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On Beaconside Close, in Stafford North East
What it's like at ST16 3QS: every home that has sold on Beaconside Close since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Beaconside Close; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
4 of the 27 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Beaconside CloseTerraced · company-owned | Nov 2005 | £100,000 | 58 m² | £1,724/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Beaconside CloseTerraced | Jul 2014 | £95,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 3, Beaconside CloseTerraced | Dec 2019 | £120,000 | 57 m² | £2,105/m² | 2 |
| 4, Beaconside CloseTerraced | Jul 2026 | £120,000 | 41 m² | £2,927/m² | 3 |
| 5, Beaconside CloseTerraced | Aug 2009 | £102,000 | 57 m² | £1,789/m² | 5 |
| 6, Beaconside CloseTerraced | Jun 2019 | £128,000 | 72 m² | £1,778/m² | 4 |
| 7, Beaconside CloseTerraced | May 2014 | £93,000 | 59 m² | £1,576/m² | 3 |
| 9, Beaconside CloseTerraced · company-owned | Nov 2022 | £127,500 | 65 m² | £1,962/m² | 3 |
| 10, Beaconside CloseTerraced | Feb 2020 | £110,000 | 57 m² | £1,930/m² | 4 |
| 11, Beaconside CloseTerraced | Jun 2015 | £96,000 | 38 m² | £2,526/m² | 2 |
| 12, Beaconside CloseTerraced | Nov 2024 | £170,000 | 59 m² | £2,881/m² | 3 |
| 14, Beaconside CloseTerraced | Nov 2000 | £52,500 | 56 m² | £938/m² | 2 |
| 17, Beaconside CloseTerraced | Jan 2018 | £124,250 | 73 m² | £1,702/m² | 2 |
| 18, Beaconside CloseTerraced · company-owned | Aug 2023 | £162,000 | 56 m² | £2,893/m² | 4 |
| 19, Beaconside CloseTerraced | Dec 2004 | £105,750 | 57 m² | £1,855/m² | 3 |
| 20, Beaconside CloseTerraced | Sept 2018 | £130,000 | 83 m² | £1,566/m² | 3 |
| 22, Beaconside CloseTerraced | Nov 2001 | £49,500 | 41 m² | £1,207/m² | 3 |
| 24, Beaconside CloseTerraced | Jul 2025 | £130,000 | 41 m² | £3,171/m² | 6 |
| 26, Beaconside CloseSemi-detached | Mar 1998 | £41,000 | 72 m² | £569/m² | 2 |
| 30, Beaconside CloseTerraced | May 2026 | £115,000 | 55 m² | £2,091/m² | 2 |
| 32, Beaconside CloseTerraced | Aug 1997 | £41,300 | 61 m² | £677/m² | 1 |
| 34, Beaconside CloseTerraced | Sept 1998 | £43,500 | 56 m² | £777/m² | 1 |
| 36, Beaconside CloseTerraced · company-owned | May 2005 | £90,000 | 59 m² | £1,525/m² | 2 |
| 38, Beaconside CloseTerraced | Feb 2020 | £93,000 | 41 m² | £2,268/m² | 1 |
| 40, Beaconside CloseTerraced · company-owned | Mar 2011 | £92,500 | 56 m² | £1,652/m² | 2 |
| 42, Beaconside CloseTerraced | Nov 2005 | £107,000 | 56 m² | £1,911/m² | 2 |
| 44, Beaconside CloseTerraced | Apr 2014 | £115,000 | 74 m² | £1,554/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Stafford, a short drive or bike ride (2.1 km), with 2.5m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Euston.
The nearest bus stop is Newall Avenue, 250 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 11, 11A); 3 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 15 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
The nearest primary school is St John's CofE Primary Academy, about a 10-minute walk (850 m); 67% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is The Weston Road Academy, 1.6 km away; Attainment 8: 44.7 · 8.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Everest Grocery, 300 m away; Top Shop (550 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Cross Street Surgery (1.5 km), with Weston Road Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.2 km).
For a haircut, The Tanning Shop is 1.6 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Stoke University Hospital, 23 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 45% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 60% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 5 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Tina's Family Bakery is the closest café or restaurant (650 m), and The Morris Man the nearest pub (1.0 km).
Crime is around the national middle: about 124 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 24% flats and 7% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Charnley Road Playing Fields, 550 m away; for exercise, Beaconside Sports Centre (1.4 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 46 km away.
Most households own their home, 27% rent privately.
It's young: 20% of residents are aged 15–29.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
12 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Stafford constituency: Leigh Ingham MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 4,595 (10.0%), turnout 65%. Vote shares: Labour 40%, Conservative 30%, Reform UK 19%, Green Party 6%.
22 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near ST16 3QS →
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Stafford since 2011.
police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 27 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 25 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 18 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.8% | 1.5% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.8% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 88.0% | 86.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 7.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 11.8% | 5.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
Nearest: Wallasey · about 81 min
Nearest: Dudley Zoo · about 37 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.