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On Cedarwood Drive, in Balsall Common
What it's like at CV7 7DS: every home that has sold on Cedarwood 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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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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Cedarwood Drive; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 14 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Cedarwood DriveSemi-detached | Sept 2021 | £430,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Cedarwood DriveDetached | Aug 2023 | £545,000 | 102 m² | £5,343/m² | 3 |
| 3, Cedarwood DriveDetached | Jul 2022 | £515,000 | 125 m² | £4,120/m² | 1 |
| 4, Cedarwood DriveDetached | Aug 2012 | £307,500 | 135 m² | £2,278/m² | 2 |
| 5, Cedarwood DriveDetached | May 2015 | £337,500 | 106 m² | £3,184/m² | 1 |
| 8, Cedarwood DriveSemi-detached | Sept 2018 | £440,000 | 108 m² | £4,074/m² | 1 |
| 10, Cedarwood DriveSemi-detached | Dec 1996 | £96,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 11, Cedarwood DriveDetached | May 2016 | £380,000 | 145 m² | £2,621/m² | 1 |
| 12, Cedarwood DriveDetached | Mar 2023 | £560,000 | 151 m² | £3,709/m² | 2 |
| 15, Cedarwood DriveDetached | Dec 2024 | £420,000 | 108 m² | £3,889/m² | 3 |
| 17, Cedarwood DriveSemi-detached | Dec 2025 | £482,000 | 172 m² | £2,802/m² | 5 |
| 19, Cedarwood DriveSemi-detached | Sept 2023 | £455,000 | 113 m² | £4,027/m² | 3 |
| 21, Cedarwood DriveDetached | Jul 2019 | £475,000 | 174 m² | £2,730/m² | 3 |
| 25, Cedarwood DriveDetached | May 2013 | £425,000 | 112 m² | £3,795/m² | 3 |
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, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km), with 285k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is The White Horse, 200 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 87); 4 departures an hour from the 4 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, a few minutes' walk (300 m); 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, 250 m away; Attainment 8: 47.2 · 8.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Heart Of England Co-Operative Society, 400 m away; Shell Waitrose Balsall Common - Food Business (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Balsall Common & Meriden Group Practice (950 m), with Balsall Common Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (500 m).
For a haircut, Hair At Two Ten is 550 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.
Sumatrah is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and White Horse the nearest pub (250 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, 800 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.
31 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%.
4 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 7DS →
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.
No crimes recorded "on or near" Cedarwood Drive in the last 12 months.
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.
On this street: 0 of 12 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 | 1.0% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.6% | 0.3% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 89.0% | 91.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 2.9% | 1.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.3% | 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.