Ford Way Armitage, Lichfield

46 addresses across 2 postcodes (WS15), about 230 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 23401096.

  • Sales: 54 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £193,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Lichfield cost £339,176 in August 2026 (+2.7% on a year); private rents averaged £1,100 a month.
  • Energy: 24 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 6, D: 15, F: 1).
  • Flood: 29 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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.
  • Landfill: 3 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Red Lion Tip/Red Lion Site, is 200 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 21 times (63 hours) in 2025.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Lichfield costs £2,352 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rugeley Town, about 4.5 km (2.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 240 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 69 to 73 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 46 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Brereton Surgery, about 3.5 km (2.2 miles) away.
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 85% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 16 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were 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
20261£193,000£193,000£193,000
20254£276,750£270,000£365,000
20244£234,000£147,500£250,000
20231£110,000£110,000£110,000
20222£219,500£209,000£230,000
20211£228,000£228,000£228,000
20193£187,000£170,000£188,000
20181£159,000£159,000£159,000
20173£159,000£158,000£160,000
20162£144,500£142,000£147,000
20141£150,000£150,000£150,000
20121£150,000£150,000£150,000
All 54 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Mar 19982 WS15 4BXDetached£66,500
5 Dec 19972 WS15 4BXDetached£36,000
28 Nov 20034 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£95,000
12 Dec 19974 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£54,000
22 Dec 20115 WS15 4BXDetached£132,000
19 Apr 20115 WS15 4BXDetached£110,000
8 Jan 20075 WS15 4BXDetached£150,000
17 Dec 20259 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£270,000
8 Apr 20049 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£147,000
18 Dec 202011 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£149,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Feb 200412 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£137,000
5 Jul 202413 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£235,000
6 Jun 201913 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£188,000
9 Jun 201713 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£160,000
22 Apr 200513 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£146,000
20 Dec 200213 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£104,000
31 Mar 200614 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£119,999
30 Sep 202215 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£209,000
24 Nov 202316 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£110,000
28 Mar 202519 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£278,500
28 Feb 202419 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£147,500
28 Jan 201620 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£147,000
26 Oct 201021 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£151,000
29 Nov 200221 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£104,000
29 Jun 200121 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£69,000
21 Oct 201623 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£142,000
27 Jun 201424 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£150,000
8 Dec 201725 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£158,000
16 Oct 201225 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£150,000
13 Nov 200325 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£116,000
22 Nov 202227 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£230,000
6 Mar 201827 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£159,000
15 Mar 201727 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£159,000
14 Aug 200027 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£73,000
24 May 200728 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£168,000
11 Feb 202631 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£193,000
27 Oct 200432 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£128,000
7 Mar 202533 WS15 4BXDetached£365,000
17 Dec 202133 WS15 4BXDetached£228,000
30 Jan 200633 WS15 4BXDetached£167,000
6 Sep 202438 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£250,000
18 Sep 199738 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£53,000
5 Jun 199842 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£59,000
18 Dec 202544 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£275,000
13 Dec 201944 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£187,000
22 May 199844 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£58,500
13 Apr 199544 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£52,000
7 Jun 201946 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£170,000
5 Oct 200146 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£73,500
27 Mar 199846 WS15 4BXSemi-detached£58,500
24 May 202452 WS15 4BXDetached£233,000
3 Dec 199952 WS15 4BXDetached£65,000
24 Feb 200354 WS15 4BXDetached£128,000
14 Jan 200054 WS15 4BXDetached£68,000

House prices and rents in Lichfield

A typical home in Lichfield cost £339,176 in August 2026, 2.7% more than a year before. That is 25% more than five years earlier and 47% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£524,798
Semi-detached£318,271
Terraced£253,811
Flat or maisonette£164,083
Bought by a first-time buyer£268,406

Private renters in Lichfield paid £1,100 a month on average in September 2026, 6.6% more than a year before. That is 34% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£738
Two bedrooms£965
Three bedrooms£1,156
Four or more bedrooms£1,692

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

24 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 80 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (11); Bungalow, semi-detached (7); Bungalow, detached (6). Built: 1950-1966 (16); 1967-1975 (7); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (19); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (24 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 10,313 kWh of it on average in 2024, 12% less than the district's 11,686 kWh, and 2,588 kWh of electricity, 25% less than the district's 3,462 kWh. There are gas meters for about 98% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
WS15 4BX422,598 kWh 4210,550 kWh
WS15 4BU422,203 kWh 408,240 kWh

These are all the homes on each 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 Lichfield in 2026-27: Band D £2,352 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,568£1,829£2,091£2,352£2,875£3,397£3,920£4,704

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (28% of about 900 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: 1.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 11 addresses are in areas at high risk, 18 at medium risk and 11 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 84 homes the Environment Agency counts, 10 are in areas at high risk, 17 medium, 11 low and 0 very low.

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
WS15 4BXnot in 2 or 3 1 / 8 / 9 unlikely
WS15 4BUnot in 2 or 3 10 / 10 / 2 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any 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

2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 21 times, for 63 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Shropshire Brook, Tributary of River Trent.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Armitage Sewage Treatment Works Severn Trent Water Shropshire Brook 14 57 150 m
Old Road Cso at Armitage Sps Severn Trent Water Tributary of River Trent 7 6 160 m

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

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

2 of the street's 2 postcodes are 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

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is 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

3 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 200 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Red Lion Tip/Red Lion Site Between Old And New Road, Armitage, Staffordshire 1989 Inert, industrial 200 m
Old Brickyard Clay Hole Off Millmoor Avenur, Armitage, Staffordshire Not recorded Industrial 360 m
Old Brickyard Site/Brickyard Clay Hole Off New Road, Armitage, Lichfield, Staffordshire 1954 to 1960 Household 390 m

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

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

Height above sea level

The street's 46 addresses are between 69 m and 73 m above sea level (71 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
WS15 4BU100%100%100%0%
WS15 4BX100%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 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Rugeley Trent Valley 201,000 journeys in 2024–254.9 km (3 miles)
Lichfield City 777,000 journeys in 2024–257.7 km (4.8 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Far Lady Croft Armitage130 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Rugeley Town Centre4.7 km (2.9 miles)
EV charging pointsRoam Charging Station3.2 km (2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX33.2 km (21 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeriesBrereton Surgery Good Sep 20263.5 km (2.2 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots370 m
NHS dentists1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery840 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalSamuel Johnson Hospital7.4 km (4.6 miles)
Care homes2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Langston Care Limited - 37 Hill Top View Good Nov 2019900 m (0.6 miles)
Police stationRugeley Police Station4.8 km (3 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Handsacre Local540 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,060 m²240 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,020 m²390 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.0 ha140 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,790 m²220 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Moated site of Handsacre Hall., a scheduled monument, 580 m (0.4 miles) south-east. 18 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Moated site of Handsacre Hall.Scheduled monument580 m (0.4 miles) south-east
High BridgeListed building, Grade II*820 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Old HallListed building, Grade II*830 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Gatehouse at Old HallListed building, Grade I850 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Church of St NicholasListed building, Grade I900 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pingle CovertWood580 m (0.4 miles) north
Sitch CovertWood930 m (0.6 miles) north
Keeper's CovertWood1 km (0.6 miles) north
Church HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Hanch ReservoirLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Trent ValleyValley3.7 km (2.3 miles) north-west

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)6.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

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
60 to 6401
55 to 59211
Under 554434

2 of the street's 46 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 12 from railways, 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 Lichfield: see them on the Lichfield page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 6 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
Hayes Meadow Primary SchoolPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 37% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 71% in 2023)
The Croft Primary SchoolPrimary4–11900 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; 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 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 64% in 2024 and 64% in 2023)
Henry Chadwick Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 58% in 2024 and 58% in 2023)
St James Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 45% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 80% in 2024 and 87% 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

1 nursery, pre-school or club within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 770 m (0.5 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Poppins Day Nursery WS15 4DF Full day care 74 Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 770 m (0.5 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 6 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
Johns News WS15 4BHRetailers - other200 m4 Good15 Jan 2026
Armitage Post Office & Stores WS15 4BHRetailers - other210 m4 Good29 Apr 2025
Handsacre Methodist Church Hall WS15 4DDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good25 Nov 2024
N J & E T Coles Ltd WS15 4AAManufacturers/packers370 m5 Very good2 Dec 2025
The Olde Peculiar WS15 4DPPub/bar/nightclub370 m5 Very good6 May 2026
Armitage & District Royal British Legion WS15 4BNPub/bar/nightclub410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Apr 2026
Michael's Fish Bar WS15 4DTTakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Apr 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

16 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences7
Anti-social behaviour4
Other theft2
Vehicle crime1
Public order1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Old Road (11); On or near Far Lady Croft (2); On or near Ford Way (2); On or near New Road (1).

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.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

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: 337 residents in 148 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 age4940
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)85%61%
Owned outright53%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)26%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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.

  • WS15 4BX: 45 addresses of 46 in the postcode
  • WS15 4BU: 1 address of 52 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Old Road · New Road · Far Lady Croft · Villiers Gardens · Lakeside View · Meadow Way · Old Road · Dyke Road · Station Drive · Shelley Close · Chase View · Copse Drive

All the streets in WS15 and across Lichfield.

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.