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On Garrard Gardens, in Sutton Coldfield South & Central
What it's like at B73 6DS: every home that has sold on Garrard Gardens 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 Garrard Gardens; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
6 of the 115 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| Flat 4, Trent Court, Garrard GardensFlat | Jul 2020 | £150,500 | 65 m² | £2,315/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 12, Trent Court, Garrard GardensFlat | Jul 2026 | £170,000 | 62 m² | £2,742/m² | 4 |
| Flat 3, Trent Court, Garrard GardensFlat | Mar 1997 | £47,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 7, Trent Court, Garrard GardensFlat | Jan 2002 | £72,950 | 63 m² | £1,158/m² | 2 |
| Flat 11, Trent Court, Garrard GardensFlat | Jun 2001 | £59,995 | 63 m² | £952/m² | 1 |
| Flat 6, Trent Court, Garrard GardensFlat | Mar 2020 | £105,000 | 63 m² | £1,667/m² | 2 |
| Flat 2, Trent Court, Garrard GardensFlat | Jul 2004 | £79,294 | 63 m² | £1,259/m² | 2 |
| Flat 8, Trent Court, Garrard GardensOther | Jan 2017 | £130,000 | 63 m² | £2,063/m² | 1 |
| Flat 1, Trent Court, Garrard GardensFlat | Dec 2024 | £145,000 | 64 m² | £2,266/m² | 2 |
| Flat 10, Trent Court, Garrard GardensFlat · company-owned | Aug 2018 | £101,000 | 60 m² | £1,683/m² | 1 |
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 Sutton Coldfield, a few minutes' walk (350 m), with 1.0m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Fawdry Close, 200 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 77A); 96 departures an hour from the 15 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, about a 10-minute walk (850 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Plantsbrook School, 750 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 Aldi, 100 m away; Game (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Manor Practice (550 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Theo Georgio is 200 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.
Caffe Botanico House Of Fraser is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and Sutton Sports & Social Club the nearest pub (300 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 Trinity Park, 500 m away; for exercise, The Gym (300 m).
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.
58 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%.
24 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 6DS →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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 115 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 100 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 99 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.
Nearest: Rutland Water Sykes Lane · about 88 min
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