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On Gainsborough Drive, in Perton & Pattingham
What it's like at WV6 7NR: every home that has sold on Gainsborough 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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Sales and extensions on Gainsborough Drive; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 32 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Gainsborough DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2019 | £200,000 | 87 m² | £2,299/m² | 1 |
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| 2, Gainsborough DriveDetached | Sept 2020 | £249,000 | 98 m² | £2,541/m² | 3 |
| 3, Gainsborough DriveSemi-detached | Dec 2011 | £130,000 | 65 m² | £2,000/m² | 1 |
| 4, Gainsborough DriveFlat | Feb 2024 | £130,000 | 58 m² | £2,241/m² | 7 |
| 6, Gainsborough DriveFlat | Oct 2017 | £120,000 | 59 m² | £2,034/m² | 2 |
| 7, Gainsborough DriveDetached | Aug 2022 | £343,000 | 143 m² | £2,399/m² | 3 |
| 8, Gainsborough DriveFlat | Apr 2011 | £100,000 | 55 m² | £1,818/m² | 3 |
| 10, Gainsborough DriveTerraced | Feb 2005 | £95,000 | 56 m² | £1,696/m² | 1 |
| 11, Gainsborough DriveSemi-detached | May 2008 | £174,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 14, Gainsborough DriveFlat | Sept 2023 | £95,000 | 60 m² | £1,583/m² | 1 |
| 15, Gainsborough DriveSemi-detached | May 2016 | £165,000 | 82 m² | £2,012/m² | 2 |
| 17, Gainsborough DriveSemi-detached | Mar 2022 | £200,000 | 79 m² | £2,532/m² | 1 |
| 18, Gainsborough DriveFlat | Sept 2025 | £140,000 | 59 m² | £2,373/m² | 1 |
| 19, Gainsborough DriveSemi-detached | Jul 2014 | £165,000 | 75 m² | £2,200/m² | 1 |
| 20, Gainsborough DriveFlat | Feb 2023 | £128,000 | 57 m² | £2,246/m² | 2 |
| 21, Gainsborough DriveSemi-detached | Sept 2017 | £178,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 26, Gainsborough DriveSemi-detached | Mar 2015 | £171,000 | 75 m² | £2,280/m² | 2 |
| 27, Gainsborough DriveDetached | May 2000 | £85,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 29, Gainsborough DriveDetached | Apr 2009 | £160,000 | 88 m² | £1,818/m² | 1 |
| 32, Gainsborough DriveSemi-detached | Nov 2022 | £405,000 | 166 m² | £2,440/m² | 2 |
| 33, Gainsborough DriveDetached | Sept 2017 | £197,000 | 85 m² | £2,318/m² | 1 |
| 36, Gainsborough DriveDetached | Jul 2017 | £220,000 | 103 m² | £2,136/m² | 1 |
| 39, Gainsborough DriveDetached | May 2014 | £230,000 | 145 m² | £1,586/m² | 3 |
| 40, Gainsborough DriveDetached | Jun 2013 | £157,000 | 76 m² | £2,066/m² | 1 |
| 41, Gainsborough DriveDetached | Mar 2026 | £315,000 | 109 m² | £2,890/m² | 1 |
| 42, Gainsborough DriveDetached | Jun 2024 | £294,000 | 100 m² | £2,940/m² | 1 |
| 43, Gainsborough DriveDetached | Feb 2025 | £240,000 | 83 m² | £2,892/m² | 1 |
| 44, Gainsborough DriveDetached | Oct 2024 | £250,000 | 74 m² | £3,378/m² | 3 |
| 45, Gainsborough DriveDetached | Aug 2014 | £179,000 | 103 m² | £1,738/m² | 2 |
| 47, Gainsborough DriveDetached | Apr 2023 | £445,000 | 105 m² | £4,238/m² | 2 |
| 52, Gainsborough DriveDetached | Jul 1998 | £81,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 54, Gainsborough DriveDetached | Oct 2018 | £300,000 | 122 m² | £2,459/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Bilbrook, a short drive or bike ride (3.0 km), with 139k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Sandown Drive, 200 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 709); 6 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 41 minutes away by public transport (22 by car).
The nearest primary school is Perton Primary Academy, a few minutes' walk (350 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Perton Middle School, under 50 m away.
Grammar schools are within reach: Wolverhampton Girls' High School (4.4 km).
The nearest supermarket is Sainsburys, 750 m away; Morrisons Daily (700 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Tamar Medical Centre (700 m), with Well the closest pharmacy (750 m).
For a haircut, Jimmy Trims- Barber Shop is 1.1 km away.
The nearest full A&E is New Cross Hospital, 8.5 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 66% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% 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: 4 restaurants and cafés, 7 pubs and bars.
Burgy's Coffee Lounge And Eatery is the closest café or restaurant (550 m), and Wrottesley Arms the nearest pub (700 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 50 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 58 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 47% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 224 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Perton Fields, 650 m away; for exercise, Sir Jack Hayward Training Ground (2.2 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.0 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Birmingham is 36 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 43% of households own their home outright.
The nearest university is University of Wolverhampton, 4.5 km away (TEF Bronze).
8 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.
Kingswinford and South Staffordshire constituency: Mike Wood MP (Conservative), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 6,303 (14.0%), turnout 63%. Vote shares: Conservative 40%, Labour 26%, Reform UK 22%, Liberal Democrat 5%.
18 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 WV6 7NR →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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.
Nearest: Little Lakes Golf Club · about 52 min
Nearest: Telford Steam Railway · about 34 min
Nearest: Dudley Zoo · about 34 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: 1 of 26 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% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 3.9% | 1.1% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 89.1% | 90.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 4.8% | 4.7% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.7% | 3.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.2% | 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.
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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 32 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.