Park Grange off Elephant Lane
Torus, the housing association, is building 164 homes at Park Grange on a brownfield site off Elephant Lane, WA9 5PG, with Vistry as the builder. The first phase was handed over in September 2025, and further phases are due over the following two years. Every home is affordable housing of one kind or another.
| Tenure at Park Grange | Homes |
|---|---|
| Shared ownership | 83 |
| Rent to buy | 41 |
| Affordable rent | 40 |
If you are moving in from a rented flat or a shared house, the load is often a flat's worth of furniture plus new items bought for the house. We can collect those from the shop or warehouse on the same day.
Terraced Streets off Thatto Heath Road
The 2021 Census counted 5,725 households in Thatto Heath ward, one of the largest wards in the borough. 37% are semi-detached and 34% terraced, with 11% flats. Streets such as Dorothy Street, Kimberley Avenue and Birchfield Street are typical of the terraced side, with semis on South Street and Parliament Street. Thatto Heath Road itself is the B5413.
On the terraced streets the van parks on the road outside or as close as the parked cars allow, and everything comes out through the front door. Elephant Lane is the local shopping street, so we avoid stopping there during its busiest hours.
Next Door to the Ravenhead Tip
Thatto Heath shares the WA9 5 postcode sector with the council's Town Centre recycling centre on Burtonhead Road, in neighbouring Ravenhead, so the tip is a short drive away. Residents taking their own van still need a booking, and vans are limited to twelve visits a year. For a sofa, a mattress or a garden's worth of waste, a rubbish collection avoids hiring a van to get it there.
Thatto Heath Station
Thatto Heath station sits below road level in a cutting, with ramps down to both platforms, and has trains every 30 minutes to Liverpool Lime Street and Wigan North Western during the day.