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On Birmingham Road, in Sutton Coldfield South & Central
What it's like at B72 1BX: every home that has sold on Birmingham 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.
6 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 7 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 Birmingham Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
46 of the 402 homes on the street are owned by companies (1 overseas).
| 162, Birmingham RoadDetached | Feb 2009 | £395,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 164, Birmingham RoadDetached · company-owned | Apr 2009 | £399,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 166, Birmingham RoadDetached | Jun 2009 | £394,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 168, Birmingham RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2017 | £395,000 | 143 m² | £2,762/m² | 3 |
| 168a, Birmingham RoadDetached | Jul 2009 | £364,000 | 194 m² | £1,876/m² | 1 |
| 172, Birmingham RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2022 | £490,000 | 215 m² | £2,279/m² | 1 |
| 174, Birmingham RoadTerraced | Apr 2026 | £590,000 | 182 m² | £3,242/m² | 3 |
| 178, Birmingham RoadTerraced | Nov 2015 | £385,000 | 205 m² | £1,878/m² | 1 |
| 182, Birmingham RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2002 | £180,000 | 225 m² | £800/m² | 1 |
| 184, Birmingham RoadTerraced | Sept 2015 | £280,000 | 228 m² | £1,228/m² | 2 |
| 188, Birmingham RoadTerraced | Dec 2014 | £327,000 | 264 m² | £1,239/m² | 1 |
| 190, Birmingham RoadSemi-detached · company-owned | May 2007 | £315,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 2, Sutton Park Court, 160, Birmingham RoadFlat | May 1998 | £57,500 | 50 m² | £1,150/m² | 2 |
| Flat 15, Sutton Park Court, 160, Birmingham RoadFlat | Apr 2022 | £135,000 | 45 m² | £3,000/m² | 2 |
| Flat 7, Sutton Park Court, 160, Birmingham RoadFlat · company-owned | Jan 2023 | £124,000 | 51 m² | £2,431/m² | 3 |
| Flat 1, Sutton Park Court, 160, Birmingham RoadFlat · company-owned | Sept 2024 | £160,000 | 54 m² | £2,963/m² | 5 |
| Flat 12, Sutton Park Court, 160, Birmingham RoadFlat | Apr 2006 | £118,000 | 43 m² | £2,744/m² | 5 |
| Flat 10, Sutton Park Court, 160, Birmingham RoadFlat | Jun 1999 | £57,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 14, Sutton Park Court, 160, Birmingham RoadFlat | Jul 2023 | £159,000 | 52 m² | £3,058/m² | 2 |
| Flat 8, Sutton Park Court, 160, Birmingham RoadFlat | Nov 2022 | £160,000 | 54 m² | £2,963/m² | 3 |
| Flat 16, Sutton Park Court, 160, Birmingham RoadFlat | Feb 1998 | £52,000 | 46 m² | £1,130/m² | 1 |
| Flat 4, Sutton Park Court, 160, Birmingham RoadFlat | Oct 1999 | £58,000 | 44 m² | £1,318/m² | 1 |
| Flat 9, Sutton Park Court, 160, Birmingham RoadFlat | Mar 2000 | £60,000 | 44 m² | £1,364/m² | 1 |
| Flat 11, Sutton Park Court, 160, Birmingham RoadFlat | Dec 2016 | £125,000 | 45 m² | £2,778/m² | 4 |
| Flat 17, Sutton Park Court, 160, Birmingham RoadFlat | Feb 2000 | £70,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 3, Sutton Park Court, 160, Birmingham RoadFlat | Apr 2024 | £150,000 | 44 m² | £3,409/m² | 5 |
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 42% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Wylde Green, about a 5-minute walk (600 m), with 521k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Vesey Road, 50 m away, with a bus about every 5 minutes on weekdays (routes X4, 110, X5, X3); 69 departures an hour from the 6 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 13 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
The nearest primary school is Maney Hill Primary School, a few minutes' walk (500 m); 75% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls, 700 m away; Attainment 8: 79.4 · 64.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls (0.3 km) and Bishop Vesey's Grammar School (1.4 km).
The nearest supermarket is Iceland Foods, 900 m away, with Wylde Green Local closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Manor Practice (1.0 km), with Vesey Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (900 m).
For a haircut, Charisma Beauty is 650 m away.
The nearest full A&E is City Health Campus, 10 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).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 50 restaurants and cafés and 12 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Turk Nazz is the closest café or restaurant (650 m), and Sutton Coldfield Hard Courts the nearest pub (200 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 135 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 20 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 30% flats and 19% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1930s.
The nearest park is Boddington Garden, 700 m away; for exercise, 2nd Sutton Coldfield Scouts (200 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 13 km away.
23 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%.
32 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 1BX →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Most households own their home, 22% rent privately.
It's highly educated: 47% 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.
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 402 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 Sykes Lane · about 88 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: 1 of 220 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 50 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.6% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 73.2% | 84.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 26.4% | 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.