Arden Drive Royal Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham

28 addresses across 2 postcodes (B73), about 150 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2707656.

  • Sales: 35 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £560,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 11, E: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 E; 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 Wylde Green, about 490 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 133 to 135 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 28 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Hawthorns Surgery, about 390 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 92% of households owned their home and 57% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 25 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
20251£560,000£560,000£560,000
20241£465,000£465,000£465,000
20233£480,000£410,000£530,000
20221£375,000£375,000£375,000
20192£385,000£370,000£400,000
20181£348,000£348,000£348,000
20173£335,000£325,000£355,000
20162£293,750£277,500£310,000
20152£251,000£237,000£265,000
20141£242,500£242,500£242,500
20131£220,000£220,000£220,000
20121£280,000£280,000£280,000
Most recent sales (35)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Mar 20251 B73 5NDDetached£560,000
27 Mar 20244 B73 5NDDetached£465,000
15 Nov 202321 B73 5NDDetached£480,000
8 Nov 202310 B73 5NDDetached£530,000
1 Jun 20235 B73 5NDDetached£410,000
25 Mar 20224 B73 5NDDetached£375,000
11 Jun 202126 B73 5NDDetached£415,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Sep 201911 B73 5NDDetached£370,000
29 Mar 201918 B73 5NDDetached£400,000
16 Nov 20186 B73 5NDDetached£348,000
9 Aug 201726 B73 5NDDetached£355,000
31 May 20179 B73 5NDDetached£325,000
25 Jan 201712 B73 5NDDetached£335,000
29 Jul 20166 B73 5NDDetached£277,500
13 May 20165 B73 5NDDetached£310,000
31 Jul 20154 B73 5NDDetached£265,000
12 Jun 201519A B73 5NDDetached£237,000
23 Jan 20143 B73 5NDDetached£242,500
28 Jun 20135 B73 5NDDetached£220,000
30 Mar 201225 B73 5NDDetached£280,000
14 Apr 20114 B73 5NDDetached£245,000
4 Sep 200716 B73 5NDDetached£285,000
15 Jun 200716 B73 5NDDetached£300,000
16 Jan 200722 B73 5NDDetached£249,950
22 Sep 200621 B73 5NDDetached£279,000
6 Mar 200618 B73 5NDDetached£249,950
20 May 20046 B73 5NDDetached£205,000
11 Oct 20024 B73 5NDDetached£178,000
11 Apr 200217 B73 5NDSemi-detached£215,000
15 Jun 200123 B73 5NDDetached£182,000
8 Jan 199812 B73 5NDDetached£129,500
4 Dec 199728 B73 5NDDetached£112,150
27 Mar 199716 B73 5NDDetached£109,000
4 Aug 199524 B73 5NDDetached£106,000
15 Jun 19953 B73 5NDDetached£86,000New build.

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 March 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 114 m². Most common: House, detached (10); Bungalow, detached (6). Built: 1976-1982 (8); 1950-1966 (4); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band E (36% of about 1,390 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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 (ARDEN DRIVE, WYLDE GREEN, SUTTON COLDFIELD) TPO 1980.
  • 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 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 4 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

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: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
B73 5NDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
B73 5LUnot 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 28 addresses are between 133 m and 135 m above sea level (134 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
B73 5LU100%100%100%0%
B73 5ND100%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 stationsWylde Green 521,000 journeys in 2024–25490 m (0.3 miles)
Chester Road 659,000 journeys in 2024–25820 m (0.5 miles)
Erdington 481,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Oakhurst Road Wylde Green130 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth8.5 km (5.3 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest M The Lanes Car Park520 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station530 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX11.2 km (7 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Hawthorns Surgery390 m
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots660 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Denbeigh Dental1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalSutton Cottage Hospital1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationErdington Police Station2 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Central England Co-op - Sutton Coldfield770 m (0.5 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 gardenUnnamed 5,240 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 70 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 3.0 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Boulevard Allotments 1.7 ha240 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Emmanuel Church, a listed building (Grade II*), 480 m (0.3 miles) south. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Emmanuel ChurchListed building, Grade II*480 m (0.3 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The DamLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Pool SpinneyWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
The ShrubberyWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Eachelhurst SpinneyWood1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Wyndley PoolLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) north
Withy HillHill4.9 km (3 miles) north-east

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)14.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.0205
Particles (PM10)12.54015

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, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59100
Under 55272828

1 of the street's 28 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, 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
Wylde Green Primary SchoolPrimary4–11540 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Boldmere Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Boldmere Infant School and NurseryPrimary3–71.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Maney Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bishop Walsh Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Nicholas Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Penns Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Yenton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Edmund Campion Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for GirlsSecondary11–181.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Abbey Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Osborne Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

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
Westfield Court Hotel B72 1DJHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house100 m4 Good29 Jul 2014
The Crave Table B73 5LXMobile caterer110 mAwaiting inspection
abm catering @ Broadleaf House B72 1DHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good10 Feb 2026
Ladybird Montessori Nursery B72 1EHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good11 Nov 2025
Voyage Care B73 5LXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m5 Very good12 Feb 2026
Norman Laud Centre B72 1DLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises390 m5 Very good27 Feb 2018
Montessori Explorers B72 1DLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises390 m5 Very good11 Nov 2025
Little Ripley Day Nursery B72 1DLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises390 m5 Very good13 Oct 2025
Walmley Golf Club B72 1HRPub/bar/nightclub410 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory21 Jan 2026
Beech Hill Grange B72 1DUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Oct 2025
Wylde Green Nursery B73 5JJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Dec 2023

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.

25 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences11
Vehicle crime5
Criminal damage and arson2
Burglary2
Anti-social behaviour2
Robbery1
Public order1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Gardens (12); On or near The Boulevard (3); On or near Cambridge Avenue (3); On or near Oakhurst Road (3); On or near Henley Close (2).

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: 600 residents in 246 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 age5040
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over29%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)92%61%
Owned outright56%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)35%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)48%32%
Travel to work by car or van40%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)59%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)57%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 9 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

Henley Close · Birmingham Road · Cambridge Avenue · The Gardens · Oakhurst Road · Greenhill Road · Marchmount Road · Green Lanes · Beardmore Road · Hilton Drive · Britton Drive · Emmanuel Road

All the streets in B73 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.