West Bromwich East & Kenrick Park

West Bromwich East and the Kenrick Park area lie within Sandwell in the West Midlands, covering mainly residential streets to the east of West Bromwich town centre. The neighbourhood features a mix of older terraced housing and post-war estates, local shops on a handful of main streets, primary schools and places of worship serving a range of local communities. Public space is centred on Kenrick Park, which lends its name to the immediate estate and the small public open space used for informal games and short walks. Regular bus services link the area with the rest of Sandwell and adjacent town centres, and small industrial units and workshops sit close to the housing, reflecting local employment patterns.

Community activity often gathers at the estate’s community hall and at church-run projects, which host youth groups and adult learning classes. Day-to-day life is shaped by short walking distances to shops and by visible street-level community provision rather than large commercial centres, giving the area a neighbourhood scale and practical focus.