Taplin Close Stafford

26 addresses across 2 postcodes (ST16), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 37600474.

  • Sales: 36 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £201,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 10, E: 1).
  • Flood: 2 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 A; Band D in Stafford costs £2,303 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Stafford, about 2.5 km (1.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Stafford Common, is about 350 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 84 to 85 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 26 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Holmcroft, about 520 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 54% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 35 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
20231£201,000£201,000£201,000
20211£215,000£215,000£215,000
20201£166,000£166,000£166,000
20191£170,000£170,000£170,000
20182£159,000£152,000£166,000
20161£160,000£160,000£160,000
20153£157,000£145,000£188,000
20113£155,000£142,000£165,900
20101£142,000£142,000£142,000
20091£145,500£145,500£145,500
20071£132,000£132,000£132,000
20061£137,000£137,000£137,000
Most recent sales (36)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Sep 20234 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£201,000
3 Aug 202119 ST16 1NWDetached£215,000Leasehold.
28 Feb 202013 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£166,000
6 Sep 201912 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£170,000
26 Apr 201810 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£152,000
12 Jan 20185 ST16 1NWTerraced£166,000
30 Mar 20164 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£160,000
18 Dec 20151 ST16 1NWDetached£188,000
25 Sep 20156 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£157,000
12 Jun 201516 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£145,000
11 Aug 201114 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£155,000
18 Apr 201121 ST16 1NWDetached£165,900
7 Apr 201111 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£142,000
13 Dec 20108 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£142,000
4 Sep 20095 ST16 1NWTerraced£145,500
7 Sep 20075 ST16 1NWTerraced£132,000
1 Jun 20068 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£137,000
21 Oct 200510 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£119,950
5 Apr 200419 ST16 1NWDetached£38,750Leasehold.
2 Mar 20046 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£118,500
28 Nov 20037 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£109,000
8 Mar 20028 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£63,000
10 Oct 200116 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£68,000
28 Sep 200110 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£57,500
12 Apr 20014 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£69,000
26 May 200013 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£64,950
28 Jan 200011 ST16 1NWTerraced£58,000
15 Dec 19996 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£60,000
30 Apr 19996 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£57,500
16 Apr 19995 ST16 1NWTerraced£57,000
26 Feb 199914 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£31,960
23 Jul 199816 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£52,000
20 Jun 199720 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£48,000
6 Dec 19967 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£49,000
11 Dec 199511 ST16 1NWTerraced£48,000
28 Feb 199513 ST16 1NWSemi-detached£45,000

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

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 81 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (14); House, detached (3). Built: 1950-1966 (11); 1967-1975 (5); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Stafford in 2026-27: Band D £2,303 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,535£1,791£2,047£2,303£2,814£3,326£3,838£4,605

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (82% of about 670 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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, 1 at medium risk and 8 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
ST16 1NWnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 4 unlikely
ST16 1NLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 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 26 addresses are between 84 m and 85 m above sea level (85 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
ST16 1NL100%100%100%0%
ST16 1NW100%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 stationsStafford 2.5 million journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.6 miles)
Stone (Staffs) 246,000 journeys in 2024–259.3 km (5.8 miles)
Penkridge 293,000 journeys in 2024–2511.4 km (7.1 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Gordon Avenue Holmcroft120 m
Bus or coach stationNorton Bridge Station Drive6.3 km (3.9 miles)
Car parksGuildhall Car Park2.2 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ionity Charging Station830 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX48.7 km (30 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 Holmcroft520 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cornwell's Chemists520 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pure Dental Solutions850 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalSt George's Hospital2 km (1.3 miles)
Police stationStafford Police Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Central England Co-Op - Stone Road Cashzone440 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stafford Common 53 ha350 m
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 100 m²140 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.5 ha540 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,630 m²930 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 53 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Battle of Hopton Heath 1643, a registered battlefield, 4.1 km (2.6 miles) east.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Battle of Hopton Heath 1643Registered battlefield4.1 km (2.6 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Round SpinneyWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Boundary FlashLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Tillington PoolLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.8 miles) south
Sleeper SpinneyWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Kingsmead MarshWetland2.3 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Church HillHill2.8 km (1.8 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)7.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

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
55 to 5920
Under 552426

2 of the street's 26 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 Stafford: see them on the Stafford 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
Sir Graham Balfour High SchoolSecondary11–18290 m No published inspection
Parkside Primary SchoolPrimary2–11390 m Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Tillington Manor Primary SchoolPrimary3–11520 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Apr 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
Beaconfields Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
John Wheeldon Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Doxey AcademyPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Requires improvement (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Community Cafe ST16 1NLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises130 m5 Very good22 Apr 2026
Community Larder ST16 1NLOther catering premises130 m5 Very good22 Jan 2025
MG Store ST16 1LDOther catering premises150 m5 Very good25 Jun 2026
Crispin Court Care Home ST16 1LDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises160 m5 Very good11 Nov 2025
Rocklee Residential Home Ltd ST16 1LBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good20 Feb 2026
Sir Graham Balfour High School ST16 1NRSchool/college/university300 m5 Very good13 Apr 2026
Emmie's Buttercream Beauties ST16 1NTRetailers - other390 m5 Very good31 Oct 2024
Co-operative ST16 1LARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Mar 2025
Parkside Stores & Post Office ST16 1TQRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Nov 2024
Mandarin House ST16 1TQTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory23 Jul 2025
Parkside Bakery Limited ST16 1TQRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good13 Apr 2026
Mariners Fish & Chips ST16 1NTTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Feb 2026
24 Pizza Grill ST16 1TQTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)4 Good5 May 2026
Central England Co-operative ST16 1QERetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Mar 2026
Pepe's Piri Piri Stafford ST16 1NTTakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Oct 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.

35 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences19
Burglary4
Anti-social behaviour3
Criminal damage and arson3
Other theft2
Other crime2
Bicycle theft1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Stone Road (7); On or near Old School Drive (7); On or near Dairy Crest (6); On or near Broughton Close (4); On or near Woodlands 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: 335 residents in 151 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 age4540
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)54%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented37%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)10%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%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)28%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%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 3 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.

  • ST16 1NW: 25 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • ST16 1NL: 1 address of 40 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Newland Avenue · Old School Drive · Fernwood · Dairy Crest · Gordon Avenue · Woodlands Close · Broughton Close · Balfour Grove · Coppice Way · North Avenue · Crispin Close · Fairoak Avenue

All the streets in ST16 and across Stafford.

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.