A338 Bournemouth

2 addresses across 2 postcodes (BH2), about 230 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 3700090.

  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole costs £2,436 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 38% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bournemouth, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Horseshoe Common, is about 150 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 33 to 36 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 2 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Panton Practice, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 640 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 35% of households owned their home and 48% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 199 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole in 2026-27: Band D £2,436 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,624£1,894£2,165£2,436£2,977£3,518£4,059£4,871

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (41% of about 1,650 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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

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. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

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

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 2 addresses are between 33 m and 36 m above sea level (35 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
BH2 6LT100%0%0%0%
BH2 6LX100%100%38%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 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. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsBournemouth 2.7 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Branksome 280,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Pokesdown 377,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 55 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Top of Richmond Hill Bournemouth140 m
Bus or coach stationBournemouth Station Lansdowne890 m (0.6 miles)
Ferry terminalTuckton Tea Gardens Ferry Landing6.2 km (3.8 miles)
Car parks5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Richmond Gardens Multi-Storey Car Park150 m
EV charging points16 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mer120 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH6.8 km (4.2 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS93.9 km (58 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 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. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Panton Practice1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots490 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Holmoak Dental Practice70 m
HospitalBournemouth Nuffield Hospital840 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationBoscombe Police Box2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machines11 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cheltenham & Gloucester80 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Horseshoe Common 5.0 ha150 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Upper Gardens 7.3 ha710 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Miniature Golf Course 1,430 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dean Park Cricket Ground 2.7 ha450 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 900 m²1.9 km (1.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 27 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Stephen, a listed building (Grade I), 250 m west. 71 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St StephenListed building, Grade I250 m west
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade I400 m (0.2 miles) south
Bournemouth War Memorial with associated steps, enclosure and balustradeListed building, Grade II*430 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Russell-Cotes MuseumListed building, Grade II*840 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Upper, Central and Lower Pleasure Gardens, and Coy Pond GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II860 m (0.5 miles) west
Wimborne Road Cemetery, BournemouthRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Horseshoe CommonWood240 m east
Meyrick ParkWood800 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Bournemouth Pier EastBeach930 m (0.6 miles) south-east
West CliffCliff or slope1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Coy PondLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.3 miles) west
Blake HillHill4.8 km (3 miles) west

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). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)10.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.0205
Particles (PM10)9.24015

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

Road, rail and aircraft 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. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailwaysAircraft
70 to 74100
65 to 69100
Under 55022

2 of the street's 2 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole: see them on the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Livingstone Academy BournemouthAll-through4–19630 m (0.4 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11940 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Malmesbury Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bethany Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–112 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Bomo House BH1 1HLPub/bar/nightclub180 mAwaiting inspection
Baxterstorey Limited BH2 6EPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good7 Nov 2024
Blue Apple @ Vitality BH2 6EPOther catering premises200 m5 Very good6 Feb 2026
Turtle Bay BH1 1ARRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good7 Aug 2023
Walton House Cafe BH2 6EXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 mAwaiting inspection
Lyo Cafe BH1 1ENRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m1 Major improvement necessary25 Aug 2026
Windsor Court Care Home BH2 6NJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m5 Very good23 Oct 2025
Danny's Supplements BH1 1ENRetailers - other240 mExempt
Cornish Bakehouse BH1 1EPTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good16 Jun 2026
Kala Thai BH1 1EPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good4 Apr 2026
7 Days Express BH1 1EPRetailers - other240 m5 Very good14 Aug 2024
Pause Cat Cafe BH1 1EPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good18 Jun 2026
Prevail Juniors BH1 1EPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m4 Good6 Jun 2024
Vaigai Foods BH1 1EPRetailers - other250 m3 Generally satisfactory2 Apr 2025
Revival Wellness Cafe BH1 1EWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m4 Good9 Apr 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

199 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour67
Violence and sexual offences46
Vehicle crime22
Criminal damage and arson17
Other theft14
Public order9
Drugs8
Burglary6
Bicycle theft4
Robbery2
Shoplifting2
Possession of weapons1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shopping Area (49); On or near Bodorgan Road (35); On or near Richmond Hill (25); On or near Richmond Gardens (24); On or near Parking Area (18).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 643 residents in 328 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3340
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)35%61%
Owned outright14%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented60%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work74%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)5%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van34%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)80%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)48%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)68%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 to 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. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • BH2 6LT: 1 address of 93 in the postcode
  • BH2 6LX: 1 address of 31 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Dean Park Crescent · Richmond Hill Drive · Wimborne Road · Richmond Gardens · Richmond Hill · Dalkeith Lane · St Stephen's Way · Dalkeith Steps · Bodorgan Road · Verulam Place · Yelverton Road · Old Christchurch Road

All the streets in BH2 and across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.