Linforth Drive Streetly, Walsall

27 addresses across 1 postcode (B74), about 220 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41900216.

  • Sales: 32 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £500,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 7, D: 3, E: 3).
  • 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 E; Band D in Walsall costs £2,627 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 96% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Butlers Lane, about 3.5 km (2.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Sutton Park, is about 720 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 157 to 162 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 27 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Blackwood Health Centre, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 430 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 95% of households owned their home and 44% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 9 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often burglary.

Sales on this street

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

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£500,000£500,000£500,000
20251£590,000£590,000£590,000
20241£586,500£586,500£586,500
20231£528,234£528,234£528,234
20221£485,000£485,000£485,000
20211£466,000£466,000£466,000
20202£427,425£408,000£446,850
20191£375,000£375,000£375,000
20181£390,000£390,000£390,000
20173£370,000£300,000£440,000
20161£450,000£450,000£450,000
20141£291,000£291,000£291,000
Most recent sales (32)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 May 20266A B74 2EQDetached£500,000
24 Nov 20253 B74 2EQDetached£590,000
31 Oct 20242 B74 2EQDetached£586,500
25 Aug 20231 B74 2EQDetached£528,234
12 Aug 202226 B74 2EQDetached£485,000
8 Mar 202128 B74 2EQDetached£466,000
24 Nov 20206A B74 2EQDetached£408,000
21 Aug 202031 B74 2EQDetached£446,850Leasehold.
21 Aug 202031 B74 2EQOther£446,850Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Apr 201920 B74 2EQDetached£375,000Leasehold.
13 Dec 20186A B74 2EQDetached£390,000
23 Oct 20172 B74 2EQDetached£440,000
11 Oct 20176 B74 2EQDetached£300,000
8 Sep 201710 B74 2EQDetached£370,000
12 May 20176 B74 2EQDetached£350,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 May 20176A B74 2EQOther£140,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Oct 201616 B74 2EQDetached£450,000
30 May 201412 B74 2EQDetached£291,000Leasehold.
14 Jun 201331 B74 2EQDetached£305,000Leasehold.
17 Dec 200729 B74 2EQDetached£317,500
15 Jun 20074 B74 2EQDetached£267,500
15 Dec 20068 B74 2EQDetached£330,000
21 Jul 200631 B74 2EQDetached£300,000Leasehold.
17 Apr 200631 B74 2EQDetached£109,225
25 Oct 20022 B74 2EQDetached£246,000
16 Sep 200228 B74 2EQDetached£210,000
24 May 200232 B74 2EQDetached£217,000
31 Jul 200018 B74 2EQDetached£180,000Leasehold.
14 Apr 200024 B74 2EQDetached£194,950
18 Jun 199927 B74 2EQDetached£153,000
30 Jun 199827 B74 2EQDetached£145,000
23 Sep 19962 B74 2EQDetached£140,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from November 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 133 m². Most common: House, detached (15). Built: 1967-1975 (7); 1950-1966 (4); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14).

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 E (34% of about 620 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

Started, not reported finished by 30 September 2026

  • 23 July 2026 to 30 October 2026: WALSALL METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (major works)

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.

Height above sea level

The street's 27 addresses are between 157 m and 162 m above sea level (159 m on average); the ground rises about 6 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
B74 2EQ100%96%96%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 stationsButlers Lane 194,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Four Oaks 701,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Sutton Coldfield 1.0 million journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 27 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Boundary Road Hundred Acre150 m
Bus or coach stationWalsall Bus Station7.1 km (4.4 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX16 km (9.9 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Blackwood Health Centre1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sutton Pharmacy440 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Little Aston Dental Care1.5 km (1 mile)
HospitalSpire Little Aston Hospital2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationWest Midlands Police - Kingstanding Police Station2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Midcounties Co-op Streetly, Streetly510 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sutton Park 872 ha720 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,070 m²310 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,160 m²320 m
AllotmentsDonegal Road Allotments 1.5 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 872 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Sutton Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.6 km (1 mile) east.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sutton ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.6 km (1 mile) east
Medieval deerpark and other archaeological remains in Sutton ParkScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) east
Bowl barrow at King's StandingScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Warden's BeltWood200 m north-east
Streetly WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Foley WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Little Bracebridge PoolLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Barr BeaconHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
The DingleValley3.7 km (2.3 miles) north-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)11.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

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 5910
Under 552627

1 of the street's 27 addresses is 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), 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
The Streetly AcademySecondary11–18450 m (0.3 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lindens AcademyPrimary3–11820 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Manor Primary SchoolPrimary3–11850 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Anne's Catholic Primary School, Streetly Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Blackwood SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Sutton Park PrimaryPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Meadow View AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Kingsland Primary School (NC)Primary3–111.8 km (1.1 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
EE Food Catering Limited B74 2HROther catering premises210 m5 Very good12 May 2026
Forevercakes & Co B74 2HSOther catering premises300 m4 Good26 Aug 2026
Ginger Bakes, Coffee Lounge and Bakery B74 2JRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Nov 2025
Little Tots Day Nursery B74 2JRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Select & Save B74 2JRRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)1 Major improvement necessary8 Aug 2026
Indian Nights B74 2JRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 May 2026
Costcutter Manor Court B74 2HERetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory27 Feb 2025
Streetly Wine B74 2HERetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory26 Feb 2025
Brew House B74 2JRPub/bar/nightclub450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Oct 2018
Andys' Brewhouse B74 2JRPub/bar/nightclub450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Aug 2025
Shell Little Waitrose Moorcroft B74 2HNRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Oct 2024
Rickshaw Takeaway B74 2HETakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory15 Oct 2025
Jasmine House B74 2HETakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 May 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.

9 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Burglary3
Public order3
Violence and sexual offences2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ryknild Drive (4); On or near Kimsan Croft (2); On or near Tintern Close (2); On or near Linforth Drive (1).

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: 430 residents in 157 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 age4840
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)95%61%
Owned outright54%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented3%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)32%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle1%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)44%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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 Forevercakes & Co (other catering premises, B74 2HS) now 4 Good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 26 August 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.

  • B74 2EQ: 27 addresses of 29 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Oakmount Road · Ryknild Drive · Tintern Close · Kimsan Croft · Leandor Drive · Rowthorn Close · Chester Road · Valley Road · Kingscroft Close · Goodwood Drive · Tudor Grove · Centurion Drive

All the streets in B74 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.