Ainsley Close Stoke-on-Trent

5 addresses across 1 postcode (ST2), about 30 m long. USRN 8305307.

  • Energy: 1 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 A; Band D in Stoke-on-Trent costs £2,183 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Stoke-On-Trent, about 4 km (2.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 290 m away, and Hulton Abbey Park (11 hectares) is about 660 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 133 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 5 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Birches Head Medical Ctr., about 850 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 41% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 160 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from July 2017 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

1 home with a current certificate; median floor area 94 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (1 address)

Council tax

What each band costs in Stoke-on-Trent in 2026-27: Band D £2,183 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,455£1,698£1,941£2,183£2,668£3,153£3,639£4,366

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (81% of about 670 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: none.
  • 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.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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, 0 at medium risk and 2 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 133 m above sea level.

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
ST2 8PG100%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 stationsStoke-On-Trent 3.0 million journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Longton 81,000 journeys in 2024–255.1 km (3.1 miles)
Longport 79,000 journeys in 2024–255.1 km (3.2 miles)
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 35 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tranter Road Abbey Hulton120 m
Bus or coach stationbus station Hanley2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Car parksParking space on Norton Crescent2.2 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging pointsPoGo Charge2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN36.1 km (22 miles)

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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Birches Head Medical Ctr.850 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Miltons Chemists300 m
NHS dentistsDental Surgery1.9 km (1.2 miles)
HospitalHaywood Hospital4.1 km (2.6 miles)
Police stationHanley Police Station2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Abbey Hulton, Abbey Hulton Cashzone280 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.4 ha290 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Hulton Abbey Park 11 ha660 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 30 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Abbey United 2.0 ha660 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,380 m²640 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 23 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Hulton Abbey: a Cistercian monastery adjacent to Leek Road, Abbey Hulton, a scheduled monument, 400 m (0.2 miles) north. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hulton Abbey: a Cistercian monastery adjacent to Leek Road, Abbey HultonScheduled monument400 m (0.2 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Brookhouse WoodWood1.7 km (1 mile) south-east
Kerry HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Willot's WoodWood3.6 km (2.2 miles) south-east
Birch WoodWood3.8 km (2.4 miles) north-east
Cliff WoodWood3.9 km (2.4 miles) north-east
Stanley PoolLake or reservoir4 km (2.5 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). 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)9.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)10.74015

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
55 to 5910
Under 5545

1 of the street's 5 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Stoke-on-Trent: see them on the Stoke-on-Trent page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Abbey Hulton Primary SchoolPrimary3–11360 m No published inspection
Our Lady and St Benedict Catholic Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11450 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Carmountside Primary AcademyPrimary2–11800 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Birches Head AcademySecondary11–16850 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Kingsland CofE Academy Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Holden Lane AcademyPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Milton Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected 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
The Excel AcademySecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Co-op Academy NorthwoodPrimary3–71.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St George and St Martin's Catholic Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Co-op Academy GrovePrimary7–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Co-op Academy HamiltonPrimary3–71.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Apr 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

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Manor Abbey School ST2 8LGSchool/college/university20 mAwaiting inspection
St Johns Welcome Centre Cafe ST2 8JERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good7 Aug 2023
St John’s Church & Welcome Centre ST2 8JERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good7 Aug 2023
Betty Rushton Community Garden ST2 8JWOther catering premises130 m5 Very good5 Jul 2019
The Sneyd Arms ST2 8BYPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good2 Mar 2018
Little Robins Day Nursery ST2 8BYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 m5 Very good31 Mar 2026
Breathe New Life Church ST2 8BYOther catering premises200 m5 Very good28 Jan 2026
Miltons (Chemist) Ltd ST2 8BWRetailers - other280 mExempt
Heron Foods Ltd ST2 8BWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets280 m5 Very good27 May 2021
Woolridge News ST2 8BWRetailers - other280 m5 Very good9 Feb 2024
Spice Mill ST2 8BWTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m3 Generally satisfactory5 Mar 2026
Domino's Pizza ST2 8BWTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m5 Very good9 Jan 2026
Snack Shack ST2 8BWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good8 Jul 2026
Ruby ST2 8BWTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m5 Very good30 Sep 2026
Abbey Fryer ST2 8BWTakeaway/sandwich shop280 mAwaiting inspection

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.

160 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences75
Anti-social behaviour22
Criminal damage and arson19
Public order11
Other crime7
Other theft6
Vehicle crime6
Burglary4
Robbery3
Drugs3
Shoplifting2
Possession of weapons1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Grantham Place (33); On or near North Place (24); On or near Whitehouse Road (16); On or near Abbey Street (14); On or near Hulton Road (11).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 327 residents in 131 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 age3740
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)41%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented49%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)11%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)8%32%
Travel to work by car or van79%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)76%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications35%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

  • ST2 8PG: 5 addresses of 23 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Tranter Road · Taylor Road · North Place · Kevermunt Close · Shelley Road · Hadleigh Road · Hulton Road · Abbey Street · Kyffin Road · Grantham Place · Braemore Road · Abbots Road

All the streets in ST2 and across Stoke-on-Trent.

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.