Icknield Square Birmingham

29 addresses across 3 postcodes (B16), about 280 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2701845.

  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Birmingham costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 88% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Jewellery Quarter, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 180 m away, and Summerfield Park (15 hectares) is about 770 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 140 to 149 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 24 of its 29 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Broadway Health Centre, about 150 m away, with 12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 690 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 51% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 105 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 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

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 C (31% of about 2,490 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 14 August 2026 to 17 August 2026: National Grid Electricity Distribution (West Midlands), Remedial works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 29 addresses are between 140 m and 149 m above sea level (143 m on average); the ground rises about 10 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
B16 0PP88%88%88%0%
B16 8HA100%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 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Five Ways 1.3 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Birmingham New Street 37 million journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Underground, metro or tramFive Ways (West Midlands Metro)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Brindleyplace (West Midlands Metro)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Edgbaston Village (West Midlands Metro)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 39 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ledsam Street Ladywood180 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Car parksQ-Park Birmingham City Hospital810 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points14 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity580 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX12.5 km (7.8 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 surgeries12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Broadway Health Centre150 m
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest R & R Pharmacy150 m
NHS dentists12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Broadway Dental Suite150 m
HospitalBirmingham City Hospital860 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationLadywood Police Station640 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone380 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 3.8 ha180 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Summerfield Park 15 ha770 m (0.5 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 190 m²160 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,640 m²630 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 400 m²540 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 10 parks and gardens, 33 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Public Library, a listed building (Grade II*), 560 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 100 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Public LibraryListed building, Grade II*560 m (0.3 miles) north-east
The Roundhouse, cobbled ramps and tunnel (formerly stables for the City of Birmingham Engineers Depot)Listed building, Grade II*610 m (0.4 miles) south-east
9,10 and 11, Legge LaneListed building, Grade II*880 m (0.5 miles) east
The Monument (Observatory)Listed building, Grade II*920 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Warstone Lane CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Key Hill CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Icknield Port LoopLake or reservoir290 m south-west
Soho LoopLake or reservoir700 m (0.4 miles) north
Moor PoolLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-west
Edgbaston PoolLake or reservoir3 km (1.9 miles) south
Thimblemill PoolLake or reservoir3.6 km (2.2 miles) west
The GroveWood4 km (2.5 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)17.64010
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
70 to 7410
65 to 6950
60 to 6406
55 to 591810
Under 55513

24 of the street's 29 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 16 from railways, 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), 1 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
BOA Stage and Screen Production Academy16 plus16–19180 m No published inspection
Blessed Dominic Barberi Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11540 m (0.3 miles) Inadequate (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John's & St Peter's CofE Primary Church of EnglandPrimary4–11550 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Patrick and St Edmund's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11610 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Barford Primary SchoolPrimary3–11670 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Nelson Primary SchoolPrimary3–11680 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Jewellery Quarter AcademySecondary11–16780 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 Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 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
Brookfields Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Summerfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Paul's School for Girls Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
City Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
AUNTIE JOLLOF B16 0AUOther catering premises150 mAwaiting inspection
BCG FOOD PANTRY/Community Hub & Cafe B16 0QZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good25 Feb 2025
AFCS CIC Consortium HUB B18 7AFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good16 Sep 2026
Essence Youth Mentoring CIC B18 7AFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 mAwaiting inspection
Ladywood Leisure Centre B16 8TROther catering premises250 m4 Good28 Jul 2026
Yard Art House B16 0AEOther catering premises250 m5 Very good10 Mar 2022
Uwish Lounge Ltd B18 7ADRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Jun 2025
Coconut Cup Ltd B18 7AFOther catering premises320 mAwaiting inspection
BAIL-LICIOUS B18 7AERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Feb 2025
Braai Spot B18 7AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good29 Jul 2026
Costcutter -Saini Liquor Store B1 2PZRetailers - other390 mExempt
Ristorante Caffe Gustami B1 2PZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good17 Oct 2023
Le Mystic Restaurant B1 2PZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good27 Mar 2026
Blessing Market B1 2PZRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)1 Major improvement necessary20 May 2026
L'amore B16 0RFMobile caterer410 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.

105 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences50
Anti-social behaviour10
Vehicle crime9
Criminal damage and arson8
Public order6
Burglary5
Other theft5
Bicycle theft3
Other crime2
Possession of weapons2
Robbery2
Shoplifting1
Theft from the person1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Springfield Street (50); On or near South Loop Park (27); On or near Park/Open Space (14); On or near Icknield Square (5); On or near Freeth Street (3).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 694 residents in 253 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 age3240
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)51%61%
Owned outright23%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented20%17%
Private rented27%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van35%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus18%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)39%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)70%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all7%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 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

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.

  • B16 0PP: 27 addresses of 28 in the postcode
  • B16 0QA: 1 address
  • B16 8HA: 1 address of 51 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lock Loop Way · South Loop Square · South Loop Green · Cope Street · Stour Street · Fulmer Walk · Rudge Walk · South Loop Park · Nickel Road · Springfield Street · Ledsam Street · Cobalt 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.