Paddocks Green Birmingham
11 addresses across 1 postcode (B18), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2702124.
- Sales: 3 recorded sales since 1995; in 2008 the median was £72,500 across 1 sale.
- Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 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 B; Band D in Birmingham costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Jewellery Quarter, about 820 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 110 m away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 139 to 140 m above sea level.
- Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hockley Medical Practice, about 860 m (0.5 miles) away, with 15 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
- People: About 350 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 29% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Crime: 97 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
Sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 1 | £72,500 | £72,500 | £72,500 |
| 2002 | 1 | £39,000 | £39,000 | £39,000 |
| 1999 | 1 | £24,000 | £24,000 | £24,000 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Nov 2008 | 16 B18 7HT | Flat or maisonette | £72,500 | Leasehold. |
| 27 Mar 2002 | 9 B18 7HT | Terraced | £39,000 | |
| 28 May 1999 | 9 B18 7HT | Terraced | £24,000 |
Energy performance certificates
10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 52 m². Most common: Flat (6); House, end-terrace (2); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: 1976-1982 (6); 1967-1975 (3); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (7); owner-occupied (3).
Each home's certificates and sales (2 addresses)
Council tax
What each band costs in Birmingham in 2026-27: Band D £2,363 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,575 | £1,838 | £2,100 | £2,363 | £2,888 | £3,413 | £3,938 | £4,726 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (49% of about 840 homes).
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): CITY WIDE HMO.
- 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)
- Hockley Port Major Development Site: up to 137 homes, not permissioned (100 m)
- Western Road: up to 182 homes, not permissioned (330 m)
- City Hospital: up to 750 homes, permissioned (360 m)
- Safee Mosque, 164 Hingeston Street, Land at side, Hockley, Birmingham, B18 6PU: up to 2 homes, permissioned (560 m (0.3 miles))
- 38 Heath Street South and adjacent site, North Edgbaston: up to 504 homes, not permissioned (630 m (0.4 miles))
- Gib Heath: up to 662 homes, not permissioned (640 m (0.4 miles))
- 33 Pitsford Street, Hockley, Birmingham, B18 6LJ, Soho & Jewellery Quarter: up to 395 homes, permissioned (690 m (0.4 miles))
- Heaton House: up to 76 homes, not permissioned (700 m (0.4 miles))
Roadworks
Finished in the last three months
- 11 September 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
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.
Height above sea level
The street's 11 addresses are between 139 m and 140 m above sea level (139 m on average).
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B18 7HT | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Jewellery Quarter 446,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 820 m (0.5 miles) |
| Birmingham Snow Hill 3.2 million journeys in 2024–25 | 2 km (1.2 miles) | |
| Birmingham New Street 37 million journeys in 2024–25 | 2.2 km (1.4 miles) | |
| Underground, metro or tram | Soho Benson Road (West Midlands Metro) | 780 m (0.5 miles) |
| Jewellery Quarter (West Midlands Metro) | 810 m (0.5 miles) | |
| Winson Green Outer Circle (West Midlands Metro) | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 37 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bredon Croft All Saints | 200 m |
| Bus or coach station | Birmingham Coach Station Digbeth | 3 km (1.9 miles) |
| Car parks | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Q-Park Birmingham City Hospital | 310 m |
| EV charging points | 14 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest City - Outside Mscp GeniePoint | 320 m |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Birmingham Airport BHX | 12.7 km (7.9 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | 15 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hockley Medical Practice | 860 m (0.5 miles) |
| Pharmacies | 12 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy | 530 m (0.3 miles) |
| NHS dentists | 9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Synergy Dental Practices Limited | 690 m (0.4 miles) |
| Hospital | Birmingham City Hospital | 580 m (0.4 miles) |
| Police station | Summerfield Police Station | 1 km (0.6 miles) |
| Cash machines | Payzone | 850 m (0.5 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.0 ha | 110 m |
| Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles) | Unnamed 5.4 ha | 450 m (0.3 miles) |
| Play area | 4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 570 m² | 270 m |
| Playing field | 3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,730 m² | 100 m |
| Allotments | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,000 m² | 200 m |
Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 8 parks and gardens, 14 hectares in all.
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Key Hill Cemetery, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 720 m (0.4 miles) east. 86 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 6 of them Grade II*.
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Key Hill Cemetery | Registered park or garden, Grade II* | 720 m (0.4 miles) east |
| 303, Icknield Street B18 | Listed building, Grade II* | 720 m (0.4 miles) north-east |
| Icknield Street School (St Chad's Roman Catholic Annexe) | Listed building, Grade II* | 720 m (0.4 miles) north-east |
| Public Library | Listed building, Grade II* | 750 m (0.5 miles) south-east |
| Warstone Lane Cemetery | Registered park or garden, Grade II | 760 m (0.5 miles) south-east |
| Aquinus House | Listed building, Grade II* | 890 m (0.6 miles) south-east |
| Remains of the Boulton and Watt Soho foundry and mint, Birmingham Canal, Smethwick | Scheduled monument | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Soho Loop | Lake or reservoir | 310 m south |
| Icknield Port Loop | Lake or reservoir | 1.2 km (0.7 miles) south |
| Moor Pool | Lake or reservoir | 3.7 km (2.3 miles) south-west |
| Halfmoon Plantation | Wood | 3.8 km (2.3 miles) north |
| Thimblemill Pool | Lake or reservoir | 3.8 km (2.3 miles) west |
| Smethwick Hall Pool | Lake or reservoir | 3.8 km (2.4 miles) west |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 17.3 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 8.2 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 12.9 | 40 | 15 |
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
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| Under 55 | 11 | 11 |
None of the street's 11 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.
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 Birmingham: see them on the Birmingham page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brookfields Primary School | Primary | 3–11 | 480 m (0.3 miles) | Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) |
| St Patrick and St Edmund's Catholic Primary School Roman Catholic | Primary | 4–11 | 690 m (0.4 miles) | No published inspection |
| BOA Stage and Screen Production Academy | 16 plus | 16–19 | 830 m (0.5 miles) | No published inspection |
| Oasis Academy Benson | Primary | 3–11 | 870 m (0.5 miles) | Inadequate (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) |
| Barford Primary School | Primary | 3–11 | 1 km (0.6 miles) | Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) |
| Jewellery Quarter Academy | Secondary | 11–16 | 1 km (0.6 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 |
| Summerfield Primary School | Primary | 3–11 | 1 km (0.6 miles) | Requires improvement (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) |
| St Francis Catholic Primary School Roman Catholic | Primary | 4–11 | 1 km (0.7 miles) | No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good |
| St Michael's CofE Primary Academy, Handsworth Church of England | Primary | 4–11 | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) | Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) |
| Nishkam Primary School Birmingham Sikh | Primary | 4–11 | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) | No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding |
| Oasis Academy Foundry | Primary | 3–11 | 1.2 km (0.7 miles) | Outstanding (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) |
| Nelson Primary School | Primary | 3–11 | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) | No published inspection |
Food hygiene ratings nearby
| Business | Type | Distance | Rating | Rated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nisa Local B18 7HR | Retailers - other | 70 m | 5 Very good | 1 Sep 2025 |
| Pickles Catering B18 7RJ | Other catering premises | 160 m | 5 Very good | 22 Jul 2026 |
| Naomi Catering T/a Ncs Catering Ltd B18 7RJ | Other catering premises | 160 m | 5 Very good | 11 Mar 2026 |
| ARETSI EVENT CATERING LIMITED B18 7RJ | Other catering premises | 160 m | 5 Very good | 24 Jun 2026 |
| Dessertbeforedinner B18 7RT | Other catering premises | 190 m | Awaiting inspection | |
| Gardyou B18 5SQ | Other catering premises | 240 m | Awaiting inspection | |
| Klassic Events B18 7QD | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 310 m | 3 Generally satisfactory | 15 Jan 2026 |
| K&R Cafe B18 7QD | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 310 m | Awaiting inspection | |
| New Testament Church Of God B18 7LG | Other catering premises | 310 m | 4 Good | 10 Mar 2026 |
| Boaters Sandwich Bar B18 7QH | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 330 m | 5 Very good | 19 Aug 2026 |
| Birmingham Treatment Centre Costa B18 7QH | Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises | 330 m | 5 Very good | 29 Jan 2026 |
| Birmingham icecream / Toyo ices B18 5RB | Mobile caterer | 380 m | Awaiting inspection | |
| Brookfields Primary School B18 6PU | School/college/university | 410 m (0.3 miles) | 5 Very good | 25 Feb 2026 |
| Kidz Come First B18 6PU | Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises | 410 m (0.3 miles) | 4 Good | 14 Sep 2026 |
| St Edmunds Rc Primary School B18 7PA | School/college/university | 410 m (0.3 miles) | 5 Very good | 23 Feb 2026 |
Crime within 250 m
| Category | Crimes |
|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 44 |
| Vehicle crime | 17 |
| Burglary | 6 |
| Other theft | 6 |
| Other crime | 5 |
| Criminal damage and arson | 5 |
| Robbery | 5 |
| Drugs | 3 |
| Anti-social behaviour | 3 |
| Public order | 3 |
Most of these are attached to: On or near Brookfield Road (19); On or near Capstone Avenue (18); On or near Waterside View (13); On or near Clissold Street (13); On or near Harmer Street (9).
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 33 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 25% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 11% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 29% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 16% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | 50% | 17% |
| Private rented | 18% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 46% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 13% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 14% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 4% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 15% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 39% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 2% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 30% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 12% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 83% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 4% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 27% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 30% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 4% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 80% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | 5% | 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.
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.
Postcodes on this street
- B18 7HT: 11 addresses
Nearby streets
Highfield Terrace · Mearse Close · Rutland Terrace · Woodcote Way · Portland Terrace · New Spring Street North · Brookfield Road · Cobble Walk · Waterside View · Louisa Place · Harmer Street · Crabtree Road
All the streets in B18 and across Birmingham.
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.