Ashes Lane Birmingham

45 addresses across 1 postcode (B16), about 270 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2753469.

  • Sales: 35 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £249,950 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 44 homes have an energy certificate (B: 43, C: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 Birmingham costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Smethwick Rolfe Street, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Summerfield Park, is about 350 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 163 to 165 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 45 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Rotton Park Medical Centre, about 270 m away, with 13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 65% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 134 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
20231£249,950£249,950£249,950
20211£144,000£144,000£144,000
20201£112,500£112,500£112,500
20191£205,000£205,000£205,000
201810£305,495£199,995£349,995
201715£296,995£194,995£342,995
Most recent sales (35)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Aug 202541 B16 0NQSemi-detached£252,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Jun 20238 B16 0NQSemi-detached£249,950
2 Feb 202139 B16 0NQSemi-detached£144,000Leasehold.
20 Oct 202041 B16 0NQSemi-detached£112,500
22 Apr 202043 B16 0NQOther£3,750New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Dec 20199 B16 0NQSemi-detached£205,000Leasehold.
2 Aug 2018PLOT 98 B16 0NQOther£497,280Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Jul 20182 B16 0NQDetached£269,995New build.
2 Jul 201812 B16 0NQDetached£305,995New build.
2 Jul 201810 B16 0NQSemi-detached£214,995New build.
29 Jun 20186 B16 0NQDetached£349,995New build.
29 Jun 201828 B16 0NQDetached£329,995New build.
29 Jun 201826 B16 0NQDetached£304,995New build.
29 Jun 20188 B16 0NQSemi-detached£199,995New build.
28 Jun 201830 B16 0NQDetached£329,995New build.
28 Jun 201814 B16 0NQDetached£305,995New build.
14 Mar 201837 B16 0NQOther£499,440Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Feb 201813 B16 0NQDetached£269,995New build. Leasehold.
21 Dec 20179 B16 0NQSemi-detached£209,995New build. Leasehold.
20 Dec 20177 B16 0NQSemi-detached£209,995New build. Leasehold.
20 Dec 20175 B16 0NQSemi-detached£194,995New build. Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Dec 201711 B16 0NQSemi-detached£194,995New build. Leasehold.
15 Dec 201759 B16 0NQDetached£294,995New build. Leasehold.
14 Dec 201715 B16 0NQOther£1,054,367Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Nov 201751 B16 0NQDetached£342,995New build. Leasehold.
30 Nov 201757 B16 0NQDetached£319,995New build. Leasehold.
30 Nov 201743 B16 0NQDetached£296,995New build. Leasehold.
31 Oct 201745 B16 0NQDetached£322,995New build. Leasehold.
31 Oct 201755 B16 0NQDetached£319,995New build. Leasehold.
31 Oct 201749 B16 0NQDetached£296,995New build. Leasehold.
31 Oct 201747 B16 0NQDetached£296,995New build. Leasehold.
31 Oct 201753 B16 0NQDetached£296,995New build. Leasehold.
29 Sep 201763 B16 0NQDetached£339,995New build. Leasehold.
29 Sep 201761 B16 0NQDetached£294,995New build. Leasehold.
29 Sep 20171 B16 0NQDetached£264,995New build. Leasehold.

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 August 2017 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

44 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, detached (20); House, semi-detached (14); House, end-terrace (5). Built: 2016 (40); 2017 (2); 2018 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (39).

Each home's certificates and sales (43 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 A (30% of about 920 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 (FORMER SPORTS GROUND BETWEEN CITY ROAD AND ROTTON PARK ROAD, SOHO) TPO 2016.
  • 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, 1 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: 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 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 45 addresses are between 163 m and 165 m above sea level (164 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
B16 0NQ100%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 stationsSmethwick Rolfe Street 404,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Five Ways 1.3 million journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Jewellery Quarter 446,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Underground, metro or tramEdgbaston Village (West Midlands Metro)1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 22 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ravenshaw Road Rotton Park160 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth4.1 km (2.5 miles)
Car parksQ-Park Midland Metropolitan University Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points20 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity520 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX13.9 km (8.7 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 surgeries13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rotton Park Medical Centre270 m
Pharmacies13 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dudley Road Late Night Pharmacy810 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest City Dental Practice810 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalMidland Metropolitan University Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationVyse Street Police Station880 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone440 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Summerfield Park 15 ha350 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 440 m²410 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldAvery Fields 5.3 ha910 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 400 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 23 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 17 and 19, Rotton Park Road B16, a listed building (Grade II*), 750 m (0.5 miles) south-east. 17 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
17 and 19, Rotton Park Road B16Listed building, Grade II*750 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Parish Church of St Augustine of HippoListed building, Grade II*750 m (0.5 miles) south
Birmingham Botanical GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Remains of the Boulton and Watt Soho foundry and mint, Birmingham Canal, SmethwickScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north
Westbourne Road Town GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Icknield Port LoopLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Soho LoopLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Moor PoolLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Warley WoodsWood2.7 km (1.6 miles) west
Woodgate ValleyValley4.8 km (3 miles) south-west
Bromford StopIsland5 km (3.1 miles) north-west

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)14.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)12.34015

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 5940
Under 554145

4 of the street's 45 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
George Dixon Primary SchoolPrimary4–11550 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
City Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–11570 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
George Dixon AcademySecondary11–18680 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Shireland Hall Primary AcademyPrimary3–11710 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Paul's School for Girls Roman CatholicSecondary11–18720 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Cape Primary SchoolPrimary3–11920 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Barford Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Summerfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Shireland Technology PrimaryPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Shireland Collegiate AcademySecondary11–191.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Patrick and St Edmund's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Matthew's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; 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
The Nest Nursery B16 0RRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good1 Jun 2026
Clare News B16 0JQRetailers - other370 m5 Very good26 Oct 2009
Your Money Your Way CIC B16 0NLRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Willow House B17 8LSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Jun 2025
Leaps And Bounds Children'S Centre A B16 0ETHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Apr 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.

134 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences59
Vehicle crime19
Criminal damage and arson11
Burglary10
Other theft10
Drugs7
Public order7
Possession of weapons3
Anti-social behaviour3
Theft from the person2
Bicycle theft1
Robbery1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hallewell Road (34); On or near Ashes Lane (20); On or near Rotton Park Road (19); On or near Gate Lane (18); On or near Gillott Road (15).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 272 residents in 95 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 1528%17%
Aged 65 and over2%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright8%33%
Shared ownership7%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work83%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)1%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)39%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)65%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualificationunder 1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)80%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%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

Statham Drive · Beaks Farm Gardens · Bowler Road · Roach Pool Croft · Wicket Drive · Gate Lane · Ravenshaw Road · Stanmore Road · Brewers Square · Rotton Park Road · Antler Way · Rotton Park Road

All the streets in B16 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.