Soho Loop Street Birmingham

26 addresses across 2 postcodes (B18), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2753693.

  • Energy: 25 homes have an energy certificate (C: 25).
  • Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Birmingham costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 98% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Jewellery Quarter, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 190 m away, and Summerfield Park (15 hectares) is about 470 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 16.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 141 to 144 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 22 of its 26 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Broadway Health Centre, about 520 m (0.3 miles) away, with 10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 18% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 201 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 February 2023 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

25 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 111 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (17); House, end-terrace (8). Built: 2023 (25).

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 A (74% of about 1,740 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

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this street's postcodes yet.

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 26 addresses are between 141 m and 144 m above sea level (143 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
B18 7AP98%98%98%0%
B18 7BF100%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 stationsJewellery Quarter 446,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Five Ways 1.3 million journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Birmingham Snow Hill 3.2 million journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Underground, metro or tramJewellery Quarter (West Midlands Metro)1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Soho Benson Road (West Midlands Metro)1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Brindleyplace (West Midlands Metro)1.6 km (1 mile)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 46 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hooper Street Rotton Park110 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth3 km (1.9 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Q-Park Birmingham City Hospital370 m
EV charging points16 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity200 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX12.8 km (8 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 surgeries10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Broadway Health Centre520 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest R & R Pharmacy520 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Synergy Dental Practices Limited40 m
HospitalBirmingham City Hospital360 m
Police stationSummerfield Police Station460 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM390 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 garden9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,980 m²190 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Summerfield Park 15 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
Play area8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 570 m²40 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,730 m²730 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 400 m²190 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 9 parks and gardens, 29 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Summerfield Community Centre and Job Preparation Unit, a listed building (Grade II*), 610 m (0.4 miles) west. 26 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Summerfield Community Centre and Job Preparation UnitListed building, Grade II*610 m (0.4 miles) west
Public LibraryListed building, Grade II*700 m (0.4 miles) east
Warstone Lane CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Key Hill CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Remains of the Boulton and Watt Soho foundry and mint, Birmingham Canal, SmethwickScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Soho LoopLake or reservoir360 m north-east
Icknield Port LoopLake or reservoir590 m (0.4 miles) south
Moor PoolLake or reservoir3.1 km (1.9 miles) south-west
Thimblemill PoolLake or reservoir3.3 km (2.1 miles) west
Edgbaston PoolLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.1 miles) south
Warley WoodsWood4.1 km (2.5 miles) west

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)16.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.0205
Particles (PM10)12.64015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road 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
60 to 6410
55 to 59215
Under 55421

22 of the street's 26 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 5 from railways, 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
St Patrick and St Edmund's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11130 m No published inspection
Barford Primary SchoolPrimary3–11390 m Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
BOA Stage and Screen Production Academy16 plus16–19400 m (0.2 miles) No published inspection
Summerfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–11740 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brookfields Primary SchoolPrimary3–11890 m (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Blessed Dominic Barberi Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11950 m (0.6 miles) Inadequate (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Jewellery Quarter AcademySecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Inadequate; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Inadequate
City Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John's & St Peter's CofE Primary Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Nelson Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Oasis Academy FoundryPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oasis Academy BensonPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Inadequate (Sep 2023, 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Loaf and Latte B18 7APRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good19 Jun 2025
Loaf N Latte B18 7BERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 mAwaiting inspection
Jollof & Grill B18 7APOther catering premises90 mAwaiting inspection
vraj bhoomi retail ltd B18 7APRetailers - other90 m5 Very good30 Sep 2026
BUDGENS SOHO WHARF B18 7APRetailers - other90 m5 Very good10 Jun 2026
Maison Rosselle / Home Made with Love B18 7AROther catering premises90 mAwaiting inspection
Old Windmill B18 7QNPub/bar/nightclub170 m5 Very good9 Feb 2016
Arewa Sips and Nibbles UK B16 0AWOther catering premises180 m4 Good28 Jul 2026
Uwish Lounge Ltd B18 7ADRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Jun 2025
Braai Spot B18 7AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good29 Jul 2026
Coconut Cup Ltd B18 7AFOther catering premises310 mAwaiting inspection
AFCS CIC Consortium HUB B18 7AFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good16 Sep 2026
Essence Youth Mentoring CIC B18 7AFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 mAwaiting inspection
Klassic Events B18 7QDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m3 Generally satisfactory15 Jan 2026
K&R Cafe B18 7QDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 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.

201 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences97
Vehicle crime18
Criminal damage and arson16
Burglary13
Other theft12
Anti-social behaviour10
Possession of weapons9
Robbery8
Public order7
Drugs6
Other crime3
Theft from the person2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (114); On or near Northbrook Street (77); On or near Willow Gardens (10).

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: 319 residents in 142 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 age4040
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)18%61%
Owned outright11%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented62%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work39%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)19%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)12%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van45%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus27%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)80%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications33%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)76%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all8%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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.

  • B18 7BF: 25 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • B18 7AP: 1 address of 71 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Glass Way · Silver Way · Heath Street South · Hooper Street · The Poplars · Willow Gardens · Eyre Street · Blyton Close · Marroway Street · Northbrook Street · The Elms · The Limes

All the streets in B18 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.