St Thomas Drive Rawnsley, Cannock Chase

37 addresses across 1 postcode (WS12), about 280 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5500165.

  • Sales: 49 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £377,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 12).
  • 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 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Hednesford Hills Common, is about 300 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 195 to 199 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 37 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Rawnsley Surgery, about 140 m away.
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 78% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 47 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£377,000£377,000£377,000
20221£275,000£275,000£275,000
20191£275,000£275,000£275,000
20181£245,000£245,000£245,000
20161£200,000£200,000£200,000
20152£193,500£177,000£210,000
20141£191,000£191,000£191,000
20131£190,000£190,000£190,000
20123£183,000£177,500£200,000
20111£195,000£195,000£195,000
20102£194,500£194,000£195,000
20091£174,950£174,950£174,950
Most recent sales (49)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Jan 20244 WS12 0FGDetached£377,000
24 May 20229 WS12 0FGDetached£275,000
24 May 201924 WS12 0FGDetached£275,000Leasehold.
16 Jul 201837 WS12 0FGDetached£245,000
10 Mar 201610 WS12 0FGDetached£200,000Leasehold.
23 Oct 20157 WS12 0FGDetached£210,000
15 Apr 201524 WS12 0FGDetached£177,000Leasehold.
15 Oct 201422 WS12 0FGDetached£191,000
12 Jun 201337 WS12 0FGDetached£190,000
7 Aug 201226 WS12 0FGDetached£183,000Leasehold.
22 Jun 20122 WS12 0FGDetached£200,000
6 Jan 201213 WS12 0FGDetached£177,500
28 Jan 201131 WS12 0FGDetached£195,000
17 Dec 20104 WS12 0FGDetached£195,000
29 Sep 201021 WS12 0FGDetached£194,000
27 Nov 200913 WS12 0FGDetached£174,950
20 Jun 200830 WS12 0FGDetached£212,000
30 Nov 200728 WS12 0FGDetached£193,000
3 Sep 20076 WS12 0FGDetached£196,500Leasehold.
16 Feb 200731 WS12 0FGDetached£213,000
14 Oct 200521 WS12 0FGDetached£176,000
8 Sep 20046 WS12 0FGDetached£165,000Leasehold.
26 Aug 20045 WS12 0FGDetached£173,000
23 Jan 200430 WS12 0FGDetached£169,000
4 Dec 20039 WS12 0FGDetached£136,500
10 Jul 20034 WS12 0FGDetached£195,000
14 Mar 200322 WS12 0FGDetached£149,950
7 Feb 20036 WS12 0FGDetached£120,000Leasehold.
21 Nov 200227 WS12 0FGDetached£149,950
1 Feb 200216 WS12 0FGDetached£113,500
25 Jan 200219 WS12 0FGDetached£105,000
15 Jun 200126 WS12 0FGDetached£103,000Leasehold.
24 May 200117 WS12 0FGDetached£99,950
28 Apr 200030 WS12 0FGDetached£85,850
22 Oct 199913 WS12 0FGDetached£87,500
13 Aug 199918 WS12 0FGDetached£93,950Leasehold.
30 Jul 199937 WS12 0FGDetached£85,950
6 Nov 199829 WS12 0FGDetached£87,500Leasehold.
30 Sep 199817 WS12 0FGDetached£78,500
17 Apr 199811 WS12 0FGDetached£69,000Leasehold.
19 Mar 19989 WS12 0FGDetached£66,500
28 Nov 199726 WS12 0FGDetached£74,000Leasehold.
19 Aug 199710 WS12 0FGDetached£73,500Leasehold.
1 Aug 19975 WS12 0FGDetached£74,950
23 May 199721 WS12 0FGDetached£73,000
16 May 199725 WS12 0FGDetached£69,995Leasehold.
28 Feb 199721 WS12 0FGDetached£72,950
31 Jan 199711 WS12 0FGDetached£59,950Leasehold.
25 Aug 199537 WS12 0FGDetached£71,750

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 April 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 106 m². Most common: House, detached (16). Built: 1983-1990 (11); 1991-1995 (4); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

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 (32% of about 660 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

  • 14 October 2026: SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 17 September 2026 to 30 September 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (standard 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 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 37 addresses are between 195 m and 199 m above sea level (197 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 0FG100%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 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cannock 329,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.7 miles)
Rugeley Town 185,000 journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Nursery Rawnsley160 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Cannock Town Centre4.7 km (2.9 miles)
EV charging pointsPoGo Charge2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX32 km (20 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. 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 Rawnsley Surgery140 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rawnsley Pharmacy140 m
NHS dentistsDentaire2.1 km (1.3 miles)
HospitalCannock Chase Hospital4.6 km (2.8 miles)
Police stationCannock Police Station4.9 km (3 miles)
Cash machinesRontec - Hednesford Cashzone2.1 km (1.3 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hednesford Hills Common 121 ha300 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 80 m²50 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.8 ha280 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.3 ha2.2 km (1.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 123 hectares in all.

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hazelslade PoolLake or reservoir480 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Hazelslade WoodWood660 m (0.4 miles) north-east
The LawnWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Cockpit HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Sandy SladeWood1.5 km (1 mile) north-west
Noddyfield ValleyValley1.7 km (1 mile) 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)7.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)10.64015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
55 to 5940
Under 553237

5 of the street's 37 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), 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Hazel Slade Primary AcademyPrimary3–11630 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Peter's CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Heath Hayes Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 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 SchoolSecondary11–182 km (1.2 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

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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Happy's WS12 1JDRetailers - other170 m4 Good16 Feb 2026
The Redforte Tandoori Takeaway WS12 1JDTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m5 Very good19 May 2025
Little Potters Day Nursery WS12 1JDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m5 Very good20 Jul 2026
The Grange Residential Home WS12 0PWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m5 Very good20 Jul 2026
Little Linda's Childcare WS12 0JHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 mExempt
Hazel Slade Primary Academy WS12 0PNSchool/college/university420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 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.

47 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences18
Public order8
Anti-social behaviour6
Other theft4
Criminal damage and arson4
Vehicle crime3
Possession of weapons2
Other crime1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near St Michaels Drive (9); On or near Warren Close (8); On or near Beaudesert View (6); On or near St George Drive (5); On or near Glovers Close (4).

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: 357 residents in 132 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4940
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)78%61%
Owned outright39%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented14%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van70%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle1%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)56%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 14 October 2026 to 20 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.

  • WS12 0FG: 37 addresses of 40 in the postcode

Nearby streets

St Christopher Close · St Francis Close · St Andrew Close · St George Drive · Eastgate · St Matthew Close · St Michaels Drive · St Patrick Close · St David Close · Goodwood Close · Glovers Close · Warren 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.