Dormy Drive Birmingham

4 addresses across 2 postcodes (B31), about 90 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 2700771.

  • Sales: 12 recorded sales since 1995; in 2009 the median was £128,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 1 homes have an energy certificate (D: 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 A; Band D in Birmingham costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Longbridge, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 310 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 172 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 4 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Cofton Medical Centre, about 210 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 49% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 109 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
20091£128,000£128,000£128,000
20082£150,000£150,000£150,000
20073£145,000£143,000£145,000
20041£92,000£92,000£92,000
19993£66,500£59,995£66,500
19961£54,500£54,500£54,500
19951£45,200£45,200£45,200
Most recent sales (12)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Oct 200914 B31 3RPTerraced£128,000Leasehold.
25 Apr 200812 B31 3RPSemi-detached£150,000
25 Apr 200812 B31 3RPTerraced£150,000Leasehold.
12 Oct 200714 B31 3RPTerraced£143,000Leasehold.
15 Jun 200716 B31 3RPTerraced£145,000
15 Jun 200716 B31 3RPSemi-detached£145,000Leasehold.
17 Mar 200412 B31 3RPTerraced£92,000Leasehold.
19 Nov 199914 B31 3RPTerraced£59,995Leasehold.
29 Oct 199916 B31 3RPSemi-detached£66,500Leasehold.
29 Oct 199916 B31 3RPTerraced£66,500
12 Apr 199614 B31 3RPTerraced£54,500Leasehold.
9 Jun 199512 B31 3RPTerraced£45,200Leasehold.

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

1 home with a current certificate; median floor area 93 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1967-1975 (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (1 address)

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 A (63% of about 1,000 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 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 addresses are about 172 m above sea level.

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
B31 3QS100%100%100%0%
B31 3RP100%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 stationsLongbridge 892,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Northfield 643,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Kings Norton 934,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 41 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dormy Drive West Heath60 m
Bus or coach stationAlvechurch - Red Lion PH4.6 km (2.9 miles)
Car parksSainsbury's Northfield Car Park2.2 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX16.2 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cofton Medical Centre210 m
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Knights Redhill Pharmacy520 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery510 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalWest Heath Hospital920 m (0.6 miles)
Police stationRubery Police Station3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Snax 24 - Longbridge 859, West Heath Cashzone320 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.0 ha310 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 340 m²230 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 12 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cofton Road Allotments 9,200 m²260 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 5.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Hawkesley Farm moated site, a scheduled monument, 680 m (0.4 miles) west.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hawkesley Farm moated siteScheduled monument680 m (0.4 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
High HillHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-east
The GroveWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Wast HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Upper Bittell ReservoirLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Red HillHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) east
Egghill DingleValley3.8 km (2.4 miles) north-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)10.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

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
60 to 6410
Under 5534

1 of the street's 4 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), 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
St John Fisher Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11430 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Albert Bradbeer Primary AcademyPrimary3–11440 m (0.3 miles) 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
Turves Green Boys' SchoolSecondary11–18540 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cofton Primary SchoolPrimary4–11540 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Turves Green Primary SchoolPrimary4–11650 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
West Heath Nursery SchoolNursery2–4760 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
King Edward VI Northfield School for GirlsSecondary11–16790 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
West Heath Primary SchoolPrimary4–11950 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
The Meadows Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Requires improvement (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Columba's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Fairway Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) 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
Wychall Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Feb 2020, 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
Milkk B31 3RLOther catering premises120 mAwaiting inspection
Fairfax/Ribao Ke B31 3SJOther catering premises280 mAwaiting inspection
Pizza 4U B31 3SHTakeaway/sandwich shop290 mAwaiting inspection
Midland Oak School B31 3PESchool/college/university290 m5 Very good22 Sep 2009
Londis Nuthurst Road B31 4TLRetailers - other310 m4 Good1 Aug 2024
Morrison's Daily B31 4QHRetailers - other320 m5 Very good3 May 2019
Spiceland B31 3SHTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m4 Good26 Aug 2025
Fairfax Cafe B31 3SHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good30 Aug 2023
Nilani Food & Wine / Cost cutter B31 3SHRetailers - other330 m1 Major improvement necessary6 Nov 2025
Mushy's24/7 Ltd B31 3SHOther catering premises350 m5 Very good28 Jan 2026
Austin Rose Care Home B31 3QWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good6 Nov 2025
St John Fisher Rc Junior & Infant Sc B31 3PNSchool/college/university390 m4 Good20 Apr 2026
Little Scally Wags Day Nursery B31 3PNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises390 m5 Very good5 Jan 2026
West Heath Snooker Club B31 3PHOther catering premises430 m (0.3 miles)Exempt

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.

109 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences48
Vehicle crime12
Criminal damage and arson12
Burglary11
Other theft10
Anti-social behaviour6
Possession of weapons3
Public order3
Robbery2
Other crime2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cofton Road (28); On or near Clee Road (25); On or near Petrol Station (15); On or near Dormy Drive (9); On or near Beeches Way (7).

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: 286 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 age4140
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)49%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented30%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)14%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%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 1 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.

Nearby streets

Clee Road · Highcrest Close · Beeches Way · Beeches Farm Drive · Merrishaw Road · Rea Close · Cofton Road · Longbridge Lane · Robinsfield Drive · Longhurst Croft · Laughton Close · Sibdon Grove

All the streets in B31 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.