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On Forest Hill Road, in Sheldon South
What it's like at B26 3TB: every home that has sold on Forest Hill 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Forest Hill Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 31 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 7, Forest Hill RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2007 | £190,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8, Forest Hill RoadDetached | May 2004 | £130,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 11, Forest Hill RoadTerraced | Sept 2019 | £201,500 | 75 m² | £2,687/m² | 1 |
| 14, Forest Hill RoadTerraced | Nov 2014 | £182,500 | 89 m² | £2,051/m² | 1 |
| 15, Forest Hill RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2008 | £152,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 19, Forest Hill RoadSemi-detached | May 2002 | £117,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 20, Forest Hill RoadTerraced | Nov 2018 | £261,500 | 101 m² | £2,589/m² | 2 |
| 22, Forest Hill RoadTerraced | Jul 2023 | £270,000 | 74 m² | £3,649/m² | 2 |
| 24, Forest Hill RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2001 | £106,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 25, Forest Hill RoadTerraced | Dec 2015 | £211,500 | 104 m² | £2,034/m² | 1 |
| 26, Forest Hill RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2001 | £90,000 | 93 m² | £968/m² | 2 |
| 28, Forest Hill RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2021 | £225,000 | 71 m² | £3,169/m² | 3 |
| 29, Forest Hill RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2003 | £137,500 | – | – | 3 |
| 30, Forest Hill RoadSemi-detached | Dec 1996 | £50,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 32, Forest Hill RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2021 | £219,000 | 69 m² | £3,174/m² | 4 |
| 33, Forest Hill RoadTerraced | May 2026 | £347,000 | 75 m² | £4,627/m² | 4 |
| 35, Forest Hill RoadDetached | Jul 1999 | £83,500 | 102 m² | £819/m² | 1 |
| 36, Forest Hill RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2023 | £275,000 | 97 m² | £2,835/m² | 1 |
| 37, Forest Hill RoadOther | Oct 2017 | £192,500 | 96 m² | £2,005/m² | 2 |
| 38, Forest Hill RoadSemi-detached | Oct 1996 | £63,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 39, Forest Hill RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2025 | £275,000 | 73 m² | £3,767/m² | 2 |
| 40, Forest Hill RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2021 | £275,000 | 106 m² | £2,594/m² | 2 |
| 41, Forest Hill RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2002 | £200,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 42, Forest Hill RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2000 | £84,500 | – | – | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Marston Green, a short drive or bike ride (1.9 km), with 589k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Ivydale Avenue, 150 m away, with a bus about every 7 minutes on weekdays (routes 60, A10); 83 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, a few minutes' walk (450 m); 42% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Lyndon School, 1.2 km away; Attainment 8: 49.7 · 11.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Birmingham (3.8 km) and Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Birmingham East (5.5 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls (8.8 km) and King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys (8.8 km).
The nearest supermarket is Iceland Foods, 600 m away, with Drinks Buster closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Cranes Park Road Surgery (150 m), with Pan Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, Stark is 450 m away.
The nearest full A&E is City Health Campus, 11 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: 33 restaurants and cafés, 5 pubs and bars.
The Tearooms is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and The Crane Hungry Horse the nearest pub (100 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 165 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 23% flats and 6% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 49% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
It's growing: about 199 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Sheldon Country Park, 750 m away; for exercise, énergie Fitness (550 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 14.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 2.2 km away.
Most households own their home, 19% rent privately.
40 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%.
19 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 3TB →
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.
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 31 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Rutland Water Whitwell Creek · about 83 min
Nearest: Chasewater Railway · about 31 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 17 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 | 83.2% | 84.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 16.7% | 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.
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