Silver Close Biddulph, Staffordshire Moorlands

18 addresses across 2 postcodes (ST8), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 37700714.

  • Sales: 18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £240,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 4, E: 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 A; 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 4.8 km (3 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 7.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 174 to 176 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 12 of its 18 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Biddulph Valley Surgery, about 70 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 230 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 245 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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£240,000£240,000£240,000
20221£80,000£80,000£80,000
20211£240,000£240,000£240,000
20191£157,950£157,950£157,950
20161£81,000£81,000£81,000
20142£85,000£54,999£115,000
20091£70,000£70,000£70,000
20071£124,000£124,000£124,000
20061£108,000£108,000£108,000
20051£90,500£90,500£90,500
20041£40,000£40,000£40,000
20011£32,250£32,250£32,250
Most recent sales (18)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Nov 20257 ST8 6JRDetached£240,000
21 Mar 202210 ST8 6JRFlat or maisonette£80,000Leasehold.
10 Dec 20212 ST8 6JRDetached£240,000
29 Oct 20212 ST8 6JRDetached£240,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Nov 20194 ST8 6JRTerraced£157,950
6 Jun 201615 ST8 6JRTerraced£81,000
28 Nov 201412 ST8 6JRSemi-detached£115,000
2 May 201410 ST8 6JRFlat or maisonette£54,999Leasehold.
13 Mar 200915 ST8 6JRSemi-detached£70,000
19 Nov 20074 ST8 6JRTerraced£124,000
19 May 200612 ST8 6JRSemi-detached£108,000
29 Apr 20056 ST8 6JRSemi-detached£90,500
23 Aug 20045 ST8 6JRSemi-detached£40,000
23 Feb 200115 ST8 6JRSemi-detached£32,250
4 Feb 200015 ST8 6JRSemi-detached£29,000
27 Oct 199912 ST8 6JRSemi-detached£47,000
19 Sep 199510 ST8 6JRSemi-detached£27,000Leasehold.
27 Jan 199517 ST8 6JRTerraced£28,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from January 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 48 m². Most common: Flat (3); Bungalow, detached (2); Bungalow, semi-detached (2). Built: 1976-1982 (7); 1967-1975 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (3).

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 A (49% of about 980 homes).

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)

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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 2 October 2026 to 6 October 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
ST8 6JRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
ST8 6JPnot 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 18 addresses are between 174 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)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
ST8 6JP100%100%100%0%
ST8 6JR100%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 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Kidsgrove 288,000 journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Alsager 115,000 journeys in 2024–258.4 km (5.2 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Meadows Way Biddulph110 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Congleton5.8 km (3.6 miles)
Car parksMow Cop Car Park2.5 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging pointsPoGo Charge5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN26.9 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.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Biddulph Valley Surgery70 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well70 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Horizons Dental Practice190 m
HospitalCongleton War Memorial Hospital5 km (3.1 miles)
Police stationStaffordshire Police - Biddulph Police Post210 m
Cash machinesMfg - Biddulph1.2 km (0.7 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 790 m²100 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 9.5 ha730 m (0.5 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Paddock Play Area 1,000 m²190 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha600 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 850 m²470 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Biddulph Grange, a registered park or garden (Grade I), 2.2 km (1.3 miles) north-east. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Biddulph GrangeRegistered park or garden, Grade I2.2 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The CoppiceWood1 km (0.6 miles) east
Robin HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Edge HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Plankhollow WoodWood2 km (1.2 miles) south
Tinker's CloughValley2.2 km (1.3 miles) south-east
The SerpentineLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.5 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)6.5205
Particles (PM10)9.94015

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
65 to 6920
60 to 6430
55 to 5970
Under 55618

12 of the street's 18 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 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
Kingsfield First SchoolPrimary3–9370 m No published inspection
Our Lady of Grace Catholic Academy Roman CatholicPrimary4–11660 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
James Bateman Middle SchoolMiddle deemed secondary9–13810 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Squirrel Hayes First SchoolPrimary3–9870 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Knypersley First SchoolPrimary3–9870 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Biddulph High SchoolSecondary13–181.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Oxhey First SchoolPrimary3–91.4 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woodhouse AcademyMiddle deemed secondary9–131.6 km (1 mile) Good (Feb 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
R-M-H Catering ST8 6HHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m4 Good14 May 2026
Fruitful Bakery ST8 6ASRetailers - other140 m5 Very good4 Jun 2026
OWENS FAMILY BUTCHERS LTD ST8 6ASRetailers - other140 m5 Very good11 Dec 2025
Tonis Treats @ The Kitchen Bakery ST8 6ASRetailers - other140 mAwaiting inspection
Cake by Millrise @ The Kitchen Bakery ST8 6ASManufacturers/packers140 mAwaiting inspection
CROWN AND CUSHION ST8 6ASPub/bar/nightclub140 m5 Very good3 Apr 2025
BRADLEY GREEN ST8 6ASPub/bar/nightclub150 m5 Very good9 Sep 2025
B & M Bargains ST8 6ASRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets150 m5 Very good8 Mar 2016
ONTAP ST8 6ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good16 Nov 2022
ROTI RESTAURANT ST8 6ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good5 Mar 2026
BIDDULPH CHINESE ST8 6ABTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Sep 2025
Mexitalia ST8 6AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Apr 2025
Biddulph Cafe ST8 6AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Apr 2025
FAMILY PIZZA ST8 6ARTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m5 Very good20 Mar 2025
J.Sainsburys PLC ST8 6AJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets210 m5 Very good26 Nov 2024

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.

245 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour87
Violence and sexual offences46
Shoplifting31
Criminal damage and arson26
Public order22
Other crime8
Other theft7
Possession of weapons6
Robbery4
Burglary3
Vehicle crime2
Drugs2
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Meadows Way (104); On or near Shopping Area (41); On or near John Street (24); On or near Lorena Close (18); On or near South View (16).

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: 228 residents in 131 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 age5340
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over31%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright46%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented22%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)34%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 van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications29%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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

Diamond Close · Lorena Close · Banbury Grove · High Street · Havelock Grove · South View · Hunters Close · Crabtree Avenue · King Street · Wharf Road · Stanley Street · Bellringer Close

All the streets in ST8 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.