Shepherds Fold Blackheath, Sandwell

39 addresses across 2 postcodes (B65), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 33643480.

Sales: 2 recorded sales since 1995; in 2002 the median was £35,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 31 homes have an energy certificate (C: 21, D: 10).
Flood: 14 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 A; Band D in Sandwell costs £2,244 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Old Hill, about 940 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden, Britannia Park, is about 330 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: It is about 184 m above sea level.
Noise: 17 of its 39 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Regis Medical Centre, about 150 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 490 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 37% of households owned their home and 18% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 135 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
2002	1	£35,000	£35,000	£35,000
1999	1	£20,000	£20,000	£20,000

Most recent sales (2)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
19 Jul 2002	11 B65 8BG	Terraced	£35,000	Leasehold.
29 Oct 1999	11 B65 8BG	Terraced	£20,000	Leasehold.

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 September 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

C21

D10

31 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 57 m². Most common: Flat (30); Maisonette, end-terrace (1). Built: 1967-1975 (13); 1983-1990 (10); 1950-1966 (7). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (30).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Sandwell in 2026-27: Band D £2,244 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,496	£1,746	£1,995	£2,244	£2,743	£3,242	£3,741	£4,489

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (45% of about 1,850 homes).

A45%

B24%

C14%

D9%

E7%

G0%

H0%

F0%

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: 1.
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.

Listed buildings

Former Blackheath Public Library, grade II

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Jewson Limited, 89 - 105 High Rowley, Regis (70 m)
160 Halesowen Street Rowley Regis B65 0ES (380 m)
Royal Oak Inn 1 Causeway Green Road Oldbury (620 m (0.4 miles))
Pritam House, 230 Halesowen Road, Cradley Heath (620 m (0.4 miles))
78A Oldbury Road Rowley Regis B65 0JS (660 m (0.4 miles))
Sandwell MBC Depot, & surounds Waterfall Lane, Cradley Heath (760 m (0.5 miles))
Highams Close, Rowley: up to 6 homes, permissioned (780 m (0.5 miles))
Station Road (South) (920 m (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, 13 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 8 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
B65 8BG	not in 2 or 3	12 / 0 / 6	unlikely
B65 8BE	not in 2 or 3	1 / 1 / 2	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 184 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
B65 8BE	100%	100%	100%	0%
B65 8BG	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	Old Hill 154,000 journeys in 2024–25	940 m (0.6 miles)
	Rowley Regis 1.0 million journeys in 2024–25	1 km (0.6 miles)
	Cradley Heath 719,000 journeys in 2024–25	3.1 km (2 miles)
Bus stops	8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 42 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Regis Road Blackheath	70 m
Bus or coach station	Halesowen Bus Station	3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Car parks	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Q-Park Rowley Regis Hospital	760 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points	5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea	430 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	Birmingham Airport BHX	20.4 km (13 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Regis Medical Centre	150 m
Pharmacies	9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hingley Pharmacy	150 m
NHS dentists	5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery	290 m
Hospital	Rowley Regis Hospital	650 m (0.4 miles)
Police station	West Midlands Police - Old Hill Police Station	1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines	4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Y & B Store, Blackheath Cashzone	260 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	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Britannia Park 6.4 ha	330 m
Play area	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 840 m²	340 m
Playing field	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha	530 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,020 m²	370 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 6.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Leasowes, a registered park or garden (Grade I), 2.6 km (1.6 miles) south. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
The Leasowes	Registered park or garden, Grade I	2.6 km (1.6 miles) south

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Rowley Stop	Lake or reservoir	1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Codsall Coppice	Wood	1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Mucklow Hill	Hill	1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Briery Coppice	Wood	2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Withymoor Island	Island	2.3 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Woodgate Valley	Valley	4.7 km (2.9 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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	13.0	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	7.7	20	5
Particles (PM10)	12.2	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, 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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
65 to 69	6	0
60 to 64	2	0
55 to 59	9	0
Under 55	22	39

17 of the street's 39 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 Sandwell: see them on the Sandwell 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
Highfields Primary School	Primary	5–11	510 m (0.3 miles)	No published inspection
Blackheath Primary School	Primary	3–11	620 m (0.4 miles)	Report card (Apr 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Michael's Church of England High School	Secondary	11–16	840 m (0.5 miles)	No published inspection
Temple Meadow Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.1 km (0.7 miles)	No published inspection
Brickhouse Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.2 km (0.7 miles)	Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ormiston Forge Academy	Secondary	11–18	1.2 km (0.7 miles)	No published inspection
Olive Hill Primary Academy	Primary	3–11	1.5 km (0.9 miles)	Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Old Hill Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.5 km (0.9 miles)	Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Rowley Hall Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.5 km (0.9 miles)	Requires improvement (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Reddal Hill Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.6 km (1 mile)	Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hurst Green Primary School	Primary	5–11	1.6 km (1 mile)	No published inspection
Springfield Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.7 km (1.1 miles)	Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
GB Drinks B65 0EG	Retailers - other	40 m	4 Good	17 Oct 2024
Porks Pantry B65 0EG	Takeaway/sandwich shop	50 m	5 Very good	17 Oct 2024
The Malt Shovel B65 0EH	Pub/bar/nightclub	90 m	4 Good	10 Oct 2013
The Knights Quest B65 0EE	Pub/bar/nightclub	90 m	Awaiting inspection
Ross Fish Bar B65 8BS	Takeaway/sandwich shop	100 m	5 Very good	12 Apr 2023
Miah Tandoori B65 0EH	Takeaway/sandwich shop	100 m	5 Very good	19 Sep 2025
Yummy B65 0EE	Takeaway/sandwich shop	110 m	4 Good	3 Mar 2026
Paul’s Convenience Store & Off Licence B65 0EH	Retailers - other	110 m	Awaiting inspection
Bookworms Daycare B65 8BY	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	120 m	Awaiting inspection
The Bengal Village B65 0EH	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	120 m	Awaiting inspection
Hilton Manor Banqueting & Conference Hall B65 0EE	Other catering premises	160 m	5 Very good	8 Nov 2025
Stepping Stone Independent Living B65 8AA	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	170 m	5 Very good	31 Oct 2024
Inshore Support Ltd. B65 0BB	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	190 m	4 Good	9 Sep 2019
Sugar Me Up B65 0DR	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	200 m	5 Very good	8 Feb 2024
Pizza Hut B65 0DR	Takeaway/sandwich shop	200 m	5 Very good	8 Feb 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.

135 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	80
Public order	11
Criminal damage and arson	9
Other theft	9
Vehicle crime	8
Drugs	4
Burglary	3
Robbery	3
Other crime	3
Anti-social behaviour	3
Possession of weapons	1
Theft from the person	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Holly Road (19); On or near Regis Road (18); On or near A4100 (17); On or near John Street (15); On or near Peckover Close (14).

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: 488 residents in 262 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	48	40
Children under 15	13%	17%
Aged 65 and over	28%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	37%	61%
Owned outright	18%	33%
Shared ownership	2%	1%
Social rented	45%	17%
Private rented	16%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	44%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	9%	6%
Retired (of adults)	29%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	6%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	27%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	53%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	3%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	12%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	6%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	77%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	5%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	18%	34%
No qualifications	36%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	5%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	94%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	2%	2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 7 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 Bookworms Day Care (hospitals/childcare/caring premises, B65 8BY) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 31 October 2026
Food hygiene ratings Bookworms Daycare (hospitals/childcare/caring premises, B65 8BY) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
Food hygiene ratings Pacos Pool Lounge (pub/bar/nightclub, B65 0NE) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
Food hygiene ratings Shah & Co (retailers - other, B65 0DR) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 8 October 2026) found 31 October 2026
Food hygiene ratings Taste of Himalayan (takeaway/sandwich shop, B65 0DR) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 7 October 2026) found 31 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.

B65 8BG: 38 addresses of 54 in the postcode
B65 8BE: 1 address of 9 in the postcode

Nearby streets

The Mews · High Street · Oliver Court · The Crescent · The Grove · Regis Gardens · Peckover Close · Holly Road · Alwin Road · Darby Street · Carnegie Road · Beeches Road

All the streets in B65 and across Sandwell.

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.