Foster Street Kinver, South Staffordshire

57 addresses across 2 postcodes (DY7), about 240 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 36701794.

  • Sales: 75 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £350,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 33 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 16, E: 9, 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 South Staffordshire costs £2,314 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 55% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Stourbridge Town, about 6.1 km (3.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Daneford Gardens, is about 210 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 54 to 63 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 7 of its 57 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Wolverley Surgery, about 4.7 km (2.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 670 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 41% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 71 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
20253£350,000£180,000£572,500
20241£425,000£425,000£425,000
20234£349,000£117,500£473,000
20223£247,500£202,000£425,000
20213£235,000£118,000£256,000
20201£197,500£197,500£197,500
20181£187,500£187,500£187,500
20173£212,000£155,000£375,000
20162£167,500£155,000£180,000
20153£182,500£97,000£295,000
20142£165,500£135,000£196,000
20131£205,000£205,000£205,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 75)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Nov 20253 DY7 6EBTerraced£572,500
17 Oct 202534 DY7 6EBSemi-detached£180,000
29 Sep 202547 DY7 6EBFlat or maisonette£90,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Mar 202521 DY7 6EBTerraced£350,000
28 Nov 202413 DY7 6EBSemi-detached£425,000
19 Jul 202449 DY7 6EBFlat or maisonette£142,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Dec 20234 DY7 6EBSemi-detached£473,000
12 Oct 202345 DY7 6EBFlat or maisonette£117,500Leasehold.
17 Mar 202312 DY7 6EBTerraced£270,000
10 Mar 20235 DY7 6EBTerraced£428,000
20 Jun 202248 DY7 6EBFlat or maisonette£105,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Jun 202211 DY7 6EBTerraced£247,500
18 Mar 202219 DY7 6EBSemi-detached£425,000
18 Feb 202216 DY7 6EBSemi-detached£202,000
19 Mar 20212 DY7 6EBSemi-detached£256,000
12 Mar 202112 DY7 6EBTerraced£235,000
8 Jan 202149 DY7 6EBFlat or maisonette£118,000Leasehold.
17 Dec 202027 DY7 6EBTerraced£197,500
25 Jul 201811 DY7 6EBTerraced£187,500
23 Nov 20174 DY7 6EBSemi-detached£375,000
30 Aug 201712 DY7 6EBTerraced£155,000
10 Feb 20176 DY7 6EBTerraced£212,000
18 Aug 201627 DY7 6EBTerraced£155,000
12 Aug 201611 DY7 6EBTerraced£180,000
19 Nov 201510 DY7 6EBTerraced£182,500
11 Jun 201519 DY7 6EBSemi-detached£295,000
23 Jan 201549 DY7 6EBFlat or maisonette£97,000Leasehold.
7 Nov 20144 DY7 6EBSemi-detached£196,000
22 Jan 201427 DY7 6EBTerraced£135,000
8 Mar 201315 DY7 6EBSemi-detached£205,000
30 Nov 201113 DY7 6EBSemi-detached£295,000
12 Nov 2010THROSTLE COTTAGE, 14 DY7 6EBDetached£150,000
16 Apr 20102 DY7 6EBSemi-detached£174,500
24 Jul 20082 DY7 6EBSemi-detached£175,000
29 Aug 200720 DY7 6EBSemi-detached£195,000
3 Jul 200710 DY7 6EBTerraced£170,000
8 Jun 200716 DY7 6EBSemi-detached£147,000
27 Mar 200735 DY7 6EBSemi-detached£165,000
19 Dec 20066 DY7 6EBTerraced£179,950
6 Dec 20067 DY7 6EBDetached£249,999
16 Dec 200530 DY7 6EBDetached£270,000
9 Nov 200527 DY7 6EBTerraced£155,000
9 May 20056 DY7 6EBTerraced£146,000
29 Apr 20051 DY7 6EBTerraced£262,000
26 Oct 200431 DY7 6EBDetached£315,000
11 Aug 200415 DY7 6EBSemi-detached£199,000
11 Jun 200440 DY7 6EBSemi-detached£177,500
14 May 200449 DY7 6EBFlat or maisonette£82,000Leasehold.
6 Feb 200447 DY7 6EBTerraced£89,100Leasehold.
21 Nov 200311 DY7 6EBTerraced£127,000

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 March 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

33 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: Flat (9); House, semi-detached (7); House, mid-terrace (7). Built: before 1900 (13); 1950-1966 (7); 1900-1929 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (18); rented (private) (7); rented (social) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (19 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in South Staffordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,314 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,542£1,800£2,057£2,314£2,828£3,342£3,856£4,627

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (22% of about 1,390 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: 2 protected trees on or by this street.
  • 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 7 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
DY7 6EBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 6 unlikely
DY7 6EAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 57 addresses are between 54 m and 63 m above sea level (60 m on average); the ground rises about 10 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
DY7 6EA100%100%100%0%
DY7 6EB100%55%55%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 stationsStourbridge Town 379,000 journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Blakedown 96,000 journeys in 2024–256.2 km (3.9 miles)
Hagley 494,000 journeys in 2024–256.6 km (4.1 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Castle Street Potters Cross100 m
Bus or coach stationStourbridge Interchange6.1 km (3.8 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX32.9 km (20 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 surgeriesWolverley Surgery4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bills Pharmacy420 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kinver Dental And Implant Surgery230 m
HospitalCorbett Hospital6 km (3.7 miles)
Police stationWest Midlands Police - Stourbridge Police Station5.9 km (3.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Midcounties Co-Op Kinver Cashzone420 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 Daneford Gardens 810 m²210 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 7.4 ha700 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,830 m²330 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.2 ha200 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 7,740 m²2.3 km (1.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 8.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Peter, a listed building (Grade I), 730 m (0.5 miles) south-east. 24 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade I730 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Kinver camp, a univallate hillfortScheduled monument870 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Comber CopseWood680 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Chapel Piece PlantationWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Kinver EdgeHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Hampton ValleyValley2.3 km (1.5 miles) north
Lower Spring PoolLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-west
Lower BogWetland4 km (2.5 miles) north-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)5.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)9.64015

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
55 to 5970
Under 555057

7 of the street's 57 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 South Staffordshire: see them on the South Staffordshire 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
Kinver High School and Sixth FormSecondary11–18230 m Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Foley Infant School AcademyPrimary3–7340 m Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brindley Heath Junior School AcademyPrimary7–11360 m Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Impact Food Group T/a Dolce@ Kinver High School DY7 6AASchool/college/university180 m5 Very good17 Sep 2026
Kinver Garden Day Nursery DY7 6EQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 m5 Very good19 May 2025
The Royal Exchange DY7 6ERPub/bar/nightclub230 m5 Very good9 Dec 2025
The Plough And Harrow DY7 6HDPub/bar/nightclub250 m5 Very good3 Nov 2025
White Harte DY7 6HDPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good29 Oct 2025
Kinver Deli DY7 6HETakeaway/sandwich shop310 m5 Very good10 Jul 2025
Kinver Tandoori Ltd DY7 6HERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good12 Dec 2024
Foley Infant Academy DY7 6EWMobile caterer340 m5 Very good20 Jun 2025
KSCA Bar Facilities DY7 6ETPub/bar/nightclub340 m5 Very good4 Feb 2026
Baci Ristorante Italiano DY7 6HERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good11 Jun 2026
The Olde House Confectioners DY7 6HERetailers - other350 m5 Very good15 Dec 2025
The Olde House Tea Room DY7 6HERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m5 Very good15 Dec 2025
Potters Cross Pre-school Playgroup DY7 6ABHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good11 Mar 2025
Cafe @ No 5 DY7 6HBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good21 Mar 2025
Kings Fayre Bakery Ltd DY7 6HFManufacturers/packers420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 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.

71 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences25
Anti-social behaviour19
Drugs7
Other theft7
Public order6
Criminal damage and arson3
Burglary1
Vehicle crime1
Robbery1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (16); On or near Castle Street (14); On or near Foley Street (14); On or near James Street (13); On or near Foster Crescent (5).

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: 672 residents in 330 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 age5740
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over33%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright56%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)38%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)45%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)41%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 6 to 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.

  • DY7 6EB: 56 addresses of 58 in the postcode
  • DY7 6EA: 1 address of 34 in the postcode

Nearby streets

James Street · Church View Gardens · Foley Street · Church View Gardens · Foley Street · Crystal Gardens · Compton Road · Sterrymere Gardens · Fairfield Drive · The Copelands · Comber Grove · Plemont Gardens

All the streets in DY7 and across South Staffordshire.

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.