Appletree Close Birmingham

19 addresses across 2 postcodes (B31), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2700652.

  • Sales: 29 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £225,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 5, D: 5, E: 1).
  • Flood: 16 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Birmingham costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Longbridge, about 500 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 640 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 161 to 163 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 19 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is West Heath Surgery, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 710 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 64% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 110 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£225,000£225,000£225,000
20241£214,250£214,250£214,250
20232£233,000£200,000£266,000
20212£238,250£238,000£238,500
20201£165,000£165,000£165,000
20191£198,000£198,000£198,000
20151£126,000£126,000£126,000
20121£157,950£157,950£157,950
20081£117,950£117,950£117,950
20072£144,000£132,000£156,000
20051£155,000£155,000£155,000
20041£119,950£119,950£119,950
Most recent sales (29)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
23 Jan 202611 B31 2YPTerraced£225,000
15 Apr 20245 B31 2YPTerraced£214,250
30 Aug 20238 B31 2YPTerraced£266,000
9 Jun 202314 B31 2YPTerraced£200,000
17 Dec 202121 B31 2YPTerraced£238,500
5 Nov 20216 B31 2YPSemi-detached£238,000
17 Feb 202011 B31 2YPTerraced£165,000
3 Aug 20198 B31 2YPTerraced£198,000
4 Mar 20163 B31 2YPTerraced£129,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Aug 201517 B31 2YPTerraced£126,000
6 Mar 20159 B31 2YPTerraced£115,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Mar 20124 B31 2YPSemi-detached£157,950
30 May 200817 B31 2YPTerraced£117,950
1 Jun 200721 B31 2YPTerraced£156,000
21 Mar 200711 B31 2YPTerraced£132,000
21 Oct 20054 B31 2YPSemi-detached£155,000
20 Dec 20043 B31 2YPTerraced£119,950
16 Dec 200315 B31 2YPTerraced£132,000
16 Dec 200311 B31 2YPTerraced£108,500
9 Jan 200312 B31 2YPTerraced£90,000
9 Nov 20014 B31 2YPSemi-detached£89,950
12 Jul 20018 B31 2YPTerraced£89,950
29 Jun 20015 B31 2YPTerraced£69,950
31 May 20013 B31 2YPTerraced£66,500
14 Nov 20002 B31 2YPSemi-detached£97,500
15 Jun 199812 B31 2YPTerraced£55,500
23 Dec 19979 B31 2YPTerraced£51,000
13 Jun 19973 B31 2YPTerraced£50,500
29 Mar 199610 B31 2YPTerraced£68,400

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from July 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 67 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (5); House, mid-terrace (4); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 1991-1995 (7); 1983-1990 (2); 1996-2002 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (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.

ABCDEFGH
£1,575£1,838£2,100£2,363£2,888£3,413£3,938£4,726

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (38% of about 730 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 street; 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): CITY WIDE HMO.
  • Tree preservation orders: in a protected area: THE BIRMINGHAM (TESSALL LANE, NORTHFIELD) TPO 1991.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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 on or by this street. 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 12 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 2 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 53 homes the Environment Agency counts, 12 are in areas at high risk, 4 medium, 2 low and 0 very low.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: at least one 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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
B31 2YPzone 3 12 / 4 / 0 unlikely
B31 2YSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely

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.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 19 addresses are between 161 m and 163 m above sea level (162 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
B31 2YP100%100%100%0%
B31 2YS100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsLongbridge 892,000 journeys in 2024–25500 m (0.3 miles)
Northfield 643,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Kings Norton 934,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 39 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tessall Lane Longbridge240 m
Bus or coach stationAlvechurch - Red Lion PH5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Car parksSainsbury's Northfield Car Park1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station490 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX16.8 km (10 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest West Heath Surgery1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Knights Longbridge Pharmacy620 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery870 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalWest Heath Hospital1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationRubery Police Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Michael's Express Cashzone590 m (0.4 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.0 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 380 m²190 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 5.1 ha840 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coney Green Drive Allotments 2.0 ha190 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 6.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Hawkesley Farm moated site, a scheduled monument, 550 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hawkesley Farm moated siteScheduled monument550 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bedlam WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
The GroveWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
Balaam's WoodWood2 km (1.3 miles) west
High HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Egghill DingleValley2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-west
Upper Bittell ReservoirLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.8 miles) south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)10.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)11.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5914
Under 551815

1 of the street's 19 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 4 from railways, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Birmingham: see them on the Birmingham page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
The Meadows Primary SchoolPrimary5–11330 m Requires improvement (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Turves Green Primary SchoolPrimary4–11650 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Turves Green Boys' SchoolSecondary11–18650 m (0.4 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
King Edward VI Northfield School for GirlsSecondary11–16750 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Albert Bradbeer Primary AcademyPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Columba's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
West Heath Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Brigid's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cofton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Merritts Brook Primary E-ACT AcademyPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St John Fisher Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Colmers Farm Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Hughes catering bx kitchen B31 2SERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good17 Feb 2026
Austin Sports & Social Club B31 2SFPub/bar/nightclub220 m4 Good15 Aug 2013
CHATTY PATTY B31 2SPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good15 Nov 2023
Tasty Pizza B31 2SPTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m3 Generally satisfactory15 Jan 2026
Lotus Blossom B31 2SPOther catering premises270 m4 Good26 Nov 2025
Hope You're Hungry B31 2SPMobile caterer270 m5 Very good25 Sep 2026
Burger Boi B31 2SPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good24 Apr 2023
Select & Save B31 2SPRetailers - other270 m5 Very good21 Feb 2018
One Stop B31 2SPRetailers - other280 m5 Very good1 Jul 2026
Cafe kibo B31 2SPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m4 Good14 Aug 2026
So Good catering services B31 4EDOther catering premises360 mAwaiting inspection
Coney Green Respite Services B31 4DTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises390 m5 Very good30 Jul 2013
Dessert B31 2SLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Northfield Conservative Club B31 4HLPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)4 Good10 Jan 2024
Everlast Fitness Limited B31 2SURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Jul 2018

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

110 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences38
Shoplifting29
Public order8
Other theft8
Possession of weapons5
Burglary5
Other crime3
Robbery3
Anti-social behaviour3
Criminal damage and arson3
Drugs2
Vehicle crime2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Mavis Road (63); On or near Tollgate Close (19); On or near Cypress Grove (8); On or near Riverpark Way (8); On or near Daffodil Way (6).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 709 residents in 350 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4040
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright35%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented19%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)53%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications26%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Oak Grove · Riverpark Way · Mill Brook Drive · Saxon Court · Daffodil Way · Mavis Road · Millbrook Drive · Tollgate Close · Kemshead Avenue · Rea Road · Bristol Road South · Reabrook Road

All the streets in B31 and across Birmingham.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.