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On Garretts Green Lane, in Lyndon Green
What it's like at B26 2JJ: every home that has sold on Garretts Green Lane 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.
7 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 6 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 Garretts Green Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
3 of the 144 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 121, Garretts Green LaneSemi-detached | Dec 2015 | £150,500 | 131 m² | £1,149/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 123, Garretts Green LaneSemi-detached | Aug 2012 | £113,000 | 85 m² | £1,329/m² | 1 |
| 125, Garretts Green LaneSemi-detached | Jul 1996 | £46,000 | 95 m² | £484/m² | 1 |
| 127, Garretts Green LaneSemi-detached | Oct 2015 | £142,000 | 91 m² | £1,560/m² | 2 |
| 129, Garretts Green LaneTerraced | Nov 2021 | £207,000 | 78 m² | £2,654/m² | 1 |
| 133, Garretts Green LaneSemi-detached | Feb 2015 | £137,500 | 80 m² | £1,719/m² | 3 |
| 135, Garretts Green LaneSemi-detached | May 2007 | £26,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 137, Garretts Green LaneSemi-detached | Feb 2001 | £75,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 139, Garretts Green LaneSemi-detached | Oct 2016 | £150,000 | 62 m² | £2,419/m² | 3 |
| 143, Garretts Green LaneTerraced | Sept 2021 | £213,000 | 81 m² | £2,630/m² | 4 |
| 145, Garretts Green LaneSemi-detached | Apr 2004 | £110,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 149, Garretts Green LaneSemi-detached | Sept 2016 | £134,000 | 63 m² | £2,127/m² | 1 |
| 153, Garretts Green LaneSemi-detached | May 2006 | £117,000 | 76 m² | £1,539/m² | 3 |
| 155, Garretts Green LaneSemi-detached · company-owned | Aug 2022 | £290,000 | 67 m² | £4,328/m² | 3 |
The nearest station is Lea Hall, a short drive or bike ride (1.5 km), with 443k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Cockshut Hill, 50 m away, with a bus about every 8 minutes on weekdays (routes 17, 17A, 98); 50 departures an hour from the 12 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Lyndon Green Junior School, about a 10-minute walk (700 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, 100 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 Greenway Superstore, 100 m away; Costcutter (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Garretts Green Lane Surgery (150 m), with Pan Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (100 m).
For a haircut, Christine Suzanne is 950 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.
Bhoj Raj is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and Sedgemere Sports & Social Club the nearest pub (550 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, 1.0 km away; for exercise, Air Ninja (1.5 km).
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.
17 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%.
27 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 2JJ →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
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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 144 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: 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.
On this street: 0 of 98 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 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% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 95.3% | 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.