Keepers Close Brownhills, Walsall

17 addresses across 2 postcodes (WS9), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41903464.

  • Sales: 32 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £395,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 2).
  • Flood: 8 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band 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 5.4 km (3.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 142 to 143 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 17 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St John's Medical Centre, about 130 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 630 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 65% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 124 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
20251£395,000£395,000£395,000
20192£196,250£190,000£202,500
20141£144,000£144,000£144,000
20121£173,000£173,000£173,000
20101£150,000£150,000£150,000
20063£159,995£157,000£165,000
20041£130,000£130,000£130,000
20014£84,250£69,000£105,000
20002£88,000£77,000£99,000
19983£87,950£87,950£88,750
199713£77,000£58,950£88,750
Most recent sales (32)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Sep 20253 WS9 9QYDetached£395,000
2 Dec 201910 WS9 9QYSemi-detached£202,500
15 Feb 201917 WS9 9QYSemi-detached£190,000
5 Aug 201414 WS9 9QYSemi-detached£144,000
12 Oct 20126 WS9 9QYDetached£173,000
30 Sep 201014 WS9 9QYSemi-detached£150,000
13 Oct 200610 WS9 9QYSemi-detached£159,995
9 Jun 200617 WS9 9QYSemi-detached£157,000
10 Mar 20061 WS9 9QYDetached£165,000
4 May 200414 WS9 9QYSemi-detached£130,000
24 Aug 20016 WS9 9QYDetached£93,000
25 May 20018 WS9 9QYSemi-detached£69,000
6 Apr 200114 WS9 9QYSemi-detached£75,500
5 Apr 200111 WS9 9QYDetached£105,000
21 Dec 20003 WS9 9QYDetached£99,000
21 Dec 200012 WS9 9QYSemi-detached£77,000
27 Mar 19987 WS9 9QYDetached£88,750New build.
30 Jan 199815 WS9 9QYDetached£87,950New build.
30 Jan 19983 WS9 9QYDetached£87,950
17 Dec 19979 WS9 9QYDetached£88,750New build.
4 Dec 19975 WS9 9QYDetached£88,750New build.
31 Oct 19971 WS9 9QYDetached£79,500New build.
12 Sep 19974 WS9 9QYDetached£85,950New build.
29 Aug 199711 WS9 9QYDetached£87,950New build.
14 Aug 199719 WS9 9QYSemi-detached£64,950New build.
25 Jul 199717 WS9 9QYSemi-detached£58,950New build.
23 Jul 19972 WS9 9QYDetached£87,955New build.
30 May 199712 WS9 9QYSemi-detached£63,950New build.
30 May 199714 WS9 9QYSemi-detached£63,950New build.
16 May 199710 WS9 9QYSemi-detached£59,950New build.
9 May 19976 WS9 9QYDetached£77,000New build.
9 May 19978 WS9 9QYSemi-detached£59,750New build.

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 February 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 79 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (4); House, detached (2). Built: 1996-2002 (4); 1991-1995 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 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 (33% of about 780 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.

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, 6 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 11 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
WS9 9QYnot in 2 or 3 3 / 1 / 4 unlikely
WS9 9QZnot in 2 or 3 3 / 1 / 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 17 addresses are between 142 m and 143 m above sea level (142 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
WS9 9QY100%100%100%0%
WS9 9QZ100%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 2024–255.4 km (3.4 miles)
Bloxwich North 123,000 journeys in 2024–255.7 km (3.6 miles)
Walsall 1.2 million journeys in 2024–255.9 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Boundary Road Walsall Wood130 m
Bus or coach stationWalsall Bus Station5.7 km (3.6 miles)
Car parksMFT Commercial Ltd. - Depot Parking2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea740 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX23 km (14 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St John's Medical Centre130 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Touchwood Pharmacy130 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kkhh LTD T/A Walsall Wood Dentistry430 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalGoscote Hospital3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Police stationBrownhills Police Station2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Midcounties Co-Op Walsall Wood, Walsall Wood Cashzone450 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 gardenUnnamed 25 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 410 m²200 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha520 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Beech Tree Road Allotments 4,550 m²240 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Hillfort known as The Castle Fort at Castlebank Plantation, a scheduled monument, 1.6 km (1 mile) east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hillfort known as The Castle Fort at Castlebank PlantationScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Shireoak HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Castlebank PlantationWood1.6 km (1 mile) east
The SwagLake or reservoir1.7 km (1 mile) south
Fishpond WoodWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
Rails WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
The DingleValley4.4 km (2.7 miles) south

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)11.44010
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
55 to 5940
Under 551317

4 of the street's 17 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
St John's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–11310 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Walsall Wood SchoolPrimary3–11670 m (0.4 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Castlefort AcademyPrimary3–11930 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Shire Oak AcademySecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Inadequate; Behaviour and attitudes: Inadequate; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Inadequate
Ormiston Shelfield Community AcademySecondary11–181.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Francis Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Millfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Leighswood SchoolPrimary2–112 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
Boatmans Food and Grill WS9 9LPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good17 Jul 2024
Slic n Bowls WS9 9LRTakeaway/sandwich shop140 mAwaiting inspection
Premium Super Save Convenience Store WS9 9LRRetailers - other170 m3 Generally satisfactory14 Jan 2025
Simla Balti WS9 9LRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good3 Jul 2025
Cheers News & Booze WS9 9LRRetailers - other170 m1 Major improvement necessary4 Mar 2026
Diamond Hill WS9 9LRTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m4 Good18 Feb 2026
Lian's Chinese Takeaway WS9 9LRTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m4 Good3 Dec 2025
Foodelicious WS9 9LRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m4 Good8 Aug 2025
Walsall Wood Fish & Pizza Bar WS9 9LRTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m3 Generally satisfactory18 Sep 2025
The Drunken Duck WS9 9LRPub/bar/nightclub170 m3 Generally satisfactory8 May 2026
Sensory Playroom WS9 9NPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m4 Good8 Jan 2026
St Johns C of E Primary School WS9 9NASchool/college/university310 m5 Very good30 Sep 2026
Headstart WS9 9NAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m5 Very good9 Apr 2025
Oak Park Active Living Centre WS9 9BHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Jun 2025
King Street Progressive club WS9 9LNPub/bar/nightclub390 m5 Very good3 Jun 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.

124 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences53
Vehicle crime19
Other theft13
Criminal damage and arson9
Public order8
Other crime8
Drugs5
Burglary3
Shoplifting2
Anti-social behaviour1
Theft from the person1
Robbery1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bridgwater Close (41); On or near High Street (34); On or near St John'S Close (18); On or near Parking Area (9); On or near Keepers Close (8).

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: 632 residents in 251 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 age4140
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)65%61%
Owned outright37%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented23%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van71%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Dream Bakery (other catering premises, WS9 9BQ) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 21 August 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings St Johns C of E Primary School (school/college/university, WS9 9NA) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 30 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.

  • WS9 9QY: 16 addresses of 18 in the postcode
  • WS9 9QZ: 1 address of 28 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Boundary Road · Church View · St John's Close · Bridgwater Close · Hall Lane · Beech Tree Road · Brook Lane · Daneswood Drive · Walsall Road · Brooklands Close · Copperbeech Grove · Thornbridge Grove

All the streets in WS9 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.