Embassy Drive Birmingham

45 addresses across 3 postcodes (B15), about 240 m long, classed as a local access road. USRN 2708673.

  • 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 C; Band D in Birmingham costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 38% to 90% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Five Ways, about 450 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Five Ways Community Park, is about 390 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 16.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 154 to 156 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 21 of its 47 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bath Row Medical Practice, about 770 m (0.5 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 390 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 74% of households owned their home and 63% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 214 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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 (3)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Jan 2020CAMOMILE HOUSE, 6 B15 1TPOther£725,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Dec 2018APEX HOUSE, 3 B15 1TROther£8,618,458Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Jan 2014APEX HOUSE, 3 B15 1TROther£5,686,641Leasehold. Not 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 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 C (28% of about 600 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: yes, EDGBASTON CONSERVATION AREA (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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 47 addresses are between 154 m and 156 m above sea level (155 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
B15 1TP90%90%90%0%
B15 1TR50%50%50%0%
B15 3AA38%38%38%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 stationsFive Ways 1.3 million journeys in 2024–25450 m (0.3 miles)
Birmingham New Street 37 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Birmingham Snow Hill 3.2 million journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Underground, metro or tramEdgbaston Village (West Midlands Metro)300 m
Five Ways (West Midlands Metro)500 m (0.3 miles)
Brindleyplace (West Midlands Metro)800 m (0.5 miles)
Bus stops20 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 52 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St James Road Five Ways30 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Car parks5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Apcoa Car Park240 m
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ESB Energy Charging Station400 m (0.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX11.8 km (7.3 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bath Row Medical Practice770 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Attwood Green Pharmacy770 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery200 m
HospitalThe Harborne Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationLadywood Police Station700 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest RBS10 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Five Ways Community Park 4,260 m²390 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Chamberlain Gardens 3.8 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 440 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 6,640 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsEdgbaston Guinea Gardens 4.7 ha1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 7.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 36, Calthorpe Road B15, a listed building (Grade II*), 330 m south-west. 268 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 9 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
36, Calthorpe Road B15Listed building, Grade II*330 m south-west
35, Calthorpe Road B15Listed building, Grade II*360 m south-west
Giles HouseListed building, Grade II*430 m (0.3 miles) west
The Church of the Immaculate Conception (The Oratory), the Oratory Priests' House and the Former Oratory School BuildingsListed building, Grade II*650 m (0.4 miles) west
Birmingham Botanical GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II*870 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Westbourne Road Town GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
The de Birmingham moated site, the seat of the medieval Lords of BirminghamScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Icknield Port LoopLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Edgbaston PoolLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Soho LoopLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) north
Moor PoolLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.6 miles) west
The GroveWood3.2 km (2 miles) south-west
Thimblemill PoolLake or reservoir4.2 km (2.6 miles) 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)16.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.0205
Particles (PM10)12.34015

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
60 to 64210
Under 552647

21 of the street's 47 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 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 George's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11650 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St John's & St Peter's CofE Primary Church of EnglandPrimary4–11750 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
City AcademySecondary11–16880 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Feb 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Thomas Centre Nursery SchoolNursery2–5890 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Blessed Dominic Barberi Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11940 m (0.6 miles) Inadequate (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oasis Academy WoodviewPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Thomas Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Nelson Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Catherine of Siena Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
BOA Stage and Screen Production Academy16 plus16–191.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Lillian De Lissa Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (May 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
Jewellery Quarter AcademySecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Inadequate; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Inadequate

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
Costa Drive Thru B15 1THRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good6 Dec 2023
Norfolk House Nursery B15 1RPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises120 mAwaiting inspection
Delta Hotels By Marriott Birmingham B16 8SJHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house120 m5 Very good22 Sep 2025
Busy Bees in Edgbaston B15 1JLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises120 m5 Very good17 Apr 2026
Carebright Living Limited B15 1THHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 mAwaiting inspection
Mander Portman Woodward B15 3AURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good7 Nov 2023
The Blue Piano B15 3AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m4 Good29 Jul 2026
The Village Kitchen B15 3BETakeaway/sandwich shop180 m4 Good23 May 2025
Chapter B15 3BERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good21 Apr 2026
One Stop Fiveways B15 1LDTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m1 Major improvement necessary29 May 2025
Springere B15 1LDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 mAwaiting inspection
Sandwich Club B15 1LDTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m5 Very good19 Jul 2020
Norfolk House Nursery B15 3AAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good2 Jul 2026
La-Pop B15 1LDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good2 Sep 2020
The Food Hut (Gyros Guru) B15 1BLMobile caterer220 m2 Improvement necessary4 Dec 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.

214 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting122
Violence and sexual offences31
Public order12
Other theft9
Anti-social behaviour6
Robbery6
Vehicle crime6
Bicycle theft5
Burglary5
Criminal damage and arson4
Possession of weapons3
Theft from the person3
Other crime1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Greenfield Crescent (205); On or near Frederick Road (9).

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: 393 residents in 149 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 age3840
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)74%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented25%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van35%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)63%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)88%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.

  • B15 1TP: 40 addresses
  • B15 1TR: 4 addresses of 5 in the postcode
  • B15 3AA: 1 address of 142 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Frederick Road · Hagley Road · A4540 · Greenfield Crescent · St James Road · Islington Row · George Road · Moss House Close · The Paddocks · Calthorpe Road · Tennant Street · Austen Place

All the streets in B15 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.