The A34 Birmingham Road is the main Birmingham to Walsall Road through the Scott Arms junction.

At the traffic junction is a new development of an ALDI supermarket which is was constructed on the site of a large car showroom. Next is the telephone exchange and shops. Opposite was the site of the Beacon Cinema, and Great Barr Library.

The churches of Holy Name and Great Barr Methodist are on opposite sides of the road.

The road then rises to the M6 interchange, and crosses the motorway. Here is the listed Pool House building and the Moat House Hotel. Wilderness lane leads off to Dartmouth High School and Chapel Lane leads to St.Margarets church.

After St Margarets School there are houses and a local supermarket, which was until 2005 a Post Office. A small group of shops is located by Peak House Road and the remains of the victorian Peak House Farm (which is planned to be demolished and replaced with flats).

Opposite this is a relatively new development of houses where pre-fabricated houses used to stand. At the Walsall border we have one of the lodges for Great Barr Hall, and Merrions Wood.