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On Elmcroft Road, in Lyndon Green
What it's like at B26 1PL: every home that has sold on Elmcroft 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.
4 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 7 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 Elmcroft Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 55 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 51, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | May 2022 | £295,000 | 87 m² | £3,391/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2007 | £140,000 | 85 m² | £1,647/m² | 1 |
| 53, Elmcroft RoadTerraced | Mar 2016 | £162,500 | 88 m² | £1,847/m² | 1 |
| 54, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2006 | £148,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 55, Elmcroft RoadTerraced | Sept 2024 | £245,000 | 84 m² | £2,917/m² | 1 |
| 57, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2024 | £250,000 | 81 m² | £3,086/m² | 1 |
| 63, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | Aug 1997 | £57,500 | 80 m² | £719/m² | 1 |
| 64, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2007 | £136,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 65, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2022 | £282,500 | 72 m² | £3,924/m² | 5 |
| 67, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2014 | £135,000 | 75 m² | £1,800/m² | 2 |
| 68, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2020 | £240,000 | 86 m² | £2,791/m² | 2 |
| 69, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | May 2013 | £142,500 | 74 m² | £1,926/m² | 2 |
| 70, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | Nov 1997 | £45,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 73, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2011 | £151,500 | 77 m² | £1,968/m² | 3 |
| 75, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | May 1997 | £51,500 | 67 m² | £769/m² | 1 |
| 78, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2019 | £161,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 79, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2026 | £255,000 | 83 m² | £3,072/m² | 1 |
| 80, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2025 | £254,000 | 122 m² | £2,082/m² | 3 |
| 81, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | Feb 1998 | £52,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 83, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2004 | £142,000 | 85 m² | £1,671/m² | 4 |
| 84, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2023 | £325,000 | 123 m² | £2,642/m² | 2 |
| 85, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2025 | £265,000 | 85 m² | £3,118/m² | 3 |
| 86, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2001 | £80,000 | 74 m² | £1,081/m² | 1 |
| 88, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2026 | £205,000 | 85 m² | £2,412/m² | 2 |
| 90, Elmcroft RoadSemi-detached | May 2011 | £135,000 | 73 m² | £1,849/m² | 2 |
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 (2.1 km), with 418k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham Moor Street.
The nearest bus stop is Elmcroft Road, 100 m away, with a bus about every 10 minutes on weekdays (routes 17, 17A); 43 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Lyndon Green Junior School, about a 10-minute walk (650 m); 56% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Cockshut Hill School, 900 m away; Attainment 8: 38.3 · 7.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Birmingham (2.5 km) and Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Birmingham East (4.1 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: King Edward VI Aston School (7.5 km) and King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls (8.3 km).
The nearest supermarket is Swan, 500 m away; RPT Super (400 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Manor House Lane Surgery (300 m), with Manor Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, Designer Hair & Beauty is 450 m away.
The nearest full A&E is City Health Campus, 9.7 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 2 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Chica Desserts is the closest café or restaurant (450 m), and New Inn the nearest pub (800 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 53 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 9% flats and 10% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 72% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Old Yardley Park, 1.1 km away; for exercise, Air Ninja (700 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 13.5 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 3.4 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 43% of households own their home outright.
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.
34 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%.
28 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 1PL →
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Birmingham since 2011.
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 55 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 39 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.5% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 95.2% | 84.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.7% | 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.
Nearest: Rutland Water Whitwell Creek · about 87 min
Nearest: Chasewater Railway · about 35 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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