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On Blades Road, in Greets Green West
What it's like at B70 0HA: every home that has sold on Blades 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Blades Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 11 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, Blades RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2020 | £180,000 | 85 m² | £2,118/m² | 1 |
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| 4, Blades RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2018 | £120,000 | 67 m² | £1,791/m² | 2 |
| 6, Blades RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2019 | £129,000 | 79 m² | £1,633/m² | 2 |
| 7, Blades RoadTerraced | Mar 2021 | £185,000 | 105 m² | £1,762/m² | 1 |
| 9, Blades RoadTerraced | Apr 2018 | £165,000 | 89 m² | £1,854/m² | 1 |
| 11, Blades RoadSemi-detached | May 2012 | £122,500 | 82 m² | £1,494/m² | 1 |
| 14, Blades RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2010 | £83,500 | 67 m² | £1,246/m² | 1 |
| 16, Blades RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2012 | £130,000 | 94 m² | £1,383/m² | 1 |
| 19, Blades RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2021 | £192,500 | 13 m² | £14,808/m² | 2 |
| 33, Blades RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2019 | £122,500 | 85 m² | £1,441/m² | 2 |
| 35, Blades RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2011 | £120,000 | 82 m² | £1,463/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Horseley Road Metro station, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km). The nearest rail station is Dudley Port, 1.3 km away, with 376k journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Farley Park, 250 m away, with a bus about every 10 minutes on weekdays (routes 42, 43); 19 departures an hour from the 3 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 Newtown Primary School, a few minutes' walk (200 m); 48% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Hargate Primary School (1.6 km).
The nearest secondary is George Salter Academy, 1.3 km away; Attainment 8: 39.6 · 6.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Bristnall Hall Academy (4.6 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys (6 km) and King Edward VI Handsworth School (6.7 km).
It's a family area: 24% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Heron Foods, 800 m away, with Harry’s News closer still (400 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Great Bridge Health Centre (600 m), with Pharmassured the closest pharmacy (600 m).
For a haircut, 1st Cutz is 300 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Sandwell Health Campus, 2.0 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 8 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
King Arthur Grill and Greets Green Sports Bar is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and The Jolly Sailor the nearest pub (500 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 130 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 17% flats and 9% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 41% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Farley Park, 150 m away; for exercise, Jules' Pool (450 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 16.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 20 km away.
26 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.
Tipton and Wednesbury constituency: Antonia Bance MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 3,385 (10.6%), turnout 43%. Vote shares: Labour 37%, Conservative 26%, Reform UK 25%, Green Party 5%.
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 B70 0HA →
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.
Nearest: Cotswold Country Park and Beach · about 81 min
Nearest: Droitwich Spa Lido · about 32 min
Nearest: Severn Valley Railway · about 33 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 11 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 | 0.1% | 0.9% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.1% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 98.9% | 92.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.3% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 0.7% | 7.0% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.1% | 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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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 11 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.