Description
Miller Central
Located in a pleasant residential corner of Northfield, Birmingham, Miller Central presents an exciting selection of houses and apartments in a spacious landscaped setting lined by trees and featuring private parking, an open public space and a children’s play area. Offering a secluded ambience with attractive streetscapes, the development is just 20 minutes drive from central Birmingham and only around three miles from both the M5 and the M42.
Outdoor activities
The homes at Miller Central are just a few minutes walk from the River Rea Heritage Trail, a fascinating waterside walk that runs for around eight miles from the Wasely Hills down to Cannon Hill Park, one of Birmingham’s most popular venues for family outings. The Trail passes through many historic and recreational areas including Daffodil Park, close to the development, and provides a habitat for a rich variety of wildlife. The nearby Bartley Reservoir, home of the Bartley Sailing Club, is also an important site for bird life.
Sport and leisure
Miller Central is just 15 minutes walk from Northfield Pool and Fitness Centre, a recently refurbished facility with a gym, sauna, steam suite and a dance studio. Birmingham Great Park, one of the city’s newest leisure venues, is set in pleasant landscaping around two miles away and includes a health and fitness club and a bowling alley. There is also a nearby Community Leisure Centre at Turves Green, with a wide choice of indoor and outdoor sports clubs and activities, and the local golf clubs include the North Worcestershire, just five minutes away. For spectators, Birmingham offers many opportunities to watch sport at the highest level, with two Premiere League football clubs and the Warwickshire County Cricket Ground at Edgbaston.
Entertainment
The Birmingham Great Park complex includes a 13-screen Empire cinema, and Frankie and Benny’s and Chiquito’s restaurants. Miller Central is also within walking distance of a good selection of cafes and pubs, including The Woodpecker which serves meals and has a beer garden. There are regular public transport links with Birmingham city centre, providing access to world-class art galleries and museums and a vast choice of live entertainment.
Shopping
There is a small shopping centre in Turves Green that including a convenience store, a Somerfield supermarket and some food take-aways, and a wider choice of high street names around 15 minutes walk away in Bristol Road South, Frankley Beeches Road and the covered Northfield Shopping Centre, where there are more than 40 retailers. There is also a traditional farmers’ market held periodically in Kings Norton Green. The diverse attractions of Birmingham city centre include the impressive Bullring, opened in 2003, which draws visitors from throughout the world to a selection of more than 160 exciting and stylish shops.
Education
There are five primary schools within a mile of Miller Central, and single-sex secondary schools at Turves Green. There is also a mixed sex specialist sports and science college around 20 minutes walk away in Rednal.
Health care
Local health care facilities in Northfield include several GP practices. The Northfield Health Centre houses two separate practices with a total of 12 doctors, and dental surgeries can be found in Bristol Road South and West Heath Road.
Transport
Northfield railway station, on the Cross-City Line running from Redditch to Lichfield via Birmingham New Street with services approximately every 10 minutes, is within a short walk of the development, and Northfield also has good bus links with the city centre. The A38 allows rapid access to central Birmingham, and Miller Central is conveniently situated for access to the M5, M42 and M6. Birmingham Airport is just half an hour’s drive away.
Nearest schools:
- The Meadows Primary School (0.2 miles)
- Turves Green Girls' School and Technology College - Secondary (0.3 miles)
- Turves Green Primary School (0.3 miles)
Nearest stations:
Longbridge
(0.5 miles)
Northfield
(0.6 miles)
Kings Norton
(1.9 miles)
Driving directions
From Birmingham city centre
Leave the city centre by the A38 following signs for Bromsgrove. At the traffic lights at Black Horse Junction (with a Sainsbury’s store on the right) keep straight on and then take the sixth left turn, around half a mile beyond the Black Horse Junction, into Hawkesley Mill Lane. At the next junction, turn right and follow the road as it turns right then left. Miller Central is on the right.
From the M5
Leave the M5 at junction 4 to join the A38 following signs for Birmingham South West. After three and a half miles, with the Bourneville Training College on the left, take the first exit at the roundabout to stay on the A38. Take the fourth right turn, around three quarters of a mile further on, into Hawkesley Mill Lane. At the next junction, turn right and follow the road as it turns right then left. Miller Central is on the right.
Satellite Navigation reference
B31 2PQ
Opening hours
Daily: 10am until 5pm. 1pm to 5pm on Mondays
Call directly
Tel: 0121 371 9496
Site plan
About Miller Homes
Our Background
We’ll keep it brief, because a lot has happened over the past seventy-five years. Around 100,000 new Miller homes, for a start. A lot of new ideas in building technology. Loads of awards, like Major Housebuilder of the Year, Large Housebuilder of the Year, Best Sustainable Development, and Private Housebuilder of the Year. That last one’s important because it’s from First Time Buyer magazine, so it’s about real people and their experiences. We won that one last year. Oh, and the year before.
But awards are about the past. The important thing is what you can expect from us in the future.
Listening to you
Four times every year, we ask an independent research company to find out whether our customers would recommend us to friends. Our current rating is 97% positive (2011 average).
That’s about more than great houses. It’s about keeping in touch, helping you find what you want, helping you buy it once you’ve found it, telling you how the building’s coming along (by email, SMS, or the post). It’s about listening, and being there if you have a question or a problem. It’s about our incentives, offers and assistance schemes (please check them out), and dedicated websites that help people in a new neighbourhood to get to know each other. Yes, we get excited by new ideas and technologies, but essentially we’re just old fashioned, home loving people.
Quality homes. In quality places.
Building homes is what we do, and we do it exceptionally well. Over the past 75 years, we’ve seen what people really like about the homes we build and, well, we build on that experience.
So you know that behind the kerb appeal there’s a structure that meets the highest professional standards. You know that the beautifully proportioned rooms are impeccably finished and decorated. You know that every detail has been checked, inspected (and admired). You know all that because of the way the door feels when you open it, the crisp clean edge of the paintwork, the way your whole home just works. That’s experience.
What you may not realise, at least until you have the pleasant surprise of seeing your fuel bills, is that we are also absolutely committed to the most environmentally friendly movements in homebuilding. This means we use low-carbon construction methods (even zero carbon on occasion) but it also means that our homes are highly energy efficient in everyday life.
And finally, location location location. Some people want country quiet, some want urban convenience. All we can do is try to find the very best spot for every taste. So we try to put urban where it’s also pretty quiet and rural where it’s also pretty convenient. And the views? Well, we can’t move mountains (and wouldn’t if we could) but we will try to make sure your new home is pointing towards one if there’s one available, and something else nice if there’s not.
Service is too small a word.
We think of it as a relationship. Even if it never gets beyond the electronic stage we’ll do our very best to help you find what you’re looking for, and do it as unobtrusively as we can. You choose the channels, and we go away when you ask us to.
When you visit one of our developments, though, we have a chance to meet properly and talk. We enjoy that. We’ll show you homes we think you might like (or ones very like them if they’re not finished yet) and tell you about special offers that might interest you.
If you decide to buy, we’ll help in every way we can. We can give you information about mortgages and lawyers if you want it, although we’re careful not to become too close to anyone working on your behalf because we don’t want any conflicts of interest. Then we’ll keep you informed as your new home is being built, and invite you round at the appropriate time to choose things like kitchen worktops and bathroom tiles. If you want to measure up for carpets and curtains, we’ll do our best to arrange things.
When you get your keys, there’s a meeting to go over all the important stuff like stopcocks and thermostats, and we’ll also leave you full instructions. But here’s the best part. We don’t go away. We’ll leave you in peace, of course, but if you need help or advice we’ll be on hand for as long as you need us. That’s the kind of relationship we like.
