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On Harborne Park Road, in Metchley
What it's like at B17 0BL: every home that has sold on Harborne Park Road since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
13 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 4 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Harborne Park Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
25 of the 181 homes on the street are owned by companies (1 overseas).
| 254, Harborne Park RoadDetached | Feb 2000 | £108,000 | 140 m² | £771/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 256, Harborne Park RoadDetached | Aug 2007 | £229,000 | 122 m² | £1,877/m² | 4 |
| 258, Harborne Park RoadDetached | Apr 2010 | £234,000 | 82 m² | £2,854/m² | 3 |
| 268, Harborne Park RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2011 | £330,000 | 191 m² | £1,728/m² | 1 |
| 270, Harborne Park RoadSemi-detached | Oct 1998 | £140,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 272, Harborne Park RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2020 | £545,000 | 118 m² | £4,619/m² | 3 |
| 274, Harborne Park RoadSemi-detached | May 2008 | £375,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 276, Harborne Park RoadSemi-detached | Jul 1999 | £155,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 280, Harborne Park RoadSemi-detached · company-owned | Apr 2021 | £315,000 | 237 m² | £1,329/m² | 3 |
| Flat 3, Park View, 262, Harborne Park RoadFlat | Jun 2000 | £72,500 | 71 m² | £1,021/m² | 3 |
| Flat 5, Park View, 262, Harborne Park RoadFlat | Oct 2015 | £148,500 | 72 m² | £2,063/m² | 3 |
| Flat 6, Park View, 262, Harborne Park RoadFlat | Sept 2014 | £131,500 | 72 m² | £1,826/m² | 2 |
The nearest station is University, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km), with 3.8m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Cross Farm Road, 150 m away, with a bus about every 9 minutes on weekdays (route 11C); 34 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 9 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
44% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is St Peters CofE Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (550 m); 72% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Harborne Academy, 1.5 km away; Attainment 8: 44.6 · 9.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: St Paul's School for Girls (2.7 km) and Bristnall Hall Academy (4.5 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls (4 km) and King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys (4 km).
The nearest supermarket is Asda Express Harborne - High Street PFS, 750 m away, with Grove Lane Local closer still (400 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Harborne Medical Practice (900 m), with Outpatients Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (700 m).
For a haircut, Daves Gents Hairdressing is 400 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, 500 m away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 57% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 67% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 8 restaurants and cafés, 3 pubs and bars.
Tasteology Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and Harborne Cricket Club the nearest pub (550 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 212 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 12 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 37% flats and 12% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Grove Park, 150 m away; for exercise, Toneup Fitness (800 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 13.4 µg/m³).
30 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Birmingham Edgbaston constituency: Preet Kaur Gill MP (Labour (Co-op)), since June 2017. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 8,368 (22.4%), turnout 52%. Vote shares: Labour 44%, Conservative 22%, Reform UK 12%, Independent 9%.
30 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near B17 0BL →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
For holidays, Birmingham is 14 km away.
Most households own their home, 34% rent privately.
It's young: 31% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 46% of adults have a degree.
There's a sizeable student population: 25% of adults were full-time students in 2021.
The nearest university is University of Birmingham, 1.7 km away (TEF Silver).
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 181 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 1 of 158 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 33 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.8% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 91.1% | 84.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 8.1% | 14.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.4% | 1.4% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
Nearest: Cotswold Country Park and Beach · about 80 min
Nearest: Droitwich Spa Lido · about 31 min
Nearest: Severn Valley Railway · about 33 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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