Dam Mill Close Bilbrook, South Staffordshire

33 addresses across 2 postcodes (WV8), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 36702105.

  • Sales: 34 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £153,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 32 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 30).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas 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 C; Band D in South Staffordshire costs £2,314 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 44% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bilbrook, about 940 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Barnhurst Lane Pitches, is about 790 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 108 to 110 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 19 of its 33 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bilbrook Medical Centre, about 790 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 62% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 15 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£153,000£131,000£175,000
20241£180,000£180,000£180,000
20237£162,500£154,000£170,000
20221£175,000£175,000£175,000
200817£95,000£85,000£125,000
20066£165,000£150,000£170,000
Most recent sales (34)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Jul 202632 WV8 1TZSemi-detached£175,000
20 May 202614 WV8 1TZFlat or maisonette£131,000Leasehold.
21 Feb 202431 WV8 1TZTerraced£180,000
10 Nov 202330 WV8 1TZTerraced£164,000
30 Oct 202324 WV8 1TZTerraced£160,000
26 Oct 202320 WV8 1TZTerraced£170,000
28 Jul 202321 WV8 1TZTerraced£160,000
7 Jul 202325 WV8 1TZTerraced£165,000
7 Jul 202322 WV8 1TZTerraced£154,000
9 May 202329 WV8 1TZTerraced£162,500
16 Dec 202226 WV8 1TZTerraced£175,000
19 Dec 200814 WV8 1TZFlat or maisonette£115,000New build. Leasehold.
15 Oct 20086 WV8 1TZFlat or maisonette£125,000New build. Leasehold.
3 Oct 200819 WV8 1TZFlat or maisonette£120,000New build. Leasehold.
3 Jul 200812 WV8 1TZFlat or maisonette£90,000New build. Leasehold.
3 Jul 200818 WV8 1TZFlat or maisonette£90,000New build. Leasehold.
29 May 200816 WV8 1TZFlat or maisonette£85,000New build. Leasehold.
29 May 200815 WV8 1TZFlat or maisonette£85,000New build. Leasehold.
20 May 20085 WV8 1TZFlat or maisonette£95,000New build. Leasehold.
16 May 200811 WV8 1TZFlat or maisonette£95,000New build. Leasehold.
21 Apr 20083 WV8 1TZFlat or maisonette£95,000New build. Leasehold.
21 Apr 20084 WV8 1TZFlat or maisonette£95,000New build. Leasehold.
15 Apr 20082 WV8 1TZFlat or maisonette£95,000New build. Leasehold.
15 Apr 20081 WV8 1TZFlat or maisonette£95,000New build. Leasehold.
8 Apr 20089 WV8 1TZFlat or maisonette£95,000New build. Leasehold.
8 Apr 200810 WV8 1TZTerraced£95,000New build. Leasehold.
20 Mar 20087 WV8 1TZFlat or maisonette£95,000New build. Leasehold.
20 Mar 20088 WV8 1TZFlat or maisonette£95,000New build. Leasehold.
27 Apr 200622 WV8 1TZTerraced£165,000New build.
27 Apr 200621 WV8 1TZTerraced£165,000New build.
20 Apr 200631 WV8 1TZTerraced£150,000New build.
15 Mar 200627 WV8 1TZTerraced£165,000New build.
15 Mar 200629 WV8 1TZTerraced£165,000New build.
20 Feb 200632 WV8 1TZSemi-detached£170,000New build.

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 March 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

32 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 54 m². Most common: Flat (18); House, mid-terrace (9); House, semi-detached (3). Built: 2003-2006 (28); 2007-2011 (3); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (28); owner-occupied (3); rented (social) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in South Staffordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,314 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,542£1,800£2,057£2,314£2,828£3,342£3,856£4,627

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (43% of about 610 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.

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, 1 at medium risk and 22 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
WV8 1TZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 22 unlikely
WV8 2JUnot 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 33 addresses are between 108 m and 110 m above sea level (109 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
WV8 1TZ88%44%44%0%
WV8 2JU100%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 stationsBilbrook 139,000 journeys in 2024–25940 m (0.6 miles)
Codsall 136,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Wolverhampton 5.2 million journeys in 2024–255.1 km (3.2 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Birches Avenue Bilbrook160 m
Bus or coach stationWolverhampton Bus Station5.1 km (3.2 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX34.3 km (21 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bilbrook Medical Centre790 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bilbrook Pharmacy950 m (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Treetops Surgery940 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalNuffield Hospital2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationWest Midlands Police - Oxley Police Base1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Codsall Cashzone1.1 km (0.7 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barnhurst Lane Pitches 10 ha790 m (0.5 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 390 m²610 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 5.6 ha910 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 8,080 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 10 hectares in all.

Landmarks

2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bedford SpinneyWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Bedford GorseWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Wergs PlantationWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Wood CoppiceWood1.7 km (1 mile) west
Aldersley JunctionLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Bushbury HillHill4.6 km (2.8 miles) east

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)7.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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
60 to 6404
55 to 59196
Under 551423

19 of the street's 33 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 10 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 South Staffordshire: see them on the South Staffordshire 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
Birches First SchoolPrimary3–9290 m Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Aldersley High SchoolSecondary11–18780 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Palmers Cross Primary SchoolPrimary3–11790 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Christopher's Catholic Primary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Lane Green First SchoolPrimary3–91.1 km (0.7 miles) 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: Good
Bilbrook CofE (VC) Middle School Church of EnglandMiddle deemed secondary9–131.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Codsall Community High SchoolSecondary13–181.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Dovecotes Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Codsall Middle SchoolMiddle deemed secondary9–131.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Claregate Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Birches First School WV8 2JGSchool/college/university260 m5 Very good10 Nov 2025

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.

15 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences6
Criminal damage and arson3
Other crime1
Drugs1
Other theft1
Vehicle crime1
Burglary1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Palmers Close (4); On or near Lane Green Road (4); On or near Palmers Way (3); On or near Eastward Glen (2); On or near Dam Mill Close (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 323 residents in 134 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 age3740
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)62%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented30%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work70%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)53%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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.

  • WV8 1TZ: 32 addresses of 33 in the postcode
  • WV8 2JU: 1 address of 16 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lane Green Avenue · Palmers Close · Palmers Way · Eastward Glen · Birches Avenue · Charters Avenue · South View Close

All the streets in WV8 and across South Staffordshire.

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.