Pitfields Close Oldbury, Sandwell

11 addresses across 1 postcode (B68), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 33638520.

  • 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 Sandwell costs £2,244 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rowley Regis, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Hurst Green Recreation Ground, is about 890 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 204 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 9 of its 11 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Warley Medical Centre, about 420 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; 51% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 61 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 46 m². Most common: Flat (10). Built: 1976-1982 (5); 1967-1975 (5). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (9); owner-occupied (1).

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 B (79% of about 750 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.

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 30 September 2026.

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

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.

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.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 204 m above sea level.

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
B68 0JB100%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 stationsRowley Regis 1.0 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Langley Green 161,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Old Hill 154,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 45 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pitfields Close Brandhall40 m
Bus or coach stationHalesowen Bus Station3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Car parksBarker Street Car Park2.8 km (1.8 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX18 km (11 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Warley Medical Centre420 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Brandhall Pharmacy420 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Brandhall Dental Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalRowley Regis Hospital3 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationHalesowen Police Station3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Central England Co-Op - Brandhall, Brandhall Cashzone440 m (0.3 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 gardenHurst Green Recreation Ground 10.0 ha890 m (0.6 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 460 m²40 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha40 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,950 m²640 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Warley Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.9 km (1.2 miles) east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Warley ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
The LeasowesRegistered park or garden, Grade I2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Warley WoodsWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Mucklow HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Titford PoolLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
Pitts WoodWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Woodgate ValleyValley2.8 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Bromford StopIsland4.1 km (2.5 miles) north

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)13.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)13.74015

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
65 to 6910
60 to 6480
Under 55211

9 of the street's 11 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Perryfields AcademySecondary11–16360 m No published inspection
Brandhall Primary SchoolPrimary3–11520 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Perryfields Primary SchoolPrimary4–11580 m (0.4 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
Bleakhouse Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hurst Green Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Oldbury AcademySecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Quinton Church Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Causeway Green Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 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
Lightwoods Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Our Lady and St Hubert's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Leasowes High SchoolSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Olive Hill Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
D’Lux Dining @ Queensridge Court B68 0LEOther catering premises310 mAwaiting inspection
Nisa Local B62 9RHRetailers - other340 m4 Good1 Dec 2022
Johal News B62 9RHRetailers - other340 m4 Good26 Nov 2018
Nicki's Fish Bar B62 9RHTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m5 Very good6 Feb 2020
Yuminos B62 9RHTakeaway/sandwich shop340 mAwaiting inspection
McDonalds Restaurants Ltd B68 0HLTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m5 Very good29 Jun 2024
IGLU Desserts Limited B62 9RHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m4 Good4 May 2022
Merryvale Day Nursery Limited B62 9RLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Jan 2025
Coombs Catering Partnership Ltd @ Perryfields Academy B68 0RGSchool/college/university470 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

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.

61 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences30
Public order7
Criminal damage and arson5
Vehicle crime5
Burglary4
Anti-social behaviour3
Drugs3
Other theft2
Possession of weapons1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Pitfields Road (24); On or near Malvern Road (18); On or near Frankley Road (11); On or near Worcester Road (7); On or near Pitfields Close (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: 349 residents in 120 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 age3340
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)51%61%
Owned outright17%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented31%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)83%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)17%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%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

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.

  • B68 0JB: 11 addresses of 13 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Pitfields Road · Tame Road · Worcester Road · Oldacre Road · Malvern Road · Frankley Road · Links Crescent · Queensway Close · Links Road · Harvington Road · Woodbury Road · Woodbury Close

All the streets in B68 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.
  • 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.