Fancy Walk Stafford

97 addresses across 7 postcodes (ST16), about 310 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 37600254.

  • Sales: 15 recorded sales since 1995; in 2019 the median was £85,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 73 homes have an energy certificate (B: 7, C: 48, D: 17, F: 1).
  • Flood: 4 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 A; Band D in Stafford costs £2,303 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Stafford, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Stafford Common, is about 520 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 77 to 81 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 28 of its 97 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Stafford Health And Wellbeing, about 360 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 32% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 301 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
20191£85,000£85,000£85,000
20181£69,000£69,000£69,000
20172£143,750£137,500£150,000
20161£138,000£138,000£138,000
20151£82,500£82,500£82,500
20091£90,000£90,000£90,000
20051£77,000£77,000£77,000
20021£50,000£50,000£50,000
19981£39,950£39,950£39,950
19972£40,654£37,000£44,308
19961£45,000£45,000£45,000
Most recent sales (15)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 May 2019STANLEY HOUSE ST16 3AZDetached£565,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Mar 2019FLAT 6, GREY FRIARS COURT ST16 3YRFlat or maisonette£85,000Leasehold.
21 Jun 2018FLAT 1, GREY FRIARS COURT ST16 3YRFlat or maisonette£69,000Leasehold.
24 Mar 20176 ST16 3AZTerraced£150,000New build.
14 Feb 20179 ST16 3AZDetached£135,000New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Feb 20178 ST16 3AZTerraced£137,500New build.
22 Dec 20167 ST16 3AZTerraced£138,000New build.
25 Sep 2015FLAT 6, GREY FRIARS COURT ST16 3YRFlat or maisonette£82,500Leasehold.
26 Nov 20091 ST16 3AZTerraced£90,000
20 May 2005FLAT 7, GREY FRIARS COURT ST16 3YRFlat or maisonette£77,000Leasehold.
21 Jun 2002FLAT 9, GREY FRIARS COURT ST16 3YRFlat or maisonette£50,000Leasehold.
20 Aug 1998FLAT 6, GREY FRIARS COURT ST16 3YRFlat or maisonette£39,950Leasehold.
23 Oct 1997FLAT 5, GREY FRIARS COURT ST16 3YRFlat or maisonette£37,000Leasehold.
30 May 1997FLAT 10, GREY FRIARS COURT ST16 3YRFlat or maisonette£44,308Leasehold.
13 Mar 1996FLAT 10, GREY FRIARS COURT ST16 3YRFlat or maisonette£45,000New build. Leasehold.

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 April 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

73 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 42 m². Most common: Flat (67); House, end-terrace (4); House, detached (1). Built: 1976-1982 (23); 1996-2002 (22); 2021 (20). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (25); rented (social) (24).

Each home's certificates and sales (48 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Stafford in 2026-27: Band D £2,303 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,535£1,791£2,047£2,303£2,814£3,326£3,838£4,605

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (68% of about 810 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 5 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
ST16 3YRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 3BWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 3AYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 3AZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 4 / 1 unlikely
ST16 2RQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
ST16 2RHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
ST16 3BGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 97 addresses are between 77 m and 81 m above sea level (80 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
ST16 2RH100%98%98%0%
ST16 2RQ100%88%88%0%
ST16 3AY100%0%0%0%
ST16 3AZ100%100%100%0%
ST16 3BG100%100%100%0%
ST16 3BW100%100%100%0%
ST16 3YR100%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 stationsStafford 2.5 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Penkridge 293,000 journeys in 2024–2510.2 km (6.3 miles)
Stone (Staffs) 246,000 journeys in 2024–2510.6 km (6.6 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Greyfriars Way Stafford150 m
Bus or coach stationNorton Bridge Station Drive7.5 km (4.7 miles)
Car parksGuildhall Car Park890 m (0.6 miles)
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Source EV Charging Station230 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX47.4 km (29 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Stafford Health And Wellbeing360 m
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pyramid Pharmacy100 m
NHS dentists13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St. Mary's Place Dental Practice1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalSt George's Hospital800 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationStafford Police Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM320 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stafford Common 53 ha520 m (0.3 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 370 m²130 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,280 m²340 m
Allotments6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,210 m²270 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 53 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Friends' Meeting House, a listed building (Grade II*), 440 m (0.3 miles) south. 49 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Friends' Meeting HouseListed building, Grade II*440 m (0.3 miles) south
Shire Hall and Attached Railings, Gates and Lamp StandardsListed building, Grade II*890 m (0.6 miles) south
County Buildings and Judges HouseListed building, Grade II*940 m (0.6 miles) south
Eastgate House (Registrar's Office, Part)Listed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) south
East GateScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Battle of Hopton Heath 1643Registered battlefield4.2 km (2.6 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tillington PoolLake or reservoir850 m (0.5 miles) west
Kingsmead MarshWetland1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Mill PondLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.8 miles) south
Boundary FlashLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Round SpinneyWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Beacon HillHill2.7 km (1.7 miles) 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)7.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.74015

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
70 to 7430
55 to 59250
Under 556997

28 of the street's 97 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 Stafford: see them on the Stafford 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
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11170 m Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
John Wheeldon Primary AcademyPrimary4–11430 m (0.3 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Tillington Manor Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Apr 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: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Doxey AcademyPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Requires improvement (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sir Graham Balfour High SchoolSecondary11–181.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Parkside Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Austin's Catholic Primary School and Nursery Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Blessed William Howard Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Paul's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Burleyfields Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
St John's CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
The Joiners Arms ST16 3BSPub/bar/nightclub100 m5 Very good18 Mar 2026
Delhi to Dosa ST16 3BSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 mAwaiting inspection
Shan Convenience and Newsagent ST16 3BSRetailers - other110 m3 Generally satisfactory30 Apr 2026
St Patricks Catholic Primary School ST16 3BTSchool/college/university120 mAwaiting inspection
St Patrick's Club ST16 3BTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises120 m5 Very good20 Oct 2023
Greyfriars Butchers Ltd ST16 2RGRetailers - other140 m5 Very good17 Mar 2026
MD Stores ST16 2RGRetailers - other140 m3 Generally satisfactory17 Feb 2025
Kalam’s Kitchen ST16 2RQTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good20 Apr 2026
Roosters Chicken and Grill ST16 2RQTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m3 Generally satisfactory27 Apr 2026
Golden Gate ST16 2RQTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m4 Good28 Apr 2026
Tiger Bowl ST16 2RQOther catering premises140 mAwaiting inspection
The Waggon & Horses ST16 2RQPub/bar/nightclub160 m5 Very good25 Jun 2025
The Four Crosses Public House ST16 3ESPub/bar/nightclub190 m5 Very good18 May 2026
Best Atlas Kebab House ST16 3BSTakeaway/sandwich shop190 mAwaiting inspection
Corner Shop ST16 3AXRetailers - other200 mAwaiting inspection

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.

301 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences89
Anti-social behaviour50
Criminal damage and arson32
Public order28
Shoplifting17
Burglary17
Other theft15
Drugs12
Bicycle theft10
Other crime10
Vehicle crime10
Possession of weapons6
Robbery5

Most of these are attached to: On or near Wogan Street (76); On or near North Place (43); On or near Greyfriars (40); On or near Abbots Walk (29); On or near New Street (24).

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: 602 residents in 341 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 age3540
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)32%61%
Owned outright12%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented21%17%
Private rented47%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work66%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle21%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%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)29%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)85%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • ST16 3YR: 29 addresses of 31 in the postcode
  • ST16 3BW: 25 addresses
  • ST16 3AY: 22 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • ST16 3AZ: 14 addresses of 18 in the postcode
  • ST16 2RQ: 3 addresses of 27 in the postcode
  • ST16 2RH: 2 addresses of 121 in the postcode
  • ST16 3BG: 2 addresses of 16 in the postcode

Nearby streets

George Street · Wright Street · Rowley Street · Marsh Street · Shepherds Bush Street · Friar Street · New Street · Lovatt Street · Marston Road · Wogan Street · Foregate Street · Abbots Walk

All the streets in ST16 and across Stafford.

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.