Fourlands Road Birmingham

114 addresses across 4 postcodes (B31), about 390 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2703968.

  • Sales: 8 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £76,800 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 82 homes have an energy certificate (B: 4, C: 32, D: 41, E: 5).
  • Flood: 3 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 B; 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 Northfield, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 100 m away, and Ley Hill Recreation Ground (20 hectares) is about 230 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 193 to 204 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 114 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Shenley Green Surgery, about 510 m (0.3 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 720 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 23% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 100 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£76,800£76,800£76,800
20201£97,600£97,600£97,600
20151£118,000£118,000£118,000
20111£76,000£76,000£76,000
20082£64,750£39,500£90,000
20032£94,500£94,000£95,000
Most recent sales (8)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 May 202356 B31 1EYTerraced£76,800
10 Feb 202015 B31 1EXSemi-detached£97,600
1 Apr 20154 B31 1EXSemi-detached£118,000
4 May 20112 B31 1EXSemi-detached£76,000
25 Apr 200879 B31 1EYFlat or maisonette£39,500Leasehold.
9 Apr 20082 B31 1EXSemi-detached£90,000
20 Aug 20034 B31 1EXSemi-detached£94,000
8 Aug 20032 B31 1EXSemi-detached£95,000

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 May 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

82 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (48); House, end-terrace (11); House, mid-terrace (8). Built: 1950-1966 (46); 1991-1995 (13); 2012-2021 (10). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (60); owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (19 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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (38% of about 1,360 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 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): 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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 16 December 2026 to 17 December 2026: BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works, permit applied for)

Finished in the last three months

  • 12 August 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, New service connection, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 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
B31 1EYnot in 2 or 3 3 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B31 1EXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B31 1EZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B31 1JQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 114 addresses are between 193 m and 204 m above sea level (199 m on average); the ground rises about 11 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
B31 1EX100%100%100%0%
B31 1EY100%100%100%0%
B31 1EZ100%100%100%0%
B31 1JQ100%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 stationsNorthfield 643,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Longbridge 892,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Selly Oak 2.3 million journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 41 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Taysfield Road Ley Hill210 m
Bus or coach stationHalesowen Bus Station5.4 km (3.4 miles)
Car parksSainsbury's Northfield Car Park1.6 km (1 mile)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX16.1 km (10 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shenley Green Surgery510 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest G R Pharmacy420 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Imperial Dental Group - Weoley Castle1.2 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalRoyal Orthopaedic Hospital1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationBournville Lane Police Station2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Select & Save Cashzone320 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 garden7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.3 ha100 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Ley Hill Recreation Ground 20 ha230 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 620 m²330 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shenley Green Recreation Ground 8,060 m²610 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shenley Lane Allotments 6,110 m²710 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 7 parks and gardens, 34 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Standing cross in St Leonards churchyard, a scheduled monument, 1.6 km (1 mile) west.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Standing cross in St Leonards churchyardScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) west
Moated site of Frankley HallScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) west
Weoley CastleScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bartley ReservoirLake or reservoir940 m (0.6 miles) west
Bromwich WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Frankley Lower BeechesWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Broadhidley WoodWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Woodgate ValleyValley2.5 km (1.5 miles) north
Egg HillHill2.5 km (1.5 miles) south-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)10.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

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 6410
55 to 5910
Under 55112114

2 of the street's 114 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
E-ACT Shenley AcademySecondary11–16460 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Shenley Fields Nursery SchoolNursery2–5480 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Woodcock Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–11520 m (0.3 miles) Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Green Meadow Primary SchoolPrimary4–11570 m (0.4 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Orchards Primary AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Bellfield Primary School (NC)Primary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Edith Cadbury Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Princethorpe Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.4 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Princethorpe Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
King Edward VI Five Ways SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Northfield Manor Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Michael's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2022, 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
Jollof Republic B31 1DROther catering premises130 mAwaiting inspection
Eats B31 1DSOther catering premises230 mAwaiting inspection
The Highlander B31 1TNPub/bar/nightclub250 m5 Very good23 Sep 2009
Select & Save B31 1JTRetailers - other260 mAwaiting inspection
Leyhill Palace B31 1JTTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m4 Good22 Dec 2025
Veloura food Ltd B31 1JQMobile caterer280 mAwaiting inspection
Mihaela Petrov B31 1DSOther catering premises290 mAwaiting inspection
Slimming World with Yvonne B31 1ELOther catering premises290 m5 Very good20 May 2026
Shenley E Act Academy B29 4HESchool/college/university370 m5 Very good16 Sep 2026
Birmingham Community Boxing Project B31 5SEOther catering premises400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good5 Aug 2026
Hillwood Market News B31 1DJRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good29 Jan 2018
Hillwood off Licence and Convenience B31 1DJRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Nov 2025
Hillwood Chippy B31 1DJTakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good26 Aug 2026
Spice Atelier B31 1EAOther catering premises440 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

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.

100 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences49
Criminal damage and arson15
Vehicle crime10
Public order7
Burglary6
Possession of weapons4
Anti-social behaviour3
Other crime2
Other theft2
Drugs1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Fourlands Road (35); On or near Homedene Road (24); On or near Bangham Pit Road (14); On or near Shenley Hill (10); On or near Dawn Road (8).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 715 residents in 288 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 age3340
Children under 1525%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)23%61%
Owned outright10%33%
Shared ownership7%1%
Social rented63%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work45%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)13%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)14%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications31%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)90%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 3 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL: Highway improvement works, 16 December 2026 to 17 December 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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

Halescroft Square · Dawn Road · Westhaven Drive · Shenley Hill · Bangham Pit Road · Pool Field Avenue · Homedene Road · Long Mynd Road · Clavedon Close · Holloway · Dunchurch Drive · Long Nuke Road

All the streets in B31 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.