M42 Birmingham, Solihull
3 addresses across 3 postcodes (B37), about 1 km (0.6 miles) long, classed as a motorway. USRN 35001011.
- Prices and rents: A typical home in Solihull cost £332,022 in August 2026 (+0.2% on a year); private rents averaged £1,284 a month.
- Flood: 4 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
- Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
- Energy projects: 2 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Coleshill Sewage Treatment Works Anaerobic Digestion Facility, is 4.3 km (2.7 miles) away.
- Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the M42, carries 99,354 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Solihull costs £2,197 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 83% to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Birmingham International, about 3 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden, Kingfisher, is about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 91 to 102 m above sea level.
- Noise: 4 of its 4 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Croft Medical Centre, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
- People: About 1,090 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 70% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Road safety: 4 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.
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House sales on this street
No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.
House prices and rents in Solihull
A typical home in Solihull cost £332,022 in August 2026, 0.2% more than a year before. That is 9% more than five years earlier and 37% more than ten years earlier.
| Home | Typical price, Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Detached | £590,344 |
| Semi-detached | £346,414 |
| Terraced | £265,238 |
| Flat or maisonette | £181,883 |
| Bought by a first-time buyer | £265,849 |
Private renters in Solihull paid £1,284 a month on average in September 2026, 3.3% more than a year before. That is 35% more than five years earlier.
| Home | Average rent a month, Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| One bedroom | £861 |
| Two bedrooms | £1,069 |
| Three bedrooms | £1,268 |
| Four or more bedrooms | £1,885 |
Energy performance certificates
No certificates found for addresses on this street.
Gas and electricity use
Homes with gas used 8,525 kWh of it on average in 2024, 9% less than the district's 9,404 kWh, and 3,051 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 95% of the homes.
| Postcode | Electricity meters | Typical electricity | Gas meters | Typical gas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B37 6SS | 5 | 2,827 kWh | 5 | 9,050 kWh |
| B37 6TB | 32 | 2,624 kWh | 30 | 7,282 kWh |
These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is B37.
Council tax
What each band costs in Solihull in 2026-27: Band D £2,197 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,465 | £1,709 | £1,953 | £2,197 | £2,686 | £3,174 | £3,662 | £4,395 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (44% of about 1,330 homes).
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.
Energy projects nearby
4 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 2 of them not yet operating.
| Project | Kind | Size | Stage | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Packington Generation Plant Phase 3 North Warwickshire NW6/02CM004 | Landfill Gas | 8.5 MW | Operational Dec 2005 | 1.6 km (1 mile) |
| Coleshill Sewage Treatment Works Anaerobic Digestion Facility North Warwickshire NWB/21CM003 | Anaerobic digestion | 2.4 MW | Planning application made Dec 2020 | 4.3 km (2.7 miles) |
| Coleshill STW (Waste AD) North Warwickshire NWB/13CM021 | Anaerobic digestion | 2.4 MW | Operational Apr 2015 | 4.4 km (2.8 miles) |
| Hams Hall National Distribution Park North Warwickshire NWB/16CM011 | Advanced Conversion Technologies | 14.5 MW | Permission granted, not yet built Feb 2017 | 4.8 km (3 miles) |
Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.
Roadworks
No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 12 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
| Postcode | Planning zone | Addresses at high / medium / low risk | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
| B37 6SS | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 1 | unlikely |
| B37 6TB | not in 2 or 3 | 1 / 3 / 2 | unlikely |
| B37 7YE | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 9 | unlikely |
Recorded floods
No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.
Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.
Coastal erosion
No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Storm overflows
No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Coal mining
No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.
Radon
Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.
Historic landfill
No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Height above sea level
The street's 4 addresses are between 91 m and 102 m above sea level (96 m on average); the ground rises about 11 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B37 6SS | 100% | 83% | 83% | 0% |
| B37 6TB | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| B37 7YE | 89% | 89% | 89% | 11% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Birmingham International 5.0 million journeys in 2024–25 | 3 km (1.8 miles) |
| Marston Green 589,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 3.1 km (1.9 miles) | |
| Coleshill Parkway 206,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 4.5 km (2.8 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Yorkminster Drive Chelmsley Wood | 330 m |
| Bus or coach station | Birmingham Airport Bus Terminal | 2.8 km (1.8 miles) |
| Car parks | Chelmsley Wood Shopping Centre Car Park | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) |
| EV charging points | 1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Birmingham Airport BHX | 3.4 km (2.1 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | 1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Croft Medical Centre Good Jan 2018 | 1 km (0.6 miles) |
| Pharmacies | 1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Croft Pharmacy | 1 km (0.6 miles) |
| NHS dentists | 1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hedingham Grove Dental Surgery | 1 km (0.6 miles) |
| Hospital | Brooklands Hospital | 2.2 km (1.4 miles) |
| Care homes | 5 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chelmunds Court Good Oct 2022 | 1 km (0.6 miles) |
| Police station | West Midlands Police | 2 km (1.3 miles) |
| Cash machines | Wheatcroft Food Store & Off Licence, Chelmsley Wood Cashzone | 1.2 km (0.7 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | Kingfisher 287 ha | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) |
| Play area | 2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,240 m² | 510 m (0.3 miles) |
| Playing field | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bluebell Recreation Ground 6.5 ha | 370 m |
| Allotments | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bluebell Leisure Gardens Association 9,400 m² | 750 m (0.5 miles) |
Landmarks
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Coleshill Pool | Lake or reservoir | 380 m south-east |
| Pool Wood | Wood | 540 m (0.3 miles) south-east |
| Bannerley Pool | Lake or reservoir | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) east |
| Bannerley Rough | Wood | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) east |
| Crescent Wood Island | Island | 3 km (1.9 miles) south |
| Grimstock Hill | Hill | 3.8 km (2.3 miles) north |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 17.2 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 7.8 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 14.2 | 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, rail and aircraft noise
| Level | Road traffic | Railways | Aircraft |
|---|---|---|---|
| 75 dB or more | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 70 to 74 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 60 to 64 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
4 of the street's 4 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 Solihull: see them on the Solihull page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection | Exam results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windy Arbor Primary School | Primary | 3–11 | 1 km (0.6 miles) | Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met | 66% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 35% in 2023) |
| The Coleshill School | Secondary | 11–18 | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) | No published inspection | GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 42.0 (39.9 in 2025 and 41.3 in 2024); 38.8% grade 5+ in English and maths A level 2025: average grade D+; 5% AAB or better; progress well below average |
| Bishop Wilson Church of England Primary School | Primary | 3–11 | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) | Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) | 61% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 55% in 2023) |
| Coleshill Heath School | Primary | 2–11 | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) | Good (Jun 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) | None published |
| St Edward's Catholic Primary School Roman Catholic | Primary | 2–11 | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) | Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) | 87% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 78% in 2024 and 88% in 2023) |
Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.
Nurseries and childcare
3 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 1.1 km (0.7 miles) from the middle of the street.
| Provider | Kind | Places | Latest inspection | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiggles and Giggles B37 7YN | Full day care | 80 | Good (Jul 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) |
| Beechwood Childcare Limited B37 6RN | Full day care | 58 | Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) |
| Pathways, Woodland Trails Day Nursery B37 7JT | Full day care | 50 | Outstanding (Oct 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) | 1.2 km (0.8 miles) |
Ofsted also registers 93 childminders and 15 home childcarers (nannies) in Solihull. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.
Food hygiene ratings nearby
| Business | Type | Distance | Rating | Rated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESS Catering HS2 Coleshill B46 3HR | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 290 m | 5 Very good | 13 Feb 2025 |
Crime within 250 m
No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (west-midlands).
Road safety
4 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 2 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a child under 16. 25% happened in the dark, and 75% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 70 mph limit.
| Year | Collisions | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| Date | Severity | Who was hurt | Road | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Apr 2024 13:05 | Serious | 1 person: 1 pedestrian | Minor road, 30 mph | Daylight |
| 9 Dec 2023 08:30 | Slight | 2 people: 1 child | M42, 70 mph | Flooded road |
| 9 Mar 2023 17:15 | Serious | 1 person | Minor road, 30 mph | Frost or ice |
| 18 Feb 2022 05:54 | Slight | 1 person | M6, 70 mph | Dark, street lights on, wet road |
Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.
Traffic on nearby roads
The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the M42 between LA boundary and 7a, with 99,354 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 90 m from the street's postcodes.
| Road | Between | Vehicles a day | Lorries | Ten years before | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M42 | LA boundary to 7a | 99,354 counted 2025 | 11% | -31% since 2015 | 90 m |
| M42 | Not recorded | 15,535 counted 2025 | 6% | 110 m | |
| A452 | M42 to Coleshill Heath Rd | 11,232 estimated; counted 2020 | 4% | -35% since 2014 | 130 m |
| M6 | Not recorded | 83,819 estimated; counted 2024 | 15% | -2% since 2015 | 190 m |
| M6 | 4 to M42 | 78,075 estimated; counted 2024 | 16% | -13% since 2015 | 190 m |
| M42 | Not recorded | 13,424 counted 2025 | 11% | 220 m |
Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 46 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 15% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 20% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 70% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 38% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | 21% | 17% |
| Private rented | 10% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 50% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 10% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 24% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 7% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 27% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 58% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 2% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 7% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 4% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 61% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 5% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 29% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 24% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 4% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 97% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | under 1% | 2% |
Deprivation
The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 6 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.
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.
Postcodes on this street
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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
- 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.