Oswestry Close Redditch

44 addresses across 1 postcode (B97), about 250 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 31100541.

Sales: 65 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £410,200 across 1 sale.
Energy: 22 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, D: 14).
Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas 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 B; Band D in Redditch costs £2,463 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Redditch, about 2.5 km (1.6 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden, Morton Stanley Park, is about 190 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 139 to 147 m above sea level.
Noise: 8 of its 44 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Crabbs Cross Medical Centre, about 920 m (0.6 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 96% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 30 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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2025	1	£410,200	£410,200	£410,200
2024	3	£400,000	£387,000	£470,000
2023	1	£320,000	£320,000	£320,000
2022	1	£425,000	£425,000	£425,000
2017	3	£290,000	£285,000	£340,000
2016	1	£300,000	£300,000	£300,000
2015	1	£323,000	£323,000	£323,000
2014	2	£248,000	£215,000	£281,000
2013	2	£249,000	£208,000	£290,000
2011	1	£250,000	£250,000	£250,000
2010	1	£185,000	£185,000	£185,000
2009	1	£225,000	£225,000	£225,000

Most recent sales (latest 50 of 65)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
17 Oct 2025	30 B97 5QE	Detached	£410,200
15 Nov 2024	24 B97 5QE	Detached	£387,000
8 May 2024	18 B97 5QE	Detached	£470,000
28 Mar 2024	15 B97 5QE	Detached	£400,000
2 Aug 2023	28 B97 5QE	Detached	£320,000
2 Sep 2022	37 B97 5QE	Detached	£425,000
7 Jun 2021	32 B97 5QE	Detached	£300,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Aug 2017	25 B97 5QE	Detached	£285,000
9 Aug 2017	3 B97 5QE	Detached	£340,000
22 Feb 2017	37 B97 5QE	Detached	£290,000
13 Jun 2016	1 B97 5QE	Detached	£300,000
30 Nov 2015	22 B97 5QE	Detached	£323,000
3 Jun 2014	9 B97 5QE	Detached	£281,000
17 Feb 2014	16 B97 5QE	Detached	£215,000
7 Jun 2013	24 B97 5QE	Detached	£208,000
21 Feb 2013	18 B97 5QE	Detached	£290,000
29 Mar 2011	3 B97 5QE	Detached	£250,000
24 Feb 2010	5 B97 5QE	Detached	£185,000
23 Oct 2009	40 B97 5QE	Detached	£225,000
11 Apr 2008	36 B97 5QE	Semi-detached	£211,500
22 May 2007	3 B97 5QE	Detached	£250,000
18 May 2007	22 B97 5QE	Detached	£292,500
14 Feb 2007	43 B97 5QE	Detached	£312,000
15 Sep 2006	16 B97 5QE	Detached	£215,000
16 Jun 2006	27 B97 5QE	Detached	£225,500
7 Apr 2006	24 B97 5QE	Detached	£192,000
16 Mar 2006	41 B97 5QE	Detached	£225,000
30 Sep 2005	37 B97 5QE	Detached	£232,500
1 Aug 2005	13 B97 5QE	Terraced	£210,000
8 Jul 2005	20 B97 5QE	Detached	£247,500
24 Jun 2005	40 B97 5QE	Detached	£200,000
12 Mar 2004	3 B97 5QE	Detached	£210,000
11 Jul 2003	4 B97 5QE	Detached	£205,000
28 Feb 2003	7 B97 5QE	Detached	£170,000
22 Nov 2002	21 B97 5QE	Detached	£192,000
8 Nov 2002	15 B97 5QE	Detached	£167,500
20 Sep 2002	26 B97 5QE	Detached	£149,000
13 Aug 2002	9 B97 5QE	Detached	£188,000
24 Jul 2002	16 B97 5QE	Detached	£38,000
30 May 2002	43 B97 5QE	Detached	£166,500
28 Mar 2002	35 B97 5QE	Detached	£136,950
16 Jul 2001	18 B97 5QE	Detached	£159,950
24 May 2001	37 B97 5QE	Detached	£125,000
14 Dec 2000	38 B97 5QE	Detached	£135,000
5 Oct 2000	2 B97 5QE	Detached	£129,950
22 Sep 2000	9 B97 5QE	Detached	£132,000
14 Jul 2000	30 B97 5QE	Detached	£126,500
14 Jun 2000	29 B97 5QE	Detached	£109,000
25 Feb 2000	14 B97 5QE	Detached	£130,000
10 Dec 1999	21 B97 5QE	Detached	£110,000

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 September 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

D14

22 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 107 m². Most common: House, detached (22). Built: 1983-1990 (19); 1991-1995 (2); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (21).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

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.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£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 B (44% of about 720 homes).

A13%

B44%

C17%

D11%

E13%

F1%

G1%

H0%

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

18 September 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the footway (immediate - urgent 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 4 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 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 44 addresses are between 139 m and 147 m above sea level (142 m on average); the ground rises about 9 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
B97 5QE	100%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Redditch 910,000 journeys in 2024–25	2.5 km (1.6 miles)
	Alvechurch 163,000 journeys in 2024–25	6.9 km (4.3 miles)
	Bromsgrove 696,000 journeys in 2024–25	7.5 km (4.7 miles)
Bus stops	4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Longfellow Close Headless Cross	260 m
Bus or coach station	Redditch Bus Station	2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Car parks	Car Park 4	2.5 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging points	InstaVolt Charging Station	1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	Birmingham Airport BHX	23.6 km (15 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Crabbs Cross Medical Centre	920 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies	3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Knights Crabbs Cross Pharmacy	910 m (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists	3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kingfisher Dental Surgery	830 m (0.5 miles)
Hospital	Alexandra Hospital	3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Police station	Redditch Police Station	2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machines	Midcounties Co-op Headless Cross, Headless Cross	1.2 km (0.7 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morton Stanley Park 21 ha	190 m
Play area	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,240 m²	290 m
Playing field	Unnamed 2.2 ha	830 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,910 m²	370 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 25 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Lovelyne Farmhouse, a listed building (Grade II*), 820 m (0.5 miles) south. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Lovelyne Farmhouse	Listed building, Grade II*	820 m (0.5 miles) south
Moated site and fishpond at Hunt End, 120m south east of Chapel House Farm	Scheduled monument	1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Park Wood Camp, Ipsley	Scheduled monument	1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Walkwood Coppice	Wood	310 m west
November Wood	Wood	390 m east
Downsell Wood	Wood	820 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Ham Green Hill	Hill	1.7 km (1 mile) south-west
Lodge Pool	Lake or reservoir	2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-east
The Dingle	Valley	4.4 km (2.7 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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	6.4	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	6.7	20	5
Particles (PM10)	10.3	40	15

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
55 to 59	8	0
Under 55	36	44

8 of the street's 44 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), 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
The Vaynor First School	Primary	4–9	430 m (0.3 miles)	No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Walkwood Church of England Middle School	Middle deemed secondary	9–13	490 m (0.3 miles)	No published inspection
Crabbs Cross Academy	Primary	5–9	1 km (0.6 miles)	No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
St Augustine's Catholic High School Roman Catholic	Secondary	13–18	1.3 km (0.8 miles)	Outstanding (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Luke's CofE First School Church of England	Primary	4–9	1.5 km (0.9 miles)	Requires improvement (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Webheath Academy Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.7 km (1 mile)	No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic First School Roman Catholic	Primary	4–9	1.8 km (1.1 miles)	No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
Morton Stanley Cafe B97 5PJ	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	310 m	4 Good	8 Jan 2026
Bramley Cottage B97 5QB	Pub/bar/nightclub	360 m	5 Very good	14 Oct 2025
Walkwood C Of E Middle School B97 5AQ	School/college/university	490 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	3 Nov 2025

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.

30 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	13
Anti-social behaviour	9
Criminal damage and arson	5
Public order	2
Drugs	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (26); On or near Oswestry Close (2); On or near Windmill Drive (2).

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: 364 residents in 141 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 street	England
Median age	50	40
Children under 15	13%	17%
Aged 65 and over	26%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	96%	61%
Owned outright	55%	33%
Shared ownership	0%	1%
Social rented	under 1%	17%
Private rented	4%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	58%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	4%	6%
Retired (of adults)	31%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	1%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	44%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	53%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	0%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	0%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	3%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	69%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	3%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	38%	34%
No qualifications	14%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	6%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	100%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	0%	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.

B97 5QE: 44 addresses of 45 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Morton Lane · Milford Close · Rangeworthy Close · Newport Close · Longfellow Close · Tidbury Close · Longborough Close · Swinburne Road · Prudden Close · Stanford Close · Fairbourne Gardens

All the streets in B97 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.