Needle Mill Lane Redditch

15 addresses across 3 postcodes (B97,B98), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 31100511.

  • Sales: 6 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £435,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 1 homes have an energy certificate (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.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Redditch costs £2,463 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Redditch, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Arrow Valley Country Park, is about 40 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 86 to 91 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 Elgar House, about 940 m (0.6 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 350 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 94% of households owned their home and 46% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 20 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20211£435,000£435,000£435,000
20171£360,000£360,000£360,000
20061£300,000£300,000£300,000
20031£285,000£285,000£285,000
20021£225,000£225,000£225,000
20011£132,000£132,000£132,000
Most recent sales (6)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Mar 2021FORGE MILL COTTAGE B98 8HYDetached£435,000
12 May 2017FORGE MILL COTTAGE B98 8HYDetached£360,000
2 Nov 2006FORGE MILL COTTAGE B98 8HYDetached£300,000
15 Aug 2003FORGE MILL COTTAGE B98 8HYDetached£285,000
24 Jan 2002FORGE MILL COTTAGE B98 8HYDetached£225,000
22 Mar 2001FORGE MILL COTTAGE B98 8HYDetached£132,000

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

1 home with a current certificate; median floor area 108 m². Most common: House, detached (1). Built: before 1900 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (1 address)

Council tax

What each band costs in Redditch in 2026-27: Band D £2,463 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,642£1,916£2,189£2,463£3,010£3,558£4,105£4,926

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (40% of about 1,180 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.

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 on this street 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 15 addresses are between 86 m and 91 m above sea level (90 m on average); the ground rises about 5 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
B97 6RR50%0%0%0%
B98 8HY80%80%80%0%
B98 9BN100%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 stationsRedditch 910,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Alvechurch 163,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Barnt Green 327,000 journeys in 2024–256.4 km (4 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Forge Mill Road Riverside280 m
Bus or coach stationRedditch Bus Station1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Car parksThe Quadrant Car Park930 m (0.6 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX20 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. 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Elgar House940 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Church Green Pharmacy870 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Red House Dental Clinic820 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalAlexandra Hospital4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Police stationRedditch Police and Fire Station350 m
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone740 m (0.5 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Arrow Valley Country Park 210 ha40 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 60 m²670 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldTerry Memorial Playing Field 3.8 ha1.4 km (0.9 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.1 ha840 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 212 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Forge Mill, a scheduled monument, 120 m east. 18 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Forge MillScheduled monument120 m east
Bordesley AbbeyScheduled monument410 m (0.3 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Mill PondLake or reservoir90 m south
Paper Mill HillHill1.2 km (0.8 miles) east
Batchley PoolLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Arrow Valley LakeLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Butler's Hill WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Shortwood DingleValley3 km (1.9 miles) north-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)7.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)10.64015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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 6410
55 to 5920
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 Redditch: see them on the Redditch 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
St Stephen's CofE First School Church of EnglandPrimary3–9340 m Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Trinity High School and Sixth Form CentreSecondary13–18720 m (0.4 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Heart of Worcestershire College16 plus14–99880 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Holyoakes Field First SchoolPrimary2–91.1 km (0.7 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
St George's CofE First School and Nursery Church of EnglandPrimary3–91.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 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
Birchensale Middle SchoolMiddle deemed secondary9–131.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Bede's Catholic Middle School Roman CatholicMiddle deemed secondary9–131.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection

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
Forge Mill Needle Museum B98 8HYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good9 Feb 2026
Forge Mill Stores B98 8HPRetailers - other250 mExempt
The Redditch Forge B97 6AQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 mAwaiting inspection
Sainsbury's Superstore/ Petrol Sation B97 6RFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets300 m5 Very good14 Sep 2023
B & M B97 6RFRetailers - other300 m5 Very good2 Sep 2026
Starbucks Coffee Company At Sainsbury B97 6RFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good13 Jun 2025
St Stephen's C Of E First School Breakfast Club B98 8HWSchool/college/university370 mExempt
Mellors Catering St Stephen's C Of E First School B98 8HWSchool/college/university370 m5 Very good20 Oct 2026
Tudor Hall Private Day Nursery B97 6ENHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises390 m5 Very good17 Jan 2025
Alliance In Partnership At The Forge Secondary School B98 8HFSchool/college/university430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Jul 2026
Ragamuffins Day Nursery B97 6EHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Jun 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.

20 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting4
Other theft3
Anti-social behaviour3
Burglary3
Vehicle crime2
Public order1
Other crime1
Possession of weapons1
Criminal damage and arson1
Violence and sexual offences1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Millrace Road (13); On or near Needle Mill Lane (6); On or near Parking Area (1).

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: 346 residents in 160 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 age6640
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over53%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)94%61%
Owned outright75%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work41%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)53%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)50%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)48%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away19%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)46%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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.

  • B98 8HY: 12 addresses of 16 in the postcode
  • B97 6RR: 2 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • B98 9BN: 1 address of 72 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Millrace Road · Middlehouse Lane · Meadow Hill Crescent · Meadowhill Road · Lydham Close · Mabey Avenue · Bordesley Lane

All the streets in B97, B98 and across Redditch.

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.