Schoolgate Close Shelfield, Walsall

47 addresses across 2 postcodes (WS4), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41900792.

Sales: 41 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £55,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 42 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 36, D: 5).
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 Walsall costs £2,627 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Bloxwich, about 4.3 km away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden, High Heath Park, is about 540 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 138 to 139 m above sea level.
Noise: 35 of its 47 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Rushall Medical Centre, about 1.4 km away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km.
People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 48% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 140 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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2023	1	£55,000	£55,000	£55,000
2022	1	£90,000	£90,000	£90,000
2016	2	£53,500	£38,000	£69,000
2014	1	£14,500	£14,500	£14,500
2007	4	£51,250	£50,000	£70,000
2006	1	£80,000	£80,000	£80,000
2005	3	£34,950	£34,000	£45,000
2004	1	£19,950	£19,950	£19,950
2003	1	£29,950	£29,950	£29,950
2002	4	£24,750	£23,500	£40,000
2001	4	£24,500	£15,500	£27,950
2000	1	£17,000	£17,000	£17,000

Most recent sales (41)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
23 Jun 2023	18 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£55,000	Leasehold.
20 Dec 2022	40 WS4 1QE	Terraced	£90,000	Leasehold.
23 Apr 2021	10 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£75,000	Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Jan 2016	36 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£38,000	Leasehold.
11 Jan 2016	40 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£69,000	Leasehold.
28 Nov 2014	32 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£59,445	Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Jan 2014	34 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£14,500	Leasehold.
13 Sep 2007	32 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£50,000	Leasehold.
20 Apr 2007	14 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£52,500	Leasehold.
9 Mar 2007	36 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£50,000	Leasehold.
26 Jan 2007	22 WS4 1QE	Terraced	£70,000	Leasehold.
1 Sep 2006	26 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£80,000	Leasehold.
30 Sep 2005	38 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£34,950	Leasehold.
25 Feb 2005	14 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£34,000	Leasehold.
21 Jan 2005	30 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£45,000	Leasehold.
5 Mar 2004	34 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£19,950	Leasehold.
14 Nov 2003	30 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£29,950	Leasehold.
3 Oct 2002	14 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£24,000	Leasehold.
5 Jul 2002	36 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£25,500	Leasehold.
9 May 2002	30 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£23,500	Leasehold.
15 Feb 2002	26 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£40,000	Leasehold.
31 Aug 2001	38 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£25,500	Leasehold.
21 May 2001	10 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£15,500	Leasehold.
18 May 2001	44 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£23,500	Leasehold.
12 Jan 2001	26 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£27,950	Leasehold.
28 Dec 2000	16 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£17,000	Leasehold.
26 Nov 1999	32 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£16,500	Leasehold.
20 Nov 1999	24 WS4 1QE	Terraced	£18,000	Leasehold.
25 Jun 1999	14 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£18,500	Leasehold.
7 May 1999	10 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£18,950	Leasehold.
5 Jun 1998	28 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£19,500	Leasehold.
7 May 1998	42 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£19,950	Leasehold.
29 Aug 1997	22 WS4 1QE	Terraced	£26,000	Leasehold.
21 Jul 1997	26 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£18,500	Leasehold.
13 Dec 1996	40 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£17,500	Leasehold.
22 Aug 1996	34 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£9,500	Leasehold.
15 Apr 1996	14 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£20,500	Leasehold.
29 Mar 1996	44 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£20,000	New build. Leasehold.
22 Aug 1995	38 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£22,500	Leasehold.
4 Jul 1995	10 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£20,000	Leasehold.
31 May 1995	42 WS4 1QE	Flat or maisonette	£20,950	New build. Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from August 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

C36

42 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 47 m². Most common: Flat (29); Maisonette, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1991-1995 (30); 1983-1990 (6); 1996-2002 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (31); owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Walsall in 2026-27: Band D £2,627 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,752	£2,044	£2,336	£2,627	£3,211	£3,795	£4,379	£5,255

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (58% of about 620 homes).

A31%

B58%

C5%

D5%

E2%

G0%

H0%

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): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Green belt: no.

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 30 September 2026.

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 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.

Postcode	Planning zone	Addresses at high / medium / low risk	Groundwater
WS4 1QE	not in 2 or 3	1 / 1 / 0	unlikely
WS4 1QG	not 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 47 addresses are between 138 m and 139 m above sea level (138 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
WS4 1QE	100%	100%	100%	0%
WS4 1QG	100%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Bloxwich 114,000 journeys in 2024–25	4.3 km
	Walsall 1.2 million journeys in 2024–25	4.5 km
	Bloxwich North 123,000 journeys in 2024–25	4.8 km
Bus stops	14 stops within 400 m, 37 within 800 m; nearest Hayling Court Shelfield	50 m
Bus or coach station	Walsall Bus Station	4.3 km
Car parks	MFT Commercial Ltd. - Depot Parking	2.1 km
EV charging points	2 within 1.6 km; nearest InstaVolt Charging Station	330 m
Airport with scheduled flights	Birmingham Airport BHX	22.8 km

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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Rushall Medical Centre	1.4 km
Pharmacies	4 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Hartshorne Chemist	510 m
NHS dentists	1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dental Surgery	1.4 km
Hospital	Goscote Hospital	2.1 km
Police station	Aldridge Police Station	2.6 km
Cash machines	ATM	870 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	2 within 800 m; nearest High Heath Park 1.8 ha	540 m
Play area	3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 520 m²	430 m
Playing field	1 within 800 m; nearest Shelfield Recreation Ground 4.2 ha	280 m
Allotments	1 within 800 m; nearest Greenfields Road Allotments 1.6 ha	540 m

Within 800 m: 2 parks and gardens, 3.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1.0 km.

Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
The Swag	Lake or reservoir	680 m south-east
Rails Wood	Wood	1.3 km north-west
Leigh's Wood	Wood	2.0 km east
Lady Pool	Lake or reservoir	2.3 km south-west
Shireoak Hill	Hill	2.7 km north-east
The Dingle	Valley	3.6 km south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	11.8	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	7.8	20	5
Particles (PM10)	12.5	40	15

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
70 to 74	20	0
65 to 69	10	0
60 to 64	5	0
Under 55	12	47

35 of the street's 47 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
St Francis Catholic Primary School Roman Catholic	Primary	3–11	270 m	Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ormiston Shelfield Community Academy	Secondary	11–18	620 m	Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Greenfield Primary School	Primary	3–11	710 m	Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Rushall Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.1 km	No published inspection
Radleys Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.1 km	Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John's Church of England Primary School	Primary	2–11	1.7 km	Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's Church of England C Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.8 km	Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m of the middle of the street.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
Harry's Greek Tavern WS4 1RN	Other catering premises	140 m	5 Very good	14 Aug 2024
Simply Out of School St Francis WS4 1RN	Other catering premises	140 m	5 Very good	2 Jul 2026
Midcounties Co-operative WS4 1PS	Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets	200 m	5 Very good	18 Sep 2025
Burgershack Shelfield WS4 1PU	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	200 m	2 Improvement necessary	7 Jun 2025
Shelfield Fish Bar WS4 1PU	Takeaway/sandwich shop	200 m	1 Major improvement necessary	22 Nov 2025
Mr Chef WS4 1PU	Takeaway/sandwich shop	200 m	4 Good	13 May 2026
St Francis Club WS4 1RH	Pub/bar/nightclub	260 m	5 Very good	7 Oct 2026
St Francis R C Primary School WS4 1RH	School/college/university	270 m	5 Very good	19 Jun 2017
Subway, Heath Service Station WS4 1PX	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	330 m	4 Good	2 Sep 2025
Pine View WS4 1PR	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	370 m	5 Very good	25 Oct 2023
Esso also t/a Premier WS4 1PX	Retailers - other	380 m	1 Major improvement necessary	22 Apr 2026
Support 4 U Ltd WS4 1AN	Other catering premises	390 m	Awaiting 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.

140 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	52
Shoplifting	35
Criminal damage and arson	15
Public order	10
Anti-social behaviour	5
Robbery	4
Burglary	4
Vehicle crime	4
Other theft	4
Possession of weapons	3
Drugs	2
Other crime	1
Bicycle theft	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (48); On or near Woodbridge Close (20); On or near Four Crosses Road (12); On or near School Street (11); On or near Fern Close (9).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 284 residents in 137 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 street	England
Median age	40	40
Children under 15	16%	17%
Aged 65 and over	15%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	48%	61%
Owned outright	22%	33%
Shared ownership	4%	1%
Social rented	27%	17%
Private rented	22%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	58%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	6%	6%
Retired (of adults)	16%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	9%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	23%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	68%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	under 1%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	4%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	4%	10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)	67%	65%
Work 30 km or more away	4%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	23%	34%
No qualifications	25%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	7%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	98%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	0%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Food hygiene ratings St Francis Club (pub/bar/nightclub, WS4 1RH) newly listed: 5 Very good (rated 7 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
Food hygiene ratings Support 4 U Ltd (other catering premises, WS4 1AN) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

WS4 1QE: 46 addresses of 49 in the postcode
WS4 1QG: 1 address of 25 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Springhill Close · School Street · Fern Close · Lichfield Road · Swan Pool Grove · Spring Road · Fairway · Watermeadow Drive · New Street · Stream Meadow · Little Orchard Close · Breedon Way

All the streets in WS4 and across Walsall.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.