Cherry Close Newcastle-under-Lyme

17 addresses across 1 postcode (ST5), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 27001258.

  • Sales: 8 recorded sales since 1995; in 2017 the median was £83,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Newcastle-under-Lyme cost £208,269 in August 2026 (+5.2% on a year); private rents averaged £837 a month.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 4, E: 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.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: Its postcode is in a coal mining high risk area; ask for a coal mining search.
  • Landfill: 6 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Land At Audley Road, is 50 m away.
  • Radon: Up to 3 to 5% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Rubber and Allied Products, is 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Newcastle-under-Lyme costs £2,334 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Longport, about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 50 m away, and Apedale Community (171 hectares) is about 780 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 169 to 175 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 17 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Heathcote Street Surgery, about 620 m (0.4 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 38% of households owned their home and 14% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 74 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, and it was fatal; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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
20171£83,000£83,000£83,000
20161£57,500£57,500£57,500
20151£80,000£80,000£80,000
20131£79,995£79,995£79,995
20031£47,000£47,000£47,000
19991£29,000£29,000£29,000
19961£7,500£7,500£7,500
All 8 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Nov 20176 ST5 7DPSemi-detached£83,000
13 Dec 20136 ST5 7DPSemi-detached£79,995
8 Oct 19996 ST5 7DPSemi-detached£29,000
21 Oct 20167 ST5 7DPSemi-detached£57,500
8 May 20038 ST5 7DPSemi-detached£47,000
15 May 202412 ST5 7DPSemi-detached£74,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Aug 199614 ST5 7DPSemi-detached£7,500
25 Mar 201516 ST5 7DPSemi-detached£80,000

House prices and rents in Newcastle-under-Lyme

A typical home in Newcastle-under-Lyme cost £208,269 in August 2026, 5.2% more than a year before. That is 25% more than five years earlier and 53% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£319,466
Semi-detached£201,629
Terraced£163,133
Flat or maisonette£90,902
Bought by a first-time buyer£181,218

Private renters in Newcastle-under-Lyme paid £837 a month on average in September 2026, 7% more than a year before. That is 30% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£581
Two bedrooms£747
Three bedrooms£899
Four or more bedrooms£1,314

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 79 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (9); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1950-1966 (7); 1930-1949 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4); rented (social) (3); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (10 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 9,880 kWh of it on average in 2024, 15% less than the district's 11,573 kWh, and 3,124 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is ST5.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Newcastle-under-Lyme in 2026-27: Band D £2,334 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,556£1,816£2,075£2,334£2,853£3,372£3,890£4,669

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (87% of about 630 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.

Energy projects nearby

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Rubber and Allied Products Newcastle-under-Lyme 17/00847/FUL Battery storage 40 MW Permission granted, not yet built Dec 2017 1.6 km (1 mile)
Noriker Power Staunch Newcastle-under-Lyme 16/00242/FUL Battery storage 20 MW Operational Mar 2017 1.9 km (1.2 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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

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.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

This postcode is in a coal mining high risk area, where coal mining features at or near the surface, such as shallow workings or old mine shafts, are recorded or likely and could affect the ground.

Ask your conveyancer for a coal mining search (CON29M) on the home: it says what is recorded beneath and near it, and whether there have been claims for subsidence damage.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square with radon potential up to 3 to 5%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of the square is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

6 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 50 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Land At Audley Road Audley Road, Chesterton, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire from 1969 Inert, household 50 m
Partridge Nest Farm Springwood Road, Springwood, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire until 1992 Industrial 320 m
Springwood Farm Springwood Road, Chesterton, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire 1985 to 1986 Industrial 380 m
Springwood Road Landfill Site Springwood Road, Chesterton, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire 1988 to 1990 Inert, industrial 440 m (0.3 miles)
Junction Crackley Bank, 3 x Holes Birchouse Road, Crackley Bank, Chesterton 1960 to 1965 Household 470 m (0.3 miles)
Crackley Bank Longclough Road, Crackley, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire Not recorded Inert, household 490 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 17 addresses are between 169 m and 175 m above sea level (172 m on average); the ground rises about 5 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
ST5 7DP100%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 stationsLongport 79,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Kidsgrove 288,000 journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Alsager 115,000 journeys in 2024–255.8 km (3.6 miles)
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 39 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Laburnum Place Crackley150 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Newcastle Town Centre4.6 km (2.9 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station3 km (1.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN33.7 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 Heathcote Street Surgery Good Nov 2017620 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well730 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery660 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalAirs -Bradwell Hospital1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Care homes7 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Abbeywell Court Good Nov 2024550 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationTunstall Police Station3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Waterhays, Waterhayes Village Chesterton580 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 20 ha50 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Apedale Community 171 ha780 m (0.5 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 480 m²140 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.0 ha80 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,380 m²720 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 201 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Springwood blast furnace, a scheduled monument, 680 m (0.4 miles) west. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Springwood blast furnaceScheduled monument680 m (0.4 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bignall HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Oldhill WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Bradwell WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) east
Miry WoodWood1.7 km (1 mile) west
Watermills WoodWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Bath PoolLake or reservoir3.2 km (2 miles) north

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)8.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

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 551617

1 of the street's 17 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 Newcastle-under-Lyme: see them on the Newcastle-under-Lyme page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Crackley Bank Primary SchoolPrimary3–11410 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 78% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 50% in 2024 and 46% in 2023)
St Chad's CofE (C) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11830 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 15% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 51% in 2023)
Chesterton Community Sports CollegeSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 42.8 (41.2 in 2025 and 43.8 in 2024); 26.3% grade 5+ in English and maths
Chesterton Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): 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: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 38% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 58% in 2024 and 29% in 2023)
Churchfields Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 44% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 66% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
Sun Academy BradwellPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection 77% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 19% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 63% in 2023)
Wood Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 36% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 80% in 2024 and 88% in 2023)
Bursley AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 69% in 2024 and 51% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

6 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 300 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Hedgehogs Preschool at Crackley ST5 7BE Sessional day care 42 Not inspected yet 300 m
Bee Active St Chads B/A School Club ST5 7AB Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 700 m (0.4 miles)
Albert Bear Limited ST5 7EA Full day care 40 Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 730 m (0.5 miles)
The Little Den Day Nursery - Chesterton ST5 6BH Full day care 40 Good (Nov 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 840 m (0.5 miles)
Huggies Day Nursery ST5 8RQ Full day care 96 Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Time4Sport at Churchfields Primary ST5 7HY Out-of-school day care 16 Not inspected yet 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 315 childminders and 25 home childcarers (nannies) in Staffordshire. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 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
CRACKLEY BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL - CHARTWELLS CATERING ST5 7BESchool/college/university300 m5 Very good5 Nov 2024
HEDGEHOGS PRESCHOOL AT CRACKLEY BANK ST5 7BESchool/college/university300 m5 Very good15 Jul 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.

74 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences42
Public order7
Criminal damage and arson7
Anti-social behaviour6
Other theft4
Drugs3
Vehicle crime3
Other crime2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Laburnum Place (18); On or near Pear Tree Lane (15); On or near Heathfield Drive (10); On or near Alder Grove (9); On or near Hazel Road (8).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 0 serious and 0 slight, in which 1 person died. 1 involved a pedestrian. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202111
202200
202300
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
13 Oct 2021 13:20 Fatal 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Wet road

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 319 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 age3840
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over15%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)38%61%
Owned outright18%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented41%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)12%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)11%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)14%34%
No qualifications37%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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

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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.

  • ST5 7DP: 17 addresses of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Olive Grove · Boxwood Place · Willow Close · Birch House Road · Pear Tree Lane · Yew Place · Laburnum Place · Lilac Close · Alder Grove · Fair Oak Road · Heathfield Drive · Cresswell Avenue

All the streets in ST5 and across Newcastle-under-Lyme.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.