Chichester Close Rugeley, Cannock Chase

23 addresses across 1 postcode (WS15), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5501461.

  • Sales: 54 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £220,000 across 3 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Cannock Chase cost £231,333 in August 2026 (-1.3% on a year); private rents averaged £868 a month.
  • Energy: 20 homes have an energy certificate (C: 20).
  • 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: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; 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 Town, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 110 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 111 to 117 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 23 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Sandy Lane Surgery, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 65% of households owned their home and 34% 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.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20253£220,000£190,000£355,000
20231£378,000£378,000£378,000
20211£287,500£287,500£287,500
20202£283,500£279,500£287,500
20191£250,000£250,000£250,000
20171£149,950£149,950£149,950
20162£127,750£127,500£128,000
20151£242,500£242,500£242,500
20141£175,000£175,000£175,000
20132£195,750£189,500£202,000
20114£197,250£104,500£210,000
20101£116,000£116,000£116,000
All 54 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Dec 20111 WS15 1GQDetached£207,500
18 Jul 20031 WS15 1GQDetached£195,000
5 Oct 20112 WS15 1GQTerraced£104,500
24 Oct 20032 WS15 1GQSemi-detached£98,500
22 Aug 20033 WS15 1GQDetached£178,000New build.
11 Nov 20164 WS15 1GQTerraced£127,500
24 Oct 20034 WS15 1GQTerraced£96,995New build.
16 May 20255 WS15 1GQDetached£355,000
5 May 20115 WS15 1GQDetached£210,000
8 Aug 20035 WS15 1GQDetached£175,000New build.
19 Mar 20216 WS15 1GQSemi-detached£162,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Nov 20046 WS15 1GQSemi-detached£123,000
24 Oct 20036 WS15 1GQSemi-detached£107,500New build.
22 Aug 20037 WS15 1GQDetached£210,000
29 Jun 20068 WS15 1GQDetached£207,500
3 Nov 20038 WS15 1GQDetached£174,000
25 Jul 20039 WS15 1GQDetached£196,000
19 Mar 201410 WS15 1GQDetached£175,000
24 Aug 200710 WS15 1GQDetached£180,000
20 Nov 200310 WS15 1GQDetached£157,500New build.
24 Nov 202311 WS15 1GQDetached£378,000
28 Aug 202011 WS15 1GQDetached£287,500
25 Nov 201511 WS15 1GQDetached£242,500
20 Dec 200611 WS15 1GQDetached£227,500
29 Aug 200311 WS15 1GQDetached£209,995
10 Mar 201112 WS15 1GQDetached£187,000
17 Oct 200312 WS15 1GQDetached£172,000New build.
22 Aug 200313 WS15 1GQDetached£198,500
20 May 201914 WS15 1GQDetached£250,000
1 Jun 200914 WS15 1GQDetached£170,000
26 Sep 200314 WS15 1GQDetached£151,995
21 Mar 201315 WS15 1GQDetached£189,500
22 Aug 200315 WS15 1GQDetached£180,000New build.
20 Jan 202117 WS15 1GQDetached£287,500
4 Oct 201317 WS15 1GQDetached£202,000
24 Oct 200317 WS15 1GQDetached£199,995New build.
6 Nov 202019 WS15 1GQDetached£279,500
10 Nov 200619 WS15 1GQDetached£216,000
26 Sep 200319 WS15 1GQDetached£183,000
17 Aug 200721 WS15 1GQDetached£236,500
21 Nov 200321 WS15 1GQDetached£212,000
24 Jun 200523 WS15 1GQSemi-detached£129,000
26 Sep 200323 WS15 1GQSemi-detached£105,000
16 May 202525 WS15 1GQSemi-detached£190,000
12 Dec 200725 WS15 1GQSemi-detached£122,000
27 Jul 200725 WS15 1GQSemi-detached£122,000
23 Sep 200325 WS15 1GQSemi-detached£94,995
22 Jul 201627 WS15 1GQTerraced£128,000
19 Mar 201027 WS15 1GQTerraced£116,000
26 Sep 200327 WS15 1GQSemi-detached£94,995
27 Nov 202529 WS15 1GQTerraced£220,000
6 Jan 201729 WS15 1GQTerraced£149,950
30 May 200829 WS15 1GQTerraced£136,000
26 Sep 200329 WS15 1GQSemi-detached£106,000

House prices and rents in Cannock Chase

A typical home in Cannock Chase cost £231,333 in August 2026, 1.3% less than a year before. That is 20% more than five years earlier and 58% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£348,921
Semi-detached£222,470
Terraced£183,922
Flat or maisonette£105,774
Bought by a first-time buyer£204,194

Private renters in Cannock Chase paid £868 a month on average in September 2026, 7.2% more than a year before. That is 33% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£589
Two bedrooms£782
Three bedrooms£966
Four or more bedrooms£1,347

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.

20 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 117 m². Most common: House, detached (13); House, end-terrace (4); House, mid-terrace (3). Built: 2003-2006 (17); 1996-2002 (2); 2007-2011 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (20 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 11,866 kWh of it on average in 2024, about the same as the district, and 3,428 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 95% 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 WS15.

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 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 A (48% of about 1,020 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.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

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 coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

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 in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

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

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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 23 addresses are between 111 m and 117 m above sea level (114 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
WS15 1GQ100%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 Town 185,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Rugeley Trent Valley 201,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Hednesford 276,000 journeys in 2024–255.6 km (3.5 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stile Cop Road Rugeley230 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Rugeley Town Centre1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Car parksMarket Hall Car Park1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station610 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX35.5 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. 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 surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sandy Lane Surgery Good Feb 20261.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Medx Pharmacy1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sandy Lane Health Centre1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalCannock Chase Hospital Good Feb 20208.3 km (5.2 miles)
Care homes6 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Horse Fair Care Home Good Jul 20191.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationRugeley Police Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Central England Co-op - Pear Tree Rugeley, Queensway460 m (0.3 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,530 m²110 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chester Road Play Area 2,060 m²130 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.1 ha940 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,440 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

7 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
Burnt HillHill290 m north-east
Dutton's PoolLake or reservoir710 m (0.4 miles) west
Lady Hill CoppiceWood1 km (0.6 miles) west
Chetwynd's CoppiceWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Lady HillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Miflins ValleyValley1.5 km (1 mile) south

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)6.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
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 5920
Under 552123

2 of the street's 23 addresses are 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), 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
Chase View Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11650 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 28% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 55% in 2024 and 47% in 2023)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection None published
The Hart SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 43.9 (46.5 in 2025 and 44.5 in 2024); 37.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 3.8% AAB or better; progress below average
Churchfield CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)
Redbrook Hayes Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 48% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 33% in 2023)
The John Bamford Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection 80% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 16% at the higher standard (2025; 81% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Chancel Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) 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 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 19% at the higher standard (2025; 85% in 2024 and 91% in 2023)
Etching Hill CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection 79% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 69% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
Forest Hills Primary SchoolPrimary2–112 km (1.2 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 44% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 41% in 2024 and 54% 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

2 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 1.2 km (0.7 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Progressive Sports @ St Joseph's WS15 1BN Out-of-school day care 20 Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Kids Planet Rugeley WS15 1BL Full day care 69 Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 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
vh1be WS15 1JTRetailers - other140 mExempt

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 offences26
Criminal damage and arson8
Anti-social behaviour7
Vehicle crime2
Burglary1
Other crime1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Chester Road (20); On or near Hereford Way (7); On or near Salisbury Close (5); On or near Cardigan Avenue (4); On or near Wells Close (2).

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: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. 1 involved a child under 16. 100% happened in the dark, and 100% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202300
202400
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
14 Nov 2025 16:30 Slight 1 person: 1 child A460, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, 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: 256 residents in 108 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 age3940
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)65%61%
Owned outright23%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented35%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work78%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van71%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)40%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)34%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

Nearby streets

York Close · Lower Birches Way · Truro Close · Wells Close · Chester Road · Hereford Way · Worcester Close · Salisbury Close · Rutland Avenue · Cardigan Avenue · Essex Drive · Surrey 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; 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.