Beech Road Dudley

34 addresses across 3 postcodes (DY1), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 11404032.

  • Sales: 11 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £171,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 29 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 13, D: 12, E: 2, F: 1).
  • 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 A; Band D in Dudley costs £2,145 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Tipton, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Bluebell Park, is about 260 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 162 to 168 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 34 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Black Country Family Practice, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,030 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 53% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 76 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
20241£171,000£171,000£171,000
20192£112,500£110,000£115,000
20181£120,000£120,000£120,000
20161£102,000£102,000£102,000
20101£73,000£73,000£73,000
20061£93,000£93,000£93,000
20051£91,000£91,000£91,000
20021£48,000£48,000£48,000
Most recent sales (11)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Dec 202413 DY1 4BSSemi-detached£171,000
20 May 20217 DY1 4BPSemi-detached£150,001Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Dec 201917 DY1 4BSTerraced£110,000
26 Mar 201928 DY1 4BSTerraced£115,000
27 Jul 201836 DY1 4BSSemi-detached£120,000
20 Jul 20167 DY1 4BPSemi-detached£102,000
25 Nov 201423 DY1 4BSTerraced£83,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Jun 201023 DY1 4BSSemi-detached£73,000
10 Nov 200638 DY1 4BSSemi-detached£93,000
24 Jun 200538 DY1 4BSSemi-detached£91,000
28 Oct 20027 DY1 4BPSemi-detached£48,000

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 July 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

29 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 72 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (11); House, mid-terrace (9); House, end-terrace (9). Built: 1930-1949 (27); 1900-1929 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (20); owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Dudley in 2026-27: Band D £2,145 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,430£1,668£1,907£2,145£2,621£3,098£3,575£4,290

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (45% of about 1,640 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): 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 30 September 2026.

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

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 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
DY1 4BSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
DY1 4BPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DY1 4BNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 34 addresses are between 162 m and 168 m above sea level (165 m on average); the ground rises about 6 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
DY1 4BN100%100%100%0%
DY1 4BP100%100%100%0%
DY1 4BS100%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 stationsTipton 359,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Dudley Port 376,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Coseley 520,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Underground, metro or tramTipton Road (West Midlands Metro)1 km (0.6 miles)
Dudley Castle (West Midlands Metro)1 km (0.6 miles)
Birmingham New Road (West Midlands Metro)1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 44 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Beech Road Priory Estate50 m
Bus or coach stationDudley Bus Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Car parksStafford Street Car Park1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX24.1 km (15 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Black Country Family Practice1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Priory Community Pharmacy230 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery920 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalGuest Hospital920 m (0.6 miles)
Police stationTipton Police Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone200 m

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 Bluebell Park 22 ha260 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 640 m²450 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha390 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 7,200 m²1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 30 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Lime working remains in Dudley, a scheduled monument, 400 m (0.2 miles) north-west. 12 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lime working remains in DudleyScheduled monument400 m (0.2 miles) north-west
Priory Park, DudleyRegistered park or garden, Grade II590 m (0.4 miles) south
St James's PrioryScheduled monument680 m (0.4 miles) south
Tropical Bird House at Dudley ZooListed building, Grade II*750 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Brown Bear Ravine at Dudley Zoo (Including All Associated Structures)Listed building, Grade II*820 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Kiosk to East of Former Brown Bear Pit at Dudley ZooListed building, Grade II*820 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Dudley CastleScheduled monument910 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Polar Bear Pit and Lion and Tiger Ravines, Dudley ZooListed building, Grade II*910 m (0.6 miles) south
Victoria Park, TiptonRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.6 km (1 mile) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Kettle's HillHill200 m north-east
Wren's Nest HillHill710 m (0.4 miles) west
Dudley JunctionLake or reservoir900 m (0.6 miles) east
Hursthill WoodWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-west
The GorgeValley3 km (1.9 miles) north-west
Withymoor IslandIsland4 km (2.5 miles) south

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)13.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.8205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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 5920
Under 553234

2 of the street's 34 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 Dudley: see them on the Dudley page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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
Priory Primary SchoolPrimary2–11500 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Dudley College of Technology16 plus16–99840 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Foxyards Primary SchoolPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St James AcademySecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wrens Nest Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bishop Milner Catholic College Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Tipton Green Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Silvertrees AcademyPrimary3–71.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Jesson's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Requires improvement (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Beechwood Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Pauls Church of England AcademyPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
Priory Fryer DY1 4EHTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good12 Mar 2025
Jack Bradney Greengrocer DY1 4EHRetailers - other230 m4 Good19 Jan 2015
Superstop Off Licence DY1 4EHRetailers - other230 m4 Good24 Sep 2018
Its a Catch DY1 4EHTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m3 Generally satisfactory18 May 2026
Your Local Express DY1 4ETRetailers - other270 m1 Major improvement necessary9 Dec 2025
Company Shop Group DY1 4DARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets280 m5 Very good2 Aug 2021
North 2 South DY1 4HHOther catering premises350 mAwaiting inspection
kings DY1 4EETakeaway/sandwich shop390 m5 Very good3 Sep 2025
Amelia's Dessert DY1 4EETakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)Awaiting inspection
Lifestyle Express DY1 4EERetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good30 Oct 2012
Sunrise DY1 4EETakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)3 Generally satisfactory16 Jun 2026
Costbuster DY1 4EERetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)Awaiting inspection
Voyage Care DY1 4HWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 May 2018

Crime within 250 m

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

76 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences38
Criminal damage and arson14
Other crime5
Vehicle crime5
Public order4
Burglary3
Possession of weapons3
Other theft2
Drugs1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Beech Road (19); On or near Elm Road (17); On or near Somery Road (10); On or near Castle Mill Road (10); On or near Hawthorne Road (9).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,034 residents in 374 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 age3640
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)53%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented32%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%32%
Travel to work by car or van67%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)79%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)19%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, end-terrace (lodged 22 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Amelia's Dessert (takeaway/sandwich shop, DY1 4EE) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Kings (takeaway/sandwich shop, DY1 4EE) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings kings (takeaway/sandwich shop, DY1 4EE) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 3 September 2025) found 30 October 2026

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

Forest Road · Elm Road · Hawthorne Road · Oak Road · Chestnut Avenue · Castle Mill Road · Somery Road · Webley Grove · Hackett Drive · Shrewsbury Place · St Edmund Close · Saredon Gardens

All the streets in DY1 and across Dudley.

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.