Harriseahead, Mow Cop and Newchapel

8°CCloudy

• Today: 10° / 4° · 19% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 7° · Partly Cloudy

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:08Sunset 16:36

9h 27m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

19US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Stoke-on-Trent Centre, United Kingdom

• 6.7 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.0% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

54 reported · August 2026▲ 29% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences22
• Anti-social behaviour16
• Criminal damage & arson6
• Burglary3

Neighbourhood team: Kidsgrove Parish · Staffordshire

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

157 reported road collisions (2025)

39 killed or seriously injured · 204 casualties · 12.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

190 food businesses within 2 miles

• 156 rated 4–5 ★ (145 top)
• 8 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Kidsgrove (2.3 km)
• 29 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£208,269 average▲ 5.2% YoY

Across Newcastle-under-Lyme · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£833 average monthly rent▲ 7.8% YoY

• 1 bed £580
• 2 bed £744
• 3 bed £896

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

6.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.2 times median annual pay (5.8× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,589 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 154.9p · Esso (5.9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (5.6 km)

11 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

21 charging locations within ~8 km

• 8 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 170 kW
• Nearest: Sov - Type 2 - Charger 2 (2.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches19
• Playgrounds12

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

123,299 residents in Newcastle-under-Lyme · 584/km²

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK9,570
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK8,972
• Net moves+598

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Around the average in England

Ranked 146 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

3% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,334 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (43% of 58,590)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

63 schools · 17,429 pupils

41 primary · 9 secondary · 13 other

Ofsted: 22 of 25 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (88%)

55 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Newcastle-under-Lyme

833 CQC-registered services

• Care homes274
• GP practices127
• Dentists179
• Homecare agencies170
• Hospitals & hospices18

CQC ratings: 88% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 10 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Staffordshire

• Not in the Green Belt
• 2 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

125 applications decided

91.2% granted · 114 granted, 11 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

David Williams

Labour

Stoke-on-Trent North

Source: UK Parliament

Reform UK majority

• Lab 2
• Con 15
• Ref 26

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools5
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets2
• Parks & greens11

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,315 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£692 median full-time weekly pay

3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,129 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

40% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 54,820 certificates

17.1% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

59% low-carbon electricity

Gas 38% · Nuclear 29% · Wind 27% · Imports 3%

150 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for North Wales & Merseyside · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.5 yrs women · 78.8 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Staffordshire): 62.5 women · 63 men

65% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile8.0
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.6

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

8 GP surgeries · 10 pharmacies in ST7

• Kidsgrove Medical Centre
• Audley Health Centre
• Mount Road Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Stoke-on-Trent North:

• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills628 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases281 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth192 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND177 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Raise Human Rights Issues in Azad Kashmir with the Government of Pakistan 156 local signatures · 20,508 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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  Newchapel, Staffordshire · 0.5 km

  Newchapel is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Kidsgrove, in the Newcastle-under-Lyme district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. In 1951 the parish had a population of 4135.

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  Harriseahead · 1.0 km

  Harriseahead is a village in the civil parish of Kidsgrove, in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, in Staffordshire, England. It lies close to the county boundaries of Cheshire-Staffordshire.

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  Whitehill, Staffordshire · 1.0 km

  Whitehill, also sometimes spelt as White Hill is a historic village and now a suburb of Kidsgrove in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England.

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  Newchapel and Goldenhill railway station · 1.3 km

  Newchapel and Goldenhill railway station was a station on the Potteries Loop Line located between the villages of Newchapel and Goldenhill in Staffordshire, England, in what is now Packmoor.

• Packmoor · 1.3 km

  Packmoor is a village on the northern edge of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England. It is located between Kidsgrove and Chell.

• Kidsgrove Secondary School · 1.4 km

  Kidsgrove Secondary School is a coeducational secondary school located in Kidsgrove in the English county of Staffordshire.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)