BIRMINGHAM’S new private sector roads contractor has been left red-faced after residents in Druids Heath found their postcode had changed.

Amey, which recently won the lucrative £2.7 billion contract to fix Birmingham’s highways for the next 25 years, placed the wrong postcode on street signs after fixing pavements in Druid’s Heath.

Residents in Brockworth Road and a number of attached cul-de-sacs found that they had moved from B14, which is Kings Heath, to B30, which is Kings Norton.

Terry Boland, of Goodrich Covert, said that he saw the workers putting the signs up.

“I was surprised. I asked the guy if we had moved the boundaries and pointed out the signs he took down were different,” he added.

“He told me that according to his list, he was right. So I called my councillor to find out if we had moved.”