Needham Drive Cranage, Cheshire East

75 addresses across 2 postcodes (CW4), about 930 m (0.6 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 9101511.

  • Sales: 159 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £256,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 44 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, C: 20, D: 21, E: 2).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 G; Band D in Cheshire East costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Holmes Chapel, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 43 to 54 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 75 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Health Centre (Holmes Chapel), about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 710 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 85% of households owned their home and 47% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 2 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often criminal damage and arson.

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£256,000£256,000£256,000
20255£435,000£196,000£590,000
20243£540,000£475,000£555,000
20231£425,000£425,000£425,000
20221£540,000£540,000£540,000
20215£550,000£165,000£670,000
20203£400,000£337,000£475,000
20196£430,000£192,000£490,000
20171£181,000£181,000£181,000
20165£190,500£175,000£472,000
20151£343,000£343,000£343,000
20144£400,000£166,000£440,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 159)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Jul 202623 CW4 8FBSemi-detached£256,000
11 Dec 202567 CW4 8FBSemi-detached£196,000
26 Mar 202577 CW4 8FBDetached£435,000
26 Mar 202521 CW4 8FBTerraced£260,000
18 Feb 202527 CW4 8FBDetached£500,000
12 Feb 202541 CW4 8FBDetached£590,000
16 Dec 20247 CW4 8FBDetached£475,000
26 Jul 202442 CW4 8FBDetached£555,000
20 Mar 202412 CW4 8FBDetached£540,000
26 Jan 202412 CW4 8FBDetached£565,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Jun 202379 CW4 8FBDetached£425,000
16 Sep 20226 CW4 8FBDetached£540,000
16 Nov 202155 CW4 8FBSemi-detached£165,000
28 Sep 202143 CW4 8FBDetached£580,000
19 Jul 202140 CW4 8FBDetached£670,000
21 Jun 202148 CW4 8FBDetached£550,000
5 Mar 202135 CW4 8FBDetached£540,000
24 Aug 202047 CW4 8FBDetached£475,000
17 Jul 202073 CW4 8FBDetached£337,000
12 Feb 202032 CW4 8FBDetached£400,000
11 Nov 201912 CW4 8FBDetached£430,000
14 Aug 201921 CW4 8FBTerraced£194,000
18 Apr 201925 CW4 8FBSemi-detached£192,000
2 Apr 201941 CW4 8FBDetached£490,000
29 Mar 201985 CW4 8FBDetached£435,000
20 Feb 201953 CW4 8FBDetached£430,000
10 Aug 201723 CW4 8FBSemi-detached£181,000
13 Sep 201644 CW4 8FBDetached£472,000
26 Aug 201615 CW4 8FBSemi-detached£180,000
23 Jun 201661 CW4 8FBSemi-detached£175,000
28 Apr 201657 CW4 8FBSemi-detached£190,500
21 Apr 201627 CW4 8FBDetached£375,000
24 Sep 201569 CW4 8FBDetached£343,000
31 Oct 201455 CW4 8FBSemi-detached£166,000
9 Oct 201422 CW4 8FBDetached£365,000
13 Aug 201448 CW4 8FBDetached£440,000
31 Jan 201441 CW4 8FBDetached£435,000
25 Apr 201311 CW4 8FBSemi-detached£166,000
6 Feb 201326 CW4 8FBDetached£450,000
3 Jul 201221 CW4 8FBTerraced£163,000
8 Jun 201265 CW4 8FBTerraced£114,000
16 Aug 201163 CW4 8FBTerraced£134,750
2 Jun 20117 CW4 8FBDetached£352,000
30 Nov 20103 CW4 8FBDetached£399,000
16 Jul 201089 CW4 8FBDetached£460,000
20 May 201052 CW4 8FBDetached£447,500
14 Dec 200938 CW4 8FBDetached£420,000
17 Nov 200953 CW4 8FBDetached£370,000
24 Apr 200961 CW4 8FBSemi-detached£134,750
5 Sep 200814 CW4 8FBDetached£405,000

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

44 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 121 m². Most common: House, detached (33); House, semi-detached (8); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1996-2002 (38); 1991-1995 (4); 1983-1990 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (34); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (29 addresses)

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band G (37% of about 1,010 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.

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 5 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
CW4 8FBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 4 unlikely
CW4 8FXnot 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 75 addresses are between 43 m and 54 m above sea level (47 m on average); the ground rises about 11 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CW4 8FB100%100%100%0%
CW4 8FX100%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 stationsHolmes Chapel 244,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Goostrey 40,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2 miles)
Sandbach 295,000 journeys in 2024–256.8 km (4.2 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Needham Drive Cranage170 m
Car parksParkway Car Park1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN16.7 km (10 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Health Centre (Holmes Chapel)1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Holmes Chapel Pharmacy1.4 km (0.9 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Holmes Chapel Dental Practice1.4 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalWeaver Lodge Independent Hospital8.7 km (5.4 miles)
Police stationSandbach Police Station7.2 km (4.5 miles)
Cash machinesAsda Holmes Chapel - Middlewich Road PFS, Holmes Chapel Cashzone880 m (0.5 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 gardenUnnamed 240 m²1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 640 m²250 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.8 ha100 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.2 ha1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Swan Farmhouse, a listed building (Grade II*), 270 m north. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Swan FarmhouseListed building, Grade II*270 m north
Cotton HallListed building, Grade II*880 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Jodrell Bank ObservatoryWorld Heritage Site5.2 km (3.2 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cotton WoodWood650 m (0.4 miles) south
Sproston WoodWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Racecourse WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Newplatt WoodWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) north
Brereton PoolLake or reservoir3.1 km (1.9 miles) south-east
Pigeon House CloughValley3.7 km (2.3 miles) 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)7.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

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
70 to 7410
Under 557475

1 of the street's 75 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 Cheshire East: see them on the Cheshire East 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
Holmes Chapel Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Holmes Chapel Comprehensive SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hermitage Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
De Vere Cranage Estates CW4 8EWHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house380 m5 Very good8 Jan 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

2 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Criminal damage and arson1
Violence and sexual offences1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Armistead Way (1); On or near Needham Drive (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 708 residents in 280 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 age4840
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)85%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)56%32%
Travel to work by car or van41%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle1%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)35%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away19%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)47%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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.

  • CW4 8FB: 74 addresses of 76 in the postcode
  • CW4 8FX: 1 address of 15 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lawrence Close · Armistead Way

All the streets in CW4 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 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.