Toolmakers Way Birmingham

18 addresses across 1 postcode (B30), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2753675.

  • Sales: 18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £315,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (B: 17).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 Birmingham costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bournville, about 560 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 70 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 125 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is River Brook Medical Centre, about 570 m (0.4 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 67% of households owned their home and 50% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 142 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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
20251£315,000£315,000£315,000
20239£347,500£279,950£427,500
Most recent sales (18)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 Feb 202510 B30 2PYTerraced£315,000
25 Aug 202315 B30 2PYTerraced£372,667New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Aug 202321 B30 2PYTerraced£372,667New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Aug 202323 B30 2PYTerraced£372,667New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Aug 202327 B30 2PYTerraced£372,667New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Aug 202317 B30 2PYTerraced£367,667New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Aug 202319 B30 2PYTerraced£367,667New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Aug 202325 B30 2PYTerraced£288,970New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Jun 202313 B30 2PYTerraced£375,000New build.
30 Jun 20239 B30 2PYTerraced£280,500New build.
23 Jun 20237 B30 2PYTerraced£347,500New build.
21 Jun 202311 B30 2PYTerraced£282,500New build.
2 Jun 20236 B30 2PYTerraced£355,000New build.
30 May 20238 B30 2PYTerraced£279,950New build.
26 May 202312 B30 2PYTerraced£347,500New build.
26 May 202310 B30 2PYTerraced£280,000New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Mar 20231 B30 2PYDetached£427,500New build.
4 Jan 20232 B30 2PYDetached£425,000New build.

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 November 2022 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (8); House, mid-terrace (7); House, detached (2). Built: 2021 (17).

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 (54% of about 1,060 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

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 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 addresses are about 125 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
B30 2PY100%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 stationsBournville 996,000 journeys in 2024–25560 m (0.3 miles)
Selly Oak 2.3 million journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Kings Norton 934,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 43 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Umberslade Road Stirchley180 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Car parksQ-Park Qemc2.8 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging points27 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity130 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX11.9 km (7.4 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest River Brook Medical Centre570 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ashtree Pharmacy560 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery430 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSelly Oak Hospital (Acute)1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationWest Midlands Police2 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Daaru Junction, Stirchley Cashzone280 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 13 ha70 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 810 m²150 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.3 ha230 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hazelwell Allotments 3.2 ha410 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 28 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Highbury Hall, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.7 km (1 mile) north-east. 17 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Highbury HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1 mile) north-east
Guillotine Lock, Stratford CanalScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Brandwood End CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Camp WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Merecroft PoolLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Edgbaston PoolLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) north
The GroveWood3.2 km (2 miles) north-west
Coldbath PoolLake or reservoir3.2 km (2 miles) east
Gay HillHill3.9 km (2.4 miles) south

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)13.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

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
Under 551818

None of the street's 18 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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
Stirchley Primary SchoolPrimary3–11430 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Selly Park Girls' SchoolSecondary11–16850 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Allens Croft Nursery SchoolNursery2–5950 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Allens Croft Primary SchoolPrimary4–11950 m (0.6 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Raddlebarn Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Edward's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cotteridge Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
King Edward VI Camp Hill School for GirlsSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Exceptional; Leadership and governance: Exceptional; Post-16 provision: Exceptional; Safeguarding standards: Met
King Edward VI Camp Hill School for BoysSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Moor Green Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Bournville Village PrimaryPrimary5–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Colmore Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection

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
Stirchley United Working Mens Club B30 2PRPub/bar/nightclub70 m1 Major improvement necessary7 Jul 2025
Stirchley United Working Men Club B30 2PRPub/bar/nightclub80 m5 Very good27 Oct 2009
Sunrise Chinese Medicine B30 2XURetailers - other160 m5 Very good2 Sep 2011
Soi 1268 by Buddha Belly B30 2XURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good21 Sep 2023
Patiala B30 2XURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good7 Aug 2026
Aphra Bakes B30 2XURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good9 Apr 2025
Aldi B30 2XSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets180 m5 Very good15 May 2024
Card Factory B30 2XSRetailers - other210 mAwaiting inspection
British Oak B30 2XSPub/bar/nightclub220 m4 Good7 Sep 2026
Original Patty Men Stirchley B30 2XSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m3 Generally satisfactory9 Dec 2025
The Soft Play Cafe B30 2YTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good25 Jun 2025
The Bournbrook Inn Public House B30 2YTPub/bar/nightclub230 m3 Generally satisfactory2 Dec 2025
The Stirchley Spud Company B30 2JSTakeaway/sandwich shop260 mAwaiting inspection
Anjuna Lounge Ltd B30 2JSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good24 Aug 2023
St Andrew's Methodist Church B30 2RDOther catering premises260 m5 Very good2 Nov 2020

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.

142 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting42
Violence and sexual offences41
Vehicle crime11
Other theft11
Criminal damage and arson10
Robbery6
Anti-social behaviour6
Public order5
Burglary4
Possession of weapons2
Drugs2
Other crime1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hazelwell Lane (68); On or near Church Drive (39); On or near Ripple Road (15); On or near Twyning Road (9); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (6).

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: 271 residents in 130 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 age3540
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)67%61%
Owned outright19%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented30%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)49%32%
Travel to work by car or van30%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)76%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)50%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is 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

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

Bowling Green Way · Rea Lane · Twyning Road · Hunts Road · Hazelwell Lane · Ripple Road · Church Drive · Stirchley Trading Estate · Hazelwell Street · Plymouth Road · Bosbury Terrace · Norton Terrace

All the streets in B30 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.