A461 Lichfield

4 addresses across 2 postcodes (WS14), about 670 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 23410642.

  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Lichfield costs £2,352 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 98% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Lichfield City, about 1.0 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 810 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 91 to 92 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 4 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Westgate Practice, about 1.4 km away.
  • People: About 940 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 54% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 55 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Lichfield in 2026-27: Band D £2,352 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,568£1,829£2,091£2,352£2,875£3,397£3,920£4,704

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (35% of about 2,110 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 20 October 2026 to 30 October 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the footway (standard works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 9 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
WS14 9GAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WS14 9WZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 9 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Height above sea level

The street's 4 addresses are between 91 m and 92 m above sea level (92 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
WS14 9GA100%98%98%0%
WS14 9WZ100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsLichfield City 777,000 journeys in 2024–251.0 km
Lichfield Trent Valley 888,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km
Shenstone 150,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m, 23 within 800 m; nearest Baker Way Sandfields240 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Lichfield City Centre1.1 km
Car parksLichfield City Station Car Park1.0 km
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km; nearest Osprey Charging Station1.2 km
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX24.8 km

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest The Westgate Practice1.4 km
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Boots1.2 km
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Lichfield Dental Care290 m
HospitalFriary Centre (St Michaels Hospital)1.6 km
Police stationLichfield Police Station1.2 km
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest Shell Little Waitrose London Road 308) Cashzone220 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or gardenUnnamed 1,480 m²810 m
Play area5 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,400 m²230 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 3.0 ha1.6 km
Allotments1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,070 m²430 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Engine House at Sandfields Pumping Station, a listed building (Grade II*), 710 m west. 15 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 2 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Engine House at Sandfields Pumping StationListed building, Grade II*710 m west
Hospital of St John Without the Barrs and ChapelListed building, Grade I1.0 km north
Master's House to Rear of Hospital of St John Without the BarrsListed building, Grade I1.0 km north
Grey FriarsScheduled monument1.2 km north
Cathedral Close and Linear Park, LichfieldRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km north-west
NE corner tower, wall and ditch of close defencesScheduled monument1.7 km north
Prince Rupert's Mound: a 17th century fieldworkScheduled monument1.8 km north
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Borrowcop HillHill620 m north-east
Knowle HillHill870 m south
Coronation WoodWood1.3 km south
Knowle CovertWood1.4 km south
Minster PoolLake or reservoir1.5 km north
Pipe MarshWetland2.7 km west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 6901
60 to 6410
Under 5533

1 of the street's 4 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 1 from railways, above the WHO guidelines.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
King Edward VI SchoolSecondary11–18560 m No published inspection
Anna Seward PrimaryPrimary3–11760 m Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Five Spires AcademyPrimary3–111.1 km Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Michael's CofE (C) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–111.2 km No published inspection
Christ Church CofE (C) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.6 km Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Chad's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.7 km No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Shell Little Waitrose WS14 9EQRetailers - other220 m4 Good13 Aug 2025
Willow Court Wines WS14 9HDRetailers - other390 m3 Generally satisfactory5 Nov 2025
Fish Face WS14 9HDTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m4 Good3 Jul 2025
Duke Of Wellington WS14 9BJPub/bar/nightclub480 m5 Very good22 Jan 2024
Busy Bees At Lichfield WS14 9BJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m5 Very good28 May 2026
The Owl WS14 9QHPub/bar/nightclub500 m3 Generally satisfactory18 Feb 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

55 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour16
Violence and sexual offences15
Vehicle crime5
Drugs4
Public order4
Criminal damage and arson3
Burglary3
Shoplifting3
Other crime1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (28); On or near Wordsworth Close (16); On or near Marsh Lane (7); On or near Pasco Drive (2); On or near Shortbutts Lane (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 937 residents in 384 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4340
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright37%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van45%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)42%65%
Work 30 km or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)54%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • WS14 9GA: 3 addresses of 62 in the postcode
  • WS14 9WZ: 1 address of 30 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Marsh Lane · Byron Avenue · Wordsworth Close · Upper St John Street · Smith Close · Turner Road · Goodwin Drive · Sharrod Drive · Pasco Drive · The Paddock · Axten Avenue · Mullarkey Drive

All the streets in WS14 and across Lichfield.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.