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On Coles Lane, in Sutton Coldfield South & Central
What it's like at B72 1NP: every home that has sold on Coles 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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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). 3 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 Coles Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
9 of the 157 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 124, Coles LaneSemi-detached | Mar 2017 | £250,000 | 80 m² | £3,125/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 128, Coles LaneSemi-detached | Jul 1998 | £70,000 | 78 m² | £897/m² | 1 |
| 136, Coles LaneDetached | Jul 2013 | £198,000 | 97 m² | £2,041/m² | 1 |
| 140, Coles LaneSemi-detached | Sept 2021 | £340,000 | 72 m² | £4,722/m² | 2 |
| 142, Coles LaneSemi-detached | Mar 1997 | £57,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 144, Coles LaneSemi-detached | Dec 2021 | £330,000 | 78 m² | £4,231/m² | 4 |
| 146, Coles LaneSemi-detached | Jun 2001 | £90,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 148, Coles LaneSemi-detached | Jan 2016 | £242,500 | 89 m² | £2,725/m² | 2 |
| 153, Coles LaneSemi-detached | Jul 2025 | £302,000 | 85 m² | £3,553/m² | 1 |
| 155, Coles LaneSemi-detached | Oct 2025 | £317,500 | 77 m² | £4,123/m² | 3 |
| 159, Coles LaneSemi-detached | May 2010 | £180,000 | 105 m² | £1,714/m² | 4 |
| 163, Coles LaneSemi-detached | Jul 2021 | £287,000 | 74 m² | £3,878/m² | 6 |
| 165, Coles LaneSemi-detached | Dec 2016 | £206,000 | 86 m² | £2,395/m² | 2 |
| 167, Coles LaneSemi-detached | Apr 2010 | £133,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 179, Coles LaneDetached | Mar 2021 | £225,000 | 77 m² | £2,922/m² | 4 |
| 183, Coles LaneTerraced | Dec 2024 | £308,000 | 93 m² | £3,312/m² | 2 |
| 189, Coles LaneSemi-detached | Jul 2024 | £373,500 | 108 m² | £3,458/m² | 2 |
| 191, Coles LaneSemi-detached | Sept 2001 | £90,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 193, Coles LaneSemi-detached | Nov 2022 | £365,000 | 102 m² | £3,578/m² | 2 |
| 199, Coles LaneSemi-detached | Dec 2022 | £347,000 | 100 m² | £3,470/m² | 2 |
| 203, Coles LaneSemi-detached | Feb 2021 | £400,000 | 165 m² | £2,424/m² | 3 |
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 Sutton Coldfield, about a 15-minute walk (1.2 km), with 1.0m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Douglas Road, 50 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 77A); 4 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 Town House Primary School, a few minutes' walk (400 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Plantsbrook School, 400 m away; Attainment 8: 51.8 · 14.2% 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, 600 m away, with Lucky Food & Wine closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Manor Practice (500 m), with Vesey Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (400 m).
For a haircut, Barbers is 450 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.
Malai is the closest café or restaurant (600 m), and Sutton Coldfield Town Football Club the nearest pub (150 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, 650 m away; for exercise, The Gym (1.0 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 13 km away.
Most households own their home, 22% rent privately.
37 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%.
22 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 1NP →
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.
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.
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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 157 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.
On this street: 0 of 132 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 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% | 1.1% |
| 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.
Nearest: Rutland Water Sykes Lane · about 88 min
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