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On Arosa Drive, in Metchley
What it's like at B17 0SB: every home that has sold on Arosa Drive 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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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.
Sales and extensions on Arosa Drive; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 61 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 7, Arosa DriveFlat | Nov 2025 | £128,000 | 54 m² | £2,370/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9, Arosa DriveFlat | Feb 2026 | £84,000 | 49 m² | £1,714/m² | 2 |
| 11, Arosa DriveFlat · company-owned | Dec 2010 | £107,500 | 53 m² | £2,028/m² | 3 |
| 15, Arosa DriveFlat | Jan 2026 | £155,000 | 53 m² | £2,925/m² | 3 |
| 17, Arosa DriveFlat | Aug 2025 | £142,000 | 52 m² | £2,731/m² | 1 |
| 19, Arosa DriveFlat | Jun 2019 | £123,000 | 49 m² | £2,510/m² | 2 |
| 21, Arosa DriveFlat | Apr 2003 | £89,500 | 54 m² | £1,657/m² | 3 |
| 23, Arosa DriveFlat | Aug 2016 | £120,000 | 53 m² | £2,264/m² | 3 |
| 27, Arosa DriveFlat | Oct 2000 | £56,500 | 56 m² | £1,009/m² | 1 |
| 31, Arosa DriveFlat | Sept 2025 | £147,000 | 52 m² | £2,827/m² | 4 |
| 35, Arosa DriveFlat | Mar 2017 | £125,000 | 50 m² | £2,500/m² | 3 |
| 37, Arosa DriveFlat | Jun 2021 | £140,000 | 46 m² | £3,043/m² | 1 |
| 39, Arosa DriveFlat | Dec 2022 | £155,000 | 51 m² | £3,039/m² | 3 |
| 41, Arosa DriveFlat | Jul 1997 | £32,500 | 53 m² | £613/m² | 1 |
| 43, Arosa DriveFlat | Feb 2021 | £140,000 | 50 m² | £2,800/m² | 2 |
| 45, Arosa DriveFlat | Aug 2023 | £157,000 | 54 m² | £2,907/m² | 3 |
| 47, Arosa DriveFlat | Nov 2024 | £155,000 | 52 m² | £2,981/m² | 3 |
| 51, Arosa DriveFlat | Jan 2017 | £135,000 | 51 m² | £2,647/m² | 2 |
| 53, Arosa DriveFlat | Feb 1998 | £41,500 | 50 m² | £830/m² | 1 |
| 55, Arosa DriveFlat | Sept 2025 | £144,000 | 52 m² | £2,769/m² | 2 |
| 57, Arosa DriveFlat | Sept 2025 | £139,000 | 57 m² | £2,439/m² | 5 |
| 59, Arosa DriveFlat | Aug 2023 | £158,000 | 53 m² | £2,981/m² | 2 |
| 61, Arosa DriveFlat | Nov 2016 | £115,000 | 49 m² | £2,347/m² | 1 |
| 65, Arosa DriveFlat | Jul 1999 | £47,950 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is University, a short drive or bike ride (1.6 km), with 3.8m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Elford Road, 150 m away, with a bus about every 9 minutes on weekdays (routes X22, 48, 55); 50 departures an hour from the 13 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 Water Mill Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (700 m); 75% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is The University of Birmingham School, 1.3 km away; Attainment 8: 45.5 · 12.4% 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 Sainsbury's, 1.4 km away, with Harvest Heaven Store closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Weoley Park Surgery (950 m), with Maverick Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.2 km).
For a haircut, Shapes is 300 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 (400 m), and Copper Fox Bar & Grill the nearest pub (150 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, 600 m away; for exercise, Steve’s (1.1 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 13.4 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 14 km away.
18 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%.
24 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 0SB →
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, 2.2 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 61 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
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.
On this street: 0 of 38 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 2 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.