Forge Street Cannock

10 addresses across 3 postcodes (WS12), about 230 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5500790.

  • Sales: 3 recorded sales since 1995; in 2019 the median was £289,995 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, D: 2, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 Cannock Chase costs £2,376 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Hednesford, about 760 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 300 m away, and Hednesford Hills Common (121 hectares) is about 340 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 166 to 172 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 8 of its 10 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hednesford Medical Practice, about 820 m (0.5 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 620 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 27 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£289,995£289,995£289,995
20172£255,000£250,000£260,000
Most recent sales (3)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 May 20197 WS12 1DDDetached£289,995
26 Jun 20177 WS12 1DDDetached£260,000
12 May 20179 WS12 1DDDetached£250,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2017 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 65 m². Most common: House, detached (2); Maisonette, semi-detached (1); Maisonette, detached (1). Built: 2015 (2); 1900-1929 (2); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (2 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Cannock Chase in 2026-27: Band D £2,376 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,584£1,848£2,112£2,376£2,904£3,432£3,960£4,752

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (35% of about 1,480 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
WS12 1DDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WS12 1DGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WS12 1DBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 10 addresses are between 166 m and 172 m above sea level (170 m on average); the ground rises about 5 m from the lowest to the highest.

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

Broadband

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

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
WS12 1DB100%100%100%0%
WS12 1DD100%100%100%0%
WS12 1DG100%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 stationsHednesford 276,000 journeys in 2024–25760 m (0.5 miles)
Cannock 329,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Landywood 169,000 journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 27 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Plough & Harrow PH Hednesford30 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Cannock Town Centre2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Car parksBeecroft Road Car Park2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge750 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX32.5 km (20 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 Hednesford Medical Practice820 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hednesford Pharmacy610 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Valley Centre Dental Practice510 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalCannock Chase Hospital2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Police stationCannock Police Station2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rontec - Hednesford Cashzone140 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 10 ha300 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Hednesford Hills Common 121 ha340 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 70 m²790 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.0 ha60 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 6,220 m²1.9 km (1.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 198 hectares in all.

Landmarks

6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cockpit HillHill700 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Pyegreen ValleyValley1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Sandy SladeWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Calving HillHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Lower Brindley PoolLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) north
Hazelslade PoolLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 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)8.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.24015

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 7450
65 to 6910
55 to 5920
Under 55210

8 of the street's 10 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Cannock Chase: see them on the Cannock Chase page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 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 Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11140 m No published inspection
Kingsmead SchoolSecondary11–18220 m Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Peter's CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary3–11470 m (0.3 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hednesford Nursery SchoolNursery0–4520 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Poppyfield Primary AcademyPrimary4–11780 m (0.5 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chadsmoor Community Infants and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7880 m (0.5 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
West Hill Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chadsmoor CofE (VC) Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Five Ways Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Staffordshire University AcademySecondary11–191.6 km (1 mile) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gorsemoor Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Heath Hayes Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Plough & Harrow WS12 1DBPub/bar/nightclub20 m5 Very good19 Nov 2025
Farlea Childcare (St. Joseph's) WS12 1DEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises140 m5 Very good12 Nov 2025
Rontec Hednesford WS12 1DERetailers - other140 m5 Very good12 Aug 2026
Kingsmead School WS12 1DHSchool/college/university220 m5 Very good8 Oct 2025
Kingsley Cottage Hednesford WS12 1DBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m4 Good18 Nov 2025
Forget Me Not Group WS12 1DBOther catering premises280 m5 Very good7 Oct 2026
Church Hill Victoria WMC WS12 1BQPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good26 Feb 2026
Trocadero Fish Bar WS12 2NFTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m3 Generally satisfactory27 Aug 2026
St. Peter's Church Hall WS12 1BDOther catering premises380 mExempt
Cross Keys Hotel WS12 2DNPub/bar/nightclub380 m5 Very good26 Mar 2025
Olive Grove WS12 2DNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m4 Good27 Nov 2025
Wok 88 WS12 1DBTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m5 Very good16 Jun 2026
New Uxbridge Chinese Takeaway WS12 1AYTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Fiction and Fairy Lights WS12 1AFOther catering premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Apr 2026
Hednesford Raceway (Cafes) (M Mitchell Catering) WS12 1BEOther catering premises450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Nov 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.

27 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences16
Anti-social behaviour3
Robbery2
Other theft2
Other crime2
Shoplifting1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Kings Avenue (19); On or near Petrol Station (6); On or near Parking Area (2).

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: 624 residents in 279 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 age5140
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over29%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented24%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)51%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 9 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.

Nearby streets

Uxbridge Street · A460 · Kings Avenue · Stafford Lane · Pendle Hill · George Street · Wood Lane · Berry Hill · Sunny View · New Street · Stagborough Way · St Peter's Road

All the streets in WS12 and across Cannock Chase.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • 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.