Gate Lane Royal Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham

101 addresses across 6 postcodes (B73), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2707882.

  • Sales: 18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2016 the median was £206,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 4, D: 3, F: 1).
  • Flood: 8 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 E; Band D in Birmingham costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 50% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wylde Green, about 630 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Sutton Park, is about 940 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 123 to 125 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 7 of its 101 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Hawthorns Surgery, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 820 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 62% of households owned their home and 45% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 115 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
20161£206,000£206,000£206,000
20141£162,500£162,500£162,500
20052£182,500£165,000£200,000
20041£150,000£150,000£150,000
20021£75,000£75,000£75,000
20011£98,000£98,000£98,000
19991£45,000£45,000£45,000
19971£155,000£155,000£155,000
19961£77,000£77,000£77,000
Most recent sales (18)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
4 Dec 20254 B73 5TTTerraced£195,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Aug 20254 B73 5TTTerraced£197,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Jun 2025SOVEREIGN HOUSE, 22 B73 5TTDetached£550,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Feb 20258 B73 5TTOther£260,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Jul 20249 B73 5TROther£130,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Jul 20233 B73 5TROther£340,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Jun 202137 B73 5TROther£100,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Dec 20169 B73 5TROther£115,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Jan 201635 B73 5TRTerraced£206,000
1 May 20146 B73 5TTTerraced£162,500
27 Jun 200535 B73 5TRTerraced£165,000
19 Apr 200529 B73 5TRDetached£200,000
29 Mar 200412 B73 5TTSemi-detached£150,000
29 May 20023 B73 5TRTerraced£75,000
10 Aug 200135 B73 5TRTerraced£98,000
7 Oct 199935 B73 5TRTerraced£45,000
4 Apr 1997SOVEREIGN HOUSE, 22 B73 5TTDetached£155,000
27 Sep 199629 B73 5TRTerraced£77,000

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 July 2016 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 66 m². Most common: Flat (6); House, mid-terrace (4). Built: 2016 (3); 2023 (3); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 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 E (30% of about 2,070 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 3 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

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 20 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
B73 5TRnot in 2 or 3 2 / 5 / 7 unlikely
B73 5TTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 6 unlikely
B73 5TSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
B73 5TJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
B73 5TXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B73 5XAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 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 101 addresses are between 123 m and 125 m above sea level (124 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
B73 5TJ92%92%92%4%
B73 5TR89%89%89%11%
B73 5TS50%50%50%50%
B73 5TT78%78%78%22%
B73 5TX100%100%100%0%
B73 5XA93%93%93%7%

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 stationsWylde Green 521,000 journeys in 2024–25630 m (0.4 miles)
Chester Road 659,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Sutton Coldfield 1.0 million journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 22 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Highbridge Road Boldmere150 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth8.8 km (5.5 miles)
Car parksM The Lanes Car Park1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ESB Energy Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX12.2 km (7.6 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 The Hawthorns Surgery1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mw Phillips Chemists1.2 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boldmere Dental Practice350 m
HospitalSutton Cottage Hospital1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationSutton Coldfield Police Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ivape mini market Cashzone170 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 gardenSutton Park 872 ha940 m (0.6 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 70 m²1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.7 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsSunnybank Road Allotments 3,050 m²800 m (0.5 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Sutton Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-west.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sutton ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Powell's PoolLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Wyndley WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Wyndley PoolLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Holly HurstWood1.7 km (1 mile) north
Longmoor PoolLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Withy HillHill4.9 km (3.1 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)13.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

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 69200
55 to 59500
Under 5594101101

7 of the street's 101 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Birmingham: see them on the Birmingham page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Nicholas Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11170 m Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Boldmere Junior SchoolPrimary7–11510 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Boldmere Infant School and NurseryPrimary3–7510 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for GirlsSecondary11–18920 m (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wylde Green Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Maney Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
New Oscott Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Town House Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Plantsbrook SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Twickenham Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Court Farm Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bishop Walsh Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 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
Soofi Restaurant B73 5TRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m2 Improvement necessary29 Apr 2026
Trinity Respite Services B73 5TRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises70 m5 Very good5 Mar 2025
Fit for All Sutton Coldfield B73 5TROther catering premises90 mAwaiting inspection
The Bishop Vesey B73 5XAPub/bar/nightclub100 m5 Very good4 Oct 2022
Costa Coffee B73 5XARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good26 Jul 2023
Travelodge B73 5UPHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house140 m5 Very good6 Feb 2012
Boldmere Harvester B73 5UPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good26 Jul 2023
The Deli B73 5TJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good13 Jul 2026
Rajput B73 5TJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good21 Aug 2023
Communitea Cafe B73 5TJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 mAwaiting inspection
Mother India B73 5TJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m3 Generally satisfactory24 Jun 2025
Boldmere Butchers B73 5TJRetailers - other150 m5 Very good15 Jun 2016
House of Mr Li B73 5TJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m1 Major improvement necessary24 Mar 2026
Tesco Stores Ltd B73 5UBRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets160 m5 Very good14 Mar 2017
The Lounge at Boldmere B73 5UBPub/bar/nightclub160 m4 Good23 Apr 2019

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.

115 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences47
Vehicle crime18
Public order15
Other theft9
Burglary8
Criminal damage and arson6
Anti-social behaviour4
Drugs3
Other crime2
Shoplifting1
Theft from the person1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Fir Tree Grove (42); On or near Union Drive (41); On or near Wakefield Close (13); On or near Amos Mews (8); On or near Britwell Road (7).

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: 823 residents in 373 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 age4340
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)62%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented18%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van44%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)45%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 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.

Nearby streets

Fir Tree Grove · Union Drive · Wakefield Close · Amos Mews · Britwell Road · Heathlands Road · Wrekin Road · Boldmere Road · Beresford Drive · Sunningdale Close · Heathlands Crescent · Ivy Road

All the streets in B73 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.