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On Birmingham Road, in Meriden, Hampton-in-Arden & Temple Balsall
What it's like at CV5 9AY: 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 5 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.
None of the 124 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| Flat 3, 15cSemi-detached | Mar 1999 | £75,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15, Birmingham RoadOther | Feb 2019 | £60,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 15a, Birmingham RoadFlat | Sept 2000 | £60,000 | 80 m² | £750/m² | 1 |
| 15c, Birmingham RoadFlat | Oct 2002 | £57,000 | 58 m² | £983/m² | 2 |
| 17, Birmingham RoadDetached | May 2017 | £492,000 | 134 m² | £3,672/m² | 2 |
| 19, Birmingham RoadDetached | Aug 2024 | £425,000 | 117 m² | £3,632/m² | 1 |
| 21, Birmingham RoadDetached | Feb 1998 | £170,000 | 134 m² | £1,269/m² | 1 |
| 31, Birmingham RoadDetached | Feb 2022 | £740,500 | 201 m² | £3,684/m² | 3 |
| 37, Birmingham RoadDetached | Jun 2023 | £657,500 | 174 m² | £3,779/m² | 1 |
| 41, Birmingham RoadDetached | Jun 1996 | £152,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 49, Birmingham RoadDetached | Jun 2015 | £550,000 | 113 m² | £4,867/m² | 2 |
| Greenbanks, 43, Birmingham RoadDetached | Nov 2007 | £363,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Linden, Birmingham RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2013 | £227,500 | 84 m² | £2,708/m² | 1 |
| The Mount, Birmingham RoadDetached | Dec 1995 | £115,000 | – | – | 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: 43% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Tile Hill, a drive away (4.4 km), with 542k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Albert Road, 50 m away, with a bus about every 8 minutes on weekdays (routes X1, 82); 9 departures an hour from the 2 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 40 minutes away by public transport (17 by car).
This is car country: only 10% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is St Andrew's Church of England Infant School, a short drive or bike ride (1.7 km).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is West Coventry Academy, 3.8 km away; Attainment 8: 41.2 · 4.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Co-op Welcome, 3.5 km away, with Paul Mac Quality Butchers closer still (2.4 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Meriden Doctors Surgery (1.6 km), with Crest Pharmacy- Meriden the closest pharmacy (2.5 km).
For a haircut, The Healthy Practice is 2.4 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Warwick Hospital, 15 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 67% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 67% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 15 restaurants and cafés, 7 pubs and bars.
Meriden Spice C/O Queenshead Public House is the closest café or restaurant (1.3 km), and Barker Butts RFC the nearest pub (900 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 51 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 155 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 44% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 122 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Eastern Green Recreation Ground, 1.7 km away; for exercise, Lakes at Lavender Hall (4.6 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.9 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 6.8 km away.
1 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.
Meriden and Solihull East constituency: Saqib Bhatti MP (Conservative), since December 2019. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 4,584 (10.4%), turnout 60%. Vote shares: Conservative 38%, Labour 28%, Reform UK 20%, Liberal Democrat 8%.
20 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 CV5 9AY →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 42% of households own their home outright.
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 Solihull 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 124 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Cotswold Country Park and Beach · about 87 min
Nearest: Chasewater Railway · about 38 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 82 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 11 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.2% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 3.1% | 0.3% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 75.1% | 91.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 15.1% | 1.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.5% | 6.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 0.4% | 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.
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.