Old Birmingham Road Lickey, Bromsgrove

121 addresses across 7 postcodes (B45,B60), about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 4702713.

  • Sales: 141 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £325,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 65 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 39, E: 18, F: 3).
  • 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 E; Band D in Bromsgrove costs £2,479 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barnt Green, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Lickey Hills, is about 570 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 196 to 272 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 104 of its 121 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Barnt Green Surgery, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 49% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 4 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often burglary.

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
20261£325,000£325,000£325,000
20254£572,500£410,000£780,000
20245£500,000£370,000£578,000
20233£382,500£355,000£575,000
20226£391,250£260,000£520,000
20215£480,000£375,000£1,100,000
20206£407,500£253,000£775,000
20197£345,000£252,000£460,000
20185£467,500£265,000£525,000
20173£250,000£240,000£343,000
20166£311,250£249,950£452,500
20157£290,000£229,950£517,500
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 141)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 Jul 2026334 B45 8ESTerraced£325,000
21 Nov 2025268 B60 1NUDetached£410,000
24 Oct 2025399 B45 8EUDetached£565,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Sep 2025266 B60 1NUDetached£500,000
30 Jun 2025282 B45 8ESDetached£645,000
28 Jan 2025254 B60 1NUSemi-detached£780,000
17 Dec 2024284 B45 8ESSemi-detached£377,500
24 Oct 2024260 B60 1NUDetached£530,000
24 Jun 2024353A B60 1NXSemi-detached£370,000
7 Feb 2024314 B45 8ESDetached£578,000
5 Jan 2024391 B45 8EUSemi-detached£500,000
10 Nov 2023288 B45 8ESSemi-detached£382,500
6 Nov 2023330 B45 8ESOther£565,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Aug 2023306 B45 8ESSemi-detached£355,000
4 Aug 2023316 B45 8ESDetached£575,000
14 Oct 2022294 B45 8ESSemi-detached£360,000
29 Sep 2022338 B45 8ESSemi-detached£346,000
24 Aug 2022290 B45 8ESSemi-detached£450,000
30 May 2022BADGERS SETT, 248B B60 1NUTerraced£422,500
28 Feb 2022336 B45 8ESTerraced£260,000
4 Feb 2022318 B45 8ESDetached£520,000
17 Dec 2021256 B60 1NUTerraced£480,000
17 Sep 2021349 B60 1NXDetached£1,100,000
27 Aug 2021248 B60 1NUDetached£940,000
30 Jul 2021361A B45 8EUDetached£375,000
29 Jun 2021391 B45 8EUSemi-detached£426,000
20 Aug 2020334 B45 8ESTerraced£253,000
14 Aug 2020367 B45 8EUDetached£420,000
3 Jul 2020304 B45 8ESDetached£552,000
3 Jul 2020286 B45 8ESSemi-detached£395,000
14 Feb 2020348 B45 8ESSemi-detached£275,000
3 Jan 2020349 B60 1NXDetached£775,000
20 Dec 2019258 B60 1NUOther£580,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Nov 2019375 B45 8EUDetached£460,000
23 Aug 2019BADGERS SETT, 248B B60 1NUTerraced£320,000
5 Jul 2019290 B45 8ESSemi-detached£330,000
12 Apr 2019399 B45 8EUDetached£390,000
5 Apr 2019284 B45 8ESSemi-detached£345,000
19 Mar 2019264A B60 1NUDetached£252,000
17 Jan 2019373 B45 8EUDetached£410,000
16 Nov 2018306 B45 8ESSemi-detached£270,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Jul 2018292 B45 8ESSemi-detached£345,000
31 May 2018353A B60 1NXSemi-detached£265,000
27 Apr 2018282 B45 8ESDetached£495,000
26 Jan 2018276 B45 8EYDetached£525,000
12 Jan 2018385 B45 8EUDetached£467,500
3 Nov 2017258 B60 1NUOther£565,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Oct 2017274 B45 8EYDetached£250,000
4 Sep 2017248D B60 1NUDetached£343,000
17 Feb 2017373 B45 8EUDetached£240,000

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 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

65 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 106 m². Most common: House, detached (29); House, semi-detached (18); Flat (8). Built: 1900-1929 (19); 1930-1949 (18); 1900 (8). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (49); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (32 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Bromsgrove in 2026-27: Band D £2,479 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,652£1,928£2,203£2,479£3,029£3,580£4,131£4,957

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band E (31% of about 1,250 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: 2.
  • 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: yes, Bromsgrove.

Listed buildings

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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 22 November 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 15 February 2027 to 19 February 2027: WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (standard works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 31 July 2026 to 5 August 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the verge (immediate - emergency works)

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 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
B45 8ESnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
B45 8EUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B60 1NUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B60 1NXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B45 8EYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B60 1NPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B60 1HBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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.

© 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 121 addresses are between 196 m and 272 m above sea level (256 m on average); the ground rises about 77 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
B45 8ES100%100%100%0%
B45 8EU100%100%100%0%
B45 8EY100%100%100%0%
B60 1HB100%100%100%0%
B60 1NP100%100%100%0%
B60 1NU100%100%100%0%
B60 1NX100%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 stationsBarnt Green 327,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Longbridge 892,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.4 miles)
Alvechurch 163,000 journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lickey Square130 m
Bus or coach stationAlvechurch - Red Lion PH4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Car parksBarnt Green Station Car Park2.2 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging pointsBarnt Green Parish GeniePoint2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX20.6 km (13 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 surgeriesBarnt Green Surgery2.3 km (1.4 miles)
PharmaciesBarnt Green Pharmacy2.2 km (1.4 miles)
NHS dentistsDental Surgery2.1 km (1.3 miles)
HospitalPrincess Of Wales Hospital3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Police stationWest Mercia Police2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM2.3 km (1.4 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lickey Hills 213 ha570 m (0.4 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 1,370 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.6 ha1.6 km (1 mile)
AllotmentsUnnamed 3.6 ha1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 213 hectares in all.

Landmarks

3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lickey WarrenWood1 km (0.6 miles) east
Gorse HillHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Stock HillHill1.2 km (0.8 miles) north
Beacon HillHill1.2 km (0.8 miles) north
Spring PoolsLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Scarfields DingleValley4.3 km (2.7 miles) south-east

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)6.6205
Particles (PM10)11.04015

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
70 to 7410
65 to 6980
60 to 64740
55 to 59210
Under 5517121

104 of the street's 121 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 Bromsgrove: see them on the Bromsgrove 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
Lickey Hills Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–11270 m Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Class Catering At Lickey Hills Primary School B45 8EUSchool/college/university270 m5 Very good25 Feb 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.

4 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Burglary2
Anti-social behaviour1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Pine Grove (4).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,306 residents in 516 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 age5040
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle1%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)40%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)49%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 10 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: SEVERN TRENT WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 22 November 2026 (two-way signals) found 3 November 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.

  • B45 8ES: 57 addresses of 60 in the postcode
  • B45 8EU: 29 addresses of 34 in the postcode
  • B60 1NU: 19 addresses of 25 in the postcode
  • B60 1NX: 7 addresses
  • B45 8EY: 6 addresses of 7 in the postcode
  • B60 1NP: 2 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • B60 1HB: 1 address of 9 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Pine Grove · Lickey Square · Woodshill Avenue · Malvern Road · High House Drive

All the streets in B45, B60 and across Bromsgrove.

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.