SP6 1AG New Forest

Streets

No addresses are linked to this postcode in the ONS UPRN Directory.

House prices and rents in New Forest

A typical home in New Forest cost £384,564 in August 2026, 0.2% less than a year before. That is 4% more than five years earlier and 23% more than ten years earlier.

Private renters in New Forest paid £1,249 a month on average in September 2026, 2% more than a year before. That is 29% more than five years earlier.

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026.

Council tax

What each band costs in New Forest in 2026-27: Band D £2,420 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (27% of about 1,070 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27.

Planning and heritage

• Conservation area: yes, Fordingbridge (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
• Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 14.
• Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
• Tree preservation orders: 3 protected trees within 100 m of this postcode.
• Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

• THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, grade II*
• 3-5, HIGH STREET, grade II
• 5-7, HIGH STREET, grade II
• ANGLIA BUILDING SOCIETY BUBBLY BARGAINS, grade II
• Augustus John statue, grade II
• AVON HOUSE, grade II
• AVON WINES, grade II
• CAXTON HOUSE (TOY BOX AND CRAFT GALLERY), grade II
• FORDE GALLERY, grade II
• FOX AND SONS, grade II
• GREYHOUND HOTEL, grade II
• J MAY AND SON, grade II
• THE FORDINGBRIDGE DAIRY SHOP, grade II
• THE MANSE, grade II

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

• 1-3 Provost Street, Fordingbridge: up to 4 homes, permissioned (340 m)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the postcode, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for.

Flood risk

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this postcode yet.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this postcode.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 15 November 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 15 November 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026).

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence.

Storm overflows

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode spilled 31 times, for 26 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Avon(S).

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence.

Coal mining

No postcode centre here is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square with radon potential up to 3 to 5%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of the square is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026.

Gas and electricity use

The postcode does not have the 5 or more domestic meters needed for figures to be published.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the postcode, the nearest 270 m away.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence.

Broadband

No Ofcom figures for this postcode.

Water

This postcode's water is supplied by Bournemouth Water. The company gives the hardness and quality of the water at an address on its website.

Bournemouth Water does not publish the hardness of its tap samples as open data; only Yorkshire Water, Wessex Water and Southern Water do.

Sources: water company supply areas (Water UK) and tap samples from Yorkshire Water, Wessex Water and Southern Water, from Stream, CC BY 4.0.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date.

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department.

Nurseries and childcare

5 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 940 m (0.6 miles) from the postcode's centre.

Ofsted also registers 720 childminders and 151 home childcarers (nannies) in Hampshire. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode.

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances.

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Old Manor House, a listed building (Grade II*), 90 m north-east. 49 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre.

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address.

No addresses here are in the mapped area.

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026.

4 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported around the postcode in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 3 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 3 involved a pedestrian. 25% happened in the dark, and 25% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the postcode. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for New Forest: see them on the New Forest page.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 239 residents in 152 households.

Who lives here

Homes

Work and commuting

Education and languages

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 5 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory.

Policing

This postcode is policed by Hampshire Constabulary. Of the 151,582 crimes it recorded in 2025/26 (April to March), 9.0% had led to someone being charged or summonsed to court, against 9.3% across England and Wales.

In the 12 months November 2025 to October 2026 it answered 88.7% of its 314,392 999 calls within 10 seconds, against a national target of 90% and 89.6% across England and Wales.

Sources: Home Office, Crime outcomes in England and Wales, open data tables, offences recorded in 2025/26, and 999 call answering data published on police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Politics

This postcode is in the New Forest West constituency. Its MP is Sir Desmond Swayne, Conservative.

Conservative hold, with a majority of 5,600 votes (12.1%). 46,337 valid votes from an electorate of 68,644, a turnout of 67.7%.

Sources: UK Parliament, election results for the 2024 general election, and the Members API for the current MP (as at 15 November 2026). Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

Council: Fordingbridge, Godshill & Hyde ward, New Forest

This postcode is in this ward. Its latest election was on 4 May 2023, for 2 seats.

County council: Lyndhurst & Fordingbridge division, Hampshire

This postcode is in this division. Its latest election was on 7 May 2026.

Turnout 49.6%.

Source: council election candidates and results from Democracy Club, CC BY 4.0.