Romney Close Birmingham

13 addresses across 2 postcodes (B28), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2706959.

  • Sales: 20 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £261,250 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (D: 7, E: 2).
  • 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 D; 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 Hall Green, about 830 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, The Shire Country Park, is about 810 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 138 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 13 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hall Green Health, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 890 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 86 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
20242£261,250£242,500£280,000
20211£230,000£230,000£230,000
20201£210,000£210,000£210,000
20141£169,000£169,000£169,000
20131£175,000£175,000£175,000
20081£170,000£170,000£170,000
20062£147,750£147,750£147,750
20043£177,000£100,000£227,000
20022£84,975£60,000£109,950
20012£118,500£117,000£120,000
19991£71,000£71,000£71,000
19972£59,475£59,000£59,950
Most recent sales (20)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Dec 202414 B28 0ETSemi-detached£242,500
2 Aug 20241 B28 0ETSemi-detached£280,000
19 May 202114 B28 0ETSemi-detached£226,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Mar 202111 B28 0ETSemi-detached£230,000
21 Aug 20201 B28 0ETSemi-detached£210,000
24 Oct 20145 B28 0ETSemi-detached£169,000
9 Sep 20137 B28 0ETSemi-detached£175,000
20 Jun 20088 B28 0ETSemi-detached£170,000
10 May 200614 B28 0ETSemi-detached£147,750Leasehold.
10 May 200614 B28 0ETSemi-detached£147,750
24 Sep 20049 B28 0ETSemi-detached£227,000
24 Sep 20047 B28 0ETSemi-detached£177,000
19 Mar 20043 B28 0ETSemi-detached£100,000
31 May 20027 B28 0ETSemi-detached£60,000
11 Jan 20028 B28 0ETSemi-detached£109,950
22 Oct 200115 B28 0ETDetached£117,000
17 Sep 200110 B28 0ETDetached£120,000
30 Jul 19991 B28 0ETSemi-detached£71,000
20 Oct 199710 B28 0ETDetached£59,000
6 Jun 19979 B28 0ETSemi-detached£59,950

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 March 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 88 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (6); Bungalow, detached (1); Bungalow, semi-detached (1). Built: 1930-1949 (7); 1950-1966 (1); 1900-1929 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (37% of about 1,260 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 24 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor 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 4 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
B28 0ETnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
B28 0EPnot 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 addresses are about 138 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
B28 0EP100%100%100%0%
B28 0ET100%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 stationsHall Green 339,000 journeys in 2024–25830 m (0.5 miles)
Yardley Wood 409,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Spring Road 162,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 49 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Highfield Road Hall Green150 m
Bus or coach stationSolihull Station4.1 km (2.6 miles)
Car parksAsda Shirley Car Park2.1 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station730 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX7.1 km (4.4 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 Hall Green Health1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest School Road Pharmacy760 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery540 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalFormer Womens Hospital2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationAcocks Green Police Station2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM640 m (0.4 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 gardenThe Shire Country Park 92 ha810 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,030 m²590 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 5.2 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsColebourne Road Allotments 6,440 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of the Ascension, a listed building (Grade II*), 630 m (0.4 miles) north-east. 21 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of the AscensionListed building, Grade II*630 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Burnt mounds at Moseley Bog, 380m north east of Moseley New PoolScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Mill PondLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Moseley New PoolLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Coldbath PoolLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) west
Round PoolLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Palmers RoughWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Brown's CoppiceWood2.7 km (1.6 miles) east

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)12.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)11.64015

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, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59100
Under 55121313

1 of the street's 13 addresses is 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
Hall Green Junior SchoolPrimary7–11180 m Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hall Green Infant SchoolPrimary3–7190 m No published inspection
Hall Green SchoolSecondary11–16460 m (0.3 miles) 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
St Ambrose Barlow Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11870 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lakey Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Robin Hood AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Yorkmead Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) 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
St Bernard's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Ninestiles, an AcademySecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Dec 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chilcote Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Billesley Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) 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
Go Fresh Local B28 9AJRetailers - other140 m5 Very good2 Jul 2025
Niya's Kitchen B28 0ELRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good28 Jan 2026
Highfield Store B28 0ELRetailers - other170 m4 Good4 Aug 2026
CARTEAUX B28 0GDOther catering premises200 mAwaiting inspection
Hall Green Junior School B28 9AJSchool/college/university200 m4 Good11 Sep 2026
Grillz n Shakes B28 9AJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m3 Generally satisfactory1 Sep 2025
Stratford Court B28 0EUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good2 Mar 2026
400 Pizza B28 9EFTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m4 Good25 Nov 2025
B&M Retail Limited B28 9EFRetailers - other270 m5 Very good20 Oct 2025
Bulls Head B28 9EFPub/bar/nightclub270 m5 Very good23 Oct 2023
Hall Green Tennis Club, R/O 28 B28 0ARRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good15 Mar 2018
Hall Green Infants School B28 0ARSchool/college/university280 m5 Very good27 Sep 2023
Hall Green Baptist Church B28 9BQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good9 Feb 2010
Ayara Cookies B28 9BQMobile caterer300 mAwaiting inspection
Tarragon Bistro B28 9HWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good30 Jan 2024

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.

86 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences45
Burglary9
Vehicle crime5
Other theft4
Other crime4
Public order4
Criminal damage and arson4
Anti-social behaviour4
Drugs4
Bicycle theft1
Robbery1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Delamere Road (25); On or near Romney Close (24); On or near Painswick Road (12); On or near Coniston Close (12); On or near Kendrick Grove (11).

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: 890 residents in 282 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 age3840
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright48%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van52%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)80%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)38%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)85%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all 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

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

Delamere Road · Sherwood Road · Kendrick Grove · Coniston Close · Rydal Way · Painswick Road · Hamlet Gardens · Peverell Drive · Petersfield Road · Fox Hollies Road · Hamlet Road · Bibury Road

All the streets in B28 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.