Hillside Drive Leek, Staffordshire Moorlands

28 addresses across 2 postcodes (ST13), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 37701357.

  • Sales: 34 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £336,875 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, B: 1, C: 3, D: 8, E: 1, 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 12.1 km (7.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 90 m away, and Ladderedge (35 hectares) is about 490 m (0.3 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 157 to 169 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 28 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Leek Health Centre, about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 530 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 31% 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
20252£336,875£303,750£370,000
20221£220,000£220,000£220,000
20212£288,000£286,000£290,000
20201£180,000£180,000£180,000
20183£184,500£159,950£235,000
20171£139,500£139,500£139,500
20161£155,500£155,500£155,500
20141£142,000£142,000£142,000
20132£178,750£147,500£210,000
20122£180,000£150,000£210,000
20101£140,000£140,000£140,000
20091£198,000£198,000£198,000
Most recent sales (34)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 May 202523 ST13 8JQDetached£370,000
31 Mar 202521 ST13 8JQDetached£303,750
6 May 20228 ST13 8JQDetached£220,000
22 Oct 20215 ST13 8JQDetached£290,000
1 Sep 20211 ST13 8JQSemi-detached£286,000
3 Jul 202024 ST13 8JQSemi-detached£180,000
30 Jun 202010 ST13 8JQDetached£150,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Nov 201814 ST13 8JQDetached£184,500
29 Oct 201821 ST13 8JQDetached£235,000
29 Oct 20184 ST13 8JQTerraced£159,950
27 Jan 201724 ST13 8JQSemi-detached£139,500
9 Dec 20168 ST13 8JQDetached£155,500
15 Dec 20148 ST13 8JQDetached£142,000
12 Jul 201325 ST13 8JQDetached£210,000
28 Jun 201314 ST13 8JQDetached£147,500
16 Nov 20121 ST13 8JQSemi-detached£210,000
15 Jun 201217 ST13 8JQDetached£150,000
12 Nov 201022 ST13 8JQSemi-detached£140,000
30 Oct 200919 ST13 8JQDetached£198,000
3 Sep 200414 ST13 8JQTerraced£155,000
26 Mar 20041 ST13 8JQSemi-detached£149,000
22 Aug 200314 ST13 8JQTerraced£135,000
20 Jun 20039 ST13 8JQDetached£160,000
25 Apr 20038 ST13 8JQDetached£116,000
28 Jun 200214 ST13 8JQTerraced£81,000
25 Mar 200210 ST13 8JQDetached£83,000
25 Mar 20024 ST13 8JQTerraced£79,950
26 Oct 20015 ST13 8JQDetached£107,000
20 Dec 200025 ST13 8JQDetached£68,500
7 Apr 20009 ST13 8JQDetached£76,000
5 Mar 19994 ST13 8JQTerraced£55,000
16 Jun 19978 ST13 8JQDetached£40,000
30 Jan 199727 ST13 8JQDetached£58,000
22 Mar 199624 ST13 8JQSemi-detached£53,000

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 November 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 81 m². Most common: House, detached (12); Bungalow, detached (2); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1967-1975 (13); 1976-1982 (1); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

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

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, 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
ST13 8JQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST13 8JDnot 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 28 addresses are between 157 m and 169 m above sea level (163 m on average); the ground rises about 12 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 8JD100%100%100%0%
ST13 8JQ100%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 2024–2512.1 km (7.5 miles)
Longport 79,000 journeys in 2024–2513.3 km (8.3 miles)
Longton 81,000 journeys in 2024–2513.6 km (8.5 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Thornhill Road Barnfields210 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Leek Town Centre1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Car parksMarket Place Car Park1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station590 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN32.1 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 Centre1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots1.4 km (0.9 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Edward Street Dental Surgery1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalLeek Moorlands Hospital2.2 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 ha90 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Ladderedge 35 ha490 m (0.3 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 30 m²170 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Westwood Road Recreation Ground 1.9 ha700 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,210 m²300 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, 1.4 km (0.8 miles) north. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Brindley's MillScheduled monument1.4 km (0.8 miles) north
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 WoodWood690 m (0.4 miles) south-west
West WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Cowhay WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Mill PondLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Lowe HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) east
Combes ValleyValley4.7 km (2.9 miles) south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)7.34010
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 5910
Under 552728

1 of the street's 28 addresses is 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 AcademyPrimary3–9240 m No published inspection
St Edward's Church of England AcademyMiddle deemed secondary9–13600 m (0.4 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 SchoolPrimary5–9730 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary's Catholic Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11940 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Westwood CollegeSecondary13–181 km (0.6 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
All Saints CofE First School Church of EnglandPrimary5–91.3 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
PRINCE OF WALES ST13 8JDPub/bar/nightclub130 m4 Good22 Sep 2026
RICE AND SPICE ST13 8JFTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m5 Very good11 Sep 2025
WALLBRIDGE STORES AND NEWSAGENT ST13 8JFRetailers - other190 m3 Generally satisfactory4 Feb 2025
Westwood Golf Club ST13 7AAPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good28 Oct 2025
Treehouse ST13 8JGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good30 Jan 2024
Miquill Catering @ Woodcroft Academy ST13 8JGSchool/college/university400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good9 Jun 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.

27 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences7
Burglary6
Anti-social behaviour5
Criminal damage and arson3
Public order2
Other theft2
Possession of weapons1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Thornhill Road (13); On or near Lorien Close (3); On or near Charnwood Close (3); On or near Gordon Close (2); On or near Swallow Croft (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: 534 residents in 240 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 age5440
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over36%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright65%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)43%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)49%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%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

Charnwood Close · Fernwood Drive · Gordon Close · Lorien Close · Wallbridge Close · Fernwood Croft · Swallow Croft · Howard Close · Thornhill Road · The Sleeve · Hawksworth Close · Rownall View

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.