Gordon Close Leek, Staffordshire Moorlands

27 addresses across 2 postcodes (ST13), about 190 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 37701479.

  • Sales: 26 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £172,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 7, E: 2, F: 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 C; Band D in Staffordshire Moorlands costs £2,338 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Congleton, about 11.9 km (7.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 80 m away, and Ladderedge (35 hectares) is about 640 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 176 to 187 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 27 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Leek Health Centre, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 540 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 14 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
20252£172,500£145,000£200,000
20232£235,000£230,000£240,000
20221£174,000£174,000£174,000
20211£236,000£236,000£236,000
20172£182,475£179,950£185,000
20161£159,950£159,950£159,950
20153£140,000£130,000£170,000
20141£155,000£155,000£155,000
20121£125,000£125,000£125,000
20081£167,000£167,000£167,000
20032£105,000£98,000£112,000
20021£66,000£66,000£66,000
Most recent sales (26)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Feb 202514 ST13 8NZSemi-detached£145,000
28 Jan 202516 ST13 8NZDetached£200,000
27 Oct 20236 ST13 8NZSemi-detached£240,000
2 Feb 20233 ST13 8NZSemi-detached£230,000
16 May 20228 ST13 8NZTerraced£174,000
30 Sep 20215 ST13 8NZSemi-detached£236,000
29 Sep 20171 ST13 8NZSemi-detached£185,000
15 Sep 201710 ST13 8NZDetached£179,950
8 Apr 201611 ST13 8NZSemi-detached£159,950
4 Dec 201510 ST13 8NZDetached£130,000
24 Apr 201521 ST13 8NZDetached£170,000
11 Mar 20152 ST13 8NZDetached£140,000
9 Jul 20144 ST13 8NZDetached£155,000
25 Sep 20127 ST13 8NZSemi-detached£125,000
22 Feb 20084 ST13 8NZTerraced£167,000
30 Oct 20036 ST13 8NZSemi-detached£112,000
23 Apr 200316 ST13 8NZDetached£98,000
24 May 200216 ST13 8NZDetached£66,000
30 Nov 20017 ST13 8NZSemi-detached£71,000
12 Dec 200026 ST13 8NZDetached£132,000
18 Jul 19972 ST13 8NZTerraced£54,000
30 May 199712 ST13 8NZDetached£60,000
19 Apr 199626 ST13 8NZDetached£90,000
18 Aug 19951 ST13 8NZSemi-detached£50,000
4 Aug 199520 ST13 8NZSemi-detached£50,250
14 Feb 19954 ST13 8NZSemi-detached£60,000

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 August 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 64 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (7); House, semi-detached (5); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1967-1975 (9); 1950-1966 (2); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11).

Council tax

What each band costs in Staffordshire Moorlands in 2026-27: Band D £2,338 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,559£1,819£2,078£2,338£2,858£3,377£3,897£4,676

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (63% of about 630 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 21 September 2026 to 23 September 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 2 September 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Remedial works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 27 addresses are between 176 m and 187 m above sea level (183 m on average); the ground rises about 11 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
ST13 8NY100%100%100%0%
ST13 8NZ100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsCongleton 324,000 journeys in 2024–2511.9 km (7.4 miles)
Longport 79,000 journeys in 2024–2513.2 km (8.2 miles)
Kidsgrove 288,000 journeys in 2024–2513.6 km (8.4 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest School Close Westwood170 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Leek Town Centre1.5 km (1 mile)
Car parksMarket Place Car Park1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station670 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN32 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 surgeriesLeek Health Centre1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots1.5 km (0.9 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Edward Street Dental Surgery1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalLeek Moorlands Hospital2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationLeek Police Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machinesATM1.2 km (0.8 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha80 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Ladderedge 35 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 30 m²210 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Westwood Road Recreation Ground 1.9 ha650 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,210 m²310 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 37 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Brindley's Mill, a scheduled monument, 1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Brindley's MillScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Anglo-Scandinavian cross, 2m south of St Edward's ChurchScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Market CrossScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Longsdon WoodWood710 m (0.4 miles) south-west
West WoodWood860 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Cowhay WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Mill PondLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) west
The CommonHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-west
The DingleValley4.8 km (3 miles) south-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)7.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.64015

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
55 to 5940
Under 552327

4 of the street's 27 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 Staffordshire Moorlands: see them on the Staffordshire Moorlands page.

Nearest schools

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

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Woodcroft AcademyPrimary3–990 m No published inspection
St Edward's Church of England AcademyMiddle deemed secondary9–13500 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Westwood First SchoolPrimary5–9640 m (0.4 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Westwood CollegeSecondary13–18830 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary's Catholic Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
All Saints CofE First School Church of EnglandPrimary5–91.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

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

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
RICE AND SPICE ST13 8JFTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good11 Sep 2025
WALLBRIDGE STORES AND NEWSAGENT ST13 8JFRetailers - other230 m3 Generally satisfactory4 Feb 2025
Treehouse ST13 8JGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m5 Very good30 Jan 2024
Miquill Catering @ Woodcroft Academy ST13 8JGSchool/college/university260 m5 Very good9 Jun 2026
PRINCE OF WALES ST13 8JDPub/bar/nightclub280 m4 Good22 Sep 2026
Westwood Golf Club ST13 7AAPub/bar/nightclub450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Oct 2025
ASPENS SERVICES LTD @ ST EDWARDS Cof E ACADEMY LEEK ST13 8DNSchool/college/university500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Jan 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.

14 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences6
Anti-social behaviour4
Criminal damage and arson1
Public order1
Burglary1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Adams Grove (4); On or near Lorien Close (3); On or near Charnwood Close (3); On or near Gordon Close (2); On or near Wallbridge Drive (1).

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: 540 residents in 248 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 age5240
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over32%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright56%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)38%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)50%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)32%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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

Lorien Close · Hillside Drive · Howard Close · Adams Grove · School Close · Charnwood Close · Rownall View · Wetenhall Drive · The Sleeve · Elm Close · Thornhill Road · Wallbridge Close

All the streets in ST13 and across Staffordshire Moorlands.

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.