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Do the numbers work? Rents and yields, the HMO planning rules, growth and what owners made, and the council's letting picture.
| Typical private rent in Staffordshire Moorlands | A month | A year |
|---|---|---|
| All homes | £728 | £8,736 |
| 1 bedroom | £527 | £6,324 |
| 2 bedrooms | £685 | £8,220 |
| 3 bedrooms | £866 | £10,392 |
| 4+ bedrooms | £1,188 | £14,256 |
The council's typical rent against the typical home here (£279k): a gross yield of about 3.1%.
| Cheadle North, Alton & Kingsley | Staffordshire Moorlands | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Housing allowance yield (%) | 2.4 | 2.6 | 3.2 |
| Rented privately | 12% | 13% | 20% |
| Homes ever let | 9% | 8% | 18% |
| Residents per home | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.3 |
| Homes owned by companies | 0% | 1% | 4% |
| Homes bought by companies since 2021 | 2 | 3 | 34 |
ONS private rents (council, 2026-08); Local Housing Allowance (VOA). Gross yields are before costs, voids and tax.
HMO planning rules: unknown here. Staffordshire Moorlands has not published HMO Article 4 areas to the national planning data platform, so we cannot tell whether HMOs need planning permission here. Ask the council's planning team.
| Cheadle North, Alton & Kingsley | Staffordshire Moorlands | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Postcodes under an Article 4 direction | 0% | 0% | 16% |
planning.data.gov.uk (Article 4 directions). Whether one address is inside an HMO area is on its postcode's Investing page. HMO Article 4 map · About HMOs
| Cheadle North, Alton & Kingsley | Staffordshire Moorlands | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population change, 2021–2024 | +4% | +1% | +4% |
| Homes added, 2021–2024 | +5% | +2% | +3% |
| People added per new home, 2021–2024 | 1.8 | -0.3 | 5.1 |
| Housing pressure vs region | 0.9 | 0.2 | -0.3 |
Like-for-like (repeat-sales) index, HM Land Registry. What owners made when they sold, by area and how long they held.
MHCLG council tax base (England), Ministry of Justice repossessions, ONS short-term lets.
Yields, prices, growth, renting and Article 4 cover, side by side.
| Leek Town | 3.7 | £162k | +55% | 26% | 0% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biddulph Central | 3.4 | £179k | +68% | 17% | 0% |
| Leek East & Upper Hulme | 2.8 | £200k | +63% | 13% | 0% |
| Cheadle Town | 2.7 | £224k | +58% | 18% | 0% |
| Blythe Bridge, Forsbrook & Caverswall | 2.6 | £258k | +53% | 10% | 0% |
| Werrington & Wetley Rocks | 2.5 | £237k | +50% | 8% | 0% |
| Biddulph North & Brownlees | 2.4 | £227k | +56% | 9% | 0% |
| Cheadle North, Alton & Kingsley (this one) | 2.4 | £279k | +54% | 12% | 0% |
| Cheadle South & Upper Tean | 2.3 | £248k | +55% | 9% | 0% |
| Leek South & Cheddleton | 2.3 | £254k | +55% | 10% | 0% |
| Biddulph Moor & Rudyard | 2.2 | £286k | +54% | 8% | 0% |
| Endon & Brown Edge | 1.9 | £311k | +73% | 9% | 0% |
| Ipstones, Warslow & Hamps Valley | 1.6 | £333k | +57% | 13% | 0% |
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Local Housing Allowance, Staffordshire North rental area, 2026-27, a month: Shared room £301 · 1 bed £425 · 2 beds £480 · 3 beds £595 · 4 beds £800. The most a tenant on Universal Credit or Housing Benefit gets towards rent here, set at the cheapest 30% of local rents in 2023 and frozen since April 2024.
Gross LHA yields at this neighbourhood's 2025 prices: 2-bed vs terraced houses 3.18% · 3-bed vs semis 3.17%.