The Meadows Congleton, Cheshire East

1 address across 1 postcode (CW12), about 10 m long. USRN 6400407.

  • Sales: 11 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £140,000 across 1 sale.
  • Flood: 5 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 B; Band D in Cheshire East costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 83% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Congleton, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Community Garden, is about 170 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 82 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Meadowside Medical Centre, about 130 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 46% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 303 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
20221£140,000£140,000£140,000
20201£104,250£104,250£104,250
20171£107,000£107,000£107,000
20161£106,000£106,000£106,000
20151£87,000£87,000£87,000
20021£59,950£59,950£59,950
20002£85,500£46,000£125,000
19971£39,950£39,950£39,950
19961£110,000£110,000£110,000
19951£33,000£33,000£33,000
Most recent sales (11)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Nov 20224 CW12 1EASemi-detached£140,000
10 Jun 20204 CW12 1EASemi-detached£104,250
6 Oct 20174 CW12 1EASemi-detached£107,000
30 Sep 20164 CW12 1EASemi-detached£106,000
24 Jul 20154 CW12 1EASemi-detached£87,000
15 Mar 20024 CW12 1EASemi-detached£59,950
5 May 20004 CW12 1EASemi-detached£46,000
10 Mar 20006A CW12 1EASemi-detached£125,000
6 Oct 19974 CW12 1EASemi-detached£39,950
19 Dec 19966A CW12 1EASemi-detached£110,000
18 Dec 19956A CW12 1EASemi-detached£33,000

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire East in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,909£2,182£2,455£3,000£3,546£4,091£4,910

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (49% of about 1,110 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 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.

Height above sea level

The street's address is about 82 m above sea level.

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
CW12 1EA100%83%83%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 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Kidsgrove 288,000 journeys in 2024–258.9 km (5.6 miles)
Alsager 115,000 journeys in 2024–259.9 km (6.2 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 27 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Town Hall Congleton150 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Congleton120 m
Car parks8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fairground Car Park80 m
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Congleton Leisure Centre 1 GeniePoint50 m
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN21.1 km (13 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Meadowside Medical Centre130 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Superdrug Pharmacy210 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Moody Terrace Dental Practice330 m
HospitalCongleton War Memorial Hospital850 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationCongleton Police Station110 m
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Britannia Building Society190 m

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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Community Garden 1,860 m²170 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Congleton Park 4.2 ha280 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,330 m²110 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,790 m²410 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 4.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Town Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 150 m south. 85 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Town HallListed building, Grade II*150 m south
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade I280 m south
Congleton ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II410 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Gate Piers and Gates of Number 61Listed building, Grade II*620 m (0.4 miles) west
Overton HouseListed building, Grade II*620 m (0.4 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Congleton Park Park WoodWood370 m north
Park WoodWood410 m (0.3 miles) north
Westlow MereLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Astbury MereLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Dexter DaleValley2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Rainow HillHill3.4 km (2.1 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)8.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.24015

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
Under 5501

1 of the street's 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Daven Primary SchoolPrimary2–11500 m (0.3 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Saint Mary's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11520 m (0.3 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Marlfields Primary SchoolPrimary3–11640 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Buglawton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Eaton Bank AcademySecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Havannah Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Astbury St Mary's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Quinta Primary SchoolPrimary2–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (May 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
Taste for Life Congleton CW12 1DTOther catering premises80 m5 Very good7 Oct 2025
Olde Kings Arms CW12 1BNPub/bar/nightclub140 m5 Very good11 Oct 2024
Siennas CW12 1BNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good20 Dec 2024
The Prince of Wales CW12 1RPPub/bar/nightclub160 m4 Good18 Jul 2025
East 360 CW12 1RPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good14 Mar 2025
Turkish Delight CW12 1BLTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m5 Very good6 Mar 2025
The Crazy Moose CW12 1RPPub/bar/nightclub170 m5 Very good24 Oct 2025
Sizzlers CW12 1BLTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m1 Major improvement necessary4 Nov 2024
Tandoori 22 CW12 1RPTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m5 Very good18 Jun 2025
Congleton RUFC CW12 1EHPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good15 Apr 2024
Ye Olde White Lion CW12 1BDPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good11 Sep 2026
Barley Hops & Grape CW12 1BGOther catering premises180 mAwaiting inspection
The_Space CW12 1AXOther catering premises180 m5 Very good25 Oct 2024
Valleys Fast Food CW12 1BDTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m5 Very good31 Jan 2025
Hot Spot CW12 1BDOther catering premises190 m5 Very good14 Mar 2025

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.

303 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences119
Public order43
Anti-social behaviour35
Criminal damage and arson26
Shoplifting16
Other theft15
Drugs12
Burglary10
Other crime9
Possession of weapons8
Bicycle theft3
Vehicle crime3
Robbery2
Theft from the person2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (51); On or near Nightclub (43); On or near Parking Area (36); On or near Mountbatten Way (28); On or near The Meadows (19).

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: 313 residents in 194 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 age5040
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)46%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented16%17%
Private rented37%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)40%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%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

  • Food hygiene ratings The Black Bear (pub/bar/nightclub, CW12 1RS) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Hewitt hospitality (restaurant/cafe/canteen, CW12 1AB) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Invicta TCG ltd (retailers - other, CW12 1AY) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Dean's Bar (pub/bar/nightclub, CW12 1RS) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 30 October 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.

  • CW12 1EA: 1 address of 8 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Bark Street · The Meadows · Tanner Street · Worrall Street · Mountbatten Way · Market Square · Market Square · Stonehouse Green · Worrall Street · Lower Park Street · Bank Street · High Street

All the streets in CW12 and across Cheshire East.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.