Sunset Close Tamworth

71 addresses across 2 postcodes (B79), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 39400329.

  • Sales: 13 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £114,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 55 homes have an energy certificate (C: 34, D: 20, 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 Tamworth costs £2,301 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Tamworth, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 550 m (0.3 miles) away, and Wigginton Park (21 hectares) is about 630 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 59 to 61 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 56 of its 71 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Riverside Surgery, about 340 m away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 220 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 23% of households owned their home and 15% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 126 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
20252£114,500£104,000£125,000
20222£119,001£110,001£128,000
20181£86,000£86,000£86,000
20121£86,000£86,000£86,000
20102£79,000£72,000£86,000
20061£107,000£107,000£107,000
20051£34,000£34,000£34,000
20041£81,000£81,000£81,000
20021£67,950£67,950£67,950
Most recent sales (13)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Mar 202527 B79 7QJFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
28 Feb 202545 B79 7QJFlat or maisonette£104,000Leasehold.
29 Jul 202249 B79 7QJFlat or maisonette£128,000Leasehold.
18 Mar 202214 B79 7QJFlat or maisonette£110,001Leasehold.
5 Dec 201845 B79 7QJFlat or maisonette£86,000Leasehold.
20 Feb 201749 B79 7QJFlat or maisonette£105,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Jun 201222 B79 7QJFlat or maisonette£86,000Leasehold.
3 Aug 201032 B79 7QJFlat or maisonette£72,000Leasehold.
10 Mar 201014 B79 7QJFlat or maisonette£86,000Leasehold.
29 Mar 200643 B79 7QJTerraced£107,000Leasehold.
8 Aug 200532 B79 7QJFlat or maisonette£34,000Leasehold.
24 Jun 200415 B79 7QJSemi-detached£81,000Leasehold.
27 Sep 200214 B79 7QJTerraced£67,950Leasehold.

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 April 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

55 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 49 m². Most common: Flat (27); Bungalow, end-terrace (8); Maisonette, mid-terrace (8). Built: 1950-1966 (42); 1930-1949 (7); 1967-1975 (6). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (31); owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (36 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Tamworth in 2026-27: Band D £2,301 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,534£1,789£2,045£2,301£2,812£3,323£3,835£4,602

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (36% of about 1,380 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: 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

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 79 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 82 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 79 low and 0 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
B79 7QJzone 3 0 / 0 / 66 unlikely
B79 7QLzone 3 1 / 0 / 13 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 71 addresses are between 59 m and 61 m above sea level (59 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
B79 7QJ100%100%100%0%
B79 7QL100%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 stationsTamworth 1.2 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Wilnecote (Staffs) 99,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Polesworth 150 journeys in 2024–256.4 km (4 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fire Station The Leys40 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Lichfield City Centre9.8 km (6.1 miles)
Car parks5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Premier Inn Tamworth Central Car Park480 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sainsburys Tamworth Smart Charge730 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX20.2 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.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Riverside Surgery340 m
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Crest Pharmacy - Aldergate460 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Riverside Dental Surgery210 m
HospitalSir Robert Peel Community Hospital2 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationTamworth Police Station850 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tamworth News600 m (0.4 miles)

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 3,960 m²550 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Wigginton Park 21 ha630 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 150 m²590 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha180 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha250 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 21 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Moat House, a listed building (Grade II*), 120 m south-east. 94 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Moat HouseListed building, Grade II*120 m south-east
Tamworth CastleListed building, Grade I500 m (0.3 miles) east
Saxon defencesScheduled monument510 m (0.3 miles) east
Tamworth CastleScheduled monument530 m (0.3 miles) east
Causeway Walls to North East of Tamworth CastleListed building, Grade I550 m (0.3 miles) east
Town HallListed building, Grade II*600 m (0.4 miles) east
Medieval deanery, Lower GungateScheduled monument700 m (0.4 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Old Mill PoolLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) south
Pipes WoodWood2.3 km (1.5 miles) west
Kendall's WoodWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) west
Seventeen Acre WoodWood2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-west
The Devil's Dressing RoomWood3.2 km (2 miles) west
Hanging HillHill3.8 km (2.3 miles) north

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)9.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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
65 to 6960
60 to 64290
55 to 59210
Under 551571

56 of the street's 71 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 Tamworth: see them on the Tamworth 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
Moorgate Primary AcademyPrimary2–11510 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Dunstall Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Landau Forte Academy, QEMSSecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Landau Forte Academy Tamworth Sixth Form16 plus16–191.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Lark Hall Infant & Nursery AcademyPrimary3–71.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Mar 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
Flax Hill Junior AcademyPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
William MacGregor Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Coton Green Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Ashcroft Infants' SchoolPrimary3–71.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Feb 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

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
Tamworth Arms B79 7QLPub/bar/nightclub50 m5 Very good4 Mar 2026
La Lena European Food Store B79 7QHRetailers - other120 m5 Very good26 Jan 2026
Moat House B79 7QQPub/bar/nightclub120 m5 Very good21 Aug 2019
Papa Johns Pizza B79 7QFTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good16 Oct 2026
Tamworth Masonic Rooms B79 7QEPub/bar/nightclub220 m5 Very good21 Jan 2019
The Boathouse B78 3QNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m4 Good9 Feb 2026
RAFA Community Hub B79 7QDOther catering premises270 m5 Very good15 Apr 2025
Benny's Chicken B79 7QBTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m2 Improvement necessary12 Mar 2026
Bennys Chicken B79 7QBTakeaway/sandwich shop280 mAwaiting inspection
Sweet Planet B79 7QDRetailers - other280 m5 Very good19 Nov 2024
No.18 Coffee House & Wine Bar B79 7QDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good12 Dec 2024
Joba's Takeaway B79 7RDTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m4 Good14 May 2025
Tamworth Progressive Club B79 7RDPub/bar/nightclub330 m5 Very good12 Feb 2020
Tudor House Café B79 7QBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good27 Jun 2025
Tamworth Supermarket B79 7QDRetailers - other350 m4 Good25 Sep 2025

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.

126 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences52
Anti-social behaviour19
Public order17
Burglary12
Other theft10
Robbery4
Criminal damage and arson4
Vehicle crime3
Other crime3
Drugs2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (46); On or near Sunset Close (22); On or near Moor Street (14); On or near Richmond Close (11); On or near Wardle Street (8).

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: 223 residents in 126 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 age5040
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over29%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)23%61%
Owned outright12%33%
Shared ownership4%1%
Social rented57%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work42%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)16%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van52%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus13%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)15%34%
No qualifications42%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

  • B79 7QJ: 70 addresses of 80 in the postcode
  • B79 7QL: 1 address of 22 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Richmond Close · Wardle Street · Park Street · Edward Street · Halford Street · Meadow Park · Moor Street · Tempest Street · Lichfield Street · Lady Bank

All the streets in B79 and across Tamworth.

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.