Kestrel Close Birmingham

5 addresses across 2 postcodes (B35), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2751467.

  • Sales: 8 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £242,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4).
  • Flood: 7 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 A; Band D in Birmingham costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 96% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Water Orton, about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 220 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 15.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 83 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 5 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Eden Court Medical Practice, about 740 m (0.5 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 19% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 117 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20241£242,500£242,500£242,500
20152£150,975£142,500£159,450
20045£129,950£112,950£137,000
Most recent sales (8)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Jan 202410 B35 7LFSemi-detached£242,500
3 Jul 20158 B35 7LFTerraced£142,500
23 Mar 20154 B35 7LFSemi-detached£159,450
6 Aug 20044 B35 7LFSemi-detached£137,000
30 Mar 20044 B35 7LFSemi-detached£112,950New build.
26 Mar 200410 B35 7LFSemi-detached£134,950New build.
26 Mar 20046 B35 7LFSemi-detached£129,950
26 Mar 20048 B35 7LFSemi-detached£119,950New 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 September 2014 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 109 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (2); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: 2003-2006 (1); 1996-2002 (1); 2007 onwards (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Birmingham in 2026-27: Band D £2,363 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,575£1,838£2,100£2,363£2,888£3,413£3,938£4,726

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (54% of about 920 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 7 at medium risk and 74 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 82 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 80 low and 0 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
B35 7LFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
B35 7LQzone 2 0 / 7 / 72 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 83 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
B35 7LF100%100%100%0%
B35 7LQ99%96%96%1%

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 stationsWater Orton 47,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Chester Road 659,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Erdington 481,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Athan Croft Castle Vale60 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Airport Bus Terminal7.9 km (4.9 miles)
Car parksM Castle Bromwich Car Park1.9 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX7.4 km (4.6 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Eden Court Medical Practice740 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest K & K Pharmacy440 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Castle Dental Care820 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalNorthcroft Hospital5 km (3.1 miles)
Police stationShard End Police Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machines2 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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha220 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 2.1 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 510 m²80 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 7.0 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Castle Vale Allotments 2.1 ha410 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 6.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Bromwich Castle, a scheduled monument, 1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bromwich CastleScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Castle Bromwich HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Langley Hill WoodWood630 m (0.4 miles) south
Parkhill WoodWood850 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Dragonfly PoolLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Grey LakeLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Plants Brook ReservoirsLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Chattle HillHill4.5 km (2.8 miles) 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)15.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.1205
Particles (PM10)13.44015

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, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59200
Under 55355

2 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
Lift GreenwoodSecondary11–18330 m Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Pegasus Primary SchoolPrimary2–11520 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): 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
Chivenor Primary SchoolPrimary2–11590 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Gerard's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11640 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Topcliffe Primary SchoolPrimary4–11810 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Castle Vale Nursery SchoolNursery2–5840 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Mary and St Margaret's Church of England Aided Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Park Hall AcademySecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Minworth Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) Good (Dec 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gunter Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Wilfrid's Catholic Junior and Infant School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Castle Bromwich Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–71.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Slimming World B35 7LQRetailers - other170 m5 Very good7 Dec 2017
Greenwood Academy B35 7NLSchool/college/university200 m4 Good17 Dec 2024
Pizza Ko B35 7JGMobile caterer300 mAwaiting inspection
Premier was Costcutter B35 7JGRetailers - other350 m2 Improvement necessary25 Nov 2025
VMV food and wine B35 7JGRetailers - other350 m5 Very good25 Sep 2024
St Cuthberts Church Hall B35 7PLOther catering premises360 m5 Very good22 Mar 2012
Apple Tree Nursery (Castle Vale) B35 7PLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 m5 Very good17 Dec 2024
Slimming World Castle Vale B35 7PLOther catering premises410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 May 2024
Nisa Extra At Shaws Supermarket B35 7PRRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)1 Major improvement necessary22 Aug 2025
Wing Wo Takeaway B35 7PRTakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)2 Improvement necessary29 Jun 2026
Castlevale Fish Bar B35 7PRTakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good6 Jan 2025
Bengal35 Bistro B35 7PRTakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good22 Sep 2026
The Ridings Care Home B35 7NRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Sep 2025
Youngstars Community Hub B35 7PRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Dec 2024
Castle Vale Swimming Pool B35 7EHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Jan 2012

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.

117 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences63
Other theft10
Public order8
Criminal damage and arson7
Anti-social behaviour7
Vehicle crime6
Burglary5
Possession of weapons4
Other crime3
Theft from the person2
Drugs1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near St Athan Croft (25); On or near Pixhall Walk (21); On or near Padgate Close (14); On or near Farnborough Road (12); On or near Kestrel Close (12).

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: 273 residents in 117 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 age3440
Children under 1527%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)19%61%
Owned outright9%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented70%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)17%6%
Retired (of adults)12%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 tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%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)21%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%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

St Athan Croft · Trident Boulevard · Pixhall Walk · Avro Way · Padgate Close · Orchard Meadow Walk · Javelin Avenue · Lysander Way · Pioneer Way · Thomas Walk · Padgate Close · Worthy Down Walk

All the streets in B35 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.