Lowfield Close Birmingham

25 addresses across 1 postcode (B62), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2700234.

  • Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £315,400 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 5, E: 1).
  • 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 A; 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 Rowley Regis, about 3.7 km (2.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Woodgate Valley Country Park, is about 150 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 182 to 185 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 13 of its 25 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bartley Green Medical Practice, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 82% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 48 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
20252£315,400£278,800£352,000
20241£290,000£290,000£290,000
20231£256,000£256,000£256,000
20212£255,000£240,000£270,000
20201£228,000£228,000£228,000
20181£190,700£190,700£190,700
20171£198,000£198,000£198,000
20161£175,000£175,000£175,000
20141£250,000£250,000£250,000
20121£142,000£142,000£142,000
20101£145,000£145,000£145,000
20051£159,950£159,950£159,950
Most recent sales (23)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Jun 202534 B62 0EZSemi-detached£352,000
25 Mar 20254 B62 0EZSemi-detached£278,800
21 Jun 202432 B62 0EZDetached£290,000
29 Sep 20236 B62 0EZSemi-detached£256,000
8 Oct 20211 B62 0EZTerraced£270,000
25 Feb 202110 B62 0EZDetached£240,000
18 Dec 20203 B62 0EZSemi-detached£228,000
5 Jan 20184 B62 0EZSemi-detached£190,700
28 Jul 201718 B62 0EZSemi-detached£198,000
18 Jul 20167 B62 0EZSemi-detached£175,000
31 Jan 20142 B62 0EZDetached£250,000
27 Jan 20126 B62 0EZSemi-detached£142,000
26 Feb 201017 B62 0EZSemi-detached£145,000
20 May 20053 B62 0EZSemi-detached£159,950
13 May 20043 B62 0EZSemi-detached£155,000
11 Jul 20033 B62 0EZSemi-detached£135,000
4 Apr 200334 B62 0EZSemi-detached£155,000
31 May 20022 B62 0EZDetached£194,000
18 Jun 19991 B62 0EZTerraced£78,000
25 Sep 199815 B62 0EZSemi-detached£66,500
12 Dec 19971 B62 0EZTerraced£78,950
3 Jan 199726 B62 0EZTerraced£64,500
24 Sep 19963 B62 0EZSemi-detached£66,000

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.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 79 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (10); House, detached (3). Built: 1976-1982 (9); 1967-1975 (3); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 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 (46% of about 650 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: 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 9 September 2026 to 11 September 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)
  • 8 September 2026 to 17 September 2026: SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE WATER, Remedial works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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, 0 at medium risk and 5 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 25 addresses are between 182 m and 185 m above sea level (183 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
B62 0EZ100%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 stationsRowley Regis 1.0 million journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Old Hill 154,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
University (Birmingham) 3.8 million journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Gleads Croft Woodgate150 m
Bus or coach stationHalesowen Bus Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX18 km (11 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bartley Green Medical Practice1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Manor Pharmacy1.2 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Oakleigh Dental Practice1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalWest Midlands Hospital4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Police stationHalesowen Police Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM270 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Woodgate Valley Country Park 202 ha150 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 220 m²270 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.6 ha290 m
AllotmentsHowley Grange Allotments 3,780 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 202 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Halesowen Abbey and associated water control features, a scheduled monument, 1.6 km (1 mile) west.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Halesowen Abbey and associated water control featuresScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) west
The LeasowesRegistered park or garden, Grade I1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Broadhidley WoodWood690 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Woodgate ValleyValley1.2 km (0.8 miles) east
Cooper's WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Breaches PoolLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Bromwich WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Mucklow HillHill2.2 km (1.4 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)12.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
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 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
65 to 6930
60 to 6420
55 to 5980
Under 551225

13 of the street's 25 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
Lapal Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woodgate Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Howley Grange Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Lift Four Dwellings SecondarySecondary11–161.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lift Four Dwellings PrimaryPrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bartley Green SchoolSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Nonsuch Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; 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
St Peter's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Kitwell Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Quinton Church Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Michael's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
King Edward VI Five Ways SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Nov 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
The Old Crown B62 0EPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Feb 2026
Woodgate Service Station B32 3QURetailers - other260 m5 Very good22 Sep 2009
Tasty Ceylon B32 3QURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 mAwaiting inspection
VTS Trading Ltd (newsagent) B32 3UFRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory8 Oct 2025

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.

48 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences23
Vehicle crime6
Public order3
Drugs3
Burglary3
Other theft3
Criminal damage and arson2
Shoplifting2
Other crime1
Anti-social behaviour1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Lapal Lane (17); On or near Petrol Station (15); On or near Stanmore Grove (7); On or near Eldon Road (4); On or near Carter'S Lane (3).

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: 274 residents in 125 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 age4940
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)82%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)39%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

  • B62 0EZ: 25 addresses of 27 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Marshwood Croft · Watery Lane · Carter's Lane · Gleads Croft · Swanley Close · Olliver Close · The Rookery · Stanmore Grove · Eldon Road · Lapal Lane · M5 · Lye Close Lane

All the streets in B62 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.