Bartley Green is a residential suburban area and electoral ward in Birmingham, England, 5 miles (8 km) south west of the city centre.
The ward is part of the Birmingham Edgbaston constituency and is represented in parliament by Labour Co-operative MP Preet Gill.
[2] Most of the land occupied by Bartley Reservoir was in the parish of Northfield, Birmingham, originally in Worcestershire.
[3] However, the south-west end of the reservoir overlapped into the parish of Frankley, in Worcestershire (Hereford and Worcester, from 1974).
Located to the east is the Weoley ward, to the south is Frankley and to the west is the county of Worcestershire as well as Halesowen and Illey, part of Dudley MBC.
Since its inclusion, the Labour Party have held the seat in every general election, which is currently represented by Labour MP Preet Gill since June 2017, and previously by Gisela Stuart who held the seat since 1997, replacing Conservative Dame Jill Knight in the year of Tony Blair's landslide victory.
Bartley Green has been a safe Conservative ward at Birmingham City Council level in recent years, with all three serving Councillors – John Lines, Vivienne Barton and Bruce Lines (son of John) – representing the party.
Labour candidates had won the ward on several occasions in the 1980s and early 1990s but never held all three seats at once.
A total of 11,160 households in the ward are occupied, resulting in an average of 2.3 people living in each house.
A high proportion of the housing stock in the ward was constructed after 1945 (98.8%) compared with a city average of 67.4%.
[5] The ward currently ranks in the top 7% in terms of deprivation on Government indices.
Bartley Green has produced sportsmen and women including Fliss Johnson, a former pupil of Woodgate Primary School, who became the English Ladies Amateur Golf Champion in May 2005 and won the BBC Midlands Sports Woman of the Year Award.
were a successful football club based in the ward and past members of the Midland Combination Premier Division.
[9] The Judo club based in Bartley Green meets at the nearby Shenley Court Community Leisure Centre in Northfield.
The school was reorganised in 1931 into a single department for junior mixed and infant children aged 5 – 9½ years.
As part of the Bartley Green Action Plan, all primary schools were given golf facilities.
[8] Bartley Green School was granted technology status in 2000 and has 848 pupils on roll.
[13] A survey conducted by the Department of Applied Social Studies and Social Research in 1998, concluded that "52.4% of pupils at Bartley Green School live in 40% of the Birmingham Enumeration Districts with the highest proportion of the population dependent on income support.
[15] Having introduced girls in the years following 1998, today Five Ways is the largest co-educational state grammar school in the West Midlands and one of the top five co-educational grammar schools nationally.