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On The Alley, in Lower Gornal & The Straits
What it's like at DY3 2UL: every home that has sold on The Alley 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on The Alley; 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, The AlleyDetached | Aug 1997 | £67,500 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, The AlleyDetached | Oct 2015 | £210,000 | 76 m² | £2,763/m² | 2 |
| 6a, The AlleyDetached | Oct 2025 | £380,000 | 170 m² | £2,235/m² | 5 |
| 6b, The AlleyDetached | Dec 2009 | £249,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 9, The AlleySemi-detached | Aug 2011 | £144,000 | 72 m² | £2,000/m² | 1 |
| 10, The AlleySemi-detached | Oct 2015 | £144,950 | 70 m² | £2,071/m² | 3 |
| 11, The AlleySemi-detached | Feb 2022 | £210,000 | 78 m² | £2,692/m² | 3 |
| 24, The AlleyDetached | May 2017 | £207,000 | 84 m² | £2,464/m² | 2 |
| 25, The AlleySemi-detached | Aug 2015 | £166,500 | 89 m² | £1,871/m² | 2 |
| 26, The AlleySemi-detached | Aug 2005 | £145,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 28, The AlleyTerraced | Nov 2019 | £175,000 | 83 m² | £2,108/m² | 3 |
| 29, The AlleyDetached | Aug 2018 | £230,000 | 88 m² | £2,614/m² | 2 |
| Brookside, The AlleyDetached | Jul 2012 | £174,000 | 126 m² | £1,381/m² | 1 |
| The Bungalow, The AlleyDetached | Oct 2019 | £273,250 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Flood Street Metro station, a drive away (4.0 km). The nearest rail station is Coseley, 4.5 km away, with 520k journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Acton Drive, 100 m away, with a bus about every 30 minutes on weekdays (routes 27, 27A); 23 departures an hour from the 11 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Straits Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (700 m); 69% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Ellowes Hall Sports College, 800 m away; Attainment 8: 43.1 · 8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Wolverhampton Girls' High School (8 km) and Queen Mary's Grammar School (13.1 km).
The nearest supermarket is Sainsburys Local, 500 m away; The little cob shop and mini mart (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Lower Gornal Medical Practice (600 m), with Gornal Wood Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (550 m).
For a haircut, The Beauty Room is 2.4 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Russells Hall Hospital, 2.4 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 73% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 63% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 11 restaurants and cafés, 10 pubs and bars.
Mad Hatters Tea Room is the closest café or restaurant (450 m), and Baggeridge Social Welfare Centre the nearest pub (200 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 62 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 8% flats and 24% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Guy's Lane Open Space, 650 m away; for exercise, Felines (2.4 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 27 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 46% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 26% are 65 or over.
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.
26 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.
Dudley constituency: Sonia Kumar MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 1,900 (5.3%), turnout 51%. Vote shares: Labour 34%, Conservative 29%, Reform UK 26%, Green Party 3%.
17 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 DY3 2UL →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Dudley 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 14 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 10 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 | 0.7% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 97.0% | 93.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.3% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.5% | 6.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.1% | 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: Cotswold Country Park and Beach · about 87 min
Nearest: Little Lakes Golf Club · about 31 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.