Malvern Close Birmingham

3 addresses across 1 postcode (B15), about 50 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 2708938.

  • Sales: 2 recorded sales since 1995; in 1996 the median was £345,000 across 1 sale.
  • 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 G; 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 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 240 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 173 to 174 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 3 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Sherwood House Medical Practice, about 730 m (0.5 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 400 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 94% of households owned their home and 62% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 23 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
19961£345,000£345,000£345,000
19951£305,000£305,000£305,000
Most recent sales (2)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 Jun 19966 B15 3UNDetached£345,000New build.
29 Dec 19954 B15 3UNDetached£305,000New 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 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

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 G (28% of about 650 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): CITY WIDE HMO.
  • Tree preservation orders: in a protected area: THE BIRMINGHAM (19A-21 HERMITAGE ROAD, EDGBASTON) TPO 1994.
  • 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

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.

© 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 3 addresses are between 173 m and 174 m above sea level (174 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
B15 3UN100%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 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Five Ways 1.3 million journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.6 miles)
Smethwick Rolfe Street 404,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Underground, metro or tramEdgbaston Village (West Midlands Metro)1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Augustus Road Moor Pool30 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Car parksDuchess Road Pay and Display Car Park1.8 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points17 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity380 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX13.9 km (8.6 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sherwood House Medical Practice730 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sherwood House Pharmacy730 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Knightlow Road (Dental Surgery)470 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalThe Edgbaston Hospital1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationHarborne Police Station940 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone480 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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,330 m²240 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 4.4 ha720 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 390 m²790 m (0.5 miles)
Playing fieldAvery Fields 5.3 ha880 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.8 ha560 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Homestead, a listed building (Grade I), 400 m (0.2 miles) north-west. 45 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The HomesteadListed building, Grade I400 m (0.2 miles) north-west
Garden Wall and Gate Piers to Number 25Listed building, Grade I410 m (0.3 miles) west
Parish Church of St Augustine of HippoListed building, Grade II*470 m (0.3 miles) north-east
17 and 19, Rotton Park Road B16Listed building, Grade II*600 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Birmingham Botanical GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Westbourne Road Town GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1 mile) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Moor PoolLake or reservoir870 m (0.5 miles) south
Icknield Port LoopLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
The GroveWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) south
Thimblemill PoolLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Warley WoodsWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) west
Woodgate ValleyValley4 km (2.5 miles) south-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)13.24010
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 6420
Under 5513

2 of the street's 3 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
Chad Vale Primary SchoolPrimary4–11750 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
George Dixon AcademySecondary11–18800 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
George Dixon Primary SchoolPrimary4–11870 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Paul's School for Girls Roman CatholicSecondary11–18880 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
King Edward VI Lordswood School for GirlsSecondary11–18920 m (0.6 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lordswood Boys' SchoolSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Feb 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
Harborne AcademySecondary11–161.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Harborne Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 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 CatholicPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St George's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 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
Bearwood Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
City Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jan 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
Holmpark B16 9PHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises250 m5 Very good9 Jun 2026
Ibis Styles Birmingham B16 9LQHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house280 m4 Good11 Nov 2025
Woodbourne Priory Hospital B17 8BYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good8 Oct 2025
Edgbaston Palace Hotel B16 9PQHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good15 Jan 2024
The Saffron Hotel B16 9NAHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good15 Jan 2024
Norfolk House School B15 3PSSchool/college/university430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 May 2026
Norfolk House Nursery B15 3PSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 May 2026
Genting Casinos Uk Ltd B15 3PSPub/bar/nightclub430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Jan 2024
Shams Restaurant Ltd B16 9NAHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Feb 2026
hagley uk fried chicken B17 8DLTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)1 Major improvement necessary10 Sep 2026
M.bakes B15 3PHOther catering premises460 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
The Steam Room B17 8PYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jul 2020
Knightlow News B17 8PYRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory13 May 2026
Fountain Nursing Home B17 8NJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Sep 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.

23 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences8
Criminal damage and arson4
Other theft3
Vehicle crime3
Public order2
Burglary2
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hermitage Road (6); On or near Stockdale Place (6); On or near Strutt Close (6); On or near Malvern Close (3); On or near Don Close (2).

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: 401 residents in 111 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 age4340
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)94%61%
Owned outright50%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)40%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)62%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.

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

Woodbourne Road · Stockdale Place · Strutt Close · Hermitage Road · Don Close · Hagley Road · Westfield Hall · Manor Road · Euan Close · Rodman Close · Marsland Close · Antringham Gardens

All the streets in B15 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.