Lower Clent

16°COvercast

• Today: 18° / 9° · 68% rain
• Tomorrow: 18° / 12° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:33Sunset 19:37

13h 5m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

9US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Birmingham Ladywood, United Kingdom

9 reported · July 2026▲ 29% YoY

• Criminal damage & arson2
• Violence & sexual offences2
• Anti-social behaviour1
• Other theft1

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Hagley and Rubery · West Mercia

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

137 reported road collisions (2024)

35 killed or seriously injured · 186 casualties · 13.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

86 food businesses within 2 miles

• 67 rated 4–5 ★ (52 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Hagley (2.3 km)
• 5 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£339,163 average▲ 2% YoY

Across Bromsgrove · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£985 average monthly rent▲ 1.6% YoY

• 1 bed £713
• 2 bed £893
• 3 bed £1,084

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

10.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 10.0 times median annual pay (9.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 136.8p · AppleGreen (9.4 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 182.7p · Asda (9.6 km)

38 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

37 charging locations within ~8 km

• 18 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Webbs Hagley Garden Centre (2.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Swimming pools9
• Sports pitches4
• Playgrounds4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• More Responses Sought· 4 Sept 2026
• Step Inside Local History with Heritage Open Days· 3 Sept 2026
• Striding Into September· 26 Aug 2026
• Help Shape Future Improvements to Skateparks· 26 Aug 2026
• Taking the Ache Out of Arthritis· 25 Aug 2026

Source: Bromsgrove Council

99,183 residents in Bromsgrove · 457/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 59%
• 65+: 23%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 271 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,479 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (22% of 43,180)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

43 schools · 18,149 pupils

25 primary · 6 secondary · 12 other

Ofsted: 17 of 19 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (89%)

38inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Bromsgrove

579 CQC-registered services

• Care homes180
• GP practices90
• Dentists126
• Homecare agencies114
• Hospitals & hospices26

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 10 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Worcestershire

• Within the Green Belt
• 41 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

115 applications decided

94.8% granted · 109 granted, 6 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Conservative / Independent coalition

• Lab 6
• Con 11
• LD 6
• Oth 8

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools2
• Parks & greens7
• Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

5,420 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£843 median full-time weekly pay

2.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£28,466 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

42% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 40,698 certificates

11.9% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Life expectancy: 84.9 yrs women · 81.3 yrs men

62% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.7
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.6

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Bromsgrove:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office475 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership364 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s308 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test296 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership237 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Clent Castle · 0.1 km

  Clent Castle is a sham ruin castellated folly in the grounds of Clent Grove that is situated opposite the Fountain Inn on Adams Hill in Clent, Worcestershire, England. It was built in the late 18th century by Thomas L…

• Sunfield Children's Home · 0.2 km

  Sunfield Garden School and Children's Home is a private special school, Children's Home and charity on the border of Worcestershire and the West Midlands in England. It was founded in 1930 and now supports boys and gi…

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  Clent · 0.7 km

  Clent is a village and civil parish in the Bromsgrove District of Worcestershire, England, southwest of Birmingham and close to the edge of the West Midlands conurbation. At the 2001 census it had a population of 2,600.

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  Hagley Park, Worcestershire · 0.9 km

  Hagley Park is the landscaped grounds around Hagley Hall in Worcestershire, England. The grounds comprise 350 acres (1.4 km2) of undulating deer park on the lower slopes of the Clent Hills. They were redeveloped and l…

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  Castle in Hagley Park · 0.9 km

  The folly castle in the park of Hagley Hall is a Grade II* listed building and the largest building in Hagley Park. It was designed by Sanderson Miller for George Lyllelton in the middle of the 18th century to look li…

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  Holy Cross, Worcestershire · 1.0 km

  Holy Cross is one of five hamlets in village of Clent in the county of Worcestershire, England. The hamlet consists of housing apart from the Bell and Cross public house, Clent Parish Hall and Clent Primary School.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)