Spring Close Shelfield, Walsall

23 addresses across 2 postcodes (WS4), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41900811.

21 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £210,000 across 1 sale. 13 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 4, D: 6, E: 1). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Walsall costs £2,627 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Bloxwich, about 3.9 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden, High Heath Park, is about 40 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. It is about 144 m above sea level. The nearest GP surgery is Chapel Street Surgery, about 1.2 km away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km. About 550 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 56% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 83 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
20261£210,000£210,000£210,000
20251£233,000£233,000£233,000
20231£215,000£215,000£215,000
20222£197,550£182,000£213,100
20211£163,000£163,000£163,000
20201£139,950£139,950£139,950
20171£131,000£131,000£131,000
20162£117,500£115,000£120,000
20151£125,000£125,000£125,000
20141£106,250£106,250£106,250
20071£140,000£140,000£140,000
20041£102,000£102,000£102,000
Most recent sales (21)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Jan 202615 WS4 1AYTerraced£210,000
30 Jun 202520 WS4 1AYTerraced£233,000
23 Feb 202416 WS4 1AYTerraced£141,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Mar 20231 WS4 1AYTerraced£215,000
8 Aug 202210 WS4 1AYSemi-detached£213,100
3 Aug 20229 WS4 1AYSemi-detached£182,000
19 Jul 20216 WS4 1AYTerraced£163,000
27 Apr 202015 WS4 1AYTerraced£139,950
9 Oct 20179 WS4 1AYSemi-detached£131,000
29 Jul 201615 WS4 1AYTerraced£120,000
20 Jul 20166 WS4 1AYTerraced£115,000
3 Jul 20159 WS4 1AYSemi-detached£125,000
15 Oct 201416 WS4 1AYTerraced£106,250
30 Nov 200713 WS4 1AYTerraced£140,000
19 Nov 20049 WS4 1AYSemi-detached£102,000
28 Feb 20026 WS4 1AYTerraced£67,500
25 Jan 200210 WS4 1AYSemi-detached£53,200
19 Oct 200113 WS4 1AYTerraced£56,950
6 Apr 20019 WS4 1AYSemi-detached£51,500
18 Feb 200010 WS4 1AYSemi-detached£51,995
31 May 19968 WS4 1AYSemi-detached£43,500

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 June 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (5); House, mid-terrace (5); House, semi-detached (3). Built: 1950-1966 (12); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (social) (5); rented (private) (2).

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.

ABCDEFGH
£1,752£2,044£2,336£2,627£3,211£3,795£4,379£5,255

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (38% of about 1,390 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 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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 144 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)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
WS4 1AU100%100%100%0%
WS4 1AY100%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 stationsBloxwich 114,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km
Bloxwich North 123,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km
Walsall 1.2 million journeys in 2024–254.7 km
Bus stops21 stops within 400 m, 41 within 800 m; nearest Harrison Road High Heath60 m
Bus or coach stationWalsall Bus Station4.5 km
Car parksMFT Commercial Ltd. - Depot Parking2.6 km
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km; nearest InstaVolt Charging Station630 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX23.3 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.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Chapel Street Surgery1.2 km
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Hartshorne Chemist220 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Oraco LTD1.3 km
HospitalGoscote Hospital1.9 km
Police stationAldridge Police Station3.1 km
Cash machinesAtm1.2 km

Parks and green space

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

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m; nearest High Heath Park 1.8 ha40 m
Play area3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 190 m²70 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Shelfield Recreation Ground 4.2 ha690 m
Allotments1 within 800 m; nearest Greenfields Road Allotments 1.6 ha590 m

Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 1.8 hectares in all.

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)11.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.8205
Particles (PM10)12.54015

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.

Noise figures are still being loaded.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 31 October 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
Ormiston Shelfield Community AcademySecondary11–18300 m Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Francis Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11470 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
Greenfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–11880 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 SchoolPrimary3–111.0 km No published inspection
St Michael's Church of England C Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Radleys Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Pelsall Village SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ryders Hayes SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.8 km Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 31 October 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Furama Chinese Takeaway WS4 1ATTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m2 Improvement necessary18 May 2023
K V Hartshorne Chemist WS4 1ATRetailers - other210 m5 Very good22 May 2026
Nisa Local WS4 1ATRetailers - other210 m4 Good12 Jun 2026
Spring Lane Fish Bar WS4 1ATTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good7 Jan 2026
Steak Rattle n Roll WS4 1ATRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good15 Apr 2026
Bluebell House WS4 1AZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m5 Very good3 Feb 2026
Ormiston Shelfield Community Academy WS4 1BWSchool/college/university300 m5 Very good29 Sep 2026
Support 4 U Ltd WS4 1ANOther catering premises300 mAwaiting inspection
School Farm Shop WS4 1BTRetailers - other380 m3 Generally satisfactory17 Jul 2025
Simply Out of School St Francis WS4 1RNOther catering premises400 m5 Very good2 Jul 2026
St Francis R C Primary School WS4 1RHSchool/college/university400 m5 Very good19 Jun 2017
Harry's Greek Tavern WS4 1RNOther catering premises400 m5 Very good14 Aug 2024
St Francis Club WS4 1RHPub/bar/nightclub410 m5 Very good7 Oct 2026
Mill Lodge Care Home WS4 1BUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises490 m5 Very good8 Jul 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.

83 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences54
Vehicle crime7
Criminal damage and arson7
Other theft5
Public order4
Burglary4
Theft from the person1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Broad Way (30); On or near Windsor Grove (9); On or near Clarendon Road (8); On or near Church Way (6); On or near Spring Lane (6).

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: 550 residents in 250 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 age4640
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)56%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented31%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)69%65%
Work 30 km or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 4 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
  • Food hygiene ratings Ormiston Shelfield Community Academy (school/college/university, WS4 1BW) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 29 September 2026) 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 1AY: 19 addresses of 20 in the postcode
  • WS4 1AU: 4 addresses of 23 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Broad Lane · Harrison Road · Foundry Gardens · Radford Drive · Old Mill Gardens · Windsor Grove · Clarendon Road · Romsley Close · Spring Lane · Broad Way · Shelton Drive · Birch Lane

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.