John Riley Drive Willenhall, Walsall

30 addresses across 2 postcodes (WV12), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41901806.

  • Sales: 31 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £225,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 20 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 10, D: 5, E: 2, F: 1, G: 1).
  • 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 Walsall costs £2,627 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bloxwich, about 2.2 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 340 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 151 to 155 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 10 of its 30 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is New Invention Health Centre, about 250 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 68% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 29 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
20261£225,000£225,000£225,000
20251£200,000£200,000£200,000
20201£162,000£162,000£162,000
20181£147,000£147,000£147,000
20163£130,000£82,500£136,995
20132£90,000£90,000£90,000
20111£105,000£105,000£105,000
20081£127,470£127,470£127,470
20071£102,000£102,000£102,000
20053£117,500£117,000£117,500
20042£102,250£88,000£116,500
20031£85,000£85,000£85,000
Most recent sales (31)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Jan 20264 WV12 5ASSemi-detached£225,000
12 Sep 202531 WV12 5ASSemi-detached£115,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Sep 202531 WV12 5ASOther£10,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Jan 20252 WV12 5ASSemi-detached£200,000
24 Mar 202010 WV12 5ASSemi-detached£162,000Leasehold.
31 Aug 201817 WV12 5ASOther£153,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jul 20183 WV12 5ASSemi-detached£147,000
30 Sep 201620 WV12 5ASSemi-detached£130,000Leasehold.
11 Mar 201622 WV12 5ASSemi-detached£82,500Leasehold.
29 Feb 201618 WV12 5ASDetached£136,995Leasehold.
25 Mar 201320 WV12 5ASSemi-detached£90,000
25 Mar 201320 WV12 5ASSemi-detached£90,000Leasehold.
25 Jul 201127 WV12 5ASSemi-detached£105,000Leasehold.
2 May 200816 WV12 5ASSemi-detached£127,470Leasehold.
31 May 20077 WV12 5ASTerraced£102,000
21 Nov 20053 WV12 5ASSemi-detached£117,000
29 Jul 20055 WV12 5ASTerraced£117,500Leasehold.
29 Jul 20055 WV12 5ASTerraced£117,500
4 Aug 200416 WV12 5ASSemi-detached£116,500Leasehold.
25 Jun 200417 WV12 5ASTerraced£88,000Leasehold.
29 Aug 200310 WV12 5ASSemi-detached£85,000Leasehold.
12 Dec 200225 WV12 5ASSemi-detached£88,950Leasehold.
1 Nov 200210 WV12 5ASSemi-detached£83,500Leasehold.
9 Aug 200216 WV12 5ASSemi-detached£71,400Leasehold.
14 Jun 20023 WV12 5ASSemi-detached£52,500
24 Oct 200019 WV12 5ASSemi-detached£56,500Leasehold.
20 Oct 200011 WV12 5ASTerraced£32,500
28 Jul 200017 WV12 5ASTerraced£32,000Leasehold.
7 Apr 200013 WV12 5ASTerraced£32,500Leasehold.
13 Nov 199819 WV12 5ASSemi-detached£48,000Leasehold.
14 Mar 199713 WV12 5ASTerraced£20,000Leasehold.

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

20 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 84 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (16); House, mid-terrace (2); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1967-1975 (12); 1950-1966 (7); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Walsall in 2026-27: Band D £2,627 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,752£2,044£2,336£2,627£3,211£3,795£4,379£5,255

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (73% of about 560 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): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 7 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
WV12 5ASnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WV12 5AYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 3 / 7 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 30 addresses are between 151 m and 155 m above sea level (153 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
WV12 5AS100%100%100%0%
WV12 5AY100%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 stationsBloxwich 114,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.3 miles)
Bloxwich North 123,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Walsall 1.2 million journeys in 2024–254.9 km (3 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 42 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Baynton Road New Invention120 m
Bus or coach stationWalsall Bus Station4.9 km (3.1 miles)
Car parksElmore Row Car Park2.4 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea470 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX26.5 km (16 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest New Invention Health Centre250 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest New Invention Pharmacy330 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery330 m
HospitalCygnet Hospital Wolverhampton3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Police stationWest Midlands Police2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Midcounties Co-Op New Inventions, Lichfield Road Cashzone330 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,440 m²340 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 11 ha370 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 460 m²350 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha150 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,240 m²600 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 12 hectares in all.

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Allen's RoughWood580 m (0.4 miles) north
Sneyd ReservoirLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Rough WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
The ClumpsWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Sandy FlattsWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-west
Pouk HillHill3 km (1.8 miles) south-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)12.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.8205
Particles (PM10)12.64015

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
65 to 6930
60 to 6420
55 to 5950
Under 552030

10 of the street's 30 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 Walsall: see them on the Walsall 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
New Invention Infant SchoolPrimary3–7270 m Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
New Invention Learning AcademyPrimary7–11270 m Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Beacon AcademyPrimary2–11480 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Coppice Performing Arts SchoolSecondary11–18850 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woodlands Academy of LearningPrimary3–11880 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Alban's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary3–11880 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oak Meadow Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Pool Hayes Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Requires improvement (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lane Head Nursery SchoolNursery3–51.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Ashmore Park Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Pool Hayes AcademySecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Shell Bar Fish Shop WV12 5ARTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m3 Generally satisfactory15 Sep 2026
Nar Convenience WV12 5DWRetailers - other140 m4 Good3 Sep 2026
Chilli Peppers WV12 5BBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good15 Jan 2026
Golden Gate WV12 5BBTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m4 Good4 Jun 2026
Tesco Express WV12 5ULRetailers - other260 m5 Very good29 Jul 2026
The Co-Operative Store WV12 5EARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets330 m5 Very good6 Nov 2025
Booze Corner WV12 5EARetailers - other330 m5 Very good11 Apr 2018
Sam's Fish Bar WV12 5EATakeaway/sandwich shop330 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Sep 2025
Greggs PLC WV12 5EARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good11 Jan 2026
Hilton WV12 5EGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m4 Good24 Sep 2025
Tamaris WV12 5BERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good22 Sep 2026
Coco Deluxe Ltd WV12 5TLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good15 Apr 2026
Lifestyle Express Eric's Convenienc WV12 5TLRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good5 Mar 2025
The Milestone WV12 5DTPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good8 Sep 2025
Pizza by Carlos WV12 5TLTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good15 Jan 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.

29 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences15
Vehicle crime4
Other theft3
Burglary2
Criminal damage and arson2
Anti-social behaviour1
Public order1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Albert Clarke Drive (8); On or near Kestrel Grove (6); On or near Wrighton Close (5); On or near Baynton Road (4); On or near Greaves Crescent (2).

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: 314 residents in 135 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 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)68%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented29%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)82%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)26%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Tamaris (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WV12 5BE) now 5 Very good, was 3 Generally satisfactory (rated 22 September 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Shell Bar Fish Shop (takeaway/sandwich shop, WV12 5AR) re-inspected, still 3 Generally satisfactory (rated 15 September 2026) found 30 October 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

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

  • WV12 5AS: 29 addresses of 30 in the postcode
  • WV12 5AY: 1 address of 27 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Haddon Crescent · Albert Clarke Drive · Baynton Road · Ada Wrighton Close · Greaves Crescent · Lichfield Road · Wrighton Close · Bramble Close · Squires Grove · Lichfield Road · Brereton Road · Nightingale Crescent

All the streets in WV12 and across Walsall.

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.