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On Barrack Close, in Town Centre, Overdale & Dawley Bank
What it's like at TF3 5HS: every home that has sold on Barrack Close 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.
9 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Barrack Close; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
6 of the 22 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Barrack CloseFlat | Jul 2013 | £120,000 | 105 m² | £1,143/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Barrack CloseFlat | Oct 2013 | £100,000 | 74 m² | £1,351/m² | 1 |
| 4, Barrack CloseFlat · company-owned | Nov 2020 | £129,000 | 102 m² | £1,265/m² | 2 |
| 5, Barrack CloseFlat | Nov 2013 | £113,000 | 122 m² | £926/m² | 1 |
| 6, Barrack CloseFlat | Oct 2013 | £100,000 | 98 m² | £1,020/m² | 1 |
| 7, Barrack CloseFlat · company-owned | Oct 2024 | £155,000 | 121 m² | £1,281/m² | 2 |
| 8, Barrack CloseFlat · company-owned | Dec 2022 | £149,950 | 103 m² | £1,456/m² | 2 |
| 9, Barrack CloseFlat | Apr 2019 | £105,000 | 105 m² | £1,000/m² | 2 |
| 10, Barrack CloseFlat | Oct 2013 | £100,000 | 101 m² | £990/m² | 1 |
| 11, Barrack CloseFlat | Oct 2013 | £100,000 | 96 m² | £1,042/m² | 1 |
| 12, Barrack CloseTerraced · company-owned | Mar 2019 | £120,000 | 83 m² | £1,446/m² | 2 |
| 14, Barrack CloseTerraced | Aug 2014 | £115,000 | 96 m² | £1,198/m² | 1 |
| 15, Barrack CloseTerraced | Mar 2016 | £115,000 | 81 m² | £1,420/m² | 2 |
| 16, Barrack CloseTerraced | Dec 2016 | £125,000 | 65 m² | £1,923/m² | 2 |
| 17, Barrack CloseTerraced · company-owned | Sept 2019 | £126,000 | 65 m² | £1,938/m² | 2 |
| 18, Barrack CloseTerraced | Dec 2013 | £110,000 | 87 m² | £1,264/m² | 1 |
| 19, Barrack CloseTerraced | Feb 2014 | £105,000 | 81 m² | £1,296/m² | 1 |
| 20, Barrack CloseTerraced | Sept 2017 | £123,000 | 69 m² | £1,783/m² | 2 |
| 21, Barrack CloseTerraced · company-owned | Jan 2022 | £142,000 | 65 m² | £2,185/m² | 2 |
| 22, Barrack CloseTerraced | Apr 2014 | £111,500 | 81 m² | £1,377/m² | 1 |
| 23, Barrack CloseTerraced | Jan 2022 | £145,000 | 65 m² | £2,231/m² | 1 |
| 24, Barrack CloseTerraced | Feb 2014 | £105,000 | 82 m² | £1,280/m² | 1 |
The nearest station is Telford Central, a short drive or bike ride (2.8 km), with 1.2m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Morrisons, 50 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 101); 13 departures an hour from the 16 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 14 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
The nearest primary school is Lawley Primary School and Nursery, a few minutes' walk (350 m); 63% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Newdale Primary School & Nursery (0.7 km).
The nearest secondary is The Telford Langley School, 1.9 km away; Attainment 8: 35 · 2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Newport Girls' High School Academy (10.9 km) and Haberdashers' Adams (11.5 km).
It's a family area: 23% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Wm Morrison, 350 m away, with Lawley Village Drinks Stop closer still (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Lawley Medical Practice (150 m), with Lawley Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Slick Cutz is 2.5 km away.
The nearest full A&E is The Princess Royal Hospital, 4.6 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 43% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 68% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 40 restaurants and cafés and 5 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Dominos Pizza is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and The Grazing Cow the nearest pub (250 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (11 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 217 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 6% flats and 36% detached houses.
It's new: 58% of homes were built since 2000.
It's growing: about 484 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Play Park, 600 m away; for exercise, Anytime Fitness (150 m).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.7 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Birmingham is 55 km away.
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.
Telford constituency: Shaun Davies MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 8,102 (19.9%), turnout 55%. Vote shares: Labour 45%, Reform UK 25%, Conservative 21%, Green Party 5%.
31 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 TF3 5HS →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Most households own their home, 18% rent privately.
It's young: 21% of residents are aged 15–29.
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 22 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 | 0.9% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.6% | 95.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.8% | 1.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.5% | 2.5% | 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: Little Lakes Golf Club · about 54 min
Nearest: Dudley Zoo · about 40 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Telford and Wrekin 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 22 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.