Squirrel Close Cannock

18 addresses across 1 postcode (WS12), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5500431.

  • Sales: 20 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £245,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 7, E: 2).
  • 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 B; 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 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 50 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 167 to 168 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 7 of its 18 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Heath Hayes Health Centre, about 370 m away.
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 19 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20241£245,000£245,000£245,000
20212£262,500£220,000£305,000
20201£140,000£140,000£140,000
20192£215,000£190,000£240,000
20171£165,000£165,000£165,000
20121£115,000£115,000£115,000
20091£121,500£121,500£121,500
20062£132,825£125,000£140,650
20052£130,875£123,750£138,000
20031£96,500£96,500£96,500
20022£87,725£85,500£89,950
19991£59,500£59,500£59,500
Most recent sales (20)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Jan 20243 WS12 3XESemi-detached£245,000
26 Aug 202115 WS12 3XEDetached£305,000
12 Mar 20211 WS12 3XEDetached£220,000
6 Mar 20208 WS12 3XESemi-detached£140,000
27 Sep 201912 WS12 3XESemi-detached£190,000
2 Aug 201915 WS12 3XEDetached£240,000
28 Apr 20175 WS12 3XESemi-detached£165,000
27 Jul 20123 WS12 3XESemi-detached£115,000
15 Apr 20097 WS12 3XESemi-detached£121,500
13 Dec 200615 WS12 3XEDetached£140,650
21 Apr 200610 WS12 3XESemi-detached£125,000
25 Nov 20055 WS12 3XESemi-detached£138,000
22 Jul 20053 WS12 3XESemi-detached£123,750
2 May 20036 WS12 3XESemi-detached£96,500
2 Aug 200212 WS12 3XESemi-detached£89,950
14 Jun 20027 WS12 3XESemi-detached£85,500
17 Dec 19995 WS12 3XESemi-detached£59,500
20 May 19987 WS12 3XESemi-detached£54,000
14 Mar 199712 WS12 3XESemi-detached£49,000
3 May 199610 WS12 3XESemi-detached£47,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from June 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 68 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (7); House, detached (4). Built: 1976-1982 (9); 1967-1975 (1); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (1).

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 B (42% of about 670 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 19 August 2026: STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard 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 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre 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 18 addresses are between 167 m and 168 m above sea level (168 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
WS12 3XE100%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 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cannock 329,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Landywood 169,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.7 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 40 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sidon Hill Way Hawks Green70 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Cannock Town Centre2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Car parksBeecroft Road Car Park2.4 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station870 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX31.3 km (19 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 Heath Hayes Health Centre370 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy400 m (0.2 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hednesford Road (Dental Surgery)1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalCannock Chase Hospital2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Police stationCannock Police Station2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM410 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.

NearestDistance
Park or garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,190 m²50 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 37 ha80 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 700 m²250 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.5 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.3 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 43 hectares in all.

Landmarks

4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cockpit HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Calving HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) west
Biddulph's PoolLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 miles) east
Pyegreen ValleyValley2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-west
Sandy SladeWood2.9 km (1.8 miles) north
Hazelslade PoolLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 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)9.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

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 6910
60 to 6420
55 to 5940
Under 551118

7 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 Cannock Chase: see them on the Cannock Chase 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
Gorsemoor Primary SchoolPrimary3–11300 m 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
Five Ways Primary SchoolPrimary3–11390 m No published inspection
Heath Hayes Primary AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 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
Kingsmead SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 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
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Peter's CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chadsmoor CofE (VC) Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Hednesford Nursery SchoolNursery0–41.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chadsmoor Community Infants and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Poppyfield Primary AcademyPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Feb 2024, 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
Pumpkin Patch Coffee Shop & Bistro WS12 3XPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good19 Mar 2026
Community Life Church WS12 2DPOther catering premises320 m5 Very good4 Nov 2025
Abbey Court Care Home WS11 7ADHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m5 Very good8 Apr 2026
Gorsemoor Primary School WS12 3TGSchool/college/university370 m5 Very good2 Jun 2026
Farlea Childcare (Gorsemoor) WS12 3TGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good12 Nov 2025
Tesco WS12 3YYRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good7 Oct 2025
Panshi Restaurant WS12 3XPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good19 Jan 2026
Heath Hayes Early Learners WS12 3XPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Dec 2025
Winding Wheel WS12 3XPPub/bar/nightclub450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Oct 2024
Jolly Fryer Paul & Brads WS12 3XPTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)4 Good18 Jun 2026
Hayes Green Community Centre WS12 3XPOther catering premises450 m (0.3 miles)Exempt

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.

19 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences13
Other theft2
Robbery1
Public order1
Criminal damage and arson1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Elder Close (4); On or near Heathland Close (4); On or near Charterfield Drive (3); On or near Redbrook Close (3); On or near Lloyd George Grove (2).

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: 330 residents in 133 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 age3940
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright39%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work70%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van80%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%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)29%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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.

  • WS12 3XE: 18 addresses of 19 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Charterfield Drive · Foxhill Close · Woodford Way · Rembrandt Close · Badgers Way · Hayes Way · Lawnswood Close · Lloyd George Grove · Sidon Hill Way · Wheatlands Close · Harebell Close · Fairfield Close

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.
  • 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.