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On Gipsy Lane, in Balsall Common
What it's like at CV7 7FW: every home that has sold on Gipsy 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.
Sales and extensions on Gipsy Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 9 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Gipsy LaneDetached | Jul 2014 | £275,000 | 79 m² | £3,481/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Gipsy LaneDetached | Oct 2024 | £520,000 | 379 m² | £1,372/m² | 3 |
| 5, Gipsy LaneDetached | Aug 2022 | £725,000 | 190 m² | £3,816/m² | 1 |
| 7, Gipsy LaneDetached | Apr 2015 | £477,500 | 140 m² | £3,411/m² | 2 |
| 9, Gipsy LaneDetached | Jul 2014 | £275,000 | 315 m² | £873/m² | 1 |
| 11, Gipsy LaneDetached | Mar 2026 | £1,075,000 | 247 m² | £4,352/m² | 3 |
| 20, Gipsy LaneDetached | Oct 2010 | £605,000 | 239 m² | £2,531/m² | 1 |
| 22, Gipsy LaneDetached | Apr 2013 | £690,000 | 298 m² | £2,315/m² | 3 |
| 24, Gipsy LaneSemi-detached | Jan 2008 | £370,000 | – | – | 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: 48% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Berkswell, a short drive or bike ride (1.2 km), with 285k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Balsall Common Primary School, 200 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 188); 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 (150 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, under 50 m away; Attainment 8: 47.2 · 8.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Heart Of England Co-Operative Society, 600 m away; Shell Waitrose Balsall Common - Food Business (650 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Balsall Common & Meriden Group Practice (1.1 km), with Balsall Common Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (700 m).
For a haircut, Hair At Two Ten is 750 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 (600 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, 1.0 km away; for exercise, Lakes at Lavender Hall (1.4 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.
16 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%.
5 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 7FW →
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 9 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 8 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 1 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.
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.