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On Charles Edward Road, in Yardley South
What it's like at B26 1BU: every home that has sold on Charles Edward 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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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 Charles Edward Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
33 of the 106 homes on the street are owned by companies.
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Acocks Green, a short drive or bike ride (1.4 km), with 418k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham Moor Street.
The nearest bus stop is Coventry Road, 50 m away, with a bus about every 9 minutes on weekdays (route 11C); 143 departures an hour from the 13 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Yardley Primary School, a few minutes' walk (450 m); 60% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Birmingham, 1.5 km away; Attainment 8: 62.1 · 27.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Birmingham East (3.9 km) and Swanshurst School (5.7 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: King Edward VI Aston School (7.2 km) and King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls (7.3 km).
It's a family area: 21% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Farmfoods, 150 m away; Shazans (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Swan Medical Centre (200 m), with Tesco Instore Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (200 m).
For a haircut, Consol is 100 m away.
The nearest full A&E is City Health Campus, 9.1 km 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 60% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 15 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 12 restaurants and cafés, 1 pubs and bars.
Costa Coffee is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and Yardley Ex Servicemens Club the nearest pub (150 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 144 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 12% flats and 4% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 57% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
It's growing: about 114 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Oak Meadow Public Open Space, 900 m away; for exercise, Anytime Fitness (100 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 14.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 4.0 km away.
46 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 Yardley constituency: Jess Phillips MP (Labour), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 693 (1.9%), turnout 49%. Vote shares: Labour 31%, Workers Party of Britain 29%, Reform UK 14%, Liberal Democrat 10%.
29 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 B26 1BU →
On this street: 0 of 29 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 4 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.2% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 97.8% | 84.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.2% | 14.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 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.
Most households own their home, 21% rent privately.
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 106 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Rutland Water Sykes Lane · about 85 min
Nearest: Chasewater Railway · about 33 min
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