Western Road Cannock

20 addresses across 1 postcode (WS12), about 170 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5500408.

  • Sales: 30 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £350,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 8, E: 1).
  • 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 C; 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 270 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 110 m away, and Hednesford Hills Common (121 hectares) is about 690 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 176 to 180 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hednesford Medical Practice, about 250 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 89% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 60 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
20251£350,000£350,000£350,000
20241£392,500£392,500£392,500
20231£330,000£330,000£330,000
20211£253,500£253,500£253,500
20191£174,000£174,000£174,000
20182£208,225£164,950£251,500
20161£230,000£230,000£230,000
20131£182,000£182,000£182,000
20112£153,500£150,000£157,000
20101£163,000£163,000£163,000
20072£164,975£154,950£175,000
20042£129,750£98,000£161,500
Most recent sales (30)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Dec 20257 WS12 4ASSemi-detached£350,000
17 May 202412 WS12 4ASDetached£392,500
14 Aug 202321 WS12 4ASDetached£330,000
28 May 20217 WS12 4ASSemi-detached£253,500
6 Dec 20195 WS12 4ASSemi-detached£174,000
7 Dec 20183 WS12 4ASSemi-detached£164,950
22 Jun 201819 WS12 4ASDetached£251,500
24 Mar 201621 WS12 4ASDetached£230,000
2 Sep 201315 WS12 4ASDetached£182,000
9 Dec 201111 WS12 4ASDetached£150,000
31 Oct 201111 WS12 4ASDetached£157,000
29 Nov 20109 WS12 4ASDetached£163,000
6 Aug 200715 WS12 4ASDetached£175,000
22 Jun 200717 WS12 4ASDetached£154,950
21 Jun 20043 WS12 4ASSemi-detached£98,000
28 Apr 20049 WS12 4ASDetached£161,500
26 Sep 200319 WS12 4ASDetached£163,000
31 Jan 200315 WS12 4ASDetached£139,000
13 Sep 20025 WS12 4ASSemi-detached£79,950
5 Aug 200211 WS12 4ASDetached£107,500
26 Jul 200214 WS12 4ASSemi-detached£140,000
24 Sep 199917 WS12 4ASDetached£69,500
16 Mar 199819 WS12 4ASDetached£92,995New build.
7 Nov 199721 WS12 4ASDetached£79,995New build.
29 Oct 199712 WS12 4ASDetached£96,500
17 Oct 199715 WS12 4ASDetached£76,500New build.
30 Sep 199717 WS12 4ASDetached£67,500New build.
24 Sep 199711 WS12 4ASDetached£69,995New build.
7 Jul 19979 WS12 4ASDetached£74,250New build.
27 Jun 199713 WS12 4ASDetached£77,500New 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 October 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 100 m². Most common: House, detached (7); House, semi-detached (3); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1996-2002 (4); 1900-1929 (4); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 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 C (32% of about 880 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 20 addresses are between 176 m and 180 m above sea level (178 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 4AS100%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 2024–25270 m
Cannock 329,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Landywood 169,000 journeys in 2024–256.2 km (3.8 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 35 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest High Mount Street West Hill100 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Cannock Town Centre2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Car parksBeecroft Road Car Park2.7 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge400 m (0.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX33.5 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hednesford Medical Practice250 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Valley Pharmacy250 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery340 m
HospitalCannock Chase Hospital2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Police stationCannock Police Station3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Cash machinesRontec - Hednesford Cashzone1 km (0.6 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 28 ha110 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Hednesford Hills Common 121 ha690 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 430 m²510 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldThe Stadium 9.4 ha940 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 6,220 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 165 hectares in all.

Landmarks

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

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pyegreen ValleyValley590 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Cockpit HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Sandy SladeWood1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Lower Brindley PoolLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Huntington BeltWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Cavan's WoodWood2 km (1.2 miles) 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)7.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)10.84015

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
Under 552020

None of the street's 20 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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
West Hill Primary SchoolPrimary2–11170 m Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Poppyfield Primary AcademyPrimary4–11320 m Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hednesford Nursery SchoolNursery0–4470 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chadsmoor Community Infants and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7750 m (0.5 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Staffordshire University AcademySecondary11–19790 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Pye Green AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Kingsmead SchoolSecondary11–181.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Peter's CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chadsmoor CofE (VC) Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Redhill Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Moorhill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2021, 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
Little Chimps Day Nursery WS12 4AEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 m5 Very good8 Jan 2026
Alax's Convenience Store WS12 4DHRetailers - other240 m5 Very good26 Apr 2024
West Hill Primary School WS12 4BHSchool/college/university250 m2 Improvement necessary22 Jan 2026
Chase Service Station WS12 4AARetailers - other250 m5 Very good6 Feb 2026
Burger Boi WS12 1BTTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m5 Very good3 Feb 2026
B & M WS12 1DWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets370 m5 Very good14 Jan 2025
Yo! To Go @ Tesco WS12 1DWRetailers - other370 m5 Very good26 Nov 2024
Station Cafe WS12 1ADRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m3 Generally satisfactory15 Sep 2026
Subway WS12 1ADTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m5 Very good22 Jul 2025
Poundstretcher WS12 1ASRetailers - other370 m5 Very good15 Dec 2025
Hedgeford Lodge WS12 1ABPub/bar/nightclub370 m5 Very good7 Apr 2026
Puddleducks Day Nursery WS12 1ABHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good22 Sep 2026
The Salvation Army WS12 1ABOther catering premises410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good19 Mar 2026
Tesco WS12 1DNRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Oct 2025
Costa Coffee WS12 1DNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Jan 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.

60 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences29
Criminal damage and arson9
Anti-social behaviour8
Drugs4
Bicycle theft3
Public order3
Other crime2
Other theft1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Oakwood Drive (28); On or near West Hill Avenue (9); On or near Meadowbrook Close (8); On or near Mcghie Street (6); On or near Chandler Close (3).

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: 341 residents in 141 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 over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)89%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work73%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)45%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)31%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%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 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.

Nearby streets

West Hill Avenue · Barley Close · Bakers Way · Chandler Close · Booth Street · Granary Close · Meadowbrook Close · Stanley Road · Oakwood Drive · Mcghie Street · Railway View · Winsor Avenue

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.