Harriseahead, Mow Cop and Newchapel

19°CSunny

• Today: 23° / 15° · 21% rain
• Tomorrow: 18° / 11° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:39Sunset 19:29

12h 50m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

17US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

83 reported · July 2026▲ 98% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences36
• Anti-social behaviour16
• Criminal damage & arson7
• Other theft7

4 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Kidsgrove Parish · Staffordshire

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

122 reported road collisions (2024)

31 killed or seriously injured · 177 casualties · 9.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

190 food businesses within 2 miles

• 155 rated 4–5 ★ (143 top)
• 7 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

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

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£209,547 average▲ 6.6% YoY

Across Newcastle-under-Lyme · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£830 average monthly rent▲ 8.4% YoY

• 1 bed £578
• 2 bed £741
• 3 bed £892

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

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

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

19 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)

Around the average in England

Ranked 150 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

2% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£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

64 schools · 17,540 pupils

41 primary · 9 secondary · 14 other

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

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

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

842 CQC-registered services

• Care homes273
• GP practices129
• Dentists179
• Homecare agencies178
• Hospitals & hospices18

CQC ratings: 88% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 8 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Staffordshire

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

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

106 applications decided

92.5% granted · 98 granted, 8 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

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)

4,290 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£692 median full-time weekly pay

2.9% 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

87% low-carbon electricity

Wind 53% · Nuclear 27% · Gas 8% · Imports 6%

33 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North Wales & Merseyside · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.5 yrs women · 78.8 yrs 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

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

• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills626 local signatures · 110,383 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office384 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s348 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership310 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases280 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

• 
  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)