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On Blythe Gardens, in Codsall
What it's like at WV8 1BH: every home that has sold on Blythe Gardens 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 Blythe Gardens; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 8 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 3, Blythe GardensTerraced | Oct 2015 | £170,000 | 73 m² | £2,329/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, Blythe GardensTerraced | May 1998 | £69,000 | 74 m² | £932/m² | 1 |
| 8, Blythe GardensTerraced | Feb 2013 | £162,000 | 100 m² | £1,620/m² | 1 |
| 9, Blythe GardensDetached | Jan 2016 | £175,000 | 93 m² | £1,882/m² | 4 |
| 11, Blythe GardensDetached | Nov 2015 | £180,000 | 125 m² | £1,440/m² | 2 |
| 13, Blythe GardensTerraced | Dec 2016 | £188,000 | 82 m² | £2,293/m² | 2 |
| 15, Blythe GardensDetached | Sept 1997 | £86,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 17, Blythe GardensDetached | Sept 2021 | £285,000 | 117 m² | £2,436/m² | 4 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Codsall, about a 10-minute walk (650 m), with 136k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Wheel Avenue, 250 m away, with a bus about every 21 minutes on weekdays (routes 5, 18); 17 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is St Nicholas Church of England First School, a few minutes' walk (350 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Codsall Community High School, 450 m away; Attainment 8: 47.5 · 9.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Wolverhampton Girls' High School (4.8 km).
The nearest supermarket is The Co-Op, 500 m away, with Codsall News Food And Wine closer still (400 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Russell House Surgery (500 m), with Codsall Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (500 m).
For a haircut, Kenchez is 500 m away.
The nearest full A&E is New Cross Hospital, 7.5 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 8 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
The Codsall Hive Arts & Crafts Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (450 m), and Love And Liquor the nearest pub (400 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 33 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 22 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 54% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Wheel Field, 350 m away; for exercise, Codsall Leisure Centre (350 m).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.3 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Birmingham is 36 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 50% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 27% 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.
43 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%.
4 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 WV8 1BH →
Nearest: Waterworld (Stoke-On-Trent) · about 42 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: 0 of 7 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 | 0.4% | 1.1% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 97.4% | 90.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.9% | 4.7% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.2% | 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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in South Staffordshire 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 8 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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