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On Walter Cobb Drive, in Sutton Coldfield South & Central
What it's like at B73 5QR: every home that has sold on Walter Cobb Drive 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 Walter Cobb Drive; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 15 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Walter Cobb DriveSemi-detached | Oct 1998 | £90,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Walter Cobb DriveSemi-detached | Apr 2019 | £272,300 | 98 m² | £2,779/m² | 1 |
| 4, Walter Cobb DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2007 | £240,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 6, Walter Cobb DriveSemi-detached | Feb 2004 | £169,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 7, Walter Cobb DriveSemi-detached | Apr 2011 | £185,000 | 90 m² | £2,056/m² | 1 |
| 8, Walter Cobb DriveSemi-detached | Jan 2025 | £418,000 | 105 m² | £3,981/m² | 3 |
| 9, Walter Cobb DriveSemi-detached | Jul 2013 | £226,000 | 90 m² | £2,511/m² | 2 |
| 10, Walter Cobb DriveSemi-detached | Jan 2021 | £335,000 | 104 m² | £3,221/m² | 1 |
| 11, Walter Cobb DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2023 | £410,000 | 87 m² | £4,713/m² | 2 |
| 12, Walter Cobb DriveSemi-detached | Oct 1998 | £92,500 | 99 m² | £934/m² | 1 |
| 14, Walter Cobb DriveSemi-detached | Nov 2009 | £160,000 | 105 m² | £1,524/m² | 2 |
| 15, Walter Cobb DriveSemi-detached | Sept 2012 | £205,000 | 111 m² | £1,847/m² | 2 |
| 16, Walter Cobb DriveSemi-detached | Feb 2016 | £265,000 | 117 m² | £2,265/m² | 1 |
| 17, Walter Cobb DriveSemi-detached | Nov 1999 | £99,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 19, Walter Cobb DriveOther | Aug 2023 | £470,000 | 152 m² | £3,092/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
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, a few minutes' walk (200 m), with 521k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Frederick Road, 450 m away, with a bus about every 5 minutes on weekdays (routes 5, 907, 66, 77).
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 St Nicholas Catholic Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (550 m); 60% 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, 900 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 Tesco, 550 m away, with Londis Gravelly Park closer still (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Hawthorns Surgery (1.1 km), with Boots the closest pharmacy (1.3 km).
For a haircut, J's Salon is 500 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.
Soofi Restaurant is the closest café or restaurant (450 m), and Sutton Coldfield Hard Courts the nearest pub (500 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, 1.0 km away; for exercise, 2nd Sutton Coldfield Scouts (400 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 13 km away.
48 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%.
23 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 B73 5QR →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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.
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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 15 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 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 | 0.6% | 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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