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On Ashley Way, in Balsall Common
What it's like at CV7 7UP: every home that has sold on Ashley Way 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Ashley Way; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 53 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, Ashley WayTerraced | Dec 1998 | £92,950 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Ashley WayTerraced | Oct 2002 | £149,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 5, Ashley WayTerraced | Aug 1997 | £94,995 | 96 m² | £990/m² | 2 |
| 6, Ashley WayTerraced | Jun 2010 | £246,950 | 86 m² | £2,872/m² | 5 |
| 7, Ashley WayTerraced | Aug 2016 | £215,000 | 58 m² | £3,707/m² | 5 |
| 8, Ashley WayTerraced | Jul 2012 | £222,000 | 87 m² | £2,552/m² | 4 |
| 9, Ashley WayTerraced | Mar 2020 | £232,000 | 58 m² | £4,000/m² | 2 |
| 10, Ashley WaySemi-detached | Jun 2004 | £219,500 | 83 m² | £2,645/m² | 2 |
| 11, Ashley WayTerraced | Oct 2019 | £278,500 | 56 m² | £4,973/m² | 6 |
| 12, Ashley WayTerraced | Dec 1998 | £102,000 | 74 m² | £1,378/m² | 2 |
| 14, Ashley WayTerraced | Jan 2020 | £227,000 | 54 m² | £4,204/m² | 3 |
| 15, Ashley WayTerraced | Oct 2015 | £202,500 | 55 m² | £3,682/m² | 4 |
| 16, Ashley WayTerraced | Aug 2005 | £173,250 | 57 m² | £3,039/m² | 3 |
| 17, Ashley WayTerraced | Feb 2008 | £242,500 | – | – | 3 |
| 18, Ashley WayTerraced | Apr 1999 | £78,500 | 55 m² | £1,427/m² | 2 |
| 19, Ashley WayTerraced | Dec 2004 | £127,000 | 56 m² | £2,268/m² | 1 |
| 20, Ashley WayTerraced | Dec 2012 | £165,000 | 55 m² | £3,000/m² | 6 |
| 21, Ashley WayTerraced | Sept 2013 | £169,500 | 39 m² | £4,346/m² | 4 |
| 22, Ashley WayTerraced | May 2001 | £127,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 23, Ashley WayTerraced | Sept 2006 | £165,000 | 64 m² | £2,578/m² | 4 |
| 24, Ashley WayTerraced | Jan 2018 | £238,000 | 54 m² | £4,407/m² | 3 |
| 25, Ashley WayFlat | Mar 2019 | £255,000 | 65 m² | £3,923/m² | 6 |
| 26, Ashley WayTerraced | Sept 2002 | £128,000 | 55 m² | £2,327/m² | 3 |
| 27, Ashley WayTerraced | Mar 2001 | £78,000 | 44 m² | £1,773/m² | 3 |
| 28, Ashley WayTerraced | Dec 1997 | £75,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 29, Ashley WayTerraced | Nov 1999 | £70,950 | – | – | 3 |
| 30, Ashley WayTerraced | Nov 2013 | £204,000 | 54 m² | £3,778/m² | 4 |
| 31, Ashley WayTerraced | Aug 1997 | £92,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 32, Ashley WayDetached | Aug 2006 | £270,000 | 79 m² | £3,418/m² | 3 |
| 33, Ashley WayTerraced | Nov 2014 | £205,000 | – | – | 7 |
| 34, Ashley WayDetached | Jun 2024 | £420,000 | 78 m² | £5,385/m² | 4 |
| 35, Ashley WayTerraced | Oct 1999 | £82,000 | 55 m² | £1,491/m² | 1 |
| 36, Ashley WayDetached | Jul 2002 | £188,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 37, Ashley WayTerraced | May 2015 | £267,500 | 87 m² | £3,075/m² | 4 |
| 38, Ashley WayDetached | Nov 2014 | £387,500 | 113 m² | £3,429/m² | 2 |
| 39, Ashley WayTerraced | Oct 2005 | £218,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 40, Ashley WayDetached | Oct 2004 | £268,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 41, Ashley WayTerraced | May 2019 | £245,000 | 55 m² | £4,455/m² | 5 |
| 42, Ashley WayDetached | Apr 2013 | £302,000 | 109 m² | £2,771/m² | 1 |
| 43, Ashley WayDetached | Jul 2000 | £91,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 44, Ashley WayDetached | Mar 2000 | £179,000 | 134 m² | £1,336/m² | 1 |
| 45, Ashley WaySemi-detached | Mar 2010 | £195,000 | 75 m² | £2,600/m² | 2 |
| 46, Ashley WayDetached | Jul 2000 | £193,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 47, Ashley WayDetached | Jul 1998 | £153,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 48, Ashley WayDetached | Jul 2003 | £265,000 | 130 m² | £2,038/m² | 1 |
| 49, Ashley WayDetached | Aug 2023 | £495,000 | 106 m² | £4,670/m² | 4 |
| 50, Ashley WayDetached | Jun 2018 | £511,000 | 139 m² | £3,676/m² | 1 |
| 51, Ashley WayDetached | Jul 2022 | £462,000 | 92 m² | £5,022/m² | 2 |
| 52, Ashley WayDetached | May 2022 | £475,000 | 105 m² | £4,524/m² | 3 |
| 53, Ashley WayDetached | May 1998 | £160,000 | 124 m² | £1,290/m² | 1 |
| 54, Ashley WayDetached | Oct 2022 | £501,500 | 108 m² | £4,644/m² | 3 |
| 55, Ashley WayDetached | Jan 2003 | £280,000 | 145 m² | £1,931/m² | 3 |
| 57, Ashley WayDetached | Nov 2016 | £425,000 | 121 m² | £3,512/m² | 2 |
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 10-minute walk (800 m), with 285k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Balsall Common Island, 200 m away, with a bus about every 30 minutes on weekdays (routes 188, 87); 8 departures an hour from the 5 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 (900 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, 850 m away; Attainment 8: 47.2 · 8.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 250 m away; Shell Waitrose Balsall Common - Food Business (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Balsall Common & Meriden Group Practice (700 m), with Balsall Common Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, Tanning Boutique is 200 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 (150 m), and The Brickmakers Arms BC the nearest pub (700 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, 250 m away; for exercise, Lakes at Lavender Hall (750 m).
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.
22 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%.
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 7UP →
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: 0 of 38 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.
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 53 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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.