B5 5SU Birmingham

Streets

• Floodgate Street, Birmingham: 3 addresses

Council tax

What each band costs in Birmingham in 2026-27: Band D £2,363 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band A (64% of about 640 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 postcode; 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: yes, DIGBETH, DERITEND AND BORDESLEY HIGH STREETS CONSERVATION AREA (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
• Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 3.
• Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): CITY WIDE HMO.
• Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
• Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

• The Listed Building (formerly Floodgate School), Digbeth Campus, South Birmingham College, grade II*
• 224 AND 225, HIGH STREET B12, grade II
• DEVONSHIRE HOUSE, grade II

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

• Connaught Square, High Street Deritend, Bordesley & Highgate: up to 167 homes, not permissioned (140 m)
• Digbeth High Street Major Development Site 1: up to 770 homes, not permissioned (160 m)
• Former Irish Centre: up to 454 homes, permissioned (190 m)
• Bull Ring trading Estate, High Street Deritend, Bordesley & Highgate: up to 342 homes, not permissioned (190 m)
• Land bounded by Bradford Street, Moseley Street, Barford Street and Rea Street, Digbeth, Birmingham ,: up to 771 homes, permissioned (250 m)
• LAND BOUNDED BY BRADFORD STREET AND BIRCHALL STREET AND CHEAPSIDE: up to 484 homes, permissioned (270 m)
• Land corner of Bradford Street and Alcester Street, Bordesley & Highgate: up to 130 homes, permissioned (280 m)
• BULL RING TRADING ESTATE: up to 995 homes, permissioned (290 m)

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 within 100 m of this postcode. 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.

Flood risk

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this postcode yet.

Flood zone for planning: the postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

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.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 100%, gigabit 100% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.