Rowberrie Close Birmingham

13 addresses across 2 postcodes (B45), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2751946.

  • Sales: 24 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £210,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 9).
  • Flood: 2 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 Longbridge, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Cofton Park, is about 490 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 185 to 188 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 13 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Leach Heath Medical Centre, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 720 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 100 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
20261£210,000£210,000£210,000
20202£157,500£155,000£160,000
20181£140,000£140,000£140,000
20171£163,000£163,000£163,000
20163£132,500£128,000£135,000
20151£130,000£130,000£130,000
20131£120,000£120,000£120,000
20121£117,500£117,500£117,500
20111£116,000£116,000£116,000
20088£129,250£126,000£150,100
20072£145,000£145,000£145,000
Most recent sales (24)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Aug 202625 B45 8RWTerraced£210,000
25 Oct 202431 B45 8RWTerraced£200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Jul 202039 B45 8RWTerraced£160,000
1 May 202025 B45 8RWTerraced£155,000
29 Oct 201837 B45 8RWTerraced£140,000
3 Nov 201735 B45 8RWTerraced£163,000
30 Sep 201631 B45 8RWTerraced£135,000
3 Aug 201633 B45 8RWTerraced£132,500
31 Mar 201625 B45 8RWTerraced£128,000
10 Dec 201539 B45 8RWTerraced£129,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Nov 201523 B45 8RWTerraced£130,000
1 Mar 201331 B45 8RWTerraced£120,000
20 Dec 201223 B45 8RWTerraced£117,500
21 Dec 201139 B45 8RWTerraced£116,000
17 Oct 200829 B45 8RWTerraced£126,000
17 Oct 200821 B45 8RWTerraced£126,000
17 Oct 200829 B45 8RWTerraced£126,000New build.
17 Oct 200821 B45 8RWTerraced£126,000New build.
15 Aug 200825 B45 8RWSemi-detached£137,000
18 Apr 200835 B45 8RWTerraced£150,100
14 Mar 200837 B45 8RWTerraced£135,000
10 Mar 200831 B45 8RWSemi-detached£132,500
14 Sep 200739 B45 8RWTerraced£145,000New build.
30 Aug 200723 B45 8RWSemi-detached£145,000New build.

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

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 62 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (5); House, mid-terrace (4); Flat (2). Built: 2003-2006 (6); 1996-2002 (2); 2007-2011 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (3); owner-occupied (3); rented (social) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 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 (74% of about 700 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): 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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 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
B45 8RWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B45 8QYnot in 2 or 3 2 / 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 13 addresses are between 185 m and 188 m above sea level (186 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
B45 8QY100%100%100%0%
B45 8RW100%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 stationsLongbridge 892,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Northfield 643,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Barnt Green 327,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 32 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Irwin Avenue Rednal130 m
Bus or coach stationAlvechurch - Red Lion PH5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Premier Inn Birmingham South (Rubery) Car Park740 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station590 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX18.3 km (11 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Leach Heath Medical Centre1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Morrisons Pharmacy500 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 17 Edgewood Road440 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalWest Heath Hospital3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Police stationRubery Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest M&Ms Minimart, Rednal Cashzone310 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 Cofton Park 51 ha490 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 490 m²200 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Leys 2.3 ha450 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Leys 3.4 ha520 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 53 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Hawkesley Farm moated site, a scheduled monument, 1.6 km (1 mile) east. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hawkesley Farm moated siteScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Rednal HillHill890 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Bedlam WoodWood920 m (0.6 miles) north
Balaam's WoodWood1.4 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Rubery HillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Egghill DingleValley2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Upper Bittell ReservoirLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-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)9.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)11.64015

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
55 to 5920
Under 551113

2 of the street's 13 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
Rednal Hill Junior SchoolPrimary7–11290 m Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rednal Hill Infant SchoolPrimary3–7290 m No published inspection
Colmers Farm Primary SchoolPrimary4–11500 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Colmers School and Sixth Form CollegeSecondary11–19500 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Mar 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; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Columba's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11540 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Rubery Nursery SchoolNursery2–4570 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St James Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11930 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Meadows Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.7 km (1 mile) Requires improvement (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Beaconside Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Forestdale Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
King Edward VI Balaam Wood AcademySecondary11–161.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Albert Bradbeer Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 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

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
Rednal Hill Infant School B45 8QYSchool/college/university30 m5 Very good23 Sep 2020
delicious falafel only from us B45 8TLOther catering premises250 mAwaiting inspection
BITECREW KITCHEN B45 8QEOther catering premises270 mAwaiting inspection
Flat B45 9QDRetailers - other290 m5 Very good19 Jun 2012
Longbridge Superstore B45 9QDRetailers - other290 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Jan 2024
Himalaya Restaurant B45 9QDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good21 Apr 2026
Jellybabies Nursery B45 9QDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good28 Jun 2017
Me 2 You Pizza B45 9QDTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m5 Very good16 Sep 2026
Wafalicious B45 9TZOther catering premises300 m5 Very good17 Jan 2022
Rednal Cafe B45 9TZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m2 Improvement necessary10 Feb 2026
The Grill Box B45 9TZRetailers - other300 m4 Good12 Aug 2025
Rednal Express B45 9TZRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets300 m3 Generally satisfactory1 Aug 2025
GRILL BOX / SMASH BURGER 42 B45 9TZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 mAwaiting inspection
Tanquility Tanning B45 9TZOther catering premises310 m5 Very good29 Oct 2025
Mini Market B45 8TWRetailers - other310 m4 Good12 Dec 2017

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.

100 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences52
Anti-social behaviour16
Public order8
Vehicle crime6
Criminal damage and arson5
Other crime4
Burglary3
Other theft2
Possession of weapons2
Robbery1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Foxland Avenue (50); On or near Tinmeadow Crescent (9); On or near Irwin Avenue (8); On or near Rowberrie Close (7); On or near Fox Hollow Close (6).

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: 723 residents in 299 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 age3540
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)55%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)26%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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

Dowar Road · Ryde Park Road · Creswick Grove · Rock Avenue · Irwin Avenue · Fox Hollow Close · Tinmeadow Crescent · Foxland Avenue · Cliff Rock Road · Alford Close · Wolverton Road · Bomers Field

All the streets in B45 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.