Spoon Drive Birmingham

38 addresses across 2 postcodes (B31,B38), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2701088.

  • Sales: 20 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £186,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 26 homes have an energy certificate (C: 15, D: 10, E: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Birmingham costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Kings Norton, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 420 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 157 to 163 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 38 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Wychall Lane Surgery, about 750 m (0.5 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 410 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 29% of households owned their home and 18% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 114 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
20241£186,500£186,500£186,500
20202£147,500£133,000£162,000
20182£149,000£138,000£160,000
20171£124,000£124,000£124,000
20163£120,000£110,000£130,000
20151£124,500£124,500£124,500
20112£56,500£50,000£63,000
20091£80,000£80,000£80,000
20072£120,475£119,950£121,000
20021£78,500£78,500£78,500
19991£46,500£46,500£46,500
19981£45,000£45,000£45,000
Most recent sales (20)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 Sep 202534 B38 8XDTerraced£208,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Apr 202424 B38 8XDTerraced£186,500
26 Aug 20209 B38 8XDTerraced£162,000
26 Feb 202038 B38 8XDTerraced£133,000
29 Jun 20189 B38 8XDTerraced£160,000
8 Feb 201818 B38 8XDTerraced£138,000
2 Jun 201727 B38 8XDTerraced£124,000
22 Sep 201614 B38 8XDTerraced£130,000
27 May 201634 B38 8XDTerraced£110,000
26 Feb 20169 B38 8XDTerraced£120,000
18 Sep 201518 B38 8XDTerraced£124,500
19 Dec 201144 B38 8XDTerraced£63,000
25 Jan 201118 B38 8XDTerraced£50,000
18 Sep 200946 B38 8XDTerraced£80,000
30 Oct 200727 B38 8XDTerraced£121,000
2 Jan 200714 B38 8XDTerraced£119,950
27 Nov 20029 B38 8XDTerraced£78,500
5 Mar 199952 B38 8XDTerraced£46,500
24 Jul 199818 B38 8XDTerraced£45,000
20 Feb 199542 B38 8XDTerraced£26,520

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 August 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

26 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 81 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (14); House, end-terrace (5); Flat (2). Built: 1967-1975 (13); 1976-1982 (10); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (16); owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Birmingham in 2026-27: Band D £2,363 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,575£1,838£2,100£2,363£2,888£3,413£3,938£4,726

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (53% of about 800 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): CITY WIDE HMO.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 3 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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

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

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

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
B38 8XDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 3 unlikely
B31 3DHnot 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.

© 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 38 addresses are between 157 m and 163 m above sea level (161 m on average); the ground rises about 6 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
B31 3DH100%100%100%0%
B38 8XD100%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 stationsKings Norton 934,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Northfield 643,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bournville 996,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chip Close Wychall110 m
Bus or coach stationAlvechurch - Red Lion PH6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Car parksSainsbury's Northfield Car Park2.1 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ESB Energy Charging Station880 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX14.4 km (8.9 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wychall Lane Surgery750 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Browns Pharmacy380 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mydentist870 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalWest Heath Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationBournville Lane Police Station2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Vardon Supermarket Cashzone180 m

Parks and green space

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

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,930 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 9.4 ha500 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 390 m²530 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 12 ha200 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest West Heath Allotments 2.6 ha780 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 10 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Burnt mounds in Woodlands Park, 540m and 640m west of The Pavilion, a scheduled monument, 1.6 km (1 mile) north.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Burnt mounds in Woodlands Park, 540m and 640m west of The PavilionScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north
Guillotine Lock, Stratford CanalScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Merecroft PoolLake or reservoir560 m (0.3 miles) east
Red HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
High HillHill2.2 km (1.3 miles) south
Gay HillHill2.3 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Camp WoodWood2.9 km (1.8 miles) north
Egghill DingleValley4.7 km (2.9 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)10.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)11.24015

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 553538

3 of the street's 38 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
Fairway Primary AcademyPrimary4–11310 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
St Thomas Aquinas Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18380 m No published inspection
Wychall Primary SchoolPrimary3–11390 m Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kings Norton Nursery SchoolNursery2–5920 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
West Heath Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
King Edward VI King's Norton School for BoysSecondary11–161.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kings Norton Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Outstanding
West Heath Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Ark Kings AcademyAll-through3–181.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Laurence Church Infant School Church of EnglandPrimary4–71.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Laurence Church Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Paul's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected 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

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
Fortune House B38 8XHTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m4 Good11 Sep 2025
Vardon Supermarket Ltd B38 8XHRetailers - other180 m2 Improvement necessary27 Oct 2025
The Kings Oak B38 8XHPub/bar/nightclub180 m4 Good19 Jul 2019
Sense B38 8AQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good9 Feb 2010
St Thomas Aquinas R C Grammar School B38 8APSchool/college/university280 m5 Very good10 Oct 2025
Bussinnchicken street food B31 3BPMobile caterer290 mAwaiting inspection
Fairway Primary School B38 8XQSchool/college/university310 m5 Very good3 Sep 2026
Wychall Primary Academy B31 3EHSchool/college/university340 m5 Very good20 Nov 2025
Taylorshaw @ Wychall Primary School B31 3EHSchool/college/university340 mAwaiting inspection
RB Holiday Camps Wychall B31 3EHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 mAwaiting inspection
The Local B31 3AURetailers - other380 m5 Very good26 Oct 2009
Wychall Fish Bar B31 3AUTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m5 Very good22 May 2026
Euro Essential B31 3AURetailers - other380 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Sep 2026
Wychall Lane Children's Home B38 8TBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Feb 2026

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.

114 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences63
Vehicle crime19
Criminal damage and arson12
Public order6
Anti-social behaviour5
Other theft3
Burglary2
Drugs1
Possession of weapons1
Theft from the person1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hallow Close (26); On or near Chip Close (18); On or near Club View (13); On or near Ombersley Way (11); On or near Redgate 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: 406 residents in 178 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 age3940
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)29%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented62%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work45%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)14%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus17%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)73%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)18%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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.

Nearby streets

Redgate Close · Annscroft · Chip Close · Ashcott Close · Marbury Close · Ombersley Way · Elsworth Road · Club View · Ainsworth Road · Wychall Park Grove · Oakridge Road · Elmbridge Way

All the streets in B31, B38 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.