Bulrush Close Brownhills, Walsall

39 addresses across 2 postcodes (WS8), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41903627.

  • Sales: 71 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £370,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 23 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 15, D: 7).
  • 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 Walsall costs £2,627 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Landywood, about 5.6 km (3.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Brownhills Common, is about 420 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 147 to 149 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 39 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is New Road Medical Centre, about 290 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 770 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 76% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 41 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
20251£370,000£370,000£370,000
20241£335,000£335,000£335,000
20231£530,000£530,000£530,000
20211£375,000£375,000£375,000
20192£229,375£225,000£233,750
20181£194,000£194,000£194,000
20173£259,700£249,999£370,000
20163£244,000£243,000£325,000
20153£265,000£190,000£280,000
20143£227,500£217,000£287,000
20132£198,750£170,000£227,500
20121£180,000£180,000£180,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 71)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 May 20257 WS8 6DBDetached£370,000
23 Aug 202421 WS8 6DBDetached£335,000
24 Jul 202317 WS8 6DBDetached£530,000
28 Sep 202147 WS8 6DBDetached£375,000
13 Sep 201927 WS8 6DBDetached£225,000
9 Sep 201939 WS8 6DBDetached£233,750
15 Jan 201839 WS8 6DBDetached£194,000
16 Jun 201749 WS8 6DBDetached£259,700
26 May 201737 WS8 6DBDetached£249,999
10 Mar 201720 WS8 6DBDetached£370,000
26 Sep 201653 WS8 6DBDetached£325,000
20 Apr 20167 WS8 6DBDetached£243,000
19 Feb 201616 WS8 6DBDetached£244,000
25 Nov 201535 WS8 6DBDetached£190,000
9 Oct 20155 WS8 6DBDetached£265,000
22 May 20153 WS8 6DBDetached£280,000
7 Jul 201441 WS8 6DBDetached£217,000
17 Apr 201414 WS8 6DBDetached£227,500
28 Feb 201422 WS8 6DBDetached£287,000
21 Jun 201311 WS8 6DBDetached£227,500
31 Jan 201319 WS8 6DBDetached£170,000
13 Sep 201243 WS8 6DBDetached£180,000
4 May 201016 WS8 6DBSemi-detached£231,000
2 Jun 200851 WS8 6DBDetached£249,995
30 May 20089 WS8 6DBDetached£220,000
15 Jun 200735 WS8 6DBDetached£188,500
2 Aug 200643 WS8 6DBDetached£188,000
10 Mar 200622 WS8 6DBDetached£271,300
1 Jul 200537 WS8 6DBDetached£215,000
6 May 200543 WS8 6DBDetached£175,000
11 Apr 200524 WS8 6DBDetached£230,000
30 Apr 20041 WS8 6DBDetached£230,000
31 Oct 200311 WS8 6DBDetached£194,000
17 Oct 200323 WS8 6DBDetached£170,000
5 Sep 200341 WS8 6DBDetached£177,461New build.
28 Jul 200349 WS8 6DBDetached£176,700New build.
1 Jul 200345 WS8 6DBDetached£179,950New build.
25 Jun 200353 WS8 6DBDetached£209,950New build.
20 Jun 200337 WS8 6DBDetached£174,551New build.
2 Jun 200351 WS8 6DBDetached£188,950New build.
2 Jun 200347 WS8 6DBDetached£182,479New build.
16 May 200343 WS8 6DBDetached£144,490New build.
9 May 200339 WS8 6DBDetached£144,490
30 Apr 200335 WS8 6DBDetached£149,891New build.
22 Apr 200333 WS8 6DBDetached£192,950New build.
15 Apr 200320 WS8 6DBDetached£253,655New build.
11 Apr 200324 WS8 6DBDetached£193,011New build.
28 Mar 200322 WS8 6DBDetached£235,661New build.
28 Mar 20034 WS8 6DBDetached£191,020New build.
28 Mar 20036 WS8 6DBDetached£187,161New build.

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

23 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 124 m². Most common: House, detached (22); House, enclosed mid-terrace (1). Built: 1996-2002 (13); 2003-2006 (9); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (19 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Walsall in 2026-27: Band D £2,627 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,752£2,044£2,336£2,627£3,211£3,795£4,379£5,255

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (27% of about 950 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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.

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

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 39 addresses are between 147 m and 149 m above sea level (148 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
WS8 6DB100%100%100%0%
WS8 6EE100%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 stationsLandywood 169,000 journeys in 2024–255.6 km (3.5 miles)
Bloxwich North 123,000 journeys in 2024–255.8 km (3.6 miles)
Bloxwich 114,000 journeys in 2024–255.8 km (3.6 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 27 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wallace Road Clayhanger150 m
Bus or coach stationWalsall Bus Station7.3 km (4.6 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station440 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX25 km (16 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest New Road Medical Centre290 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy420 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery230 m
HospitalGoscote Hospital4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Police stationBrownhills Police Station430 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM470 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 Brownhills Common 72 ha420 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,360 m²530 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.9 ha50 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,790 m²670 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 105 hectares in all.

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Engine Lane SpinneyWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Wyrley CommonWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Shireoak HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Pelsall JunctionLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-west
ChasewaterLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.6 miles) north
Rails WoodWood2.5 km (1.6 miles) south-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)10.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
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 553739

2 of the street's 39 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 Walsall: see them on the Walsall 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
Ogley Hay Nursery SchoolNursery2–5660 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St James AcademyPrimary3–11700 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11760 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11860 m (0.5 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brownhills Ormiston AcademySecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Watling Street Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Millfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Brownhills West Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Shire Oak AcademySecondary11–181.7 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Inadequate; Behaviour and attitudes: Inadequate; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Inadequate
Walsall Wood SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

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 Swan WS8 7DLPub/bar/nightclub230 m5 Very good8 Nov 2024
B & M Bargains WS8 6EBRetailers - other350 m5 Very good24 Oct 2011
Aldi WS8 6EQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good9 Mar 2017
Card Factory WS8 6EQRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)Exempt
Jiggers Whistle WS8 6EDPub/bar/nightclub410 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory25 Feb 2019
Park Place Meats WS8 6EFRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good14 May 2025
Aladdin's WS8 6EDTakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
No. 1 Pizza WS8 6EDTakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory28 Jan 2026
A E Poxons (approved premises) WS8 6EFDistributors/Transporters420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Sep 2025
Tesco WS8 6DZRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Jan 2018
McDonald's WS8 7JPTakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Nov 2025
Greggs WS8 6ELRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Jan 2026
R. Downes Brownhills Newsagent WS8 6ELRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good8 May 2026
K Mini Market WS8 6ELRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good14 May 2024
Ginos/Ginos Pizza n Peri Peri/Chix WS8 6ELTakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Oct 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.

41 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences18
Vehicle crime9
Criminal damage and arson3
Other theft3
Public order2
Burglary2
Anti-social behaviour1
Other crime1
Robbery1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Sandpiper Close (19); On or near Curlew Drive (4); On or near Kingfisher Close (3); On or near Hussey Road (3); On or near Bulrush Close (3).

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: 768 residents in 270 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 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)76%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work69%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van70%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%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)31%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Ginos/Ginos Pizza n Peri Peri/Chix (takeaway/sandwich shop, WS8 6EL) now 5 Very good, was Unknown (rated 27 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Shoulder of Mutton (pub/bar/nightclub, WS8 6AA) now 5 Very good, was 4 Good (rated 1 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Little Green Dragons (hospitals/childcare/caring premises, WS8 7JW) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 29 October 2026) 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.

  • WS8 6DB: 38 addresses of 41 in the postcode
  • WS8 6EE: 1 address of 42 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Watermead Grange · Moorhen Close · Kingfisher Close · Swan Drive · Sandpiper Close · Heron Close · Lapwing Close · Wallace Road · Cygnet Drive · Water Lily Grove · Ferrie Grove · Land at the Back of

All the streets in WS8 and across Walsall.

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.