Armstrong Drive Birmingham, Solihull

42 addresses across 2 postcodes (B36), about 220 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 35002972.

  • Sales: 42 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £255,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (B: 4, C: 6, D: 5, E: 3, G: 1).
  • Flood: 9 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 A; Band D in Solihull costs £2,197 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Water Orton, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Lanchester Park, is about 280 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 15.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 93 to 97 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 39 of its 42 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Arran Medical Centre, about 720 m (0.4 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 82% of households owned their home and 16% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 105 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
20252£255,000£250,000£260,000
20241£179,000£179,000£179,000
20222£207,500£190,000£225,000
20201£182,500£182,500£182,500
20191£158,000£158,000£158,000
20162£130,975£129,950£132,000
20151£139,950£139,950£139,950
20131£125,000£125,000£125,000
20121£121,500£121,500£121,500
20111£125,000£125,000£125,000
20105£106,050£95,000£150,000
20071£126,000£126,000£126,000
Most recent sales (42)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 Aug 20256 B36 9NLTerraced£260,000
3 Mar 202548 B36 9NLSemi-detached£250,000
24 Jan 202410 B36 9NLTerraced£179,000Leasehold.
24 Jan 202410 B36 9NLOther£179,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Mar 202228 B36 9NLSemi-detached£190,000
5 Jan 20229 B36 9NLSemi-detached£225,000
12 Jun 20207 B36 9NLSemi-detached£182,500Leasehold.
29 Nov 201918 B36 9NLSemi-detached£158,000Leasehold.
29 Nov 201918 B36 9NLSemi-detached£145,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Jul 20167 B36 9NLSemi-detached£129,950Leasehold.
29 Mar 20169 B36 9NLSemi-detached£132,000
8 May 201548 B36 9NLSemi-detached£139,950
1 Jul 201322 B36 9NLDetached£125,000
19 Jun 201218 B36 9NLSemi-detached£121,500Leasehold.
19 Aug 201152 B36 9NLSemi-detached£125,000
11 Jun 201022 B36 9NLTerraced£120,000
10 May 201040 B36 9NLTerraced£150,000
10 Apr 201046 B36 9NLTerraced£95,000
5 Mar 20106 B36 9NLTerraced£106,050Leasehold.
5 Mar 20106 B36 9NLTerraced£106,050
6 Dec 200748 B36 9NLSemi-detached£126,000
1 Nov 20065 B36 9NLTerraced£118,000
1 Nov 20065 B36 9NLTerraced£118,000Leasehold.
4 Apr 200618 B36 9NLTerraced£125,950Leasehold.
4 Apr 200618 B36 9NLTerraced£125,950
21 Jun 200526 B36 9NLSemi-detached£127,500Leasehold.
23 May 200326 B36 9NLSemi-detached£81,000Leasehold.
23 Aug 200210 B36 9NLTerraced£77,000Leasehold.
6 Apr 200134 B36 9NLSemi-detached£59,000Leasehold.
25 Aug 200018 B36 9NLTerraced£58,950Leasehold.
29 Sep 199912 B36 9NLTerraced£51,500Leasehold.
7 May 199928 B36 9NLTerraced£47,000Leasehold.
22 May 199818 B36 9NLTerraced£47,000Leasehold.
7 Apr 199816 B36 9NLTerraced£47,750Leasehold.
11 Dec 199722 B36 9NLTerraced£49,950
20 Sep 199611 B36 9NLTerraced£40,000Leasehold.
12 Jul 199623 B36 9NLTerraced£45,000Leasehold.
28 May 199610 B36 9NLTerraced£46,500Leasehold.
12 Jan 199632 B36 9NLTerraced£46,500
24 Nov 19958 B36 9NLTerraced£45,000Leasehold.
28 Jul 199518 B36 9NLTerraced£45,000Leasehold.
28 Apr 199540 B36 9NLTerraced£48,500

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 May 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (19). Built: 1967-1975 (12); 1976-1982 (5); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Solihull in 2026-27: Band D £2,197 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,465£1,709£1,953£2,197£2,686£3,174£3,662£4,395

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (64% of about 670 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): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • 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, 8 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 1 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
B36 9NLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B36 9NJnot in 2 or 3 8 / 1 / 1 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 42 addresses are between 93 m and 97 m above sea level (96 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
B36 9NJ100%100%100%0%
B36 9NL100%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 stationsWater Orton 47,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Coleshill Parkway 206,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Lea Hall 443,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 33 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rover Drive Smiths Wood190 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Airport Bus Terminal6.4 km (4 miles)
Car parksM Castle Bromwich Car Park1.5 km (1 mile)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX6.2 km (3.9 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 Arran Medical Centre720 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Saydon Pharmacy460 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Smith's Wood Medical Centre720 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalBrooklands Hospital4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Police stationShard End Police Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM540 m (0.3 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lanchester Park 4.5 ha280 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 320 m²350 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 7.0 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 5,150 m²1.2 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 4.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Castle Bromwich Hall, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 2.8 km (1.8 miles) west.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Castle Bromwich HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.8 km (1.8 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bosworth's WoodWood290 m north-west
Parkhall WoodWood880 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Smith's WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Chattle HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) east
Dragonfly PoolLake or reservoir3.3 km (2.1 miles) north-west
LadywalkWetland4.9 km (3.1 miles) 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)15.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.1205
Particles (PM10)14.04015

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
60 to 641300
55 to 592600
Under 5534242

39 of the street's 42 addresses are 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 Solihull: see them on the Solihull 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
Castle Bromwich Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–7690 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Park Hall AcademySecondary11–18750 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Smith's Wood Primary AcademyPrimary3–11850 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Water Orton Primary SchoolPrimary4–11900 m (0.6 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Castle Bromwich Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
St John the Baptist Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Smith's Wood AcademySecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Guardian Angels Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Kingshurst Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Timberley AcademyPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Nov 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
The Kingfisher B36 9JSPub/bar/nightclub120 m5 Very good25 Nov 2025
The Angry Donut B36 9NDOther catering premises130 m5 Very good16 Oct 2025
North Solihull Foodbank B36 9JROther catering premises150 m5 Very good27 Aug 2024
Cars Area Together B36 9JROther catering premises150 m4 Good21 Aug 2025
Bumble Bees Nursery B36 0SNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m1 Major improvement necessary30 Apr 2026
Castlewood School B36 9LFSchool/college/university420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Mar 2026
Castle Bromwich Infant School B36 0BXSchool/college/university440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Oct 2025
Eales Food Store - Nisa B36 0BURetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good28 Jul 2025
China Dragon B36 0BUTakeaway/sandwich shop490 m (0.3 miles)4 Good9 Sep 2026

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.

105 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences57
Vehicle crime10
Criminal damage and arson10
Public order9
Possession of weapons4
Other theft4
Anti-social behaviour3
Burglary3
Drugs2
Robbery2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Daimler Close (27); On or near Marcos Drive (17); On or near Morgan Grove (17); On or near Vauxhall Crescent (15); On or near Rover Drive (11).

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: 595 residents in 242 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 age4540
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)82%61%
Owned outright44%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)16%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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

Rover Drive · Cowley Close · Sunbeam Close · Vauxhall Crescent · Elva Croft · Marcos Drive · Humber Grove · Daimler Close · Morgan Grove · Lanchester Way · Triumph Walk · Alvis Walk

All the streets in B36 and across Solihull.

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.