Blithe Close Stourbridge, Dudley

36 addresses across 1 postcode (DY8), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 11400093.

45 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £240,000 across 2 sales. 17 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, D: 8, E: 1). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Dudley costs £2,145 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. 52 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£240,000£195,000£285,000
20214£192,500£160,000£299,995
20191£153,500£153,500£153,500
20151£186,000£186,000£186,000
20141£118,000£118,000£118,000
20123£110,500£110,100£197,000
20101£185,000£185,000£185,000
20091£147,000£147,000£147,000
20082£135,000£130,000£140,000
20073£136,000£125,000£160,000
20062£120,750£111,500£130,000
20052£167,500£165,000£170,000
Most recent sales (45)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Jun 202546 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£285,000
20 Feb 202532 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£195,000
18 Dec 202432 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£205,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Jul 20226 DY8 4LXTerraced£170,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Mar 202222 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£194,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Nov 202152 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£299,995
20 Aug 202122 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£185,000
8 Apr 202160 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£200,000
8 Apr 202136 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£160,000
17 Dec 20194 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£153,500
26 Jun 201514 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£186,000
28 Feb 201424 DY8 4LXTerraced£118,000
17 Dec 201254 DY8 4LXDetached£197,000
30 Nov 201230 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£110,500
25 Apr 201224 DY8 4LXTerraced£110,100
23 Aug 201042 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£185,000
9 Dec 200950 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£147,000
4 Nov 20086 DY8 4LXTerraced£130,000
25 Jul 200846 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£140,000
9 Nov 200710 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£136,000
8 Jun 200742 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£160,000
30 Mar 200732 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£125,000
26 May 200636 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£130,000
17 Mar 200630 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£111,500
30 Nov 200514 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£170,000
11 Nov 200556 DY8 4LXDetached£165,000
24 Jan 200310 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£86,750
18 Sep 20028 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£84,950
28 Jun 200224 DY8 4LXTerraced£72,000
3 May 200236 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£77,950
12 Apr 200246 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£83,000
7 Dec 200150 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£98,500
21 Jun 200138 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£68,000
12 Apr 200110 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£63,000
26 Feb 200132 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£54,950
1 Sep 200010 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£60,000
11 Aug 200028 DY8 4LXTerraced£56,950
12 Feb 19998 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£50,000
30 Oct 19984 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£50,000
28 Oct 199830 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£47,500
27 Aug 199810 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£52,450
1 Jul 199850 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£68,000
25 Jul 199740 DY8 4LXSemi-detached£49,000
29 Nov 199624 DY8 4LXTerraced£37,250
10 May 199628 DY8 4LXTerraced£43,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 62 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (11); House, detached (3); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1983-1990 (14); 1991-1995 (2); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11); 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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (27% of about 620 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): 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 1.0 km

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

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 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.

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
DY8 4LX100%100%100%0%

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 30 October 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
Amblecote Primary SchoolPrimary3–11600 m Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Peters Hill Primary SchoolPrimary3–11850 m No published inspection
Brook Primary SchoolPrimary3–11860 m No published inspection
Hawbush Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km Requires improvement (Oct 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
King Edward VI College Stourbridge16 plus16–191.1 km No published inspection
The Wordsley SchoolSecondary11–161.5 km No published inspection
Withymoor Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km No published inspection
Redhill SchoolSecondary11–161.6 km Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thorns Collegiate AcademySecondary11–161.7 km Requires improvement (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rufford Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.7 km Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Greenfield Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ashwood Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 30 October 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Vicarage Convenience Store DY8 4JERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets450 m3 Generally satisfactory8 Sep 2021
Rawson's Retreat DY8 4EQHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house460 m5 Very good29 Mar 2019
The Robin Hood DY8 4EQPub/bar/nightclub460 m4 Good21 Feb 2020

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.

52 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences29
Burglary6
Vehicle crime6
Other theft3
Other crime2
Anti-social behaviour2
Public order1
Robbery1
Criminal damage and arson1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Elgin Close (16); On or near Trinity Road (11); On or near Harlestones Close (5); On or near Perivale Way (4); On or near Burns Close (3).

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

Trinity Road · Tamar Rise · Dove Drive · Kirkstone Court · Welland Drive · Burns Close · Dove Ridge · Perivale Way · Sunderland Drive · Shelley Close · Thirlmere Walk · Harlestones Close

All the streets in DY8 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.
  • Anything about planning applications, roadworks, noise, air quality or council tax yet.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.