Earls Close Redditch

19 addresses across 2 postcodes (B97), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 31101397.

  • Sales: 46 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £268,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, 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 E; Band D in Redditch costs £2,463 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Redditch, about 2.5 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 280 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 142 to 144 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hillview Medical Centre, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 440 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 30 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
20241£268,000£268,000£268,000
20221£423,000£423,000£423,000
20201£368,000£368,000£368,000
20191£332,500£332,500£332,500
20181£340,000£340,000£340,000
20171£297,000£297,000£297,000
20161£297,500£297,500£297,500
20152£373,750£337,500£410,000
20142£222,500£205,000£240,000
20131£235,000£235,000£235,000
20091£192,000£192,000£192,000
20071£209,950£209,950£209,950
Most recent sales (46)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Aug 202415 B97 5QQSemi-detached£268,000
31 Aug 202211 B97 5QQDetached£423,000
11 Dec 202019 B97 5QQDetached£368,000
23 Aug 20198 B97 5QQDetached£332,500
28 Sep 201811 B97 5QQDetached£340,000
8 Dec 201717 B97 5QQDetached£297,000
4 Nov 201610 B97 5QQDetached£297,500
23 Jul 20151 B97 5QQDetached£410,000
13 Feb 20159 B97 5QQDetached£337,500
29 Aug 20147 B97 5QQDetached£240,000
30 May 20143 B97 5QQSemi-detached£205,000
12 Dec 201319 B97 5QQDetached£235,000
22 May 200917 B97 5QQDetached£192,000
12 Jul 200716 B97 5QQSemi-detached£209,950
23 Jun 200617 B97 5QQDetached£230,000
1 Sep 20054 B97 5QQSemi-detached£192,500
26 Nov 200415 B97 5QQSemi-detached£165,000
1 Sep 20049 B97 5QQDetached£322,500
23 Apr 200415 B97 5QQSemi-detached£163,000
15 Apr 200416 B97 5QQSemi-detached£164,000
8 Apr 200412 B97 5QQSemi-detached£152,000
5 Aug 20037 B97 5QQDetached£199,950
20 Jun 200318 B97 5QQSemi-detached£215,000
8 Nov 20024 B97 5QQSemi-detached£130,000
26 Jul 200210 B97 5QQDetached£178,000
28 Jun 20022 B97 5QQDetached£182,500
31 May 200214 B97 5QQSemi-detached£109,000
24 May 20026 B97 5QQDetached£190,000
28 Apr 200019 B97 5QQDetached£147,000New build.
24 Mar 20005 B97 5QQDetached£128,500New build.
17 Mar 200011 B97 5QQDetached£139,950New build.
25 Feb 200015 B97 5QQSemi-detached£79,950New build.
18 Feb 20007 B97 5QQDetached£129,950New build.
4 Feb 200016 B97 5QQSemi-detached£81,500New build.
28 Jan 200012 B97 5QQSemi-detached£83,950New build.
21 Jan 200014 B97 5QQSemi-detached£84,950New build.
26 Nov 19996 B97 5QQDetached£132,000New build.
26 Nov 199917 B97 5QQDetached£128,950New build.
19 Nov 19998 B97 5QQDetached£144,500New build.
19 Nov 19992 B97 5QQDetached£126,500New build.
12 Nov 19999 B97 5QQDetached£168,500New build.
12 Nov 199910 B97 5QQDetached£135,000New build.
1 Nov 19994 B97 5QQSemi-detached£85,500New build.
27 Oct 199918 B97 5QQSemi-detached£135,000New build.
26 Oct 19993 B97 5QQSemi-detached£82,500New build.
17 Sep 19991 B97 5QQDetached£144,500New build.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 116 m². Most common: House, detached (8); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1996-2002 (6); 1991-1995 (2); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8).

Council tax

What each band costs in Redditch in 2026-27: Band D £2,463 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,642£1,916£2,189£2,463£3,010£3,558£4,105£4,926

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (36% of about 580 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: 1.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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, 0 at medium risk and 3 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
B97 5QQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
B97 5PDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 19 addresses are between 142 m and 144 m above sea level (143 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
B97 5PD100%100%100%0%
B97 5QQ100%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 stationsRedditch 910,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.5 miles)
Alvechurch 163,000 journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.4 miles)
Bromsgrove 696,000 journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Springvale Road Webheath270 m
Bus or coach stationRedditch Bus Station2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Car parksCar Park 42.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging pointsRoam Charging Station2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX23.4 km (15 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 surgeriesHillview Medical Centre2.1 km (1.3 miles)
PharmaciesHillview Pharmacy2.1 km (1.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tynsall Avenue (Dental Surgery)600 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalDolan Park Hospital4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Police stationRedditch Police Station3 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machinesATM1.8 km (1.1 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 Unnamed 1.3 ha280 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 550 m²280 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,180 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.0 ha760 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Hewell Grange, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 2.5 km (1.6 miles) north. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hewell GrangeRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.5 km (1.6 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Foxlydiate WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north
Hennals WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) west
Luke's CoppiceWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Batchley PoolLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Ham Green HillHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Shortwood DingleValley4 km (2.5 miles) north

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)5.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.24015

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 6410
55 to 5920
Under 551619

3 of the street's 19 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 Redditch: see them on the Redditch 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
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic First School Roman CatholicPrimary4–9540 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Webheath Academy Primary SchoolPrimary3–11720 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Batchley First and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–91.5 km (1 mile) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; 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
Walkwood Church of England Middle SchoolMiddle deemed secondary9–132 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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.

30 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences18
Anti-social behaviour3
Criminal damage and arson3
Other crime2
Public order1
Possession of weapons1
Other theft1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Grazing Lane (11); On or near Shirehampton Close (7); On or near Hopesay Close (6); On or near Great Hockings Lane (2); On or near Corner Lane (2).

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: 444 residents in 156 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 age4240
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright42%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work70%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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

Garden Meadow Close · Epping Close · Holly Gardens · Acre Lane · Matson Close · Church Road · Lordswood Close · Great Hockings Lane · Corner Lane · Hopesay Close · Shirehampton Close · Barston Street

All the streets in B97 and across Redditch.

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.