Horseshoe Drive Cannock

50 addresses across 1 postcode (WS12), about 330 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5501457.

  • Sales: 96 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £215,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Cannock Chase cost £231,333 in August 2026 (-1.3% on a year); private rents averaged £868 a month.
  • Energy: 42 homes have an energy certificate (C: 37, D: 5).
  • Flood: 9 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: Its postcode is in a coal mining high risk area; ask for a coal mining search.
  • Landfill: 4 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Landfill Site Off Arthur Street, is 290 m away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; 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 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 100 m away, and Hednesford Hills Common (121 hectares) is about 390 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 175 to 180 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 11 of its 50 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Rawnsley Surgery, about 810 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 32 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 2 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
20251£215,000£215,000£215,000
20243£208,000£205,000£220,000
20224£246,500£210,000£341,000
20212£240,750£154,000£327,500
20202£149,500£134,000£165,000
20191£200,000£200,000£200,000
20184£209,475£154,000£273,500
20172£195,000£140,000£250,000
20166£171,500£123,000£270,000
20155£190,000£149,950£220,000
20143£142,500£138,000£240,000
20132£174,100£165,000£183,200
All 96 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Mar 20081 WS12 0FRDetached£211,500
23 May 20031 WS12 0FRDetached£158,500New build.
15 Mar 20132 WS12 0FRDetached£183,200
2 May 20032 WS12 0FRDetached£159,500
27 Aug 20153 WS12 0FRDetached£195,000
28 Jan 20083 WS12 0FRDetached£196,000
23 May 20033 WS12 0FRDetached£170,000New build.
28 Sep 20154 WS12 0FRDetached£187,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Apr 20034 WS12 0FRDetached£158,000New build.
12 Oct 20155 WS12 0FRDetached£190,000
20 Jun 20035 WS12 0FRDetached£168,500New build.
28 Oct 20116 WS12 0FRDetached£206,000
22 Oct 20106 WS12 0FRDetached£203,000
6 Jun 20036 WS12 0FRDetached£167,500
4 Jul 20037 WS12 0FRDetached£161,000New build.
31 Mar 20038 WS12 0FRDetached£156,500New build.
8 Feb 20089 WS12 0FRDetached£190,000
27 Jun 20039 WS12 0FRDetached£150,500New build.
28 Oct 202210 WS12 0FRDetached£341,000
28 Mar 200310 WS12 0FRDetached£149,000New build.
27 Jun 200311 WS12 0FRTerraced£99,995New build.
9 Dec 201612 WS12 0FRTerraced£159,000
28 Feb 201412 WS12 0FRTerraced£138,000
1 Jul 200512 WS12 0FRTerraced£138,000
7 Mar 200312 WS12 0FRTerraced£98,000New build.
29 Sep 200613 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£125,000
11 Jul 200313 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£87,500
4 Jun 202114 WS12 0FRTerraced£154,000
1 Apr 200514 WS12 0FRTerraced£109,000
20 Dec 200214 WS12 0FRTerraced£85,995New build.
26 Oct 201815 WS12 0FRTerraced£154,000
25 Jul 200315 WS12 0FRTerraced£101,495New build.
16 Dec 201616 WS12 0FRTerraced£123,000
15 Dec 200616 WS12 0FRTerraced£120,000
20 Dec 200216 WS12 0FRTerraced£89,000New build.
24 Jul 200317 WS12 0FRDetached£152,500New build.
11 Feb 201618 WS12 0FRTerraced£143,500
20 Dec 200218 WS12 0FRTerraced£98,000New build.
22 Jun 201819 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£159,000
21 Nov 201419 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£142,500
15 Nov 201019 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£140,000
21 Apr 200619 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£137,500
4 Aug 200319 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£105,000
21 Feb 200320 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£98,000New build.
8 Aug 200321 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£103,500
31 May 202422 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£220,000
31 Jan 202022 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£165,000
6 Aug 201022 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£127,000
24 Feb 200522 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£128,500
19 Dec 200222 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£96,995New build.
6 Jul 201723 WS12 0FRDetached£250,000
24 Sep 200423 WS12 0FRDetached£179,995New build.
7 Nov 202225 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£223,000
20 Jun 200525 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£128,000
15 Oct 200425 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£125,995New build.
24 Sep 200427 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£123,995New build.
21 Nov 202529 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£215,000
17 Sep 200429 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£123,995New build.
31 Oct 200330 WS12 0FRTerraced£188,333New build.
26 Jan 202431 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£208,000
2 Apr 201531 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£149,950
17 Sep 200431 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£122,995
12 Jun 201433 WS12 0FRDetached£240,000
25 Jun 200433 WS12 0FRDetached£228,495New build.
7 Jun 202435 WS12 0FROther£325,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Jun 202135 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£327,500
22 Jun 200435 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£180,000
17 Jun 201637 WS12 0FRDetached£270,000
30 Sep 201137 WS12 0FRDetached£218,500
28 May 200437 WS12 0FRDetached£194,500New build.
4 Jun 200439 WS12 0FRDetached£194,000
21 Oct 202240 WS12 0FRDetached£270,000
29 Mar 201940 WS12 0FRDetached£200,000
1 Apr 201640 WS12 0FRDetached£184,000
20 Mar 201540 WS12 0FRDetached£165,000
26 Jan 200740 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£184,000
17 Oct 200340 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£136,500
8 Feb 201342 WS12 0FRDetached£165,000
18 Dec 200342 WS12 0FRDetached£159,995
11 May 201844 WS12 0FRDetached£259,950
14 Apr 201544 WS12 0FRDetached£220,000
25 Jun 200444 WS12 0FRDetached£196,500New build.
4 Oct 202446 WS12 0FRTerraced£205,000
16 Sep 202246 WS12 0FRTerraced£210,000
19 Dec 201746 WS12 0FRTerraced£140,000
25 Jun 200446 WS12 0FRTerraced£114,000New build.
1 May 202048 WS12 0FRTerraced£134,000
25 Jun 200448 WS12 0FRTerraced£102,000
4 Nov 201152 WS12 0FRTerraced£125,000
22 Jun 200452 WS12 0FRTerraced£115,775
9 Jun 200454 WS12 0FRDetached£192,000New build.
9 Feb 201856 WS12 0FRDetached£273,500
22 Sep 201656 WS12 0FRDetached£265,000
4 Jun 200456 WS12 0FRDetached£202,500
9 Sep 200958 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£170,000
17 Oct 200358 WS12 0FRSemi-detached£161,995

House prices and rents in Cannock Chase

A typical home in Cannock Chase cost £231,333 in August 2026, 1.3% less than a year before. That is 20% more than five years earlier and 58% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£348,921
Semi-detached£222,470
Terraced£183,922
Flat or maisonette£105,774
Bought by a first-time buyer£204,194

Private renters in Cannock Chase paid £868 a month on average in September 2026, 7.2% more than a year before. That is 33% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£589
Two bedrooms£782
Three bedrooms£966
Four or more bedrooms£1,347

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

42 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 72 m². Most common: House, detached (18); House, end-terrace (11); House, mid-terrace (10). Built: 2003-2006 (32); 1996-2002 (9); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (20); rented (private) (8); rented (social) (8).

Each home's certificates and sales (42 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 12,078 kWh of it on average in 2024, 9% more than the district's 11,042 kWh, and 3,187 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the 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 WS12.

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 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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (30% of about 710 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.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Poplars Anaerobic Digestion Facility (Waste AD) Cannock Chase CH.09/03/721 MW Anaerobic digestion 6 MW Operational Jul 2011 3 km (1.9 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 3 November 2026: STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 11 January 2027 to 22 January 2027: STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (major (paa) works)

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, 9 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre 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

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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

This postcode is in a coal mining high risk area, where coal mining features at or near the surface, such as shallow workings or old mine shafts, are recorded or likely and could affect the ground.

Ask your conveyancer for a coal mining search (CON29M) on the home: it says what is recorded beneath and near it, and whether there have been claims for subsidence damage.

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

The postcode is in a 1 km square 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

4 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 290 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Landfill Site Off Arthur Street Off Arthur Street, Wimblebury, Cannock, Staffordshire 1969 to 1970 Household 290 m
Landfill Site Off Biggott Street Off Biggott Street, Wimblebury, Cannock, Staffordshire 1930 to 1945 Not recorded 340 m
Wimblebury Road Landfill Site Wimblebury Road, Heath Hayes, Cannock, Staffordshire from 1946 Not recorded 390 m
Hednesford Brickworks Off Sharon Way And Hill Street, Hednesford, Cannock, Staffordshire 1967 to 1976 Industrial, household 480 m (0.3 miles)

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 50 addresses are between 175 m and 180 m above sea level (177 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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 0FR100%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 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cannock 329,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Landywood 169,000 journeys in 2024–255.9 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sycamore Road Wimblebury140 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Cannock Town Centre3.9 km (2.4 miles)
EV charging pointsPoGo Charge1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX31.7 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. 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rawnsley Surgery Good Nov 2018810 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rawnsley Pharmacy810 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hednesford Road (Dental Surgery)1.6 km (1 mile)
HospitalCannock Chase Hospital Good Feb 20203.8 km (2.3 miles)
Care homes5 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Windsor House Care Home Requires improvement Aug 2023460 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationCannock Police Station4 km (2.5 miles)
Cash machinesRontec - Hednesford Cashzone1.4 km (0.9 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,740 m²100 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Hednesford Hills Common 121 ha390 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 380 m²130 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,870 m²340 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.3 ha1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 167 hectares in all.

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cockpit HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Hazelslade PoolLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Hazelslade WoodWood1.5 km (1 mile) north-east
Sandy SladeWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Noddyfield ValleyValley2 km (1.2 miles) east
The LawnWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-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)8.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)11.34015

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, 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 6410
55 to 59100
Under 553950

11 of the street's 50 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), 5 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
St Peter's CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary3–11930 m (0.6 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 51% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 58% in 2024 and 71% in 2023)
Heath Hayes Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 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 61% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 62% in 2023)
Kingsmead SchoolSecondary11–181.2 km (0.8 miles) 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 GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 46.9 (48.5 in 2025 and 51.3 in 2024); 37.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 37.5% AAB or better; progress below average
Five Ways Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 52% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 55% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection None published
Hazel Slade Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 59% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 43% in 2023)
Gorsemoor Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) 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 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 55% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Hednesford Nursery SchoolNursery0–41.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

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

6 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 190 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Little Chimps Day Nursery WS12 0RN Full day care 42 Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 190 m
Little Potters Childcare Services WS12 1JD Full day care 32 Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 640 m (0.4 miles)
Progressive Sports @ Heath Hayes WS12 2EP Out-of-school day care 45 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
Jc Academy Cannock Club WS12 2EZ Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
St John's Nursery - Heath Hayes WS12 3DZ Sessional day care 36 Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Farlea Childcare (St. Josephs) WS12 1DE Sessional day care 32 Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 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 5 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
Hednesford Town Football & Social Club WS12 2GWPub/bar/nightclub130 m5 Very good18 Nov 2025
Little Chimps Day Nursery @ Wimblebury Community Centre WS12 2RJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good24 Jun 2025
Littleworth Victory Working Mens Club WS12 2HUPub/bar/nightclub230 m5 Very good28 Feb 2024
Bobby's WS12 2RJTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good22 Sep 2026
Lifestyle WS12 2RJRetailers - other260 m4 Good20 Jul 2026
Golden Valley WS12 2RJTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good14 Aug 2025
The Trafalgar WS12 1HZPub/bar/nightclub370 m5 Very good16 Oct 2025
Kreative Trading Ltd Also Vitammies & Colliva Ltd WS12 1NRRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)Exempt
Slimming World Franchise - Helen Coppage WS12 2RNRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Tudor House and Windsor House Nursing Homes WS12 1HYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Jul 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.

32 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences19
Public order4
Anti-social behaviour4
Other theft3
Criminal damage and arson1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Sycamore Road (14); On or near Horseshoe Drive (7); On or near Watersmead Close (4); On or near Kings Croft (2); On or near John Street (2).

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.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight. 1 involved a motorcyclist. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202120
202200
202300
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
10 Sep 2021 18:50 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
27 Apr 2021 14:29 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

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: 379 residents in 132 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 1525%17%
Aged 65 and over5%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright13%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work75%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)5%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van71%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle1%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)53%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)33%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%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 7 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway improvement works, 3 November 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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.

  • WS12 0FR: 50 addresses of 51 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Haymaker Way · Watersmead Close · Kings Croft · Arthur Street · Wimblebury Road · Horseshoe Drive · Hawthorne Road · John Street · Cannel Mount · Glover Street · Victory Close · Bryans Way

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; 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.