Finmere Road Birmingham

13 addresses across 2 postcodes (B28), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2706736.

  • Sales: 19 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £280,250 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 4, E: 2, F: 2).
  • 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 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Hall Green, about 300 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Curtis Gardens, is about 570 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 133 to 134 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 8 of its 13 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hall Green Health, about 800 m (0.5 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 800 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 42% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 87 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
20231£280,250£280,250£280,250
20201£275,000£275,000£275,000
20171£121,500£121,500£121,500
20141£212,000£212,000£212,000
20121£162,000£162,000£162,000
20091£147,000£147,000£147,000
20081£170,000£170,000£170,000
20062£180,000£162,500£197,500
20051£160,000£160,000£160,000
20041£164,950£164,950£164,950
20021£125,000£125,000£125,000
20013£120,000£99,000£125,000
Most recent sales (19)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 May 20233 B28 8HXSemi-detached£280,250
20 Nov 20209 B28 8HXSemi-detached£275,000
21 Dec 20187 B28 8HXSemi-detached£190,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Feb 201710 B28 8HXSemi-detached£121,500
26 Aug 201411 B28 8HXSemi-detached£212,000
12 Dec 201212 B28 8HXSemi-detached£162,000
10 Nov 20098 B28 8HXSemi-detached£147,000
10 Jul 200810 B28 8HXSemi-detached£170,000
12 Apr 200610 B28 8HXSemi-detached£162,500
10 Feb 20066 B28 8HXSemi-detached£197,500
14 Jan 20056 B28 8HXSemi-detached£160,000
27 Feb 20045 B28 8HXSemi-detached£164,950
5 Jul 20022 B28 8HXSemi-detached£125,000
12 Oct 20014 B28 8HXSemi-detached£120,000
5 Oct 20012 B28 8HXSemi-detached£99,000
26 Sep 20018 B28 8HXSemi-detached£125,000
20 Feb 19985 B28 8HXSemi-detached£60,000
12 Jun 19973 B28 8HXSemi-detached£64,000
28 Apr 19954 B28 8HXSemi-detached£52,850

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 November 2011 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 88 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (9). Built: 1930-1949 (9). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

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 (41% of about 690 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 16 August 2026 to 17 August 2026: BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the verge, footpath (minor works)

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 5 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
B28 8HXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B28 8JGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 5 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 13 addresses are between 133 m and 134 m above sea level (134 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
B28 8HX100%100%100%0%
B28 8JG100%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 stationsHall Green 339,000 journeys in 2024–25300 m
Spring Road 162,000 journeys in 2024–25940 m (0.6 miles)
Yardley Wood 409,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 42 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hall Green Church190 m
Bus or coach stationSolihull Station4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Car parksAsda Shirley Car Park2.7 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station300 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX6.7 km (4.2 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hall Green Health800 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest School Road Pharmacy530 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sherwood Dental Practice730 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalFormer Womens Hospital2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationAcocks Green Police Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM360 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 Curtis Gardens 3.1 ha570 m (0.4 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 110 m²890 m (0.6 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 5.2 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fox Hollies Nine Stiles Allotments 2.2 ha610 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 3.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of the Ascension, a listed building (Grade II*), 230 m south-east. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of the AscensionListed building, Grade II*230 m south-east
Burnt mounds at Moseley Bog, 380m north east of Moseley New PoolScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Burnt mound in Fox Hollies Park, 140m south east of Round PoolScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Mill PondLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) west
Round PoolLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) east
Moseley New PoolLake or reservoir1.7 km (1 mile) west
Coldbath PoolLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Palmers RoughWood2.5 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Olton ReservoirLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 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)12.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)11.64015

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, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
65 to 69100
60 to 64100
55 to 59600
Under 5551313

8 of the street's 13 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
Hall Green Junior SchoolPrimary7–11510 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hall Green Infant SchoolPrimary3–7530 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Hall Green SchoolSecondary11–16540 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
Yorkmead Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary3–11660 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Ninestiles, an AcademySecondary11–18780 m (0.5 miles) Good (Dec 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lakey Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–11870 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Yarnfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Ambrose Barlow Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Robin Hood AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Bernard's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Severne Junior Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Al-Furqan Primary School MuslimPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 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
Sparkhill Foodbank - Hall Green B28 8JQOther catering premises120 mAwaiting inspection
New Hall Green Express B28 8HTRetailers - other250 m4 Good20 Feb 2019
Petit Pain B28 8HTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Mar 2026
MS Patisserie B28 8HNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good2 Oct 2025
KFC B28 8HNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good10 Sep 2020
Polly Jean's bakes B28 8BFOther catering premises300 mAwaiting inspection
costa coffee B28 9BHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good30 Jun 2026
MomoCita B28 8RJOther catering premises320 mAwaiting inspection
Twist & Flame B28 9ADRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m5 Very good22 Oct 2020
Torinoz pizza B28 9ADTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m3 Generally satisfactory18 Feb 2026
Vintage_Bakes B28 8NUOther catering premises360 mAwaiting inspection
The Smash Pit B28 8BXTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m5 Very good6 Jul 2026
Russell Nursery School B28 9DWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 m5 Very good28 Apr 2026
Tesco Stores Ltd B28 8ABRetailers - other370 m5 Very good17 Jul 2019
JUCI B28 8XBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good9 Jul 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.

87 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences40
Vehicle crime11
Burglary10
Drugs6
Public order6
Criminal damage and arson4
Other theft3
Other crime3
Robbery2
Anti-social behaviour1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Brooklands Close (29); On or near Brooklands Road (14); On or near Larchmere Drive (13); On or near Finmere Road (12); On or near Hazelmere Road (10).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 798 residents in 243 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 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van52%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus11%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)42%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)83%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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

Hazelmere Road · School Road · Larchmere Drive · Ferndale Road · Brooklands Road · Brooklands Close · Silverlands Close · Olympia Close · Welby Road · Kildare Close · Stadium Road · Staplehurst Road

All the streets in B28 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.