.