Posey Close Birmingham

28 addresses across 1 postcode (B21), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2705478.

  • Sales: 7 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £182,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 20 homes have an energy certificate (B: 8, C: 5, D: 7).
  • 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 A; 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 The Hawthorns, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Sandwell Valley Country Park, is about 600 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 139 to 143 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 Holyhead Primary Health Care Centre, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 240 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 30% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 76 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)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20222£182,500£175,000£190,000
20171£135,000£135,000£135,000
20071£125,000£125,000£125,000
20041£101,000£101,000£101,000
20031£82,500£82,500£82,500
20001£27,500£27,500£27,500
Most recent sales (7)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Sep 202217 B21 8HSTerraced£175,000
11 Jul 202221 B21 8HSSemi-detached£190,000
22 Sep 201723 B21 8HSSemi-detached£135,000
12 Feb 20072 B21 8HSTerraced£125,000
13 May 20043 B21 8HSSemi-detached£101,000Leasehold.
12 Sep 200314 B21 8HSTerraced£82,500
23 Feb 20001 B21 8HSTerraced£27,500

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 April 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

20 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 79 m². Most common: Flat (8); House, mid-terrace (6); House, semi-detached (4). Built: 1967-1975 (10); 2012 onwards (4); 2019 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (10); owner-occupied (4); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 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.

ABCDEFGH
£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 A (37% of about 520 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): 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)

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.

© 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 28 addresses are between 139 m and 143 m above sea level (141 m on average).

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
B21 8HS100%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 stationsThe Hawthorns 334,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Hamstead (Birmingham) 231,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Smethwick Galton Bridge 698,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Underground, metro or tramThe Hawthorns (West Midlands Metro)1.6 km (1 mile)
Handsworth Booth Street (West Midlands Metro)1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St John Wall School Leveretts170 m
Bus or coach stationWest Bromwich Bus Station3 km (1.8 miles)
Car parksForge Mill Car Park1.7 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity840 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX15.4 km (9.6 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Holyhead Primary Health Care Centre1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gill Pharmacy810 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery890 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalSkin Hospital2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationThornhill Road Police Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone460 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sandwell Valley Country Park 138 ha600 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 620 m²760 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sandwell Recreation Ground 3.8 ha690 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sandwell Allotments 6.8 ha220 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 139 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Mortuary Chapel at Handsworth Cemetery, a listed building (Grade I), 590 m (0.4 miles) south-west. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Mortuary Chapel at Handsworth CemeteryListed building, Grade I590 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Sandwell Priory, a Benedictine monasteryScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) west
Handsworth Park (Formerly Victoria Park)Registered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Dartmouth ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Swan PoolLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Forge Mill LakeLake or reservoir1.5 km (1 mile) north
Priory WoodsWood1.5 km (1 mile) west
Garden GroveWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Halfmoon PlantationWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) east
Bromford StopIsland3.9 km (2.5 miles) 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)13.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)12.64015

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
Under 552828

None of the street's 28 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

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
St John Wall Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–16140 m Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11520 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St James Church of England Primary School, HandsworthPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Grestone AcademyPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rookery SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
William Murdoch Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holyhead SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
King Edward VI Handsworth Wood Girls' AcademySecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Sandwell AcademySecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oasis Academy WattvillePrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) Inadequate (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hamstead Hall AcademySecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Grove SchoolPrimary3–111.7 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Caterlink @ Saint John Wall Catholic School B21 8HHSchool/college/university140 mAwaiting inspection
Sprinkle & Swirl Desserts B21 8JLTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m5 Very good21 Sep 2026
Underwood's Off Licence B21 8PDRetailers - other390 m5 Very good26 Oct 2009
Mibsons Service Station Uplands B21 8ERRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)4 Good4 Feb 2021
St Augustines Junior And Infants School B21 8EDSchool/college/university490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 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.

76 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences37
Criminal damage and arson8
Possession of weapons6
Anti-social behaviour5
Vehicle crime4
Public order4
Drugs3
Burglary3
Other crime2
Other theft2
Theft from the person1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Leverretts (34); On or near Posey Close (33); On or near Cradley Croft (9).

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: 238 residents in 81 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 age2940
Children under 1528%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)30%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented54%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work35%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)18%6%
Retired (of adults)8%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)11%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)12%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus18%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)77%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all8%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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.

  • B21 8HS: 28 addresses of 29 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Wilks Green · Cradley Croft · The Leverretts · Copthall Road · Camp Lane

All the streets in B21 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.