Ashby Close Birmingham

43 addresses across 2 postcodes (B8), about 200 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2705778.

  • Sales: 46 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £332,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 27 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 8, D: 16, E: 2).
  • 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 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 Stechford, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 210 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 15.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 109 to 112 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 9 of its 43 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ward End Medical Centre, about 720 m (0.4 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 900 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 88% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 146 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
20232£332,500£290,000£375,000
20201£326,000£326,000£326,000
20181£295,000£295,000£295,000
20162£225,000£213,000£237,000
20141£203,000£203,000£203,000
20121£193,000£193,000£193,000
20113£225,000£210,000£230,000
20092£204,000£196,000£212,000
20081£240,000£240,000£240,000
20073£197,000£185,000£239,000
20063£195,000£185,000£230,000
20053£194,000£192,000£249,995
Most recent sales (46)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Oct 202344 B8 2RBDetached£290,000
29 Sep 202320 B8 2RBDetached£375,000
16 Dec 202220 B8 2RBDetached£400,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Mar 20202 B8 2RBDetached£326,000
6 Dec 20195 B8 2RBDetached£305,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Feb 201846 B8 2RBDetached£295,000Leasehold.
30 Sep 20168 B8 2RBDetached£220,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Jul 201630 B8 2RBDetached£237,000
1 Jul 20163 B8 2RBDetached£213,000
30 Dec 201445 B8 2RBDetached£203,000
30 Jan 201242 B8 2RBDetached£193,000
22 Sep 201128 B8 2RBDetached£230,000
19 Sep 201144 B8 2RBDetached£210,000
25 Mar 201118 B8 2RBDetached£225,000
19 Nov 20099 B8 2RBDetached£212,000
2 Oct 200921 B8 2RBDetached£196,000
29 Jul 200828 B8 2RBDetached£240,000
9 Nov 200719 B8 2RBDetached£197,000
8 Jun 200741 B8 2RBDetached£185,000
10 Apr 200723 B8 2RBDetached£239,000
4 Aug 200628 B8 2RBDetached£230,000
31 Mar 200627 B8 2RBDetached£185,000
10 Mar 200643 B8 2RBDetached£195,000
14 Nov 200536 B8 2RBDetached£192,000
10 Oct 200537 B8 2RBDetached£194,000
1 Feb 200522 B8 2RBDetached£249,995
16 Feb 200424 B8 2RBDetached£187,000
2 Jan 20034 B8 2RBDetached£180,000
15 Mar 200214 B8 2RBDetached£128,000
5 Oct 200122 B8 2RBDetached£128,000
27 Apr 200123 B8 2RBDetached£129,500
8 Dec 200011 B8 2RBDetached£129,000
1 Dec 20007 B8 2RBDetached£110,000
30 Nov 200034 B8 2RBDetached£112,000
29 Nov 200017 B8 2RBDetached£129,000
31 Mar 20006 B8 2RBDetached£101,000
28 Jan 200043 B8 2RBDetached£97,000
17 Sep 199939 B8 2RBDetached£96,000
2 Jul 199927 B8 2RBDetached£94,500
21 May 199933 B8 2RBDetached£110,000
6 Nov 199814 B8 2RBDetached£82,500
30 Jan 199828 B8 2RBDetached£90,000
12 Jan 19987 B8 2RBDetached£87,000
2 Sep 199725 B8 2RBDetached£79,500
1 Nov 199614 B8 2RBDetached£76,000
13 Apr 199542 B8 2RBDetached£80,000

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

27 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 113 m². Most common: House, detached (27). Built: 1983-1990 (17); 1991-1995 (6); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (21 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 (30% of about 700 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 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 (SITE OF SALISBURY TRANSMISSION LTD., OLD BROMFORD LANE, WARD END) TPO 1987.
  • 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 7 August 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 43 addresses are between 109 m and 112 m above sea level (111 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
B8 2DU100%100%100%0%
B8 2RB100%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 stationsStechford 417,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Gravelly Hill 390,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Adderley Park 147,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.8 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Old Bromford Lane Ward End210 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth5.3 km (3.3 miles)
Car parksI Can Park And Ride1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity730 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX7 km (4.3 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ward End Medical Centre720 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Foxwell Pharmacy560 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery660 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalHeartlands Hospital2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Police stationRose Road Police Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Papa Ge's560 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.2 ha210 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 14 ha720 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 550 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.6 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Blackpit Lane Allotments 1.2 ha600 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 28 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Castle Bromwich Hall, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 1.9 km (1.2 miles) east. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Castle Bromwich HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Langley Hill WoodWood3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-east
Kent's MoatLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.1 miles) south-east
Plants Brook ReservoirsLake or reservoir3.7 km (2.3 miles) north-east
Dragonfly PoolLake or reservoir3.7 km (2.3 miles) north-east
Black PoolLake or reservoir3.7 km (2.3 miles) north-east
Parkhill WoodWood3.7 km (2.3 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)15.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.1205
Particles (PM10)12.94015

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 64100
55 to 59800
Under 55344343

9 of the street's 43 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 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
Hodge Hill CollegeSecondary11–16350 m Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hodge Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–11490 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hodge Hill Girls' SchoolSecondary11–16500 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ward End Primary SchoolPrimary3–11730 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Washwood Heath AcademyAll-through4–18880 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thornton Primary SchoolPrimary7–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Tame Valley AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Sladefield Infant SchoolPrimary4–71 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Colebourne Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Washwood Heath Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Cuthbert's RC Junior and Infant (NC) School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Firs Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Prime Time Childrens Day Nursery B8 2RGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good10 Sep 2026
Bromford F/ & Wine-MGS STORES B8 2RSRetailers - other350 m3 Generally satisfactory7 Jul 2026
Hodge Hill Community Food Bank B36 8HBOther catering premises350 m5 Very good10 Sep 2026
Hodge Hill Sports And Enterprisecollege B36 8HBSchool/college/university350 m5 Very good23 Jun 2023
Tesco Family Dining Ltd B36 8DTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Mar 2022
bakes by malikah B36 8JHOther catering premises450 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Greggs B8 2EPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Jan 2022
Fox and Goose Halal Butchers Ltd B8 2EPRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory7 Jul 2026
Pepe's Piri Piri B8 2DPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Sep 2026
Picasso's B36 8DTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Mar 2021
Bromford Lane Care Centre B36 8HPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Feb 2026
Ashbourne Day Nursery B36 8EYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises500 m (0.3 miles)4 Good15 Jun 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.

146 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences86
Criminal damage and arson14
Vehicle crime13
Drugs6
Anti-social behaviour6
Burglary5
Other theft4
Possession of weapons4
Public order4
Other crime4

Most of these are attached to: On or near Old Bromford Lane (51); On or near Radstock Avenue (23); On or near Plaistow Avenue (18); On or near Wilkinson Croft (14); On or near Ashby Close (12).

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: 904 residents in 216 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 age3140
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)88%61%
Owned outright38%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)76%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)30%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)83%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%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.

  • B8 2RB: 42 addresses of 43 in the postcode
  • B8 2DU: 1 address of 22 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Johnson Close · Lindale Avenue · Radstock Avenue · Wilkinson Croft · Old Bromford Lane · Gilpin Close · Plaistow Avenue · Brockhurst Road · St Margarets Road · Bromford Lane · Stretton Grove

All the streets in B8 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.