Lime Tree Grove Birmingham

20 addresses across 1 postcode (B31), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2735681.

  • Sales: 31 recorded sales since 1995; in 2020 the median was £300,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 6).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 C; Band D in Birmingham costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Northfield, about 730 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 270 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 161 to 164 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 20 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is West Heath Surgery, about 530 m (0.3 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 88% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 138 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
20201£300,000£300,000£300,000
20192£247,500£237,000£258,000
20181£250,000£250,000£250,000
20121£173,500£173,500£173,500
20111£170,000£170,000£170,000
20081£192,500£192,500£192,500
20071£190,500£190,500£190,500
20061£179,250£179,250£179,250
20051£170,000£170,000£170,000
20022£131,150£113,800£148,500
19993£99,950£94,950£250,000
19988£84,950£77,500£105,950
Most recent sales (31)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
4 Dec 20205 B31 3DFDetached£300,000
13 Dec 20199 B31 3DFDetached£237,000
25 Jan 201920 B31 3DFDetached£258,000
7 Feb 201816 B31 3DFDetached£250,000
6 Jan 20122 B31 3DFDetached£173,500
19 Aug 20117 B31 3DFTerraced£170,000
30 May 200811 B31 3DFDetached£192,500
1 Jun 20079 B31 3DFDetached£190,500
28 Feb 200611 B31 3DFDetached£179,250
25 Feb 20051 B31 3DFDetached£170,000
29 Nov 20025 B31 3DFDetached£148,500
28 Mar 200212 B31 3DFDetached£113,800
26 Mar 19995 B31 3DFDetached£99,950New build.
26 Mar 19999 B31 3DFDetached£94,950New build.
26 Feb 19997 B31 3DFTerraced£250,000New build.
29 May 199817 B31 3DFDetached£104,950New build.
15 May 19983 B31 3DFDetached£105,950New build.
1 May 199816 B31 3DFDetached£77,500
30 Apr 19981 B31 3DFDetached£84,950New build.
24 Apr 19982 B31 3DFDetached£92,950New build.
27 Mar 199815 B31 3DFDetached£84,950New build.
27 Mar 199811 B31 3DFDetached£77,950New build.
23 Jan 199819 B31 3DFDetached£77,950New build.
22 Dec 199714 B31 3DFDetached£104,950New build.
19 Dec 199710 B31 3DFDetached£89,950New build.
19 Dec 199720 B31 3DFDetached£84,500New build.
12 Dec 199718 B31 3DFSemi-detached£102,950New build.
12 Dec 199712 B31 3DFDetached£83,950New build.
28 Nov 19978 B31 3DFDetached£84,500New build.
21 Nov 19976 B31 3DFDetached£103,950New build.
14 Nov 19974 B31 3DFDetached£88,950New 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 June 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 97 m². Most common: House, detached (9). Built: 1996-2002 (8); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 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 C (33% of about 690 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: in a protected area: THE BIRMINGHAM (STAPLE LODGE ROAD, NORTHFIELD) TPO 1997.
  • 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, 1 at medium risk and 2 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 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 20 addresses are between 161 m and 164 m above sea level (163 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
B31 3DF100%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 stationsNorthfield 643,000 journeys in 2024–25730 m (0.5 miles)
Kings Norton 934,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Longbridge 892,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 45 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Seven Acres Road Wychall20 m
Bus or coach stationAlvechurch - Red Lion PH5.8 km (3.6 miles)
Car parksSainsbury's Northfield Car Park1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging pointsESB Energy Charging Station1.7 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX15.2 km (9.4 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest West Heath Surgery530 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots570 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest House Of Dental800 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalWest Heath Hospital790 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationBournville Lane Police Station2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Central England Co-op - Northfields, 30 West Heath Rd590 m (0.4 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9.4 ha270 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 390 m²290 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 12 ha230 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest West Heath Allotments 2.6 ha360 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 10 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Laurence, a listed building (Grade I), 940 m (0.6 miles) north-west. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St LaurenceListed building, Grade I940 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Hawkesley Farm moated siteScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Burnt mounds in Woodlands Park, 540m and 640m west of The PavilionScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Merecroft PoolLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
High HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Red HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Wast HillHill2.5 km (1.6 miles) south
The GroveWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-west
Egghill DingleValley4 km (2.5 miles) west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)10.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)11.24015

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 5930
Under 551720

3 of the street's 20 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
Wychall Primary SchoolPrimary3–11560 m (0.3 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
West Heath Nursery SchoolNursery2–4590 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
West Heath Primary SchoolPrimary4–11600 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Fairway Primary AcademyPrimary4–11690 m (0.4 miles) 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
St Thomas Aquinas Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18830 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
King Edward VI Northfield School for GirlsSecondary11–16900 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Turves Green Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Laurence Church Infant School Church of EnglandPrimary4–71.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Laurence Church Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Turves Green Boys' SchoolSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John Fisher Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Brigid's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2023, 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
Chloe Micro Bakery B31 3XHOther catering premises270 mAwaiting inspection
Haddon House B31 3HDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Nov 2017
Wychall Primary Academy B31 3EHSchool/college/university490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Nov 2025
Taylorshaw @ Wychall Primary School B31 3EHSchool/college/university490 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
RB Holiday Camps Wychall B31 3EHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises490 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Middlemore Store and Post Office B31 3UPRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
East N West Bites B31 3UPTakeaway/sandwich shop490 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

138 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences66
Criminal damage and arson15
Anti-social behaviour14
Public order13
Other theft8
Vehicle crime7
Burglary5
Possession of weapons4
Other crime3
Theft from the person2
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Aldersmead Road (31); On or near Beach Close (25); On or near Slingfield Road (19); On or near Staple Lodge Road (18); On or near Seven Acres Road (11).

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: 261 residents in 114 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 age4540
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over15%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)88%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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

Seven Acres Road · Aldersmead Road · Ockam Croft · Dice Pleck · Farfield Close · North Walk · Cookes Croft · Crabtree Close · Oakleigh · Beach Close · Shipston Road · New Meadow Close

All the streets in B31 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.