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On Needlers End Lane, in Balsall Common
What it's like at CV7 7AA: every home that has sold on Needlers End 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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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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).
Sales and extensions on Needlers End Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 70 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 111, Needlers End LaneSemi-detached | Sept 2019 | £350,000 | 119 m² | £2,941/m² | 3 |
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| 117, Needlers End LaneSemi-detached | Jul 2016 | £320,000 | 132 m² | £2,424/m² | 3 |
| 119, Needlers End LaneSemi-detached | Sept 2025 | £450,000 | 110 m² | £4,091/m² | 4 |
| 123, Needlers End LaneSemi-detached | Aug 2002 | £187,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 125, Needlers End LaneTerraced | Oct 2006 | £247,000 | 93 m² | £2,656/m² | 1 |
| 129, Needlers End LaneTerraced | Oct 2006 | £270,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 131, Needlers End LaneDetached | Feb 2024 | £415,000 | 88 m² | £4,716/m² | 2 |
| 133, Needlers End LaneDetached | Nov 2023 | £400,000 | 76 m² | £5,263/m² | 1 |
| 137, Needlers End LaneTerraced | Oct 2001 | £175,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 139, Needlers End LaneDetached | Jul 2013 | £291,000 | 104 m² | £2,798/m² | 2 |
| 143, Needlers End LaneSemi-detached | Sept 2004 | £230,000 | 104 m² | £2,212/m² | 2 |
| 147, Needlers End LaneSemi-detached | Dec 2013 | £304,000 | 150 m² | £2,027/m² | 3 |
| 149a, Needlers End LaneDetached | May 2023 | £670,000 | 188 m² | £3,564/m² | 4 |
| 151, Needlers End LaneDetached | Apr 1999 | £212,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 151a, Needlers End LaneDetached | Oct 2024 | £455,000 | 98 m² | £4,643/m² | 3 |
| 165, Needlers End LaneDetached | Aug 2019 | £600,000 | 171 m² | £3,509/m² | 3 |
| 167, Needlers End LaneDetached | Sept 2010 | £272,833 | 142 m² | £1,921/m² | 1 |
| 169, Needlers End LaneDetached | May 1998 | £115,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 175, Needlers End LaneOther | Mar 2025 | £465,000 | 137 m² | £3,394/m² | 1 |
| 179, Needlers End LaneDetached | Oct 2025 | £470,000 | 113 m² | £4,159/m² | 1 |
| 181, Needlers End LaneDetached | Sept 2008 | £355,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 185, Needlers End LaneSemi-detached | Nov 2024 | £585,000 | 164 m² | £3,567/m² | 2 |
| 187, Needlers End LaneDetached | Jan 2014 | £371,500 | 131 m² | £2,836/m² | 2 |
| 191, Needlers End LaneDetached | Oct 2022 | £775,000 | 164 m² | £4,726/m² | 4 |
| 193, Needlers End LaneDetached | Jul 2013 | £305,000 | 72 m² | £4,236/m² | 1 |
| 195, Needlers End LaneDetached | Nov 2005 | £265,000 | 106 m² | £2,500/m² | 2 |
| 197, Needlers End LaneDetached | Apr 2003 | £375,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 199, Needlers End LaneDetached | Dec 2024 | £850,000 | 242 m² | £3,512/m² | 2 |
| 201, Needlers End LaneDetached | Dec 2007 | £470,000 | 300 m² | £1,567/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: 48% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Berkswell, a short drive or bike ride (1.3 km), with 285k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Burberry Grove, 250 m away, with a bus about every 32 minutes on weekdays (routes 87, 188); 6 departures an hour from the 3 stops within a 5-minute walk.
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Balsall Common Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (1.0 km); 76% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Heart of England School, 1.0 km away; Attainment 8: 47.2 · 8.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 750 m away; Shell Waitrose Balsall Common - Food Business (650 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Balsall Common & Meriden Group Practice (1.2 km), with Balsall Common Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (750 m).
For a haircut, Tanning Boutique is 700 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Warwick Hospital, 12 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: 7 restaurants and cafés, 5 pubs and bars.
Tamarind is the closest café or restaurant (650 m), and Ye Olde Saracens Head the nearest pub (850 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 43 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 46 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 62% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
The nearest park is Lavender Hall Lane Open Space, 350 m away; for exercise, Lakes at Lavender Hall (1.2 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.1 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 9.5 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 48% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 25% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 47% of adults have a degree.
5 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Templars Croft | II | 170 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
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%.
3 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 CV7 7AA →
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 70 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 45 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 | 1.1% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.6% | 0.3% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 89.0% | 91.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 2.9% | 1.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.2% | 6.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 1.9% | 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.
Nearest: Rutland Water Sykes Lane · about 88 min
Nearest: Chasewater Railway · about 39 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.