Devon Close Newcastle-under-Lyme

12 addresses across 3 postcodes (ST5), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 27000028.

  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 5).
  • Flood: 3 addresses on its postcodes are 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 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 Stoke-On-Trent, about 3.4 km (2.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 330 m away, and Lyme Valley Parkway (24 hectares) is about 640 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 126 to 130 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 11 of its 12 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Kingsbridge Medical Centre, about 120 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 530 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 36% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 72 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 September 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 37 m². Most common: Bungalow, mid-terrace (4); Bungalow, end-terrace (3); Bungalow, semi-detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (4); 1967-1975 (2); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (8).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

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 B (41% of about 820 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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 6 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
ST5 3ELnot in 2 or 3 2 / 1 / 1 unlikely
ST5 3EJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
ST5 3EDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 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 12 addresses are between 126 m and 130 m above sea level (128 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
ST5 3ED100%100%100%0%
ST5 3EJ100%100%100%0%
ST5 3EL100%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 stationsStoke-On-Trent 3.0 million journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Longport 79,000 journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Longton 81,000 journeys in 2024–255.9 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kingsbridge Avenue Clayton100 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Newcastle Town Centre1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Car parksLyme Valley Car Park1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN39.8 km (25 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kingsbridge Medical Centre120 m
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hollowood Chemists120 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Westbury Park Dental Practice1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalHarplands Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationNewcastle Police Hub2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rontec - Clayton Road Cashzone500 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha330 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Lyme Valley Parkway 24 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 500 m²380 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha650 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsValley View Allotments 5,700 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 29 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Hartshill Cemetery (Also Known As Stoke Cemetery), a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hartshill Cemetery (Also Known As Stoke Cemetery)Registered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Dark WoodWood920 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Westomley WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Rowley WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Leas WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Friars' WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) north
Hargreaves PoolLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) 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)8.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

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 6420
55 to 5980
Under 55112

11 of the street's 12 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 Newcastle-under-Lyme: see them on the Newcastle-under-Lyme page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Our Lady and St Werburgh's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11350 m No published inspection
Langdale Primary SchoolPrimary2–11520 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Clayton Hall AcademySecondary11–16570 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Seabridge Primary SchoolPrimary3–11890 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St John's CofE (A) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; 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
Co-op Academy FriarswoodPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Thistley Hough AcademySecondary11–161.7 km (1 mile) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Westlands Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's College Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Oakhill Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Newcastle AcademySecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Giles' and St George's Church of England AcademyPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
HOLLOWOOD CHEMIST ST5 3HPRetailers - other120 mExempt
THE GATE HOUSE (Rebel-rito Burritos, Papi Tacos, La Lupe) ST5 3HRPub/bar/nightclub130 m5 Very good31 Jan 2026
CO-OPERATIVE FOOD ST5 3HHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets150 m5 Very good4 Jun 2026
SEABRIDGE FISH BAR ST5 3HHTakeaway/sandwich shop150 m5 Very good12 Mar 2025
THE CABIN ST5 3EDRetailers - other180 m4 Good30 Sep 2025
CHOICES HOUSING RESIDENTIAL CARE ST5 3BJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good22 Jul 2026
CLAYTON LITTLE STARS ST5 3NRSchool/college/university300 m5 Very good21 Jan 2026
GREGGS ST5 4AETakeaway/sandwich shop320 m5 Very good4 Feb 2025
OUR LADY & ST WERBURGH'S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL ST5 4AGSchool/college/university360 m5 Very good23 Jun 2026
LANGDALE PRIMARY SCHOOL - ASPENS SERVICE LTD ST5 3QESchool/college/university370 m5 Very good10 Oct 2025
NEWCASTLE STAFFS FOODBANK ST5 4BHRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Nov 2025
MORRISONS DAILY ST5 4AERetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Feb 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.

72 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences36
Anti-social behaviour8
Shoplifting6
Criminal damage and arson4
Other theft4
Public order3
Burglary3
Drugs3
Other crime2
Robbery2
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Norwich Place (19); On or near Supermarket (17); On or near Clayton Road (13); On or near A519 (7); On or near Devon Close (5).

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: 530 residents in 261 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 age4240
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)36%61%
Owned outright19%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented57%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work45%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)10%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)79%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification11%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, bungalow, end-terrace (lodged 27 October 2026) found 2 November 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.

  • ST5 3EL: 9 addresses
  • ST5 3EJ: 2 addresses of 47 in the postcode
  • ST5 3ED: 1 address of 60 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Kingsbridge Avenue · Esk Way · Hereford Avenue · Windermere Road · Bedford Crescent · Norwich Place · Coniston Grove · Berkshire Grove · Rutland Place · Kingsdown Mews · Grasmere Avenue · Gloucester Grange

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.
  • 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.