Little Aston Park

Little Aston Park is a private residential estate, ranked in the top ten most expensive areas in England and Wales, set in a woodland setting and located approximately seven miles north of Birmingham between Little Aston and Streetly. It is one of the most prestigious localities in the Midlands consisting of approximately one hundred multi-million pound individual architect designed houses, centred on the historic rhododendron lined Roman Road, and its boundaries includes only houses on the Roman Road, Headlands, Rosemary Drive, Endwood Drive, Jervis Park, Park Drive, Selwyn Walk, Longacres, Longfield Drive, Beech Gate, Keepers Road, Squirrel Walk and Roman Grange. The estate features a championship golf club, Little Aston Golf Club, a church, St. Peters Church and is within easy walking distance of Sutton Park - Europe's largest urban park.

"A wealthy world away

Sutton is less than ten miles from Birmingham, but wealthy enclaves such as Little Aston and Four Oaks are a world away from its workaday neighbours.

Perched on the edge of the wilds of Sutton Park, homes on these private estates are a mecca for businessmen and footballers."

Birmingham Post Property Section, 30 September 2006.


The management company, LAPRA Limited (Little Aston Park Residents Association) maintain the private roads, gates and employ security officers to ensure that trespassers are removed from the estate, over which there is no public right of way.

Within the last ten years several developers have acquired land and built new houses; some residents have demolished their existing houses to build larger properties and there are examples of houses being completely rebuilt with new outer facing bricks and major modifications.

A typical house might feature the best of contemporary or historical architecture, with many being national award winning properties, set in a miniumum of an acre of land, include an indoor/outdoor swimming pool, sauna, snooker room, home cinema room, roof terrace and have a triple door electric garage. Many residents have also installed electric gates, garden pressure sensors and motion detecting night vision cctv around their property to bolster their existing security measures.

The Little Aston Park has also become the address of choice of successful multi-millionaire and billionaire Indian business magnates - earning the private estate the nickname the "Little India Park". Some of the most desirable roads in the park feature a 75% ratio, with many of those houses being modern opulent state-of-the-art in style.

To ensure only high standards of development, Lichfield Council requires "for properties to be very large and detached, set down long driveways with significant screening and landscaping between neighbouring properties", has designated the area the Little Aston Park Conservation Area, and prevents further expansion of the park by designating its borders as green belt land.


Little Aston Park v Claverdon Park

Little Aston Park is a separate estate from the Claverdon Park private residential estate which encompases Claverdon Drive, Stonehouse Drive, Roman Lane, Roman Park, Alderhithe Grove, Barns Croft, Royston Chase, Fallow Field and Vercourt, and whilst often confused and marketed by estate agents as being the same entity, they are in fact separate and different. Although Claverdon Park is only accessible through the Little Aston Park's private road and gate network, it is not part of Little Aston Park and is consequently excluded from Lichfield Council's designated Little Aston Park Conservation Area, which maintains the Little Aston Park's high development standards and woodland setting. Claverdon Park residents contribute to the Claverdon Park Management Company Limited, which maintains its private roads. Upon entering Claverdon Park it is obvious that there are lower standards of residential development, with Claverdon Park being built on much smaller third of an acre plots with houses in close proximity and with little screening between properties.

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