Millwright Close Tipton, Sandwell

14 addresses across 1 postcode (DY4), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 33632970.

3 recorded sales since 1995; in 2005 the median was £115,000 across 1 sale. 8 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 5). 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 C; Band D in Sandwell costs £2,244 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Dudley Port, about 250 m away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden, Sheepwash Urban Park, is about 370 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 131 to 133 m above sea level. 12 of its 14 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is The Victoria Surgery, about 760 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km. About 230 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 63% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 133 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
20051£115,000£115,000£115,000
20041£89,950£89,950£89,950
19991£26,130£26,130£26,130
Most recent sales (3)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Feb 20051 DY4 7QNSemi-detached£115,000
31 Mar 20041 DY4 7QNTerraced£89,950
12 Apr 19994 DY4 7QNTerraced£26,130

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 September 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (5); House, mid-terrace (2); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1976-1982 (6); 1983-1990 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (5); owner-occupied (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Sandwell in 2026-27: Band D £2,244 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,496£1,746£1,995£2,244£2,743£3,242£3,741£4,489

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (32% of about 1,090 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.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

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

  • 27 August 2026: Netomnia Limited, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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.

Height above sea level

The street's 14 addresses are between 131 m and 133 m above sea level (132 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
DY4 7QN100%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 stationsDudley Port 376,000 journeys in 2024–25250 m
Tipton 359,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km
Sandwell and Dudley 1.0 million journeys in 2024–253.1 km
Underground, metro or tramDudley Port (West Midlands Metro)220 m
Horseley Road (West Midlands Metro)270 m
Sedgley Road (West Midlands Metro)930 m
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m, 24 within 800 m; nearest Lower Church Lane Dudley Port60 m
Bus or coach stationDudley Bus Station2.8 km
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km; nearest Osprey Charging Station80 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX21.8 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest The Victoria Surgery760 m
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Duggals Chemist20 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dental Surgery820 m
HospitalGuest Hospital1.9 km
Police stationTipton Police Station450 m
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m; nearest ATM160 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; nearest Sheepwash Urban Park 39 ha370 m
Play areaUnnamed 1,390 m²1.0 km
Playing fieldUnnamed 4.4 ha1.0 km
Allotments1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,860 m²800 m

Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 39 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Victoria Park, Tipton, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.0 km west. 6 listed buildings are within 1.0 km.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Victoria Park, TiptonRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.0 km west
Priory Park, DudleyRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Watery Lane JunctionLake or reservoir1.2 km west
Ryders Green LocksLake or reservoir1.3 km east
Weddell Wynd Community WoodlandWood2.4 km north-west
Kettle's HillHill2.5 km west
Bromford StopIsland3.5 km south-east
The GorgeValley4.7 km north-west

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)14.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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
70 to 7410
65 to 6910
60 to 6440
55 to 5960
Under 55214

12 of the street's 14 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
St Martin's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11330 m Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Q3 Academy TiptonSecondary11–19700 m No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Great Bridge Primary SchoolPrimary3–11930 m No published inspection
Sacred Heart Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.0 km Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Joseph Turner Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Summerhill Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Newtown Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Silvertrees AcademyPrimary3–71.4 km No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Tipton Green Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.4 km 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Pauls Church of England AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km No published inspection
Tividale Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Jubilee Park AcademyPrimary2–111.5 km Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Babylon Shop DY4 7PERetailers - other20 m5 Very good13 Mar 2024
Pizza Star DY4 7PETakeaway/sandwich shop30 m5 Very good16 Jun 2026
Tipton Wine Centre DY4 7PERetailers - other40 m5 Very good19 Jun 2019
J.K. Duggal Chemists DY4 7PERetailers - other40 mExempt
Royals Takeaway DY4 7QTTakeaway/sandwich shop80 m4 Good17 Mar 2025
Bassi Sweet Centre DY4 7QTRetailers - other80 m5 Very good14 Jan 2025
Jade Garden DY4 7QTTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m5 Very good5 Mar 2025
Desi Sweet Centre DY4 7QTRetailers - other90 m4 Good13 May 2025
The Horseley Tavern Pub DY4 7QTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m4 Good1 Dec 2025
New Testament Church of God DY4 7QTOther catering premises120 m5 Very good8 Dec 2017
Jarmark DY4 7PPRetailers - other130 m5 Very good27 Apr 2023
Jolly's Finest Fish Bar DY4 7PRTakeaway/sandwich shop150 m3 Generally satisfactory14 Nov 2025
House of Chaii Ltd DY4 7PRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good21 Feb 2025
Royal Oak Bar And Grill DY4 7PRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m2 Improvement necessary19 Mar 2025
PS Foods at Royal Oak Bar & Grill DY4 7PRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m4 Good12 Aug 2026

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.

133 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences69
Vehicle crime17
Other theft11
Drugs9
Possession of weapons6
Public order5
Criminal damage and arson5
Anti-social behaviour3
Other crime3
Burglary3
Theft from the person2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bevan Road (21); On or near Millwright Close (19); On or near Denbigh Road (16); On or near Shaw Road (12); On or near Howard Street (11).

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: 227 residents in 85 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 age4040
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)63%61%
Owned outright44%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented14%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications34%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)88%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

Lower Church Lane · Heath Close · Keelinge Street · Bevan Road · Dairy Close · Bedford Street · Potters Brook · Smith Place · Denbigh Road · Ryland Close · St Paul's Drive · Dovecote Close

All the streets in DY4 and across Sandwell.

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.