Mere View Shelfield, Walsall

19 addresses across 2 postcodes (WS4), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41900673.

32 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £325,000 across 1 sale. 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 7). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Walsall costs £2,627 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Walsall, about 3.9 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden is about 640 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 136 to 138 m above sea level. 3 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Rushall Medical Centre, about 780 m away. About 640 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 92% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 35 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
20251£325,000£325,000£325,000
20201£245,000£245,000£245,000
20191£265,000£265,000£265,000
20181£282,000£282,000£282,000
20171£247,500£247,500£247,500
20161£236,500£236,500£236,500
20151£200,000£200,000£200,000
20142£187,500£180,000£195,000
20131£176,500£176,500£176,500
20112£175,000£170,000£180,000
20081£200,000£200,000£200,000
20071£195,000£195,000£195,000
Most recent sales (32)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Jul 202517 WS4 1XFDetached£349,995Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Mar 20257 WS4 1XFDetached£325,000
2 Sep 20204 WS4 1XFDetached£245,000Leasehold.
29 Nov 20193 WS4 1XFDetached£265,000
28 Aug 20182 WS4 1XFDetached£282,000
13 Jan 20173 WS4 1XFDetached£247,500
31 Oct 20162 WS4 1XFDetached£236,500Leasehold.
21 May 201510 WS4 1XFDetached£200,000
15 Aug 20142 WS4 1XFDetached£195,000Leasehold.
6 Feb 201412 WS4 1XFDetached£180,000
14 Jun 201315 WS4 1XFDetached£176,500
2 Dec 20115 WS4 1XFDetached£170,000
28 Oct 201110 WS4 1XFDetached£180,000
22 Jan 200810 WS4 1XFDetached£200,000
21 Nov 20077 WS4 1XFDetached£195,000
29 Apr 20055 WS4 1XFDetached£170,000
11 Mar 20057 WS4 1XFDetached£180,000
9 Jul 200411 WS4 1XFDetached£198,000
30 Sep 20037 WS4 1XFDetached£150,000
31 Jul 20037 WS4 1XFDetached£149,000
30 Jun 20039 WS4 1XFDetached£182,000
2 Jun 200312 WS4 1XFDetached£149,500Leasehold.
7 Feb 200323 WS4 1XFDetached£125,000
17 May 200221 WS4 1XFDetached£98,500
27 Mar 200211 WS4 1XFDetached£132,000
5 Mar 200114 WS4 1XFDetached£85,000
27 Sep 19992 WS4 1XFDetached£90,500Leasehold.
29 May 199814 WS4 1XFDetached£84,000
27 Mar 199810 WS4 1XFDetached£71,000
30 Jan 19986 WS4 1XFDetached£70,950
23 Dec 19976 WS4 1XFDetached£68,000
31 Jul 19971 WS4 1XFDetached£83,500

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 October 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 107 m². Most common: House, detached (10). Built: 1983-1990 (7); 1991-1995 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7).

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 D (60% of about 480 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

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
WS4 1XFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WS4 1XEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely

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 19 addresses are between 136 m and 138 m above sea level (137 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
WS4 1XE100%100%100%0%
WS4 1XF100%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 stationsWalsall 1.2 million journeys in 2024–253.9 km
Bloxwich 114,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km
Bloxwich North 123,000 journeys in 2024–254.5 km
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m, 36 within 800 m; nearest Coalheath Lane Shelfield130 m
Bus or coach stationWalsall Bus Station3.7 km
Car parksMFT Commercial Ltd. - Depot Parking2.0 km
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km; nearest InstaVolt Charging Station260 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX22.6 km

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; nearest Rushall Medical Centre780 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Hartshorne Chemist710 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dental Surgery810 m
HospitalGoscote Hospital1.7 km
Police stationAldridge Police Station2.6 km
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m; nearest ATM390 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 garden2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha640 m
Play area4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 520 m²180 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Shelfield Recreation Ground 4.2 ha60 m
AllotmentsWinterley Lane Allotments 1.0 ha840 m

Within 800 m: 2 parks and gardens, 3.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Walsall Arboretum, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 3.0 km south-west. 2 listed buildings are within 1.0 km.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Walsall ArboretumRegistered park or garden, Grade II3.0 km south-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The SwagLake or reservoir770 m east
Rails WoodWood1.6 km north
Lady PoolLake or reservoir1.8 km south-west
Park PitsLake or reservoir2.0 km south
Shireoak HillHill3.3 km north-east
The DingleValley3.4 km south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)12.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.0205
Particles (PM10)12.64015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5930
Under 551619

3 of the street's 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Greenfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–11200 m Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Francis Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11430 m Report card (Jul 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Radleys Primary SchoolPrimary3–11700 m Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rushall Primary SchoolPrimary3–11740 m No published inspection
Ormiston Shelfield Community AcademySecondary11–181.1 km Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's Church of England C Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Edgar Stammers Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.7 km Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–112.0 km No published inspection

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Greenfield Primary School WS4 1PLSchool/college/university130 m5 Very good1 Oct 2026
Christopher's House WS4 1PWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m4 Good15 Dec 2025
Willows Superstore WS4 1RDRetailers - other220 m3 Generally satisfactory15 Nov 2023
Esso also t/a Premier WS4 1PXRetailers - other250 m1 Major improvement necessary22 Apr 2026
Shelfield Greggs WS4 1PQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good20 Mar 2026
Subway, Heath Service Station WS4 1PXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m4 Good2 Sep 2025
Shelfield Service Station WS4 1PQRetailers - other290 m5 Very good15 Sep 2026
Pine View WS4 1PRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good25 Oct 2023
Burgershack Shelfield WS4 1PURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m2 Improvement necessary7 Jun 2025
Shelfield Fish Bar WS4 1PUTakeaway/sandwich shop410 m1 Major improvement necessary22 Nov 2025
Mr Chef WS4 1PUTakeaway/sandwich shop410 m4 Good13 May 2026
Aldridge Sailing Club WS4 1HGPub/bar/nightclub430 m4 Good24 Feb 2012
Midcounties Co-operative WS4 1PSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets440 m5 Very good18 Sep 2025
Queens Convenience Store & Post Office WS4 1HYRetailers - other460 m3 Generally satisfactory8 Dec 2025
Alamins Kitchen WS4 1HYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 mAwaiting inspection

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.

35 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences17
Vehicle crime5
Burglary4
Criminal damage and arson3
Other theft2
Other crime1
Public order1
Shoplifting1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Willows Road (7); On or near Petrol Station (6); On or near Willowside (5); On or near Coalheath Lane (4); On or near Meadow Close (4).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 643 residents in 235 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 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)92%61%
Owned outright53%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van70%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%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 9 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 Mellors Catering Services (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WS4 1PL) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings St Francis Club (pub/bar/nightclub, WS4 1RH) newly listed: 5 Very good (rated 7 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Greenfield Primary School (school/college/university, WS4 1PL) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 1 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Shelfield Service Station (retailers - other, WS4 1PQ) now 5 Very good, was 4 Good (rated 15 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.

  • WS4 1XF: 18 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • WS4 1XE: 1 address of 34 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Sedgemere Grove · Meadow Close · Highfield Avenue · Briarbeck · Willowside · Beckfield Close · Fenbourne Close · Wilsford Close · Coalheath Lane · Willows Road · Parkstone Close · Somerfield Close

All the streets in WS4 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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.