Malt Close Birmingham

30 addresses across 1 postcode (B17), about 100 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 2704141.

  • Energy: 28 homes have an energy certificate (C: 27, E: 1).
  • 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 B; 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 University (Birmingham), about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 350 m away, and Harborne Walkway (2.6 hectares) is about 540 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 162 to 164 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 30 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Harborne Medical Practice, about 200 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 350 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 60% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 276 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 May 2016 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

28 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 72 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (18); House, end-terrace (8); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1967-1975 (20); 1950-1966 (4); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (17); owner-occupied (9).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 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 B (39% of about 1,160 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, SELLY OAK HMO.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • 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 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 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 30 addresses are between 162 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
B17 0HX100%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 stationsUniversity (Birmingham) 3.8 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Selly Oak 2.3 million journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Five Ways 1.3 million journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.5 miles)
Underground, metro or tramEdgbaston Village (West Midlands Metro)2 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 33 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Blue Coat School Harborne180 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth4.1 km (2.6 miles)
Car parksQ-Park Qemc1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points13 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station150 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX13.3 km (8.3 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Harborne Medical Practice200 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots230 m
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery70 m
HospitalBirmingham Women's Hospital670 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationHarborne Police Station450 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cashpoint® 125 High Street Lloyds Bank330 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,580 m²350 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Harborne Walkway 2.6 ha540 m (0.3 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 480 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.7 ha840 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Harborne Hill Allotments 3.0 ha490 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 3.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Metchley Abbey, a listed building (Grade II*), 260 m south-west. 39 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Metchley AbbeyListed building, Grade II*260 m south-west
21, Yateley Road B15Listed building, Grade I560 m (0.3 miles) north
Knutsford LodgeListed building, Grade II*700 m (0.4 miles) east
Berrow Court HotelListed building, Grade II*890 m (0.6 miles) north
Roman forts at MetchleyScheduled monument930 m (0.6 miles) south
Westbourne Road Town GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Birmingham Botanical GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Moor PoolLake or reservoir840 m (0.5 miles) north-west
The GroveWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Edgbaston PoolLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) east
Icknield Port LoopLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) north
Pitts WoodWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) west
Woodgate ValleyValley3.7 km (2.3 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)13.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

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
60 to 6430
55 to 5920
Under 552530

5 of the street's 30 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
Harborne AcademySecondary11–16470 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Chad Vale Primary SchoolPrimary4–11570 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Harborne Primary SchoolPrimary4–11640 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Inadequate; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Inadequate
St Mary's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11700 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Peters CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Water Mill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Selly Oak Nursery SchoolNursery2–71.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
King Edward VI Lordswood School for GirlsSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Paul's School for Girls Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
St George's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; 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
Tiverton AcademyPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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 Hop Garden B17 0HTPub/bar/nightclub80 m2 Improvement necessary16 Dec 2025
GuDee B17 0HQOther catering premises90 mAwaiting inspection
The Green Man B17 9NEPub/bar/nightclub120 m4 Good3 Aug 2026
Marks & Spencer B17 9NERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets120 m5 Very good22 Sep 2017
Pho B17 9NERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good24 Sep 2026
Starbucks Coffee Company B17 9NERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good13 May 2025
Home Bargains B17 9NJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets150 m4 Good7 Jan 2017
Ruby Takeaway B17 9NJTakeaway/sandwich shop150 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Jul 2025
Little Bricks B17 9NJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 mAwaiting inspection
Boston Tea Party B17 9NJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good5 Dec 2025
The Little High Street B17 9NURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good1 May 2025
Maddison B17 9NJRetailers - other180 m5 Very good22 Feb 2022
Iceland B17 9NSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets180 m5 Very good31 Jan 2014
Rudys Pizza B17 9NSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good30 Aug 2023
EL BUEN GUSTO B17 9NSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good14 Dec 2020

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.

276 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting126
Violence and sexual offences39
Other theft21
Public order16
Vehicle crime16
Burglary14
Robbery11
Criminal damage and arson11
Drugs6
Anti-social behaviour5
Possession of weapons5
Theft from the person3
Bicycle theft2
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (193); On or near York Street (30); On or near Grays Road (24); On or near York Mews (19); On or near Barlow'S 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: 351 residents in 129 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 age4740
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented27%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van41%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%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)60%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)85%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%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 SSA Mixy LTD T/A Mango (restaurant/cafe/canteen, B17 9QE) now 4 Good, was 5 Very good (rated 24 September 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.

Nearby streets

The Farthings · High Street · High Street · Barlow's Road · York Mews · St John's Road · Metchley Lane · York Street · Grays Road · Bull Street · Harts Close · Hintlesham Avenue

All the streets in B17 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.