Rickyard Piece Birmingham

90 addresses across 2 postcodes (B32), about 280 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2704270.

  • Sales: 59 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £216,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 62 homes have an energy certificate (C: 34, D: 23, E: 4, F: 1).
  • Flood: 5 addresses on its postcodes are 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 Birmingham costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is University (Birmingham), about 3.1 km (1.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Woodgate Valley Country Park, is about 360 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 167 to 172 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 90 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Woodgate Valley Health Centre, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 40% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 89 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
20253£216,000£210,000£223,000
20231£190,000£190,000£190,000
20212£145,500£106,000£185,000
20193£120,000£78,000£138,000
20171£130,000£130,000£130,000
20161£101,000£101,000£101,000
20152£80,750£62,500£99,000
20143£96,500£83,000£104,500
20111£112,000£112,000£112,000
20102£70,900£70,800£71,000
20092£87,750£70,000£105,500
20074£114,000£48,000£116,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 59)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Sep 2025105 B32 2QNTerraced£223,000
27 Jun 202589 B32 2QNTerraced£216,000
18 Jun 202544 B32 2QWTerraced£206,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Mar 202548 B32 2QWTerraced£205,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Mar 202514 B32 2QWTerraced£210,000
27 Jan 202526 B32 2QWTerraced£200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Aug 202493 B32 2QNTerraced£170,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Jun 202426 B32 2QWTerraced£200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Oct 202364 B32 2QWTerraced£190,000
15 Oct 202138 B32 2QWTerraced£185,000
4 Aug 202179 B32 2QNTerraced£106,000
30 Aug 201999 B32 2QNFlat or maisonette£78,000Leasehold.
16 Aug 20196 B32 2QWFlat or maisonette£69,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Jul 201944 B32 2QWTerraced£138,000
21 Jun 201946 B32 2QWTerraced£120,000
17 Jul 201719 B32 2QNTerraced£130,000
8 Feb 2017105 B32 2QNTerraced£118,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Apr 201671 B32 2QNTerraced£101,000
12 Nov 201562 B32 2QWTerraced£99,000
24 Feb 201530 B32 2QWFlat or maisonette£62,500Leasehold.
5 Dec 201422 B32 2QWTerraced£83,000
22 Aug 201433 B32 2QNTerraced£96,500
6 May 201442 B32 2QWTerraced£104,500
1 Jul 201169 B32 2QNTerraced£112,000
28 Apr 201069 B32 2QNTerraced£71,000
30 Mar 201069 B32 2QNTerraced£70,800
30 Apr 200944 B32 2QWTerraced£70,000
20 Mar 2009103 B32 2QNTerraced£105,500
17 Aug 2007115 B32 2QNTerraced£114,000
8 Aug 20076 B32 2QWFlat or maisonette£48,000Leasehold.
2 Jul 2007105 B32 2QNTerraced£116,000
25 May 200726 B32 2QWTerraced£114,000
24 Nov 2006105 B32 2QNTerraced£94,500
13 Dec 20058 B32 2QWTerraced£103,500
19 Sep 200538 B32 2QWTerraced£107,000
20 May 200540 B32 2QWTerraced£103,000
18 Mar 200530 B32 2QWFlat or maisonette£67,000Leasehold.
4 Feb 20058 B32 2QWTerraced£92,000
28 Jan 200522 B32 2QWTerraced£90,000
20 Aug 200456 B32 2QWTerraced£90,000
10 Feb 200446 B32 2QWTerraced£89,950
23 Jan 200483 B32 2QNTerraced£86,500
28 Nov 200336 B32 2QWTerraced£89,950
27 Jun 200321 B32 2QNTerraced£87,500
14 May 200333 B32 2QNTerraced£91,500
21 Mar 2003103 B32 2QNTerraced£80,000
7 Mar 200340 B32 2QWTerraced£89,950
26 Jun 2002105 B32 2QNTerraced£57,500
7 Jun 200230 B32 2QWFlat or maisonette£29,000Leasehold.
24 Nov 200030 B32 2QWFlat or maisonette£21,500Leasehold.

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

62 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (30); Flat (20); House, end-terrace (6). Built: 1967-1975 (49); 1950-1966 (9); 1976-1982 (4). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (29); owner-occupied (22); rented (private) (6).

Each home's certificates and sales (24 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 B (60% of about 700 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 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 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
B32 2QNnot in 2 or 3 5 / 0 / 2 unlikely
B32 2QWnot 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 90 addresses are between 167 m and 172 m above sea level (169 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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
B32 2QN100%100%100%0%
B32 2QW100%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 stationsUniversity (Birmingham) 3.8 million journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Selly Oak 2.3 million journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2 miles)
Rowley Regis 1.0 million journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 43 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rickyard Piece California100 m
Bus or coach stationHalesowen Bus Station4.8 km (3 miles)
Car parksQ-Park Qemc2.7 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity550 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX15.9 km (9.9 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 Woodgate Valley Health Centre1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Selcroft Pharmacy620 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Euro Dental Care1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalBirmingham Women's Hospital2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationHarborne Police Station2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Quinton Stores Ltd220 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Woodgate Valley Country Park 202 ha360 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 40 m²600 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 9,120 m²900 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsTennal Lane Allotments 1.1 ha870 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 204 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Weoley Castle, a scheduled monument, 1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-east. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Weoley CastleScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Warley ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.4 km (1.5 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pitts WoodWood890 m (0.6 miles) north
Woodgate ValleyValley1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Broadhidley WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-west
The GroveWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
Moor PoolLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Mucklow HillHill3.8 km (2.3 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)11.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

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
55 to 5920
Under 558890

2 of the street's 90 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 Birmingham: see them on the Birmingham page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Hillcrest School and Sixth Form CentreSecondary11–18550 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
World's End Junior SchoolPrimary7–11560 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
World's End Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7560 m (0.3 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Welsh House Farm Community School and Special Needs Resources BasePrimary3–11590 m (0.4 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woodhouse Primary AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Nonsuch Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 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
Paganel Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Jervoise SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Lift Four Dwellings PrimaryPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lift Four Dwellings SecondarySecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Peters CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Weoley Castle Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
FoodCycle Quinton B32 2QDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good26 Oct 2024
St Boniface Church B32 2QDOther catering premises200 m4 Good27 Feb 2019
Quinton & Oldbury Food Bank B32 2QDRetailers - other200 m5 Very good12 Jun 2019
S & D News & Booze B32 2QARetailers - other220 m4 Good9 Apr 2019
Best-One Quinton Stores B32 2QARetailers - other220 m5 Very good26 Oct 2009
The Lion Bar and Restaurant B32 2PPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good14 Jul 2026
Co-Op (Quinton) B32 2RERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Sep 2009
Johns Fish Bar B32 2RETakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)4 Good27 Nov 2025
Blandford Wine Store B32 2LTRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good27 Aug 2009
Premier: Blandford Supermarket B32 2LTRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)2 Improvement necessary14 Sep 2026
New Royal Munchy Box B32 2LTTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good23 Mar 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.

89 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences50
Public order8
Burglary6
Vehicle crime6
Criminal damage and arson6
Other theft4
Other crime3
Possession of weapons3
Anti-social behaviour2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Rickyard Piece (31); On or near First Meadow Piece (25); On or near Moat Meadows (18); On or near Martley Croft (15).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 600 residents in 270 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 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)40%61%
Owned outright23%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented44%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)15%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus11%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)90%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%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.

Nearby streets

First Meadow Piece · Martley Croft · Moat Meadows · Dufton Road · West Boulevard · Chelsea Close · Lower Higley Close · Barnwood Road · Hunslet Close · Minton Road · Lygon Grove · Doulton Close

All the streets in B32 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.