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Area guidesSK1
Postcode district · Brinnington, Stockport, Manor · Stockport · England
Illustrative street photograph, not this place. Greathome shows coverage gaps rather than filling them in.
Live geography from the official record. A district or place name is a group of postcodes, not one address.
The pin uses Postcodes.io coordinates, not an exact entrance or title boundary.
Tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors
Found in the same 2.8 km sample around the centre of SK1, from 225 live postcodes. Proximity, not a boundary.
Point sources need one coordinate, so these are anchored on SK1 3BW — the live postcode nearest the centre of the area. They describe that point, not every street. Crime is counted across the whole Shaw Heath policing neighbourhood, which is the Police.uk boundary containing SK1 3BW. Each keeps its source, its geography and its limits. Counts are counts: an incident total is not a safety measure, and an empty planning result is not a completed search.
Police.uk · Shaw Heath neighbourhood
One month of records for the Shaw Heath policing neighbourhood — the boundary police.uk itself shows, so this figure should match theirs. Not a year. Locations are anonymised to a nearby street, not an address. Counts are not adjusted for population, visitors or reporting differences and must not be treated as a neighbourhood quality score.
Shaw Heath on the force site ↗Planning Data · England
This means only that the postcode point did not intersect the selected Planning Data datasets. It does not mean the property has no planning constraints.
Screened at the postcode point, not a title boundary. Coverage varies by dataset and local planning authority; absence is not a clear result.
About Planning Data ↗Application-level planning data comes from the Planning London Datahub, which covers the 35 London planning authorities. No other authority publishes an equivalent feed, so nothing has been substituted.
Supermarkets, pharmacies, healthcare, gyms and libraries mapped near SK1 3BW, ordered by straight-line distance. OpenStreetMap is contributed data: a place missing here is not proof it does not exist, and nothing here confirms opening hours or that a business is still trading.
Supermarkets and convenience stores.
Pharmacies, GP surgeries and dentists.
Gyms, leisure centres and swimming pools.
Libraries, post offices and community buildings.
Places mapped in OpenStreetMap within this distance of the postcode point, measured straight-line, and kept only where the map tags them as the kind of place the heading claims. OpenStreetMap is volunteer-maintained and this search returns the closest matches rather than every one: a short list is not proof that nothing else is there. Distances are not walking routes, and nothing here checks opening hours, whether a surgery is accepting patients, or whether a place is still trading.
Parks, playgrounds, nature and outdoor sport mapped within 1.5 km of SK1 3BW, ordered by straight-line distance. Distance is not a walking route, and OpenStreetMap says nothing about whether a space is open to the public, its hours or its condition.
Named parks, commons and village greens open to the public.
Children’s play areas mapped as such.
Nature reserves, woodland and waterside.
Recreation grounds, pitches and courts.
Places mapped in OpenStreetMap within this distance of the postcode point, measured straight-line, and kept only where the map tags them as the kind of place the heading claims. OpenStreetMap is volunteer-maintained and this search returns the closest matches rather than every one: a short list is not proof that nothing else is there. Distances are not walking routes, and nothing here checks opening hours, whether a surgery is accepting patients, or whether a place is still trading.
Each of these opens on SK1 3BW, the postcode anchoring SK1, and queries its own source only when you open it.