Colliery Road Birmingham, Sandwell

25 addresses across 4 postcodes (B66,B71), about 520 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 33611860.

  • 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 Sandwell costs £2,244 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 50% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is The Hawthorns, about 560 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Kenrick Park, is about 640 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 16.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 158 to 166 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 7 of its 29 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hawthorns Medical Centre, about 810 m (0.5 miles) away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 810 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 51% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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
Most recent sales (2)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Oct 2024MASTERFIT HOUSE B71 4JSOther£1,680,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Mar 2021HAWTHORNS COURT B71 4JSOther£627,399Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Sandwell in 2026-27: Band D £2,244 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,496£1,746£1,995£2,244£2,743£3,242£3,741£4,489

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (72% of about 1,240 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 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, 0 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
B71 4JSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B71 4LEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
B66 1ARnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B71 4LGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 29 addresses are between 158 m and 166 m above sea level (162 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
B66 1AR100%100%100%0%
B71 4JS100%100%100%0%
B71 4LE100%75%75%0%
B71 4LG50%50%50%50%

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 stationsThe Hawthorns 334,000 journeys in 2024–25560 m (0.3 miles)
Smethwick Galton Bridge 698,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Smethwick Rolfe Street 404,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tramThe Hawthorns (West Midlands Metro)500 m (0.3 miles)
Kenrick Park (West Midlands Metro)830 m (0.5 miles)
Trinity Way (West Midlands Metro)1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kenrick Way Europa Village280 m
Bus or coach stationWest Bromwich Bus Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mercure Birmingham West Car Park700 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ionity Charging Station300 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX16.3 km (10 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 Hawthorns Medical Centre810 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rk Pharmacy810 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalMidland Metropolitan University Hospital2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationWest Midlands Police1.6 km (1 mile)
Cash machinesPayzone830 m (0.5 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 Kenrick Park 5.9 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 910 m²930 m (0.6 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha290 m
AllotmentsKenrick Park Allotments 1.1 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 9.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Smeaton's Summit Bridge, a scheduled monument, 820 m (0.5 miles) south-west. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Smeaton's Summit BridgeScheduled monument820 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Summit BridgeListed building, Grade II*820 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Galton Bridge Including Attached Railway Bridge Span, Roebuck Lane Birmingham Canal Birmingham LevelListed building, Grade I940 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Engine Arm Aqueduct, WarleyScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Smethwick Engine HouseScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Dartmouth ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (1 mile) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Priory WoodsWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Swan PoolLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Smethwick Hall PoolLake or reservoir2 km (1.3 miles) south
Bromford JunctionLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) west
Bromford StopIsland2.4 km (1.5 miles) west
Titford FeederLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 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)16.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.1205
Particles (PM10)13.34015

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
65 to 6901
60 to 6410
55 to 5962
Under 552226

7 of the street's 29 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 3 from railways, 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 Sandwell: see them on the Sandwell 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
Sandwell AcademySecondary11–18180 m Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Galton Valley Primary SchoolPrimary2–11890 m (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oasis Academy WattvillePrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Inadequate (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Trinity CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St James Church of England Primary School, HandsworthPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St John Wall Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.5 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
King George V Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Sandwell College16 plus16–991.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Holyhead SchoolSecondary11–181.7 km (1 mile) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holly Lodge High School College of ScienceSecondary11–181.7 km (1 mile) Report card (May 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; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Philip's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
George Betts Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

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
Mahirs Experience Ltd B71 4JSOther catering premises170 m5 Very good10 Jun 2026
Fresh Pick Grocery Ltd B71 4JZRetailers - other200 mAwaiting inspection
Hawthorns Connect and Subway B71 4JZTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good18 May 2023
Greggs B71 4JZTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m5 Very good22 Jun 2026
West Bromwich Dartmouth Cricke B71 4JQPub/bar/nightclub380 m5 Very good23 Apr 2023
Dine Contract Catering (Allied Bakeries canteen) B71 4JHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Apr 2023
Bestway Wholesale Ltd B71 4LTDistributors/Transporters460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Nov 2024
West Bromwich Albion Football Club Ltd B71 4LFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)4 Good12 Mar 2026
Burger Boi (East Stand Carpark) B71 4LFMobile caterer490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Apr 2023
Burger Boi Two (Smethwick End) B71 4LFMobile caterer490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Apr 2023

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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (west-midlands).

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: 807 residents in 252 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 age3440
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)51%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented22%17%
Private rented24%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work45%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)18%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)7%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram11%4%
By any public transport, including bus21%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)17%34%
No qualifications35%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)66%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all14%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 2 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.

  • B71 4JS: 12 addresses of 13 in the postcode
  • B71 4LE: 9 addresses of 20 in the postcode
  • B66 1AR: 3 addresses of 11 in the postcode
  • B71 4LG: 1 address of 11 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Doranda Way · Birmingham Road · Halfords Lane

All the streets in B66, B71 and across Sandwell.

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.