Wolverhampton Road Smethwick, Sandwell

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.

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

252 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 86 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (145); House, detached (38); Flat (34). Built: 1930-1949 (150); 1950-1966 (39); 1967-1975 (26). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (174); rented (private) (34); rented (social) (10).

Council tax

What each band costs in Sandwell in 2026-27: Band D £2,244 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (39% of about 15,650 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 20 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: yes, Oldbury Church Square (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
• Listed buildings on or by this street: 31.
• Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
• Tree preservation orders: 25 protected trees on or by this street; in a protected area: The Black Country Development Corporation Tree Preservation Order No3 1995.
• Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

• 1 AND 3, BIRMINGHAM STREET, grade II
• 1, CHURCH SQUARE, grade II
• 12, UNITY PLACE, grade II
• 16, CHURCH SQUARE, grade II
• 2 AND 3, CHURCH SQUARE, grade II
• 2, HALESOWEN STREET, grade II
• 38, BIRMINGHAM STREET, grade II
• 5, BIRMINGHAM STREET, grade II
• BARCLAYS BANK, grade II
• BOTTOM LOCK, OLDBURY LOCKS (APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES NORTH OF TAT BANK ROAD) BIRMINGHAM CANAL TITFORD BRANCH, OLDBURY, grade II
• CHRIST CHURCH, grade II
• ENGINE HOUSE ADJOINING TOP LOCK OF OLDBURY LOCKS, SOUTH OF ENGINE STREET BIRMINGHAM CANAL TITFORD BRANCH, grade II
• FIFTH LOCK FROM BOTTOM, OLDBURY LOCKS, ADJOINING ENGINE BRIDGE, ENGINE STREET BIRMINGHAM CANAL TITFORD BRANCH, grade II
• FOURTH LOCK FROM BOTTOM, OLDBURY LOCKS, (APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES NORTH OF ENGINE STEEL) BIRMINGHAM CANAL TITFORD BRANCH, grade II
• LANGLEY HALL, grade II
• LANGLEY MALTINGS, grade II
• Langley War Memorial, grade II
• LLOYDS BANK, grade II
• MEMORIAL TO JAMES CHANCE IN WEST SMETHWICK PARK, grade II
• MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES NORTH OF TOWER OF CHRIST CHURCH, grade II
• Oldbury Cenotaph, grade II
• Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady and St Hubert, grade II
• Rood End War Memorial, grade II
• SECOND LOCK FROM BOTTOM, OLDBURY LOCKS, ADJOINING STONEY LANE BRIDGE, TAT BANK ROAD) BIRMINGHAM CANAL TITFORD BRANCH, grade II
• STATION ROAD BRIDGE BIRMINGHAM CANAL TITFORD BRANCH, grade II
• THE JUNCTION PUBLIC HOUSE, grade II
• The Navigation, grade II
• The Wernley, grade II
• THIRD LOCK FROM BOTTOM, OLDBURY LOCKS (APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES SOUTH OF TAT BANK ROAD) BIRMINGHAM CANAL TITFORD BRANCH, grade II
• TOP LOCK, OLDBURY LOCKS (APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES SOUTH OF ENGINE STREET) BIRMINGHAM CANAL TITFORD BRANCH, grade II

And 1 more.

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

• Pheasant Inn 273 Abbey Road Smethwick: up to 31 homes, permissioned (660 m (0.4 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

Started, not reported finished by 30 September 2026

• 21 July 2026 to 23 July 2026: SANDWELL METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the footway, carriageway (standard works)
• 28 July 2026 to 30 July 2026: SANDWELL METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, lane closure, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

• 30 September 2026: SANDWELL METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the carriageway (minor works)
• 14 October 2026 to 15 October 2026: HUTCHISON 3G LTD, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the footway, verge (minor works, permit applied for)

Finished in the last three months

• 25 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (immediate - urgent works)
• 24 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (immediate - urgent works)
• 24 September 2026 to 25 September 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Remedial works, lane closure, on the footway (minor works)
• 17 September 2026 to 18 September 2026: BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the carriageway (minor works)
• 11 September 2026: Netomnia Limited, Remedial works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (minor works)
• 10 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (minor works)
• 28 August 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, New service connection, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
• 23 August 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the footway, verge (minor works)
• 21 August 2026 to 28 August 2026: NATIONAL HIGHWAYS, Optional permit (no fee) e.g. for traffic management etc, lane closure, on the carriageway (standard works)
• 21 August 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (minor works)
• 7 August 2026 to 10 August 2026: SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the verge (immediate - urgent works)

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 111 addresses are in areas at high risk, 66 at medium risk and 172 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 312 homes the Environment Agency counts, 53 are in areas at high risk, 3 medium, 90 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.

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 679 addresses are between 148 m and 240 m above sea level (184 m on average); the ground rises about 92 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.

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.

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.

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.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Warley Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.1 km (0.7 miles) east. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

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.

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).

566 of the street's 677 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 26 from railways, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Sandwell: see them on the Sandwell page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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.

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.

Most of these are attached to: On or near Edinburgh Road (17); On or near Chester Rise (15); On or near Bleakhouse Road (8); On or near Broadway (6); On or near Broadway Croft (5).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 32 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 10,639 residents in 4,322 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

Homes

Work and commuting

Education and languages

Deprivation

The 20 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 7 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

• Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, detached (lodged 31 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
• Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, mid-terrace (lodged 26 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
• Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, semi-detached (lodged 17 October 2026) found 2 November 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.

• B68 8DD: 68 addresses of 71 in the postcode
• B69 4RJ: 50 addresses of 59 in the postcode
• B68 0TF: 44 addresses of 46 in the postcode
• B68 0LH: 41 addresses of 48 in the postcode
• B68 8DE: 41 addresses of 43 in the postcode
• B68 0TG: 35 addresses
• B68 0LW: 31 addresses
• B69 4RR: 30 addresses
• B69 4RS: 30 addresses of 31 in the postcode
• B68 0NF: 29 addresses
• B68 0NB: 26 addresses of 27 in the postcode
• B68 0LR: 20 addresses
• B69 2BH: 19 addresses
• B69 2JG: 18 addresses of 20 in the postcode
• B68 0LJ: 16 addresses
• B68 0TE: 16 addresses
• B68 8DB: 13 addresses
• B69 4RU: 13 addresses of 14 in the postcode
• B69 4RY: 13 addresses
• B68 0NH: 11 addresses
• B68 8DQ: 7 addresses of 8 in the postcode
• B69 2AG: 6 addresses
• B69 2AQ: 6 addresses of 22 in the postcode
• B69 2BJ: 5 addresses of 6 in the postcode
• B69 4PU: 5 addresses of 7 in the postcode
• B68 0NP: 4 addresses of 74 in the postcode
• B68 8DA: 4 addresses
• B68 8NL: 4 addresses of 44 in the postcode
• B69 2BL: 4 addresses
• B69 2JW: 4 addresses of 25 in the postcode
• B69 2PP: 4 addresses of 20 in the postcode
• B65 0NZ: 3 addresses of 48 in the postcode
• B68 0LP: 3 addresses
• B68 8DH: 3 addresses
• B68 8DU: 3 addresses of 14 in the postcode
• B68 8LQ: 3 addresses of 31 in the postcode
• B68 8LS: 3 addresses of 43 in the postcode
• B69 1HD: 3 addresses of 29 in the postcode
• B69 2JN: 3 addresses of 37 in the postcode
• B69 4QE: 3 addresses of 76 in the postcode
• B68 0EN: 2 addresses of 35 in the postcode
• B68 8DG: 2 addresses
• B68 9BG: 2 addresses of 16 in the postcode
• B69 1HB: 2 addresses of 48 in the postcode
• B69 2DW: 2 addresses of 37 in the postcode
• B69 2RU: 2 addresses
• B69 4QU: 2 addresses of 69 in the postcode
• B65 9SH: 1 address of 29 in the postcode
• B68 0HL: 1 address of 23 in the postcode
• B68 0NA: 1 address of 25 in the postcode
• B68 8AB: 1 address of 40 in the postcode
• B68 8BF: 1 address of 113 in the postcode
• B68 8DF: 1 address of 6 in the postcode
• B69 1DT: 1 address of 28 in the postcode
• B69 1HE: 1 address of 50 in the postcode
• B69 1NB: 1 address of 35 in the postcode
• B69 1PQ: 1 address of 38 in the postcode
• B69 2BD: 1 address of 3 in the postcode
• B69 2BN: 1 address of 16 in the postcode
• B69 2DS: 1 address of 12 in the postcode
• B69 2HD: 1 address of 70 in the postcode
• B69 2JE: 1 address of 10 in the postcode
• B69 4DY: 1 address of 39 in the postcode
• B69 4QD: 1 address of 33 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Broadway Croft · Wolverhampton Road · Edinburgh Road · Bleakhouse Road · Chester Rise · Broadway · Wolverhampton Road · Marshall Road · Walton Road · Cornwall Avenue · Aldridge Road · Yardley Close

All the streets in B65, B68, B69 and across Sandwell.