Graston Close Birmingham

13 addresses across 1 postcode (B16), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2752757.

  • Sales: 1 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £270,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (B: 9, C: 3).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Birmingham costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Five Ways, about 830 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 40 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 18.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 140 to 142 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 13 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Broadway Health Centre, about 680 m (0.4 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 200 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 15% of households owned their home and 58% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 274 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
20241£270,000£270,000£270,000
Most recent sales (1)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 May 20249 B16 8NDSemi-detached£270,000

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 October 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 81 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (8); House, detached (2); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 2007-2011 (5); 2012 onwards (3); 2003-2006 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (9); owner-occupied (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (2 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 (32% of about 820 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): 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 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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, 1 at medium risk and 4 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 140 m and 142 m above sea level (141 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
B16 8ND100%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 stationsFive Ways 1.3 million journeys in 2024–25830 m (0.5 miles)
Birmingham New Street 37 million journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Jewellery Quarter 446,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Underground, metro or tramFive Ways (West Midlands Metro)430 m (0.3 miles)
Brindleyplace (West Midlands Metro)550 m (0.3 miles)
Edgbaston Village (West Midlands Metro)600 m (0.4 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 60 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Leyburn Road Ladywood250 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Car parks7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Broadway Plaza Car Park330 m
EV charging points16 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity390 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX12 km (7.5 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Broadway Health Centre680 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Five Ways Pharmacy230 m
NHS dentists12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Liberty Place300 m
HospitalBirmingham City Hospital1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationLadywood Police Station340 m
Cash machines7 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barclays ATM410 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 garden7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.2 ha40 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 3.8 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 510 m²170 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,640 m²790 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 400 m²1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 7 parks and gardens, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Roundhouse, cobbled ramps and tunnel (formerly stables for the City of Birmingham Engineers Depot), a listed building (Grade II*), 270 m north-east. 195 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 9 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Roundhouse, cobbled ramps and tunnel (formerly stables for the City of Birmingham Engineers Depot)Listed building, Grade II*270 m north-east
Former Gas Retort House, Retort House Extension to South West and Attached StoreListed building, Grade II*740 m (0.5 miles) east
The Church of the Immaculate Conception (The Oratory), the Oratory Priests' House and the Former Oratory School BuildingsListed building, Grade II*780 m (0.5 miles) south-west
The Monument (Observatory)Listed building, Grade II*790 m (0.5 miles) west
Warstone Lane CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Birmingham Botanical GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
The de Birmingham moated site, the seat of the medieval Lords of BirminghamScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Icknield Port LoopLake or reservoir740 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Soho LoopLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Edgbaston PoolLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Moor PoolLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-west
The GroveWood3.7 km (2.3 miles) south-west
Thimblemill PoolLake or reservoir4 km (2.5 miles) 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)18.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.2205
Particles (PM10)13.14015

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
55 to 5920
Under 551113

2 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
St John's & St Peter's CofE Primary Church of EnglandPrimary4–11150 m No published inspection
Nelson Primary SchoolPrimary3–11540 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Blessed Dominic Barberi Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11560 m (0.3 miles) Inadequate (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St George's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11700 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
BOA Stage and Screen Production Academy16 plus16–19790 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Jewellery Quarter AcademySecondary11–16890 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Inadequate; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Inadequate
City AcademySecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Thomas Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Thomas Centre Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Patrick and St Edmund's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Barford Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Paul's School for Girls Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.4 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
D'Cocina Birmingham B16 8FLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good29 Sep 2025
Mushroom station B16 8FPOther catering premises110 m4 Good21 Sep 2026
St. Johns & St Peters C Of E Academy B16 8RNSchool/college/university150 m5 Very good10 Mar 2026
Perrotts Folly Nursery B16 8EDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises160 m5 Very good9 Jun 2025
Amy's B16 8GZOther catering premises160 mAwaiting inspection
Ju Ju's Cafe B16 8GYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 mAwaiting inspection
Narrowboat Euphrates Packet B16 8DEMobile caterer190 m5 Very good23 Sep 2009
The Vine B16 8BBPub/bar/nightclub190 m4 Good1 May 2025
Street Record Mobile caterer190 m5 Very good23 Sep 2009
Ladywood Butcher and Grocery B16 8RPRetailers - other200 m2 Improvement necessary4 Jul 2025
Shaks Fishbar & Peri Peri B16 8RPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m3 Generally satisfactory15 Jul 2026
Urbanroots cafe B16 8RPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m3 Generally satisfactory5 Aug 2026
Little Wonders Pre-School B16 8ELHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m3 Generally satisfactory2 Jun 2026
Nisa Local B16 8RPRetailers - other230 m5 Very good26 Feb 2019
Shawarma Town B16 8RPTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m3 Generally satisfactory8 Sep 2026

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.

274 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences117
Vehicle crime41
Other theft29
Criminal damage and arson24
Anti-social behaviour18
Public order12
Burglary11
Drugs8
Other crime5
Robbery3
Bicycle theft3
Possession of weapons3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Guild Close (51); On or near Rann Close (31); On or near Sherborne Street Wharf (30); On or near Morville Street (29); On or near Sherborne Street (27).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 201 residents in 109 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 age3040
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over3%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)15%61%
Owned outright3%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented14%17%
Private rented72%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work76%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)under 1%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)47%32%
Travel to work by car or van29%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%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)58%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)66%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Morville Street · Shyltons Croft · Bellcroft · Ashton Croft · Browning Street · Sherborne Street Wharf · Canal Square · Ladycroft · Sherborne Street · Ryland Street · Botany Walk · Gilby Road

All the streets in B16 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.