Cross Street Congleton, Cheshire East

22 addresses across 2 postcodes (CW12), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 9100323.

  • Energy: 7 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 4, E: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas 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 B; Band D in Cheshire East costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Congleton, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 140 m away, and Astbury Mere Country Park (32 hectares) is about 710 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 86 to 87 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 7 of its 22 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Readesmoor Medical Group Practice, about 180 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 570 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 40% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 281 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
Most recent sales (2)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Oct 20234 CW12 1HQOther£80,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Oct 20232 CW12 1HQSemi-detached£80,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from July 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

7 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 36 m². Most common: Flat (5); House, end-terrace (1); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1900-1929 (3); before 1900 (1); 2020 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (5).

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire East in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,909£2,182£2,455£3,000£3,546£4,091£4,910

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (49% of about 1,110 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 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CW12 1HQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CW12 1HEnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 2 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 22 addresses are between 86 m and 87 m above sea level (86 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CW12 1HE100%100%100%0%
CW12 1HQ100%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 stationsCongleton 324,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Kidsgrove 288,000 journeys in 2024–258.9 km (5.5 miles)
Alsager 115,000 journeys in 2024–259.8 km (6.1 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Antrobus Street Congleton40 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Alighting Only Congleton190 m
Car parks9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Antrobus Street Car Park110 m
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station100 m
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN21 km (13 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 Readesmoor Medical Group Practice180 m
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest West Street Pharmacy160 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest West Street (Dental Surgery)160 m
HospitalCongleton War Memorial Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationCongleton Police Station290 m
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Britannia Building Society270 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 700 m²140 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Astbury Mere Country Park 32 ha710 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,330 m²260 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha330 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,790 m²350 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 38 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Town Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 300 m south-east. 83 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Town HallListed building, Grade II*300 m south-east
Overton HouseListed building, Grade II*330 m west
Gate Piers and Gates of Number 61Listed building, Grade II*330 m west
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade I360 m south-east
Congleton ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II560 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Canopied tomb in St Mary's churchyardScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Standing cross in St Mary's churchyardScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Jodrell Bank ObservatoryWorld Heritage Site9.9 km (6.1 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Congleton Park Park WoodWood380 m north-east
Park WoodWood520 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Forge WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Astbury MereLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Dexter DaleValley3 km (1.9 miles) south-east
Nick i' th' HillHill3.6 km (2.2 miles) south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)9.14010
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
65 to 6910
60 to 6410
55 to 5950
Under 551522

7 of the street's 22 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 Cheshire East: see them on the Cheshire East page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Saint Mary's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11280 m Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Marlfields Primary SchoolPrimary3–11470 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Daven Primary SchoolPrimary2–11740 m (0.5 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Eaton Bank AcademySecondary11–181.4 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
Buglawton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
The Quinta Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Astbury St Mary's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Havannah Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Four Friends CW12 1ABOther catering premises20 m4 Good12 Nov 2025
The Bell on Mulnestrete CW12 1ABPub/bar/nightclub30 mAwaiting inspection
R.J. & J.M. Moore CW12 1ABRetailers - other40 m5 Very good11 Mar 2025
Pup Cups Cafe CW12 1ABOther catering premises50 m5 Very good14 Mar 2025
ISTANBUL VILLAGE GRILL & WINE CW12 1HGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good11 Sep 2026
Eaton Masonic Hall (Congleton) Ltd CW12 1AGPub/bar/nightclub90 m5 Very good5 Aug 2025
Hazydays Cafe CW12 1DBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good17 Mar 2026
Nam Ploy CMQ CW12 1DBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good12 Dec 2024
The Counting House CW12 1AHPub/bar/nightclub90 m5 Very good6 Mar 2025
Greggs CW12 1APRetailers - other100 m5 Very good4 Dec 2024
Victoria Baked Potatoes Mobile caterer110 m5 Very good14 Mar 2025
Cygnet Club CW12 1AHPub/bar/nightclub110 m5 Very good11 Mar 2025
ABC at The Mill Children's Day Nursery LTD CW12 1HJSchool/college/university120 m5 Very good27 Aug 2026
Victoria Cafe Lounge CW12 1GURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good24 Jul 2025
Rumba CW12 1AHPub/bar/nightclub130 m5 Very good18 Jul 2025

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.

281 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences92
Public order60
Anti-social behaviour34
Shoplifting21
Criminal damage and arson16
Other theft15
Burglary11
Drugs9
Other crime6
Possession of weapons6
Vehicle crime3
Theft from the person3
Robbery3
Bicycle theft2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (51); On or near Duke Street (45); On or near Victoria Street (41); On or near Parking Area (35); On or near Swan Bank (27).

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: 566 residents in 349 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 age4340
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)40%61%
Owned outright18%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented15%17%
Private rented44%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle21%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)50%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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

  • Food hygiene ratings The Black Bear (pub/bar/nightclub, CW12 1RS) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Hewitt hospitality (restaurant/cafe/canteen, CW12 1AB) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Invicta TCG ltd (retailers - other, CW12 1AY) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Dean's Bar (pub/bar/nightclub, CW12 1RS) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026

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

Mill Street · South Street · River Street · Holford Street · Princess Street · Duke Street · Antrobus Street · Horace Lawton Court · Back River Street · Swan Bank · North Street · Little Street

All the streets in CW12 and across Cheshire East.

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.