Barley Close Cannock

9 addresses across 1 postcode (WS12), about 30 m long. USRN 5501198.

  • Sales: 27 recorded sales since 1995; in 2019 the median was £155,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 3).
  • 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 C; Band D in Cannock Chase costs £2,376 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Hednesford, about 260 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 20 m away, and Hednesford Hills Common (121 hectares) is about 680 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 174 to 176 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hednesford Medical Practice, about 270 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 89% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 46 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20191£155,000£155,000£155,000
20142£116,500£115,000£118,000
20131£142,000£142,000£142,000
20091£120,000£120,000£120,000
20072£149,500£149,000£150,000
20051£139,000£139,000£139,000
20032£91,000£89,500£92,500
20024£78,250£60,000£92,500
20003£64,950£56,950£74,000
19992£62,748£55,995£69,500
19986£58,725£49,950£69,950
19972£53,100£52,950£53,250
Most recent sales (27)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 Nov 20199 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£155,000
20 Jun 20145 WS12 4XYTerraced£115,000
12 Feb 20141 WS12 4XYTerraced£118,000
18 Oct 20134 WS12 4XYTerraced£142,000
11 Dec 20099 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£120,000
9 Nov 20074 WS12 4XYTerraced£150,000
3 Aug 20076 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£149,000
16 Mar 20052 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£139,000
28 Nov 20037 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£92,500
28 Mar 20039 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£89,500
6 Dec 20021 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£79,500
17 May 20027 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£77,000
10 May 20023 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£60,000
15 Mar 20022 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£92,500
17 Nov 20009 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£64,950
25 Oct 20001 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£56,950
12 May 20006 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£74,000
3 Dec 19992 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£69,500
14 Apr 19997 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£55,995
27 Nov 19984 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£67,950New build.
24 Jul 19983 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£49,950New build.
26 Jun 19985 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£50,950New build.
27 Mar 19982 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£69,950New build.
20 Mar 19981 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£50,950New build.
30 Jan 19986 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£66,500New build.
28 Nov 19977 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£53,250New build.
28 Nov 19979 WS12 4XYSemi-detached£52,950New build.

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 October 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 55 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (3); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1996-2002 (3); 1991-1995 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (2); owner-occupied (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (2 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Cannock Chase in 2026-27: Band D £2,376 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,584£1,848£2,112£2,376£2,904£3,432£3,960£4,752

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (32% of about 880 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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 30 September 2026.

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 9 addresses are between 174 m and 176 m above sea level (175 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
WS12 4XY100%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 stationsHednesford 276,000 journeys in 2024–25260 m
Cannock 329,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Landywood 169,000 journeys in 2024–256 km (3.8 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 35 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stephenson Way Hednesford150 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Cannock Town Centre2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Car parksBeecroft Road Car Park2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Source EV Charging Station310 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX33.4 km (21 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hednesford Medical Practice270 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Valley Pharmacy270 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Valley Centre Dental Practice390 m
HospitalCannock Chase Hospital2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Police stationCannock Police Station3 km (1.9 miles)
Cash machinesRontec - Hednesford Cashzone940 m (0.6 miles)

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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 28 ha20 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Hednesford Hills Common 121 ha680 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 430 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldThe Stadium 9.4 ha880 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 6,220 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 167 hectares in all.

Landmarks

3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pyegreen ValleyValley660 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Cockpit HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Sandy SladeWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Lower Brindley PoolLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Huntington BeltWood2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Cavan's WoodWood2 km (1.2 miles) west

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)7.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)10.84015

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
Under 5599

None of the street's 9 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Cannock Chase: see them on the Cannock Chase page.

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
Poppyfield Primary AcademyPrimary4–11190 m Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
West Hill Primary SchoolPrimary2–11300 m Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hednesford Nursery SchoolNursery0–4390 m Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chadsmoor Community Infants and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7630 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Staffordshire University AcademySecondary11–19790 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11940 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Pye Green AcademyPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kingsmead SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Peter's CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chadsmoor CofE (VC) Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Redhill Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Moorhill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)

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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Chase Service Station WS12 4AARetailers - other150 m5 Very good6 Feb 2026
Little Chimps Day Nursery WS12 4AEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good8 Jan 2026
Alax's Convenience Store WS12 4DHRetailers - other290 m5 Very good26 Apr 2024
Starbucks WS11 5TDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good5 Aug 2026
Hedgeford Lodge WS12 1ABPub/bar/nightclub320 m5 Very good7 Apr 2026
Poundstretcher WS12 1ASRetailers - other320 m5 Very good15 Dec 2025
Puddleducks Day Nursery WS12 1ABHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good22 Sep 2026
Station Cafe WS12 1ADRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m3 Generally satisfactory15 Sep 2026
The Salvation Army WS12 1ABOther catering premises350 m4 Good19 Mar 2026
Subway WS12 1ADTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m5 Very good22 Jul 2025
Burger Boi WS12 1BTTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m5 Very good3 Feb 2026
Tesco WS12 1DNRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets380 m5 Very good14 Oct 2025
Costa Coffee WS12 1DNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good13 Jan 2026
Tesco Customer Cafe WS12 1DNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m4 Good28 Jun 2026
West Hill Primary School WS12 4BHSchool/college/university380 m2 Improvement necessary22 Jan 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.

46 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences24
Anti-social behaviour8
Drugs3
Public order3
Other theft2
Vehicle crime2
Bicycle theft2
Shoplifting1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Railway View (10); On or near West Hill Avenue (9); On or near Meadowbrook Close (8); On or near Hednesford (7); On or near Stephenson Way (5).

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: 341 residents in 141 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 age4440
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)89%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work73%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)45%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)31%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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.

  • WS12 4XY: 9 addresses of 10 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Bakers Way · Granary Close · West Hill Avenue · Western Road · Railway View · Stephenson Way · Green Heath Road · Meadowbrook Close · Booth Street · Bridge Court · Chandler Close · Belt Road

All the streets in WS12 and across Cannock Chase.

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.