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On Riddfield Road, in Birches Green & Bromford East
What it's like at B36 8PS: every home that has sold on Riddfield 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Riddfield Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 20 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 56, Riddfield RoadFlat | Aug 2025 | £120,000 | 75 m² | £1,600/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80, Riddfield RoadOther · company-owned | May 2016 | £102,000 | 84 m² | £1,214/m² | 2 |
| 82, Riddfield RoadTerraced | Nov 2021 | £150,000 | 86 m² | £1,744/m² | 3 |
| 84, Riddfield RoadTerraced · company-owned | Aug 2014 | £115,000 | 109 m² | £1,055/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Stechford, a short drive or bike ride (2.6 km), with 417k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Berrandale Gardens, 300 m away, with a bus about every 7 minutes on weekdays (routes 28, 71, 96, 64); 34 departures an hour from the 5 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 14 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
The nearest primary school is Firs Primary School, a few minutes' walk (300 m); 48% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Hodge Hill Girls' School, 1.2 km away; Attainment 8: 48.7 · 10.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Birmingham East (3.3 km) and Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Birmingham (4.7 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: King Edward VI Aston School (4.6 km) and Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls (4.7 km).
It's a family area: 23% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsburys Delicatessen & Salad Bar, 750 m away, with Mals News closer still (400 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Firs Surgery (150 m), with Shawsdale Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (500 m).
For a haircut, Hair Flair is 700 m away.
The nearest full A&E is City Health Campus, 8.2 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: 37 restaurants and cafés, 0 pubs and bars.
The Common Room is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and Manor Farm the nearest pub (400 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 136 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 24% flats and 7% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 46% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Hodge Hill Common, 900 m away; for exercise, Firs and Bromford Sports and Community Centre (1.1 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 16.7 µg/m³).
16 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 Hodge Hill and Solihull North constituency: Liam Byrne MP (Labour), since July 2004. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 1,566 (4.6%), turnout 44%. Vote shares: Labour 31%, Workers Party of Britain 27%, Reform UK 19%, Conservative 14%.
12 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 B36 8PS →
For holidays, Birmingham is 8.2 km away.
Most households own their home, 17% 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 20 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 17 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 5 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.4% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 94.2% | 84.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.3% | 14.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 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 83 min
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