Leighs Close Shelfield, Walsall

17 addresses across 1 postcode (WS4), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41900644.

Sales: 19 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £290,050 across 1 sale.
Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 3, D: 4, E: 2).
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 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 3.9 km (2.4 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden, High Heath Park, is about 430 m (0.3 miles) away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 137 to 138 m above sea level.
Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Rushall Medical Centre, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 350 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 67% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 55 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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2026	1	£290,050	£290,050	£290,050
2022	1	£267,000	£267,000	£267,000
2020	2	£221,500	£210,000	£233,000
2015	1	£156,000	£156,000	£156,000
2014	1	£180,000	£180,000	£180,000
2011	1	£115,000	£115,000	£115,000
2005	1	£235,000	£235,000	£235,000
2004	2	£151,000	£149,500	£152,500
2001	2	£107,500	£93,000	£122,000
1999	1	£91,000	£91,000	£91,000
1998	1	£82,450	£82,450	£82,450
1997	3	£62,500	£59,995	£81,500

Most recent sales (19)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
11 Mar 2026	10 WS4 1BY	Semi-detached	£290,050
20 Dec 2022	7 WS4 1BY	Semi-detached	£267,000
24 Jun 2020	3 WS4 1BY	Detached	£233,000
24 Jan 2020	7 WS4 1BY	Semi-detached	£210,000
6 Jul 2015	8 WS4 1BY	Detached	£156,000
19 Mar 2015	12 WS4 1BY	Semi-detached	£145,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Jan 2014	6 WS4 1BY	Detached	£180,000
4 Oct 2011	13 WS4 1BY	Semi-detached	£115,000
6 Apr 2005	5 WS4 1BY	Semi-detached	£235,000
17 Nov 2004	9 WS4 1BY	Semi-detached	£149,500
2 Jun 2004	17 WS4 1BY	Semi-detached	£152,500
27 Jul 2001	11 WS4 1BY	Detached	£122,000
12 Apr 2001	5 WS4 1BY	Semi-detached	£93,000
27 Aug 1999	1 WS4 1BY	Detached	£91,000
28 Apr 1998	1 WS4 1BY	Detached	£82,450
28 Nov 1997	2 WS4 1BY	Detached	£81,500
27 Jun 1997	17 WS4 1BY	Semi-detached	£59,995
21 Mar 1997	19 WS4 1BY	Semi-detached	£62,500
17 Nov 1995	2 WS4 1BY	Detached	£74,000

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 dates from January 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: House, detached (4); House, semi-detached (4); Bungalow, semi-detached (2). Built: 1950-1966 (10). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7).

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.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£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 (40% of about 680 homes).

A16%

B40%

C28%

D15%

E1%

G0%

H0%

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 30 September 2026.

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 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 17 addresses are between 137 m and 138 m above sea level (137 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
WS4 1BY	100%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Bloxwich 114,000 journeys in 2024–25	3.9 km (2.4 miles)
	Walsall 1.2 million journeys in 2024–25	4.2 km (2.6 miles)
	Bloxwich North 123,000 journeys in 2024–25	4.4 km (2.7 miles)
Bus stops	16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 47 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Francis School Shelfield	110 m
Bus or coach station	Walsall Bus Station	4 km (2.5 miles)
Car parks	MFT Commercial Ltd. - Depot Parking	2.3 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points	3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station	230 m
Airport with scheduled flights	Birmingham Airport BHX	23 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rushall Medical Centre	1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies	3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hartshorne Chemist	280 m
NHS dentists	1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery	1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Hospital	Goscote Hospital	1.7 km (1 mile)
Police station	Aldridge Police Station	2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machines	ATM	820 m (0.5 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest High Heath Park 1.8 ha	430 m (0.3 miles)
Play area	3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 520 m²	300 m
Playing field	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shelfield Recreation Ground 4.2 ha	270 m
Allotments	Greenfields Road Allotments 1.6 ha	860 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
The Swag	Lake or reservoir	1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Rails Wood	Wood	1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Lady Pool	Lake or reservoir	2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Park Pits	Lake or reservoir	2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Shireoak Hill	Hill	3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-east
The Dingle	Valley	3.8 km (2.3 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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	11.8	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	7.8	20	5
Particles (PM10)	12.5	40	15

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
Under 55	17	17

None of the street's 17 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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), 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
St Francis Catholic Primary School Roman Catholic	Primary	3–11	160 m	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
Greenfield Primary School	Primary	3–11	410 m (0.3 miles)	Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Rushall Primary School	Primary	3–11	660 m (0.4 miles)	No published inspection
Ormiston Shelfield Community Academy	Secondary	11–18	730 m (0.5 miles)	Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Radleys Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.1 km (0.7 miles)	Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's Church of England C Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.4 km (0.9 miles)	Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Pelsall Village School	Primary	3–11	1.9 km (1.2 miles)	Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Edgar Stammers Primary Academy	Primary	3–11	1.9 km (1.2 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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
Pine View WS4 1PR	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	160 m	5 Very good	25 Oct 2023
St Francis R C Primary School WS4 1RH	School/college/university	170 m	5 Very good	19 Jun 2017
St Francis Club WS4 1RH	Pub/bar/nightclub	180 m	5 Very good	7 Oct 2026
School Farm Shop WS4 1BT	Retailers - other	180 m	3 Generally satisfactory	17 Jul 2025
Esso also t/a Premier WS4 1PX	Retailers - other	230 m	1 Major improvement necessary	22 Apr 2026
Subway, Heath Service Station WS4 1PX	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	230 m	4 Good	2 Sep 2025
Midcounties Co-operative WS4 1PS	Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets	250 m	5 Very good	18 Sep 2025
Willows Superstore WS4 1RD	Retailers - other	250 m	3 Generally satisfactory	15 Nov 2023
Christopher's House WS4 1PW	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	260 m	4 Good	15 Dec 2025
Burgershack Shelfield WS4 1PU	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	270 m	2 Improvement necessary	7 Jun 2025
Shelfield Fish Bar WS4 1PU	Takeaway/sandwich shop	270 m	1 Major improvement necessary	22 Nov 2025
Mr Chef WS4 1PU	Takeaway/sandwich shop	270 m	4 Good	13 May 2026
Furama Chinese Takeaway WS4 1AT	Takeaway/sandwich shop	280 m	2 Improvement necessary	18 May 2023
K V Hartshorne Chemist WS4 1AT	Retailers - other	280 m	5 Very good	22 May 2026
Nisa Local WS4 1AT	Retailers - other	280 m	4 Good	12 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.

55 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	30
Criminal damage and arson	5
Burglary	4
Public order	4
Other theft	3
Anti-social behaviour	2
Theft from the person	1
Drugs	1
Other crime	1
Vehicle crime	1
Shoplifting	1
Bicycle theft	1
Robbery	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Four Crosses Road (12); On or near Leighs Road (7); On or near Birch Lane (6); On or near Petrol Station (6); On or near Oak Road (5).

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: 348 residents in 139 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 street	England
Median age	43	40
Children under 15	18%	17%
Aged 65 and over	19%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	67%	61%
Owned outright	36%	33%
Shared ownership	under 1%	1%
Social rented	12%	17%
Private rented	20%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	60%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	8%	6%
Retired (of adults)	22%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	5%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	23%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	70%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	under 1%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	2%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	5%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	73%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	7%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	28%	34%
No qualifications	21%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	8%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	96%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	under 1%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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 Mellors Catering Services (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WS4 1PL) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 30 October 2026
Food hygiene ratings St Francis Club (pub/bar/nightclub, WS4 1RH) newly listed: 5 Very good (rated 7 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
Food hygiene ratings Greenfield Primary School (school/college/university, WS4 1PL) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 1 October 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.

WS4 1BY: 17 addresses

Nearby streets

Somerfield Close · Four Crosses Road · Bevan Close · Birch Lane · Oak Road · Leighs Road · Yew Tree Road · Lodge Road · Wilsford Close · Leighs Road · Willows Road · Bridge Road

All the streets in WS4 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.