Larchmere Drive Essington, South Staffordshire

50 addresses across 1 postcode (WV11), about 480 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 36701169.

Sales: 45 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £361,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 20 homes have an energy certificate (C: 11, D: 9).
Flood: 4 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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 South Staffordshire costs £2,314 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Bloxwich North, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 100 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 172 to 176 m above sea level.
Noise: 3 of its 50 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Essington Medical Centre, about 820 m (0.5 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 97% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 15 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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2026	1	£361,000	£361,000	£361,000
2022	2	£399,000	£390,000	£408,000
2021	1	£360,000	£360,000	£360,000
2020	1	£310,000	£310,000	£310,000
2019	2	£326,000	£310,000	£342,000
2018	1	£280,000	£280,000	£280,000
2017	1	£290,000	£290,000	£290,000
2016	1	£280,000	£280,000	£280,000
2015	1	£235,000	£235,000	£235,000
2014	1	£355,000	£355,000	£355,000
2013	1	£218,000	£218,000	£218,000
2012	2	£242,750	£237,500	£248,000

Most recent sales (45)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
16 Feb 2026	25 WV11 2DG	Detached	£361,000	Leasehold.
28 Mar 2024	7 WV11 2DG	Other	£377,500	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Nov 2022	26 WV11 2DG	Detached	£408,000
20 May 2022	51 WV11 2DG	Detached	£390,000
22 Jan 2021	23 WV11 2DG	Detached	£360,000	Leasehold.
30 Nov 2020	39 WV11 2DG	Detached	£310,000
22 Feb 2019	4 WV11 2DG	Detached	£342,000
19 Feb 2019	26 WV11 2DG	Detached	£310,000
4 May 2018	23 WV11 2DG	Detached	£280,000	Leasehold.
16 Oct 2017	51 WV11 2DG	Detached	£290,000
30 Mar 2016	38 WV11 2DG	Detached	£280,000
31 Jul 2015	2 WV11 2DG	Detached	£235,000
30 Oct 2014	6 WV11 2DG	Detached	£355,000
11 Oct 2013	53 WV11 2DG	Detached	£218,000
2 Nov 2012	12 WV11 2DG	Detached	£248,000
13 Jul 2012	17 WV11 2DG	Detached	£237,500
26 May 2011	14 WV11 2DG	Detached	£196,000
20 May 2011	29 WV11 2DG	Detached	£249,500
16 Mar 2010	39 WV11 2DG	Detached	£217,500
19 Feb 2008	10 WV11 2DG	Detached	£195,000	Leasehold.
12 Oct 2007	41 WV11 2DG	Semi-detached	£178,000
26 Jul 2007	53 WV11 2DG	Detached	£224,000
15 Jun 2007	30 WV11 2DG	Detached	£320,000
16 Jan 2006	57 WV11 2DG	Detached	£238,500
20 May 2005	4 WV11 2DG	Detached	£231,500
31 Oct 2003	37 WV11 2DG	Semi-detached	£162,500
27 May 2002	26 WV11 2DG	Detached	£157,500
20 Jul 2001	16 WV11 2DG	Detached	£130,000
29 Jun 2001	34 WV11 2DG	Detached	£125,000
30 May 2001	2 WV11 2DG	Detached	£125,000
16 Mar 2001	8 WV11 2DG	Detached	£150,000
17 Aug 2000	29 WV11 2DG	Detached	£90,000
17 Dec 1999	51 WV11 2DG	Detached	£95,000	Leasehold.
26 Oct 1999	30 WV11 2DG	Detached	£117,000
30 Sep 1999	4 WV11 2DG	Detached	£118,000
27 Aug 1999	27 WV11 2DG	Detached	£85,000
23 Jul 1999	7 WV11 2DG	Detached	£94,000
29 Jan 1999	14 WV11 2DG	Detached	£89,500
16 Sep 1998	43 WV11 2DG	Detached	£78,000
21 Aug 1998	9 WV11 2DG	Detached	£79,950
27 Mar 1998	39 WV11 2DG	Detached	£89,950
5 Sep 1997	8 WV11 2DG	Detached	£101,000
11 Jul 1997	7 WV11 2DG	Detached	£91,000
28 Feb 1997	41 WV11 2DG	Semi-detached	£44,000
13 Oct 1995	12 WV11 2DG	Detached	£76,800

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 February 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

C11

20 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 110 m². Most common: House, detached (19); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1983-1990 (18); 1991-1995 (1); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (14 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in South Staffordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,314 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,542	£1,800	£2,057	£2,314	£2,828	£3,342	£3,856	£4,627

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (33% of about 860 homes).

A9%

B20%

C33%

D16%

E15%

F6%

G1%

H0%

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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)

Old Mitre, Bursnips Road, Essington, permissioned (560 m (0.3 miles))
Garage site behind 1-27 Simmons Road WV11 2NU, completed (670 m (0.4 miles))
Garage site to rear of 29 to 35 Wolmer Road Wolverhampton, completed (700 m (0.4 miles))
Garage Site Behind 104 Snape Road Wolverhampton: up to 2 homes, permissioned (920 m (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

20 October 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
7 October 2026: Nexfibre Networks Limited, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 6 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.

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 50 addresses are between 172 m and 176 m above sea level (175 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
WV11 2DG	100%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Bloxwich North 123,000 journeys in 2024–25	2.3 km (1.4 miles)
	Bloxwich 114,000 journeys in 2024–25	2.8 km (1.8 miles)
	Landywood 169,000 journeys in 2024–25	4 km (2.5 miles)
Bus stops	0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hill Street Essington	550 m (0.3 miles)
Bus or coach station	Walsall Bus Station	6.4 km (4 miles)
EV charging points	1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea	1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	Birmingham Airport BHX	28.1 km (17 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Essington Medical Centre	820 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies	3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hawthorne Chemists	820 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists	2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ashmore Park Clinic	1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Hospital	New Cross Hospital Royal Wolverhampton	4.1 km (2.6 miles)
Police station	West Midlands Police	3.2 km (2 miles)
Cash machines	2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Moto - Hilton Park North - Forecourt, Essington	550 m (0.3 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8.8 ha	100 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)	Unnamed 11 ha	560 m (0.3 miles)
Play area	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 440 m²	780 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.4 ha	580 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,990 m²	410 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 29 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Moat House moated site, a scheduled monument, 1.2 km (0.8 miles) west.

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Moat House moated site	Scheduled monument	1.2 km (0.8 miles) west

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Allen's Rough	Wood	1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Sandy Flatts	Wood	1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Spring Coppice	Wood	1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Brick Kiln Wood	Wood	1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Sneyd Reservoir	Lake or reservoir	1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Bushbury Hill	Hill	3.8 km (2.4 miles) 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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	12.0	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	7.6	20	5
Particles (PM10)	13.7	40	15

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
55 to 59	3	0
Under 55	47	50

3 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 South Staffordshire: see them on the South Staffordshire page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
St John's Primary Academy Church of England	Primary	3–11	870 m (0.5 miles)	Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Alban's Church of England Primary Academy	Primary	3–11	1.1 km (0.7 miles)	Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary Academy Roman Catholic	Primary	3–11	1.3 km (0.8 miles)	Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ashmore Park Nursery School	Nursery	2–5	1.4 km (0.9 miles)	No published inspection
Beacon Academy	Primary	2–11	1.5 km (0.9 miles)	Outstanding (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Coppice Performing Arts School	Secondary	11–18	1.6 km (1 mile)	Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oak Meadow Primary School	Primary	4–11	1.6 km (1 mile)	Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Abbey Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.8 km (1.1 miles)	No published inspection
New Invention Infant School	Primary	3–7	1.9 km (1.2 miles)	Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
New Invention Learning Academy	Primary	7–11	1.9 km (1.2 miles)	Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
Essington Rugby Club WV11 2DW	Pub/bar/nightclub	400 m (0.2 miles)	5 Very good	14 Oct 2026
The Casual Cafe WV11 2GB	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	460 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	15 Sep 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.

15 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	8
Vehicle crime	3
Anti-social behaviour	2
Drugs	1
Other theft	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Park/Open Space (5); On or near Rosewood Gardens (4); On or near Willow Grove (3); On or near Larchmere Drive (2); On or near Gorsemoor Way (1).

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: 339 residents in 125 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 street	England
Median age	47	40
Children under 15	18%	17%
Aged 65 and over	22%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	97%	61%
Owned outright	56%	33%
Shared ownership	0%	1%
Social rented	under 1%	17%
Private rented	2%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	64%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	2%	6%
Retired (of adults)	28%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	under 1%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	32%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	66%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	under 1%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	1%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	1%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	72%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	2%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	35%	34%
No qualifications	13%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	7%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	98%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	under 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: Nexfibre Networks Limited: Utility repair and maintenance works, 7 October 2026 to 9 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
Roadworks Street works permit: SEVERN TRENT WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 20 October 2026 to 22 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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.

WV11 2DG: 50 addresses of 57 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Gorsemoor Way · Brownshore Lane · Rosewood Gardens · Willow Grove · Oakwood Close · Holly View · Rowan Drive · Ferndale Road · High Hill · Kitchen Lane · Birchwood Close · Elmwood Avenue

All the streets in WV11 and across South Staffordshire.

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.