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On Penns Lane, in Wylde Green
What it's like at B72 1BP: every home that has sold on Penns 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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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.
5 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 5 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 Penns Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
6 of the 126 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 120, Penns LaneSemi-detached | Sept 2014 | £275,000 | 96 m² | £2,865/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 124, Penns LaneDetached | Feb 2016 | £426,000 | 146 m² | £2,918/m² | 1 |
| 124a, Penns LaneDetached | Oct 2019 | £385,000 | 222 m² | £1,734/m² | 2 |
| 124b, Penns LaneDetached | Mar 2026 | £505,000 | 132 m² | £3,826/m² | 3 |
| 124c, Penns LaneDetached | Apr 2024 | £535,000 | 121 m² | £4,421/m² | 2 |
| 128, Penns LaneSemi-detached | Sept 2022 | £410,000 | 120 m² | £3,417/m² | 2 |
| 132, Penns LaneDetached | Nov 2011 | £285,000 | 166 m² | £1,717/m² | 1 |
| 134, Penns LaneDetached | Apr 2007 | £369,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 138, Penns LaneSemi-detached | Jul 2016 | £304,000 | 128 m² | £2,375/m² | 1 |
| 142, Penns LaneDetached | Sept 2013 | £370,000 | 186 m² | £1,989/m² | 2 |
| 144, Penns LaneSemi-detached | Apr 2008 | £272,500 | – | – | 3 |
| 146, Penns LaneSemi-detached | Apr 2017 | £340,000 | 126 m² | £2,698/m² | 2 |
| 148, Penns LaneSemi-detached | Mar 2001 | £243,500 | 158 m² | £1,541/m² | 2 |
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 46% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Chester Road, about a 10-minute walk (1.0 km), with 659k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Fourlands Avenue, 50 m away, with a bus about every 55 minutes on weekdays (routes 77A, X15, 815); 8 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
This is car country: only 9% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Penns Primary School, a few minutes' walk (200 m); 84% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is St Edmund Campion Catholic School, 1.0 km away; Attainment 8: 45.8 · 8.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls (1.6 km) and Bishop Vesey's Grammar School (3.1 km).
The nearest supermarket is Central Co-op Food, 650 m away, with BP Penns Lane SF Connect closer still (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Hawthorns Surgery (700 m), with Wylde Green Chemist the closest pharmacy (650 m).
For a haircut, Eternal Hair is 650 m away.
The nearest full A&E is City Health Campus, 9.5 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 3 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Shake House is the closest café or restaurant (650 m), and Verdo Lounge Cafe Bar the nearest pub (700 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 67 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Detached houses make up 68% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Pype Hayes, 950 m away; for exercise, Body Blitz (700 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 13.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 11 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 54% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 29% are 65 or over.
28 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.
Sutton Coldfield constituency: Sir Andrew Mitchell MP (Conservative), since June 2001. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 2,543 (5.3%), turnout 65%. Vote shares: Conservative 38%, Labour 33%, Reform UK 17%, Liberal Democrat 5%.
30 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 B72 1BP →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
It's highly educated: 46% of adults have a degree.
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: Rutland Water Whitwell Creek · about 87 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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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 126 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 95 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 25 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.8% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 90.2% | 84.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 9.5% | 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.
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