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On Sedgley Close, in Redditch Town & Abbeydale
What it's like at B98 8JR: every home that has sold on Sedgley Close 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 Sedgley Close; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 27 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 38, Sedgley CloseTerraced | Dec 2010 | £108,000 | 85 m² | £1,271/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39, Sedgley CloseTerraced | Mar 2023 | £170,000 | 91 m² | £1,868/m² | 4 |
| 40, Sedgley CloseTerraced | Aug 2024 | £175,000 | 85 m² | £2,059/m² | 1 |
| 41, Sedgley CloseTerraced | Jun 2023 | £185,000 | 83 m² | £2,229/m² | 2 |
| 44, Sedgley CloseTerraced | Apr 2022 | £180,000 | 85 m² | £2,118/m² | 1 |
| 47, Sedgley CloseSemi-detached | Oct 1996 | £44,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 52, Sedgley CloseTerraced | Jun 2026 | £180,000 | 78 m² | £2,308/m² | 2 |
| 53, Sedgley CloseTerraced | May 2004 | £89,000 | 85 m² | £1,047/m² | 2 |
| 56, Sedgley CloseTerraced | Sept 2020 | £145,000 | 77 m² | £1,883/m² | 2 |
| 57, Sedgley CloseTerraced | Jul 2012 | £110,000 | 78 m² | £1,410/m² | 3 |
| 65, Sedgley CloseTerraced | Jun 2004 | £79,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 66, Sedgley CloseTerraced · company-owned | Dec 2022 | £130,000 | 87 m² | £1,494/m² | 2 |
| 67, Sedgley CloseTerraced | Dec 2013 | £111,000 | 86 m² | £1,291/m² | 3 |
| 68, Sedgley CloseTerraced | Nov 2007 | £125,000 | 87 m² | £1,437/m² | 1 |
| 69, Sedgley CloseTerraced | Feb 2015 | £117,000 | 84 m² | £1,393/m² | 1 |
| 70, Sedgley CloseTerraced | Jul 2005 | £103,000 | – | – | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Redditch, a short drive or bike ride (1.3 km), with 910k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Sedgley Close, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 65); 30 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 10 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
The nearest primary school is St Stephen's CofE First School, a few minutes' walk (400 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Trinity High School and Sixth Form Centre, 550 m away; Attainment 8: 39.2 · 4.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: St Augustine's Catholic High School (4 km) and Studley High School (4.8 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Alcester Grammar School (10.7 km) and King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls (14 km).
It's a family area: 20% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Farmfoods, 650 m away, with Nisa Supermarket / Kang Stores Redditch closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Elgar House (1.0 km), with Church Green Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (900 m).
For a haircut, Ice Maidens is 850 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Alexandra Hospital, 3.4 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 53% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 61% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 42 restaurants and cafés and 7 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Smokey Dicks BBQ At Abbeydale Community Club is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and The Kings Arms the nearest pub (500 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (25 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 248 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 19 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 31% flats and 8% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Arrow Valley Country Park, 1.4 km away; for exercise, PureGym (700 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.5 µg/m³).
18 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.
Redditch constituency: Chris Bloore MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 789 (1.9%), turnout 60%. Vote shares: Labour 35%, Conservative 33%, Reform UK 20%, Liberal Democrat 5%.
12 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 B98 8JR →
For holidays, Birmingham is 21 km away.
Most households own their home, 30% rent privately.
It's young: 21% of residents are aged 15–29.
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.
On this street: 1 of 19 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% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 83.8% | 95.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 16.0% | 4.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.0% | 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: Cotswold Country Park and Beach · about 75 min
Nearest: Severn Valley Railway · about 32 min
Nearest: Dudley Zoo · about 31 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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Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Redditch 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 27 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.