Gorsty Way Congleton, Cheshire East

35 addresses across 2 postcodes (CW12), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 6401214.

37 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £500,000 across 1 sale. 34 homes have an energy certificate (B: 33, C: 1). 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Cheshire East costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Congleton, about 2.5 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden is about 1.0 km away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 107 to 112 m above sea level. 20 of its 35 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Meadowside Medical Centre, about 1.5 km away. About 750 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 74% of households owned their home and 46% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 44 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
20261£500,000£500,000£500,000
20251£159,000£159,000£159,000
20241£400,000£400,000£400,000
20233£418,903£380,000£427,452
20229£434,950£389,950£439,950
20213£389,950£389,950£499,950
Most recent sales (37)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Jan 20264 CW12 2PPDetached£500,000
27 Mar 202515 CW12 2PPTerraced£159,000Leasehold.
13 Dec 202414 CW12 2PPDetached£400,000
27 Oct 20234 CW12 2PPDetached£427,452New build.
27 Oct 20232 CW12 2PPDetached£418,903New build.
9 Oct 20231A CW12 2PPDetached£380,000
27 Jan 202334 CW12 2PPSemi-detached£203,584New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jan 202332 CW12 2PPSemi-detached£203,583New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jan 202325 CW12 2PPDetached£203,583New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jan 202327 CW12 2PPTerraced£203,583New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jan 202330 CW12 2PPSemi-detached£189,560New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jan 202336 CW12 2PPSemi-detached£189,560New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jan 202329 CW12 2PPSemi-detached£189,560New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Dec 202221 CW12 2PPSemi-detached£99,036New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Dec 202219 CW12 2PPSemi-detached£99,036New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Dec 202217 CW12 2PPSemi-detached£95,086New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Dec 202223 CW12 2PPSemi-detached£95,086New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Nov 202213 CW12 2PPSemi-detached£201,996New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Nov 202211 CW12 2PPSemi-detached£201,996New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Nov 202226 CW12 2PPTerraced£201,996New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Nov 202224 CW12 2PPTerraced£201,996New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Nov 202222 CW12 2PPSemi-detached£197,498New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Nov 202228 CW12 2PPSemi-detached£197,498New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Nov 202215 CW12 2PPSemi-detached£197,498New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Nov 20229 CW12 2PPSemi-detached£197,498New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Nov 202218 CW12 2PPDetached£434,950New build.
30 Sep 20226 CW12 2PPDetached£439,950New build.
15 Jul 202220 CW12 2PPDetached£439,950New build.
14 Apr 20221 CW12 2PPDetached£434,950New build.
14 Apr 20227 CW12 2PPDetached£434,950New build.
1 Apr 20225 CW12 2PPDetached£399,950New build.
31 Mar 202210 CW12 2PPDetached£424,950New build.
25 Mar 20223 CW12 2PPDetached£399,950New build.
4 Feb 20228 CW12 2PPDetached£389,950New build.
10 Dec 202112 CW12 2PPDetached£389,950New build.
29 Nov 202116 CW12 2PPDetached£499,950New build.
26 Nov 202114 CW12 2PPDetached£389,950New build.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from November 2021 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

34 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 71 m². Most common: House, detached (15); House, end-terrace (10); House, mid-terrace (9). Built: 2022 (20); 2023 (10); 2021 (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire East in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,909£2,182£2,455£3,000£3,546£4,091£4,910

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band E (25% of about 2,160 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.

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

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 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
CW12 2PPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CW12 2GTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 35 addresses are between 107 m and 112 m above sea level (109 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
CW12 2GT100%100%100%0%
CW12 2PP100%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 2024–252.5 km
Goostrey 40,000 journeys in 2024–259.3 km
Holmes Chapel 244,000 journeys in 2024–259.8 km
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m, 10 within 800 m; nearest Tidnock Avenue Lower Heath300 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Alighting Only Congleton1.6 km
Car parksRood Hill Car Park1.2 km
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km; nearest Source EV Charging Station100 m
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN19.6 km

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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Meadowside Medical Centre1.5 km
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Boots1.1 km
NHS dentistsWest Street (Dental Surgery)1.7 km
HospitalCongleton War Memorial Hospital2.3 km
Police stationCongleton Police Station1.7 km
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest Midcounties Co-op Sussex Place, Somerville Road600 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 gardenUnnamed 2,360 m²1.0 km
Play area7 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 260 m²160 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Lower Heath Community Space 6,300 m²440 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,790 m²1.9 km

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)6.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.34015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 59200
Under 551535

20 of the street's 35 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 31 October 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
Eaton Bank AcademySecondary11–18540 m No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Havannah Primary SchoolPrimary3–11940 m No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Buglawton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Saint Mary's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.4 km Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Daven Primary SchoolPrimary2–112.0 km Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 31 October 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Central Coop - Congleton CW12 2HTRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets110 m5 Very good26 Jun 2025
Esquires Coffee Co CW12 2HTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good13 Jul 2026
Eaton Bank Academy CW12 1NTSchool/college/university430 m5 Very good11 Mar 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.

44 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences13
Anti-social behaviour12
Other theft6
Drugs3
Burglary2
Criminal damage and arson2
Public order2
Vehicle crime1
Shoplifting1
Possession of weapons1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Peewit Close (10); On or near Moss Lane (10); On or near Manchester Road (6); On or near Whittaker Close (6); On or near Marton Close (5).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 748 residents in 298 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 age3340
Children under 1526%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)74%61%
Owned outright17%33%
Shared ownership8%1%
Social rented16%17%
Private rented2%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work79%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)29%65%
Work 30 km or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)46%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%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.

  • CW12 2PP: 34 addresses of 35 in the postcode
  • CW12 2GT: 1 address of 55 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Wheatfield Place · Fairmill Grove · Jasper Drive · Whitehurst Way · Manchester Road · Adler Road · Dobson Way · Gibbs Avenue · Homestead Drive · Barnfield Drive · Cartwright Close · Anderton Drive

All the streets in CW12 and across Cheshire East.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.