Fairfield Drive Pelsall, Walsall

16 addresses across 2 postcodes (WS3), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41900520.

  • Sales: 17 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £190,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 7).
  • Flood: 16 addresses on its postcodes are 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 Walsall costs £2,627 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bloxwich, about 3.6 km (2.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 180 m away, and Pelsall Common (18 hectares) is about 330 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 140 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 16 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is High Street Surgery, about 420 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 92% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 41 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
20242£190,000£110,000£270,000
20221£278,000£278,000£278,000
20191£230,000£230,000£230,000
20171£180,000£180,000£180,000
20161£174,950£174,950£174,950
20141£148,250£148,250£148,250
20131£185,500£185,500£185,500
20112£151,500£139,000£164,000
20061£153,000£153,000£153,000
20031£149,950£149,950£149,950
20001£77,500£77,500£77,500
19984£70,500£66,000£72,700
Most recent sales (17)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Aug 202417 WS3 4HSTerraced£110,000Leasehold.
14 Jun 202410 WS3 4HSDetached£270,000
22 Jul 202210 WS3 4HSDetached£278,000
30 May 20196 WS3 4HSTerraced£230,000Leasehold.
31 Aug 20175 WS3 4HSTerraced£180,000Leasehold.
14 Oct 20163 WS3 4HSTerraced£174,950
27 Jun 20143 WS3 4HSTerraced£148,250Leasehold.
19 Jul 20132 WS3 4HSTerraced£185,500
18 Mar 20113 WS3 4HSTerraced£139,000
21 Jan 201111 WS3 4HSTerraced£164,000Leasehold.
5 Jun 20065 WS3 4HSTerraced£153,000Leasehold.
8 Dec 20038 WS3 4HSSemi-detached£149,950Leasehold.
22 Sep 20006 WS3 4HSTerraced£77,500Leasehold.
27 Nov 199819 WS3 4HSTerraced£66,000Leasehold.
26 Jun 19984 WS3 4HSTerraced£72,700Leasehold.
19 Jun 19988 WS3 4HSSemi-detached£72,000Leasehold.
29 May 199819 WS3 4HSTerraced£69,000Leasehold.

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 May 2010 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 98 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (5); House, detached (4). Built: 1967-1975 (4); 1983-1990 (3); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Walsall in 2026-27: Band D £2,627 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,752£2,044£2,336£2,627£3,211£3,795£4,379£5,255

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (43% of about 490 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.

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, 11 addresses are in areas at high risk, 5 at medium risk and 16 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
WS3 4HSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely
WS3 4EGnot in 2 or 3 11 / 4 / 15 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 addresses are about 140 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
WS3 4EG100%100%100%0%
WS3 4HS100%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 stationsBloxwich 114,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Bloxwich North 123,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Landywood 169,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Gilpin Crescent Ryders Hayes120 m
Bus or coach stationWalsall Bus Station5.3 km (3.3 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station280 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX24.7 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest High Street Surgery420 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Touchwood Pharmacy420 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Oraco LTD290 m
HospitalGoscote Hospital2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationBrownhills Police Station2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest BR Spar Pelsall, Pelsall Cashzone430 m (0.3 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,510 m²180 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Pelsall Common 18 ha330 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 350 m²270 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.2 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsGreenfields Road Allotments 1.6 ha1.7 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 36 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
Rails WoodWood590 m (0.4 miles) south
Pelsall JunctionLake or reservoir840 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Pelsall WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Engine Lane SpinneyWood2 km (1.2 miles) north
Wyrley CommonWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north
Shireoak HillHill3.1 km (2 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)10.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

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
55 to 5910
Under 551516

1 of the street's 16 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 Walsall: see them on the Walsall 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
Ryders Hayes SchoolPrimary2–11290 m Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Pelsall Village SchoolPrimary3–11680 m (0.4 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Michael's Church of England C Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ormiston Shelfield Community AcademySecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
St Francis Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.8 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
Little Bloxwich CofE VC Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Rushall Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 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
Old House at Home WS3 4NTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good13 May 2026
Early Ryders' and Knight Ryders' WS3 4HXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good16 Jul 2024
Pelsall Social Club And Institute WS3 4NXPub/bar/nightclub330 m4 Good22 Apr 2026
Elliots Cafe WS3 4AYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good2 Jun 2026
Little Chippy Pizza WS3 4AYTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)3 Generally satisfactory25 Sep 2025
Queens WS3 4AYPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good19 Sep 2025
Perkd WS3 4LXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Oct 2025
Hong Kong Delight WS3 4LXTakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory29 Sep 2025
Spar & Subway WS3 4LXRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Apr 2026
Sprinkles Tearoom WS3 4LXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)1 Major improvement necessary24 Nov 2025
The Little Village Tearooms WS3 4LXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Sep 2026
Lotus Blossom Chinese Take Away WS3 4LTTakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory6 Aug 2025
Co-Op Pharmacy Ltd WS3 4LTRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Mazza WS3 4LTTakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory12 Dec 2024
Mana Vape WS3 4LTRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 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.

41 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences17
Criminal damage and arson5
Vehicle crime5
Other theft4
Other crime3
Public order2
Burglary2
Anti-social behaviour2
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Armside Close (14); On or near Shireview Road (7); On or near Smithy Drive (6); On or near Fairfield Drive (4); On or near St Andrews Avenue (4).

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: 281 residents in 117 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 age5240
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over30%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)92%61%
Owned outright53%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)34%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)56%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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

Armside Close · St Nicholas Close · Heathside Drive · St Peters Drive · St Josephs Close · St Marks Road · St Andrews Avenue · Ryders Hayes Lane · Smithy Drive · Gilpin Crescent · Copse Crescent · Shireview Road

All the streets in WS3 and across Walsall.

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.