Hockley Pool Close Birmingham

5 addresses across 2 postcodes (B18), about 30 m long. USRN 2701807.

  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4).
  • 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 Jewellery Quarter, about 350 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 110 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 121 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 5 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hockley Medical Practice, about 640 m (0.4 miles) away, with 11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 410 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 26% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 91 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 August 2022 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (2); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: 1983-1990 (2); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (4).

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 B (55% of about 600 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): CITY WIDE HMO.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
B18 5QNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
B18 5QLnot in 2 or 3 3 / 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 addresses are about 121 m above sea level.

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
B18 5QL100%100%100%0%
B18 5QN100%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 stationsJewellery Quarter 446,000 journeys in 2024–25350 m
Birmingham Snow Hill 3.2 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Birmingham New Street 37 million journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Underground, metro or tramJewellery Quarter (West Midlands Metro)340 m
St Paul's (West Midlands Metro)1 km (0.6 miles)
Soho Benson Road (West Midlands Metro)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 54 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lodge Road Hockley130 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Car parksQ-Park Birmingham City Hospital820 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points14 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station510 m (0.3 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 surgeries11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hockley Medical Practice640 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies16 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hockley Medical Practice Pharmacy490 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Farm Street (Dental Surgery)590 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalBirmingham City Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationWest Midlands Police - Newtown Police Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM340 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 garden10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,210 m²110 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 5.4 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 570 m²440 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,730 m²450 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,000 m²740 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 10 parks and gardens, 24 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Key Hill Cemetery, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 190 m south-east. 200 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 11 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Key Hill CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II*190 m south-east
303, Icknield Street B18Listed building, Grade II*270 m north
Icknield Street School (St Chad's Roman Catholic Annexe)Listed building, Grade II*290 m north
Warstone Lane CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II390 m south-east
Great Hampton Street WorksListed building, Grade II*430 m (0.3 miles) east
Aquinus HouseListed building, Grade II*570 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Soho LoopLake or reservoir720 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Icknield Port LoopLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Halfmoon PlantationWood3.7 km (2.3 miles) north
Edgbaston PoolLake or reservoir4 km (2.5 miles) south
Moor PoolLake or reservoir4.1 km (2.5 miles) south-west
Thimblemill PoolLake or reservoir4.3 km (2.7 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)17.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.2205
Particles (PM10)12.94015

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 5940
Under 5505

5 of the street's 5 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
Brookfields Primary SchoolPrimary3–11230 m Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Francis Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11710 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Nishkam High School SikhSecondary11–19790 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Jewellery Quarter AcademySecondary11–16810 m (0.5 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
St George's Church of England Academy, NewtownPrimary4–11940 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Anglesey Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
BOA Stage and Screen Production Academy16 plus16–191.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Chad's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brearley Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Nishkam Primary School Birmingham SikhPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Michael's CofE Primary Academy, Handsworth Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Patrick and St Edmund's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 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
CRI Inpatients Drug Treatment Unit B18 5QLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises20 m4 Good15 Jun 2016
Life Community Church B18 5PWOther catering premises50 m5 Very good21 Mar 2024
H V Smith Ltd B18 5PZManufacturers/packers70 m4 Good24 Mar 2015
Platinum Spoon, Caribbean takeaway B18 5PWOther catering premises80 mAwaiting inspection
Hockley Day Centre B18 5QBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises80 m4 Good7 Nov 2025
Hockley Day Centre B18 5QBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises80 m5 Very good30 Mar 2023
SK Convenience Store (Life Style Exp B18 5PNTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m1 Major improvement necessary4 Jun 2024
A D Hockley Catering - Unit 11 B18 5AUOther catering premises160 m3 Generally satisfactory9 Apr 2026
TGT Keyhill B18 5AURetailers - other170 m4 Good15 Nov 2021
Nevin Day centre B18 5PBOther catering premises200 m5 Very good29 Apr 2020
Hylton Cafe B18 6HNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m2 Improvement necessary13 Mar 2025
Sael B18 6FHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 mAwaiting inspection
Chouchoute luxury chocolates B18 6HNOther catering premises280 m5 Very good23 Apr 2026
The Vegan Society B18 6HJRetailers - other280 m1 Major improvement necessary9 Sep 2024
Brookfields Primary School B18 6PUSchool/college/university300 m5 Very good25 Feb 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.

91 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences33
Burglary13
Criminal damage and arson12
Vehicle crime11
Public order7
Possession of weapons4
Other theft3
Robbery2
Other crime2
Anti-social behaviour2
Drugs1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Park Road South (32); On or near All Saints' Road (18); On or near Hurdlow Avenue (10); On or near Ford Street (10); On or near Key Hill (10).

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: 407 residents in 129 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 1528%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)26%61%
Owned outright13%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented61%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work38%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)16%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)12%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van43%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus30%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)17%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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

Park Road South · All Saints' Road · Lodge Road · A4540 · Heaton Street · Pitsford Street · Hurdlow Avenue · Key Hill Drive · Hylton Street · Knightstone Avenue · Icknield Street · Key Hill

All the streets in B18 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.