Braid Close Birmingham

15 addresses across 2 postcodes (B38), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2700695.

  • Sales: 9 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £207,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 5, D: 4, E: 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 B; Band D in Birmingham costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 96% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Northfield, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 170 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 170 to 175 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 15 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is West Heath Surgery, about 920 m (0.6 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 590 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 43% of households owned their home and 20% 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
20262£207,000£194,000£220,000
20201£129,000£129,000£129,000
20181£139,000£139,000£139,000
20141£97,500£97,500£97,500
20071£112,000£112,000£112,000
20012£51,000£50,000£52,000
Most recent sales (9)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Mar 202614 B38 8YBTerraced£194,000
10 Feb 202622 B38 8YBTerraced£220,000
16 Aug 202221 B38 8YBFlat or maisonette£87,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Mar 202016 B38 8YBTerraced£129,000
22 Mar 201814 B38 8YBTerraced£139,000
12 Mar 201414 B38 8YBTerraced£97,500
19 Oct 200716 B38 8YBTerraced£112,000
7 Jun 200120 B38 8YBTerraced£52,000
30 Apr 200114 B38 8YBTerraced£50,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from July 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 51 m². Most common: Flat (5); House, mid-terrace (3); Maisonette, end-terrace (1). Built: 1967-1975 (8); 1976-1982 (2); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (5); owner-occupied (4); rented (private) (1).

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 (53% of about 680 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: 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

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 15 addresses are between 170 m and 175 m above sea level (173 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
B38 8XY96%96%96%5%
B38 8YB100%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 stationsNorthfield 643,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Kings Norton 934,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Longbridge 892,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.5 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dormie Close Wychall130 m
Bus or coach stationAlvechurch - Red Lion PH5.6 km (3.5 miles)
Car parksSainsbury's Northfield Car Park2.1 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ESB Energy Charging Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX14.8 km (9.2 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 West Heath Surgery920 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Browns Pharmacy680 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest House Of Dental930 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalWest Heath Hospital640 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationBournville Lane Police Station3 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Vardon Supermarket Cashzone310 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,930 m²170 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 9.4 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 390 m²310 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 12 ha180 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest West Heath Allotments 2.6 ha370 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 10 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Burnt mounds in Woodlands Park, 540m and 640m west of The Pavilion, a scheduled monument, 2 km (1.2 miles) north.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Burnt mounds in Woodlands Park, 540m and 640m west of The PavilionScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north
Hawkesley Farm moated siteScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Merecroft PoolLake or reservoir900 m (0.6 miles) north-east
High HillHill1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
Red HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Wast HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
The GroveWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Egghill DingleValley4.5 km (2.8 miles) 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)10.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)11.24015

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 5910
Under 551415

1 of the street's 15 addresses is 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), 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
Fairway Primary AcademyPrimary4–11200 m Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; 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
West Heath Primary SchoolPrimary4–11560 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Wychall Primary SchoolPrimary3–11610 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas Aquinas Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18780 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
West Heath Nursery SchoolNursery2–4940 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Hawkesley Church Primary Academy Church of England/MethodistPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ark Kings AcademyAll-through3–181.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John Fisher Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
King Edward VI Northfield School for GirlsSecondary11–161.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Kings Norton Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Turves Green Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kings Norton Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.5 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Outstanding

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
Fairway Primary School B38 8XQSchool/college/university270 m5 Very good3 Sep 2026
Bussinnchicken street food B31 3BPMobile caterer290 mAwaiting inspection
Fortune House B38 8XHTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m4 Good11 Sep 2025
Vardon Supermarket Ltd B38 8XHRetailers - other300 m2 Improvement necessary27 Oct 2025
The Kings Oak B38 8XHPub/bar/nightclub300 m4 Good19 Jul 2019
News Plus B38 8EGRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good28 Feb 2024
Spicebox B38 8EGTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good23 Mar 2026
Morris House B38 8EJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Jun 2011
Wychall Primary Academy B31 3EHSchool/college/university480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Nov 2025
Taylorshaw @ Wychall Primary School B31 3EHSchool/college/university480 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
RB Holiday Camps Wychall B31 3EHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

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 offences34
Vehicle crime17
Criminal damage and arson6
Public order5
Anti-social behaviour4
Other crime3
Possession of weapons3
Burglary3
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Dormie Close (16); On or near Birdie Close (12); On or near Thomson Avenue (10); On or near Brassie Close (10); On or near Par Green (8).

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: 585 residents in 273 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 age3940
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)43%61%
Owned outright19%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented41%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)13%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van52%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more awayunder 1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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.

  • B38 8YB: 14 addresses of 16 in the postcode
  • B38 8XY: 1 address of 28 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Portrush Avenue · Mashie Gardens · Gullane Close · Par Green · Bradshaw Avenue · Thomson Avenue · Dormie Close · Brassie Close · Forfar Walk · Birdie Close · Vardon Way · Muirfield Gardens

All the streets in B38 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.