Blakeley Close Rugeley, Cannock Chase

22 addresses across 2 postcodes (WS15), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5501485.

  • Sales: 41 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £270,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 20 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 19).
  • 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 Rugeley Trent Valley, about 710 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 140 m away, and Elmore Park (1.5 hectares) is about 760 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 72 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 22 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Aelfgar Surgery, about 400 m (0.2 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,030 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 78% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 35 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
20262£270,000£185,000£355,000
20253£186,000£184,000£188,000
20241£347,500£347,500£347,500
20221£186,000£186,000£186,000
20201£143,000£143,000£143,000
20192£157,500£145,000£170,000
20182£160,500£153,000£168,000
20171£145,000£145,000£145,000
20162£197,000£149,000£245,000
20151£144,000£144,000£144,000
20131£120,000£120,000£120,000
20111£118,500£118,500£118,500
Most recent sales (41)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 May 20263 WS15 2FWTerraced£185,000
27 Feb 20266 WS15 2FWDetached£355,000
5 Sep 20251 WS15 2FWTerraced£186,000
28 Jul 20255 WS15 2FWTerraced£184,000
23 Apr 202531 WS15 2FWTerraced£188,000
19 Apr 20246 WS15 2FWDetached£347,500
24 Jun 202211 WS15 2FWSemi-detached£186,000
30 Oct 202033 WS15 2FWTerraced£143,000
17 Feb 202019 WS15 2FWTerraced£167,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Aug 201925 WS15 2FWTerraced£170,000
28 Jun 201931 WS15 2FWTerraced£130,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Apr 201929 WS15 2FWTerraced£145,000
29 Mar 201929 WS15 2FWTerraced£151,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Nov 201827 WS15 2FWTerraced£168,000
18 May 201821 WS15 2FWTerraced£153,000
28 Apr 20177 WS15 2FWTerraced£145,000
12 Dec 20168 WS15 2FWDetached£245,000
27 Jul 201619 WS15 2FWTerraced£149,000
24 Jul 201521 WS15 2FWTerraced£144,000
17 May 201317 WS15 2FWTerraced£120,000
13 Apr 201125 WS15 2FWTerraced£118,500
26 Aug 20094 WS15 2FWDetached£216,250
8 Jun 200929 WS15 2FWTerraced£124,950New build.
5 Jun 200923 WS15 2FWTerraced£120,000New build.
29 May 20099 WS15 2FWTerraced£124,950New build.
8 May 200917 WS15 2FWTerraced£136,950New build.
27 Mar 200931 WS15 2FWTerraced£128,000New build.
30 Jan 20098 WS15 2FWDetached£199,950New build.
31 Oct 200825 WS15 2FWTerraced£125,000New build.
28 Jul 20086 WS15 2FWDetached£222,000New build.
16 May 200833 WS15 2FWTerraced£124,950New build.
28 Mar 20082 WS15 2FWDetached£199,950New build.
22 Feb 20084 WS15 2FWDetached£219,950New build.
20 Dec 200727 WS15 2FWTerraced£151,950New build.
2 Nov 200715 WS15 2FWTerraced£125,000New build.
29 Oct 200721 WS15 2FWTerraced£151,950New build.
31 Aug 20077 WS15 2FWTerraced£147,950New build.
24 Aug 200719 WS15 2FWTerraced£149,950
29 Jun 20071 WS15 2FWTerraced£126,950New build.
29 Jun 20075 WS15 2FWTerraced£126,950New build.
29 Jun 20073 WS15 2FWTerraced£124,950New 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 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

20 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 69 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (9); House, mid-terrace (8); House, detached (2). Built: 2007-2011 (14); 2003-2006 (3); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11); rented (private) (7).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 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 (43% of about 950 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 16 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
WS15 2FWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 5 unlikely
WS15 2FRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 11 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.

© 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 72 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
WS15 2FR100%100%100%0%
WS15 2FW100%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 stationsRugeley Trent Valley 201,000 journeys in 2024–25710 m (0.4 miles)
Rugeley Town 185,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Hednesford 276,000 journeys in 2024–257.6 km (4.7 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Eaton Drive Springfields90 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Rugeley Town Centre870 m (0.5 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Taylor's Lane Parking620 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX37.2 km (23 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Aelfgar Surgery400 m (0.2 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Northwood Pharmacy550 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Avondale House Dental Practice530 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalCannock Chase Hospital10.3 km (6.4 miles)
Police stationRugeley Police Station640 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fernwood Convenience Store Cashzone630 m (0.4 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha140 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Elmore Park 1.5 ha760 m (0.5 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fortescue Lane Play Area 490 m²210 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Augustine's Field 1.4 ha480 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,440 m²1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 3.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Augustine of Canterbury, a listed building (Grade II*), 460 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 22 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Augustine of CanterburyListed building, Grade II*460 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Brindley Bank Pumping StationListed building, Grade II*760 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Etching HillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Boathouse SpinneyWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Trent ValleyValley1.6 km (1 mile) east
Burnt HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Martlin HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Dutton's PoolLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-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)10.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)11.34015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 552122

1 of the street's 22 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 Cannock Chase: see them on the Cannock Chase 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
Chancel Primary SchoolPrimary2–11390 m No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Forest Hills Primary SchoolPrimary2–11490 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Etching Hill CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
The John Bamford Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
The Hart SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Churchfield CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
The St. Mary's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Outstanding (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Lanrick Cottage WS15 2QJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises160 m5 Very good4 Dec 2025
Chancel Primary School WS15 2EWSchool/college/university180 m5 Very good14 Sep 2026
Hummingbirds WS15 2EWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good14 Sep 2026
Puffins Nursery WS15 2EWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 mExempt
Care Services UK Ltd WS15 2QJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good18 Feb 2026
The Stags Leap WS15 2ETPub/bar/nightclub270 m5 Very good20 Aug 2026
Forest Hill Primary School WS15 2PDSchool/college/university350 m5 Very good3 Dec 2025
Tesco Express WS15 2NHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets350 m5 Very good15 Mar 2024
Lanrick House Residential Care Home WS15 2QJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good13 Apr 2026
Rugeley Rugby Club WS15 2HEPub/bar/nightclub410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Apr 2024
J S Pendlebury & Son WS15 2QHRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good16 Dec 2025
Copperdown Residential Home WS15 2AHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Aug 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.

35 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences24
Anti-social behaviour4
Other theft2
Vehicle crime1
Criminal damage and arson1
Bicycle theft1
Other crime1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bonney Drive (8); On or near Portobello (8); On or near Blakeley Close (6); On or near Little Orchard Gardens (6); On or near Eaton Drive (4).

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: 1,033 residents in 441 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 age4840
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)78%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)40%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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.

Nearby streets

Chadsfield Road · Eaton Drive · Leyland Drive · Bonney Drive · Little Orchard Gardens · Old Chancel Road · Rishworth Avenue · Portobello · Bonney Drive · Old Eaton Road · Plovers Rise · Orchard Close

All the streets in WS15 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.