Prophets Close Redditch

23 addresses across 3 postcodes (B97), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 31100586.

  • Sales: 10 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £255,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 10, D: 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 C; 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 100 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 130 m away, and Mayfields Park (1.6 hectares) is about 770 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 114 to 120 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 23 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Stephen's Medical Partnership, about 320 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 390 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 37% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 353 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
20251£255,000£255,000£255,000
20231£290,000£290,000£290,000
20221£207,000£207,000£207,000
20101£150,000£150,000£150,000
20071£162,500£162,500£162,500
20061£184,950£184,950£184,950
19991£81,950£81,950£81,950
19981£71,000£71,000£71,000
19962£64,500£63,000£66,000
Most recent sales (10)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
23 May 20252 B97 4SDDetached£255,000
6 Sep 20235 B97 4SDDetached£290,000
30 Sep 20224 B97 4SDDetached£207,000
21 May 20105 B97 4SDDetached£150,000
24 Aug 20076 B97 4SDDetached£162,500
13 Apr 20067 B97 4SDDetached£184,950
30 Nov 19992 B97 4SDDetached£81,950
13 Nov 19983 B97 4SDTerraced£71,000
18 Jun 19966 B97 4SDDetached£66,000
15 Apr 19965 B97 4SDDetached£63,000

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 June 2018 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 50 m². Most common: Bungalow, mid-terrace (5); Bungalow, detached (4); Bungalow, semi-detached (2). Built: 1983-1990 (5); 2003-2006 (3); 1991-1995 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (6); rented (private) (5); owner-occupied (2).

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.

ABCDEFGH
£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 C (42% of about 710 homes).

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.

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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 3 December 2026: CITYFIBRE METRO NETWORKS LTD, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
B97 4SDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B97 4QBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
B97 4RDnot 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 23 addresses are between 114 m and 120 m above sea level (118 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
B97 4QB100%100%100%0%
B97 4RD100%100%100%0%
B97 4SD100%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 stationsRedditch 910,000 journeys in 2024–25100 m
Alvechurch 163,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Barnt Green 327,000 journeys in 2024–256.9 km (4.3 miles)
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 51 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Britten Street Redditch40 m
Bus or coach stationRedditch Bus Station90 m
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Car Park 4210 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station310 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX21.3 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Stephen's Medical Partnership320 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots240 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Redditch Smile Care170 m
HospitalAlexandra Hospital3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Police stationRedditch Police Station560 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine 8-12 Evesham Walk Halifax330 m

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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,890 m²130 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Mayfields Park 1.6 ha770 m (0.5 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 220 m²310 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Terry Memorial Playing Field 3.8 ha320 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.6 ha190 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 2.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Holmwood House, a listed building (Grade II*), 460 m (0.3 miles) south-west. 18 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Holmwood HouseListed building, Grade II*460 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Park Wood Camp, IpsleyScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
The Forge MillScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Bordesley AbbeyScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pitcher Oak WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Batchley PoolLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Mill PondLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Southcrest WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Paper Mill HillHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Shortwood DingleValley3.4 km (2.1 miles) north-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)7.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)10.34015

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
60 to 6420
55 to 5920
Under 551923

4 of the street's 23 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Holyoakes Field First SchoolPrimary2–9360 m No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Heart of Worcestershire College16 plus14–99590 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Birchensale Middle SchoolMiddle deemed secondary9–13600 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Trinity High School and Sixth Form CentreSecondary13–18820 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Luke's CofE First School Church of EnglandPrimary4–91 km (0.6 miles) Requires improvement (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Batchley First and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–91.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; 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
St George's CofE First School and Nursery Church of EnglandPrimary3–91.2 km (0.7 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
St Stephen's CofE First School Church of EnglandPrimary3–91.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Bede's Catholic Middle School Roman CatholicMiddle deemed secondary9–131.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Oak Hill First SchoolPrimary3–91.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Webheath Academy Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) 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
Woodfield AcademyMiddle deemed secondary9–131.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
Nando's B97 4EQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good28 Apr 2026
McDonalds B97 4EQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good23 Jun 2026
Vue Cinema B97 4EQTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m5 Very good22 Jul 2026
GDK Redditch B97 4EQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good30 Mar 2026
Tenpin Entertainment B97 4EQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good18 Aug 2025
Kingfisher News B97 4EQRetailers - other130 m5 Very good24 Jul 2024
Mr Fried Chicken & Pizza B97 4RATakeaway/sandwich shop140 m3 Generally satisfactory14 Jan 2026
Shahi Palace B97 4RARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Sep 2025
Mr Pizza/Mr Doner B97 4RATakeaway/sandwich shop160 m3 Generally satisfactory14 Jan 2026
Parks Takeaway B97 4RATakeaway/sandwich shop160 m1 Major improvement necessary22 Jul 2026
Salon Services Ltd B97 4EYRetailers - other180 mExempt
Sweet Scoops Ltd At Majestic Dining At The Golden Cross B97 4RARetailers - other200 mAwaiting inspection
Subway (Redditch) B97 4EYTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good19 May 2025
Poundland B97 4EYRetailers - other210 m5 Very good14 Jan 2026
Chopstix B97 4EYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good13 Apr 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.

353 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences159
Anti-social behaviour81
Public order32
Shoplifting18
Criminal damage and arson12
Drugs10
Robbery10
Other theft7
Vehicle crime6
Burglary5
Possession of weapons5
Bicycle theft4
Other crime3
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Izod Street (99); On or near Edward Street (53); On or near Unicorn Hill (44); On or near Parking Area (39); On or near Prophets Close (27).

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: 392 residents in 165 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 age3640
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)37%61%
Owned outright20%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented55%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)7%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van52%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)80%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)63%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all10%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Alimento (restaurant/cafe/canteen, B97 6AN) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 30 October 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.

  • B97 4SD: 20 addresses
  • B97 4QB: 2 addresses of 24 in the postcode
  • B97 4RD: 1 address of 14 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Vicarage View · Victoria Mews · Station Way · Aspall Close · Izod Street · Victoria Mews · Britten Street · Edward Street · Aspall Close · Kingfisher Walk · Sallie Swan Street · Clarke Street

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.