Warren Farm Road, Royal-sutton-coldfield

Warren Farm Road replaced Warren Lane after Birmingham compulsorily acquired 450 acres from Warren Farm and neighbours in 1928. The land included a 308-acre sale lot, a pool now buried beneath the street, and a church that started in a wooden building before a permanent replacement opened on Christmas Eve 1962.

The road has accumulated several documented incidents: a 2012 care-home break-in, a 2022 police warning about a group of more than 15 primary-school-age boys gathering at Conker Island, and a January 2024 cordon stretching from the roundabout to the shops after a man threw missiles from the Kingstanding Inn roof.

Identifiable planning applications on the road concern public and communal sites: a 2009 portakabin at the medical centre, a 2024 telecoms base station at the Kingstanding Inn, and a five-home scheme at nearby Danesbury Crescent withdrawn before any decision.

Lodge Pool is now buried beneath the Warren Farm Road and Danesbury Crescent loop. In 1925 a stream crossed Warren Farm's cornfields where the parish church now stands, and the road splits around a small traffic island locally known as Conker Island.

The old wooden Christ the King church hosted Friday-night dances locally called 'the Crib' in the early 1950s. Nearby, the College Arms was the scene of a 1957 shooting before its building became a McDonald's, and New Heights, registered as a charity in 2007, runs a community centre and cafe on the road today.