Saxton Drive Royal Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham

29 addresses across 2 postcodes (B74), about 190 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2700051.

  • Sales: 46 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £590,000 across 4 sales.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 8).
  • 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 E; Band D in Birmingham costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 82% to 96% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Blake Street, about 210 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 320 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 132 to 136 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 29 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Sutton Coldfield Group Practice, about 3.8 km (2.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 770 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 47% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 22 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
20254£590,000£525,000£660,050
20242£510,000£475,000£545,000
20221£520,000£520,000£520,000
20212£454,250£377,500£531,000
20201£532,500£532,500£532,500
20193£405,000£320,000£512,500
20171£375,000£375,000£375,000
20151£294,500£294,500£294,500
20141£290,000£290,000£290,000
20132£261,475£249,950£273,000
20111£225,000£225,000£225,000
20101£315,000£315,000£315,000
Most recent sales (46)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Nov 202530 B74 4XZDetached£660,050
12 Sep 20252 B74 4XZDetached£525,000
31 Jul 202525 B74 4XZDetached£535,000
26 Mar 202527 B74 4XZDetached£645,000
13 Dec 202432 B74 4XZDetached£700,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Dec 202420 B74 4XZSemi-detached£545,000Leasehold.
31 Oct 202410 B74 4XZDetached£475,000Leasehold.
1 Jul 20226 B74 4XZDetached£520,000
24 Apr 202110 B74 4XZDetached£377,500Leasehold.
22 Mar 202130 B74 4XZDetached£531,000
11 May 202032 B74 4XZDetached£532,500
23 Sep 201912 B74 4XZDetached£512,500
15 Aug 20191 B74 4XZDetached£320,000
6 Mar 201921 B74 4XZDetached£405,000
2 Feb 201730 B74 4XZDetached£375,000
3 Mar 201532 B74 4XZDetached£294,500
28 Mar 201425 B74 4XZDetached£290,000
22 Nov 201310 B74 4XZDetached£249,950Leasehold.
14 Jun 201328 B74 4XZDetached£273,000
11 Nov 20111 B74 4XZDetached£225,000
26 Jan 201018 B74 4XZDetached£315,000
10 Jul 200924 B74 4XZTerraced£218,000Leasehold.
19 Sep 200828 B74 4XZDetached£245,000Leasehold.
17 Mar 200628 B74 4XZDetached£250,000
17 Mar 200628 B74 4XZDetached£250,000Leasehold.
24 Oct 20053 B74 4XZDetached£249,000
30 Apr 200429 B74 4XZDetached£270,000
8 Apr 200425 B74 4XZSemi-detached£260,000
17 Nov 200328 B74 4XZDetached£225,000Leasehold.
10 Jan 200311 B74 4XZDetached£218,450
28 Nov 200226 B74 4XZDetached£180,000
21 Jun 200212 B74 4XZDetached£240,000
17 May 200220 B74 4XZSemi-detached£218,000Leasehold.
10 May 20022 B74 4XZDetached£198,500
27 Mar 20028 B74 4XZDetached£153,000
17 Aug 200117 B74 4XZDetached£187,500
15 Jun 200110 B74 4XZDetached£150,000Leasehold.
15 Dec 20002 B74 4XZDetached£190,000
11 Sep 200025 B74 4XZSemi-detached£146,500
8 Jun 20003 B74 4XZDetached£139,950
26 Nov 199918 B74 4XZDetached£130,000
29 Jun 19983 B74 4XZDetached£99,000
30 Jun 19973 B74 4XZDetached£95,000
8 Sep 19958 B74 4XZDetached£94,000
2 Jun 19954 B74 4XZDetached£100,000
3 Mar 199517 B74 4XZDetached£112,000

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 126 m². Most common: House, detached (14); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1983-1990 (8); 1976-1982 (7). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 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 E (42% of about 780 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 29 addresses are between 132 m and 136 m above sea level (133 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
B74 4XZ100%82%82%0%
B74 4YE100%96%96%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 stationsBlake Street 345,000 journeys in 2024–25210 m
Butlers Lane 194,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Four Oaks 701,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.8 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shelley Drive Hill Hook120 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Lichfield City Centre8.7 km (5.4 miles)
EV charging pointsevyve Charging Station2 km (1.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX17.9 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 surgeriesSutton Coldfield Group Practice3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots1.6 km (1 mile)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.5 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalSpire Little Aston Hospital2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationSutton Coldfield Police Station4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM1.6 km (1 mile)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.9 ha320 m
Play areaUnnamed 3,110 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.1 ha630 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsWhite Farm Road Allotments 5,860 m²870 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 5.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Mill PondLake or reservoir420 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Claypit RoughWood880 m (0.5 miles) west
New WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) west
Hill WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) east
The RookeryWood2 km (1.2 miles) west
Spreading Tree HillHill2.2 km (1.4 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)10.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)11.34015

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 5930
Under 552629

3 of the street's 29 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
Hill West Primary SchoolPrimary4–11920 m (0.6 miles) Report card (May 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: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Four Oaks Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Little Aston Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Arthur Terry SchoolSecondary11–181.7 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mere Green Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding

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
Blake St News B74 4XSRetailers - other110 m5 Very good3 Feb 2012
Go Local - Bachhal Limited B74 4XSRetailers - other110 m3 Generally satisfactory15 Jul 2025
Quill and Taper B74 4YEPub/bar/nightclub170 m5 Very good10 Jun 2024
Bolt coffee ltd B74 4XXMobile caterer270 mAwaiting inspection

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.

22 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences10
Burglary5
Criminal damage and arson2
Vehicle crime2
Anti-social behaviour2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bishops Way (4); On or near Hill Hook Road (3); On or near Shelley Drive (3); On or near Keats Close (3); On or near Cleeve Drive (2).

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: 774 residents in 334 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 age4840
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%61%
Owned outright49%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)32%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)43%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle1%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)43%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)47%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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.

  • B74 4XZ: 28 addresses of 29 in the postcode
  • B74 4YE: 1 address of 28 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Beighton Close · Yates Croft · Shelley Drive · Vaughan Close · Station Approach · Moore Close · Byron Croft · Cleeve Drive · Becket Close · Keats Close · Cranmer Grove · Tennyson Avenue

All the streets in B74 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.