Mottram Close West Bromwich, Sandwell

15 addresses across 1 postcode (B70), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 33633620.

  • Sales: 12 recorded sales since 1995; in 2011 the median was £145,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Sandwell cost £207,065 in August 2026 (+0% on a year); private rents averaged £953 a month.
  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (D: 7, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Hambletts Road/Gad's Lane, is 60 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 42 times (80 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 4 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Broadwell Road - Solar Panels, is 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Sandwell costs £2,244 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Sandwell and Dudley, about 900 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Marl Hole Park, is about 80 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 150 to 153 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 15 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Dr Singh M, about 480 m (0.3 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 350 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 45% of households owned their home and 15% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 41 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, and it was serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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
20111£145,000£145,000£145,000
20101£151,000£151,000£151,000
20032£137,500£135,000£140,000
20011£88,500£88,500£88,500
19991£68,000£68,000£68,000
19981£12,000£12,000£12,000
19973£60,000£57,000£65,000
19961£55,250£55,250£55,250
All 12 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Jun 19971 B70 8QTDetached£57,000
15 May 19961 B70 8QTDetached£55,250
14 Feb 19972 B70 8QTSemi-detached£65,000
19 Dec 20034 B70 8QTDetached£135,000
12 Sep 19975 B70 8QTDetached£60,000
13 May 20116 B70 8QTSemi-detached£145,000
10 Oct 20036 B70 8QTSemi-detached£140,000
30 Mar 20018 B70 8QTSemi-detached£88,500
29 Jan 19998 B70 8QTSemi-detached£68,000
30 Mar 201610 B70 8QTDetached£200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Dec 201011 B70 8QTSemi-detached£151,000
24 Feb 199811 B70 8QTSemi-detached£12,000

House prices and rents in Sandwell

A typical home in Sandwell cost £207,065 in August 2026, the same as a year before. That is 21% more than five years earlier and 67% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£329,048
Semi-detached£228,439
Terraced£193,105
Flat or maisonette£111,697
Bought by a first-time buyer£196,942

Private renters in Sandwell paid £953 a month on average in September 2026, 7.3% more than a year before. That is 43% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£680
Two bedrooms£851
Three bedrooms£1,015
Four or more bedrooms£1,405

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 2011 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 97 m². Most common: House, detached (7); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (4); 1967-1975 (3); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 17,498 kWh of it on average in 2024, 51% more than the district's 11,553 kWh, and 3,395 kWh of electricity, 16% more than the district's 2,933 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the 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 B70.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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.

ABCDEFGH
£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 A (59% of about 680 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 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.

Energy projects nearby

7 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 4 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
DPD Distribution Centre Sandwell PD/15/00438 Solar farm 1 MW Operational Jan 2017 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Broadwell Road - Solar Panels Sandwell PD/22/02136 Solar farm 1 MW Permission granted, not yet built Oct 2022 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Kelvin Energy Recovery Facility Sandwell DC/17/61177 Energy from waste (incinerator) 47 MW Being built Nov 2021 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Kelvin Energy Recovery Facility Sandwell DC/17/61177 Energy from waste (incinerator) 47 MW Being built Nov 2021 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Oldbury Sandwell DC/10/52897 Advanced Conversion Technologies 40 MW Operational Jan 2014 1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Wednesbury Sandwell DC/14/57758 Energy from waste (incinerator) 2 MW Being built Apr 2017 4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Edwin Richards Landfill Scheme Landfill Gas 1.8 MW Operational Jun 2002 4.6 km (2.8 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.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre 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.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 42 times, for 80 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Tame.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Izons Lane Cso Severn Trent Water River Tame 23 35 690 m (0.4 miles)
Bromford Lane Cso Severn Trent Water River Tame 16 27 750 m (0.5 miles)
West Bromwich Street Cso Severn Trent Water River Tame 3 18 860 m (0.5 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

This postcode is in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square with radon potential up to 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of the square is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 60 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Hambletts Road/Gad's Lane Gads Lane, Lamberts End, West Bromwich, West Midlands from 1945 Inert, industrial, household 60 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 15 addresses are between 150 m and 153 m above sea level (152 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
B70 8QT100%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 stationsSandwell and Dudley 1.0 million journeys in 2024–25900 m (0.6 miles)
Smethwick Galton Bridge 698,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.6 miles)
Langley Green 161,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.6 miles)
Underground, metro or tramDartmouth Street (West Midlands Metro)510 m (0.3 miles)
Lodge Road (West Midlands Metro)640 m (0.4 miles)
West Bromwich Central (West Midlands Metro)940 m (0.6 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 41 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Oak Road Lamberts End120 m
Bus or coach stationWest Bromwich Bus Station880 m (0.5 miles)
Car parksM Park Astle Car Park1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX19 km (12 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 Dr Singh M Requires improvement Jun 2026480 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies12 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lodge Pharmacy580 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Primary Care Centre720 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalSkin Hospital1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Care homes7 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cromwell House (West Bromwich) Requires improvement Feb 2021390 m
Police stationWest Midlands Police700 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM590 m (0.4 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Marl Hole Park 4.0 ha80 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 520 m²110 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Greets Green Playing Fields 12 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,770 m²550 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 4.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Oak House, West Bromwich, a listed building (Grade I), 320 m east. 17 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Oak House, West BromwichListed building, Grade I320 m east
Chances Glassworks, SmethwickScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Dartmouth ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pudding Green JunctionLake or reservoir640 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Bromford StopIsland1 km (0.6 miles) south
Bromford JunctionLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Ryders Green JunctionLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Priory WoodsWood2.5 km (1.5 miles) east
Darby's HillHill3.4 km (2.1 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)17.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.4205
Particles (PM10)13.64015

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, 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
55 to 5930
Under 551215

3 of the street's 15 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 Sandwell: see them on the Sandwell page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Hanbury Primary SchoolPrimary3–11180 m Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 50% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 50% in 2024 and 43% in 2023)
Lodge Primary SchoolPrimary3–11350 m No published inspection 61% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 74% in 2023)
Lyng Primary SchoolPrimary3–11800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
Shireland Biomedical UtcSecondary11–19810 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE figures withheld (2026, provisional)
A level 2025: average grade C-; 13.3% AAB or better; progress average
West Bromwich Collegiate AcademySecondary11–16870 m (0.5 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 48.4 (45.3 in 2025 and 43.0 in 2024); 46.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
Ryders Green Primary SchoolPrimary3–11910 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 77% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 70% in 2023)
George Salter AcademySecondary11–191 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 40.5 (39.6 in 2025 and 42.5 in 2024); 35.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 10.5% AAB or better; progress average
Sandwell College16 plus16–991.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade D+; 3.3% AAB or better; progress below average
Shireland CBSO AcademySecondary11–191.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection GCSE figures withheld (2026, provisional)
Hargate Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 66% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 54% in 2023)
St Francis Xavier Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 71% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 47% in 2024 and 37% in 2023)
Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Inadequate; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Inadequate None published

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

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.1 km (0.7 miles); the nearest is 190 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Woody's B70 8QL Out-of-school day care 25 Not inspected yet 190 m
Green Garden Community Nursery B70 9JF Full day care 24 Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 310 m
Cohort Tuition Wb Limited B70 8BG Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 350 m
Cohort Kiddies Club B70 8BG Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 350 m
Happy Days Nursery B70 9PT Sessional day care 38 Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 480 m (0.3 miles)
Beehive WB Nursery B70 8NX Sessional day care 24 Good (Dec 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 680 m (0.4 miles)
YMCA Carters Green B70 9LG Full day care 118 Good (Jan 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 880 m (0.5 miles)
YMCA Greets Green B70 9EZ Full day care 60 Outstanding (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 900 m (0.6 miles)
Sandwell Young Carers Centre B70 8SB Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Tender Troops Day Nursery and Children Hub B70 8SB Full day care 37 Good (Sep 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 81 childminders and 30 home childcarers (nannies) in Sandwell. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Oak News & Booze B70 8HWRetailers - other100 m4 Good3 Feb 2020
SIPS Education @ Hanbury Primary School B70 9NTSchool/college/university160 m5 Very good29 Nov 2024
The Yew Tree B70 8QXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good28 Sep 2026
Soho Oak B70 8PRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good23 Oct 2024
UPN Local B70 9PSRetailers - other340 m4 Good31 Oct 2024
The Vine B70 8DBPub/bar/nightclub370 m5 Very good18 Dec 2024
Chinar Supermarket B70 8HGRetailers - other390 m4 Good16 Jul 2025
Cromwell House B70 9PXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Oct 2024
Bromford News and Wines Store B70 7HRRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Aug 2019
Bromford Lane Fish Bar B70 7HRTakeaway/sandwich shop490 m (0.3 miles)4 Good17 Apr 2023
Bromwich Supermarket Ltd B70 7HNRetailers - other500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Dec 2023

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.

41 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences20
Vehicle crime6
Public order4
Other theft2
Criminal damage and arson2
Burglary2
Anti-social behaviour1
Other crime1
Possession of weapons1
Robbery1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hazelbeech Road (10); On or near Hanbury Road (9); On or near Mottram Close (9); On or near Gads Lane (6); On or near Ireland Green Road (3).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 0 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian. 100% happened in the dark, and 100% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202311
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
1 Oct 2023 20:00 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 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

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 354 residents in 121 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 age3540
Children under 1527%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)45%61%
Owned outright31%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented32%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work39%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)14%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)10%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram6%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)76%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)15%34%
No qualifications40%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)72%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all10%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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

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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.

  • B70 8QT: 15 addresses of 16 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Ireland Green Road · Rowley View · Oak Road · Beechwood Road · Hanbury Road · Margaret Street · Brandon Close · Gads Lane · Wickham Square · Oak Avenue · Wood Lane · Hambletts Road

All the streets in B70 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; 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.