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Waters Edge Handsacre, Lichfield

20 addresses across 2 postcodes (WS15), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 23401778.

  • Sales: 48 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £310,000 across 4 sales.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (C: 14, D: 4).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 Lichfield costs £2,352 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rugeley Town, about 5 km (3.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 330 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 70 to 72 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 20 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Brereton Surgery, about 4.1 km (2.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 650 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 52 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

Sales on this street

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

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20254£310,000£280,000£325,000
20241£280,000£280,000£280,000
20232£297,000£274,000£320,000
20211£240,000£240,000£240,000
20182£262,500£250,000£275,000
20162£212,000£211,000£213,000
20152£183,750£175,000£192,500
20142£209,500£204,000£215,000
20121£161,500£161,500£161,500
20102£200,500£196,000£205,000
20072£217,500£215,000£220,000
20061£241,500£241,500£241,500
Most recent sales (48)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Dec 202521 WS15 4HPTerraced£310,000
22 Aug 20252 WS15 4HPDetached£325,000
11 Mar 202523 WS15 4HPTerraced£280,000
7 Mar 202517 WS15 4HPTerraced£310,000
31 Jan 20243 WS15 4HPTerraced£280,000
2 Nov 202314 WS15 4HPDetached£320,000
20 Oct 202319 WS15 4HPTerraced£274,000
16 Feb 20212 WS15 4HPDetached£240,000
20 Nov 201810 WS15 4HPDetached£275,000
11 May 201811 WS15 4HPSemi-detached£250,000
14 Dec 201723 WS15 4HPTerraced£225,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Dec 20161 WS15 4HPTerraced£211,000
17 Jun 201619 WS15 4HPTerraced£213,000
18 Nov 201517 WS15 4HPTerraced£175,000
10 Jun 201514 WS15 4HPDetached£192,500
3 Nov 20145 WS15 4HPTerraced£215,000
16 Jun 20149 WS15 4HPTerraced£204,000
25 Jul 201225 WS15 4HPTerraced£161,500
12 Nov 20102 WS15 4HPDetached£205,000
26 Mar 20106 WS15 4HPSemi-detached£196,000
2 Nov 20072 WS15 4HPDetached£220,000
12 Oct 20077 WS15 4HPTerraced£215,000
13 Apr 200610 WS15 4HPDetached£241,500
7 May 20045 WS15 4HPTerraced£182,000
13 Feb 200415 WS15 4HPDetached£168,500
11 Apr 200312 WS15 4HPDetached£205,000
4 Dec 20024 WS15 4HPDetached£27,000
8 Nov 20027 WS15 4HPTerraced£165,000
1 May 20029 WS15 4HPTerraced£164,000
28 Feb 200115 WS15 4HPDetached£111,950New build.
23 Feb 200111 WS15 4HPSemi-detached£114,950New build.
31 Jan 20011 WS15 4HPTerraced£129,950New build.
19 Jan 20017 WS15 4HPTerraced£124,950New build.
12 Jan 20019 WS15 4HPTerraced£127,950New build.
15 Dec 20003 WS15 4HPTerraced£124,950New build.
15 Dec 20005 WS15 4HPTerraced£124,950New build.
30 Nov 20004 WS15 4HPDetached£134,950New build.
24 Aug 20002 WS15 4HPDetached£124,950New build.
18 Aug 20008 WS15 4HPSemi-detached£134,950New build.
18 Aug 20006 WS15 4HPSemi-detached£130,000New build.
11 Aug 200017 WS15 4HPTerraced£124,950New build.
4 Aug 200019 WS15 4HPDetached£114,950New build.
3 Aug 200010 WS15 4HPDetached£130,000New build.
31 Jul 200021 WS15 4HPTerraced£119,950New build.
26 Jul 200012 WS15 4HPDetached£137,500New build.
25 Jul 200023 WS15 4HPTerraced£124,950New build.
14 Jul 200014 WS15 4HPDetached£116,500New build.
7 Jul 200025 WS15 4HPTerraced£124,950New build.

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 March 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 126 m². Most common: House, detached (6); House, mid-terrace (6); House, semi-detached (4). Built: 1996-2002 (16); 1991-1995 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (17).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Lichfield in 2026-27: Band D £2,352 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,568£1,829£2,091£2,352£2,875£3,397£3,920£4,704

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (30% of about 1,620 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 4 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
WS15 4HPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
WS15 4DNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© 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 20 addresses are between 70 m and 72 m above sea level (71 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
WS15 4DN100%100%100%0%
WS15 4HP100%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 stationsRugeley Town 185,000 journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Rugeley Trent Valley 201,000 journeys in 2024–255.3 km (3.3 miles)
Lichfield City 777,000 journeys in 2024–257.5 km (4.6 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pinfold Drive Handsacre150 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Rugeley Town Centre5.2 km (3.2 miles)
EV charging pointsRoam Charging Station3 km (1.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX33.1 km (21 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 surgeriesBrereton Surgery4.1 km (2.5 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots930 m (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.4 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalSamuel Johnson Hospital7.2 km (4.4 miles)
Police stationRugeley Police Station5.3 km (3.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Handsacre Local300 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,060 m²330 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,880 m²100 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,910 m²50 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,790 m²340 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Moated site of Handsacre Hall., a scheduled monument, 560 m (0.3 miles) south-west. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Moated site of Handsacre Hall.Scheduled monument560 m (0.3 miles) south-west
High BridgeListed building, Grade II*600 m (0.4 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pingle CovertWood690 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Sitch CovertWood930 m (0.6 miles) north
Ketchithays PlantationWood1 km (0.6 miles) east
Church HillHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Hanch ReservoirLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Trent ValleyValley4.1 km (2.6 miles) north-west

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)6.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

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 6410
55 to 5910
Under 551720

3 of the street's 20 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 Lichfield: see them on the Lichfield 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
Hayes Meadow Primary SchoolPrimary3–11500 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
The Croft Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Henry Chadwick Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Apr 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
The Crown Inn WS15 4DTPub/bar/nightclub90 m4 Good23 Apr 2026
Michael's Fish Bar WS15 4DTTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m5 Very good23 Apr 2026
The Olde Peculiar WS15 4DPPub/bar/nightclub190 m5 Very good6 May 2026
Handsacre Methodist Church Hall WS15 4DDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good25 Nov 2024
Good View WS15 4EHTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m3 Generally satisfactory7 May 2025
Handsacre Local Ltd WS15 4EHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets330 m5 Very good5 Aug 2025
Aladdin's - Handsacre WS15 4EHTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m5 Very good19 Jan 2026
Hayes Meadow Primary School WS15 4EUSchool/college/university430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Oct 2026
Hayes Meadow Primary School Snack Provision WS15 4EUSchool/college/university500 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

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.

52 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour19
Violence and sexual offences14
Public order8
Criminal damage and arson4
Burglary3
Other crime2
Other theft1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Glebe Road (13); On or near Waters Edge (11); On or near The Green (10); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (6); On or near St Barbara'S Road (3).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 652 residents in 279 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 age4440
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van72%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)59%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)22%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 6 to 8 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.

  • WS15 4HP: 19 addresses of 22 in the postcode
  • WS15 4DN: 1 address of 34 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Glebe Road · Harvey Road · St Barbara's Road · The Green · Leaside Avenue · Linford Close · Rookery Close · Pinfold Drive · Poplars Road · Hall Road · The Orchards · The Croft Leys

All the streets in WS15 and across Lichfield.

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.