Albert Road Sandown, Isle of Wight

53 addresses across 3 postcodes (PO36), about 180 m long, classed as a b road. USRN 82000034.

  • Sales: 61 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £315,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 33 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 11, D: 12, E: 8).
  • Flood: 9 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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 B; Band D in Isle of Wight costs £2,626 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 61% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Sandown, about 740 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Sandham Grounds, is about 490 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 9 to 13 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 34 of its 53 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Bay Medical Practice, about 930 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 570 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 43% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 282 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£315,000£315,000£315,000
20242£292,500£225,000£360,000
20223£365,000£330,000£365,000
20212£243,875£152,500£335,250
20201£225,000£225,000£225,000
20192£195,000£160,000£230,000
20181£114,000£114,000£114,000
20171£265,000£265,000£265,000
20161£204,500£204,500£204,500
20151£92,000£92,000£92,000
20143£199,995£167,000£215,000
20132£225,000£215,000£235,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 61)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Apr 20259 PO36 8AWDetached£250,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Feb 202511 PO36 8AWDetached£315,000
31 Oct 202421 PO36 8AWTerraced£360,000
12 Apr 202416 PO36 8AWSemi-detached£225,000
6 Dec 202226 PO36 8AWSemi-detached£365,000
21 Sep 202224 PO36 8AWSemi-detached£365,000
26 Aug 202213 PO36 8AWSemi-detached£330,000
10 Dec 202121 PO36 8AWTerraced£335,250
14 Oct 2021FLAT 4, ASHBORNE COURT, 3 PO36 8ANFlat or maisonette£152,500Leasehold.
16 Nov 20208 PO36 8AWSemi-detached£225,000
16 Oct 201914 PO36 8AWSemi-detached£230,000
23 Jan 201911 PO36 8AWDetached£160,000
16 Jan 20191 PO36 8ANOther£42,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Jul 2018FLAT 4, ASHBORNE COURT, 3 PO36 8ANFlat or maisonette£114,000Leasehold.
27 Oct 201721 PO36 8AWTerraced£265,000
11 Aug 2017FLAT 4, ASHBORNE COURT, 3 PO36 8ANFlat or maisonette£91,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Feb 201620 PO36 8AWSemi-detached£204,500
4 Mar 20151B PO36 8ANFlat or maisonette£92,000Leasehold.
10 Nov 201412 PO36 8AWSemi-detached£167,000
13 Jun 201421 PO36 8AWTerraced£215,000New build.
14 Mar 201419 PO36 8AWSemi-detached£199,995
19 Jul 201323 PO36 8AWSemi-detached£235,000New build.
1 May 201326 PO36 8AWSemi-detached£215,000
20 Dec 201217 PO36 8AWDetached£248,000New build.
23 Aug 2012FLAT 2, 2 PO36 8ANFlat or maisonette£110,000Leasehold.
20 Jul 20125A PO36 8ANSemi-detached£120,000
30 Mar 201222 PO36 8AWDetached£180,000
22 Nov 20118 PO36 8AWSemi-detached£155,000
7 Sep 20112 PO36 8ANSemi-detached£139,000Leasehold.
7 Apr 201128A PO36 8AWDetached£328,000
29 Mar 201113 PO36 8AWSemi-detached£230,000
24 Nov 2010FLAT 6, ASHBORNE COURT, 3 PO36 8ANFlat or maisonette£113,000Leasehold.
16 Jun 20106 PO36 8AWSemi-detached£145,000
29 Jul 2008FLAT 6, ASHBORNE COURT, 3 PO36 8ANFlat or maisonette£118,000Leasehold.
31 Aug 200724 PO36 8AWSemi-detached£211,000
2 Aug 200714 PO36 8AWSemi-detached£195,000
29 Jan 2007FLAT 1, ASHBORNE COURT, 3 PO36 8ANFlat or maisonette£156,000Leasehold.
23 Nov 20064A PO36 8ANDetached£277,000
25 Aug 200628 PO36 8AWDetached£335,000
28 Jul 20065 PO36 8ANSemi-detached£177,000
19 May 20061A PO36 8ANTerraced£65,000
24 Apr 20061 PO36 8ANFlat or maisonette£83,000Leasehold.
22 Feb 20069 PO36 8AWDetached£178,000
26 Jan 2006FLAT 5, ASHBORNE COURT, 3 PO36 8ANFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
1 Aug 200520 PO36 8AWSemi-detached£167,000
30 Mar 20041A PO36 8ANTerraced£85,000
12 Jan 2004FLAT 1, ASHBORNE COURT, 3 PO36 8ANFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
8 Aug 200326 PO36 8AWSemi-detached£165,000
21 Mar 20032 PO36 8ANSemi-detached£47,250Leasehold.
22 Jul 2002FLAT 1, ASHBORNE COURT, 3 PO36 8ANFlat or maisonette£99,950Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from July 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

33 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 113 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (13); Flat (13); House, detached (6). Built: 1900-1929 (12); 1930-1949 (7); before 1900 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (17); rented (private) (10).

Each home's certificates and sales (14 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Isle of Wight in 2026-27: Band D £2,626 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,751£2,042£2,334£2,626£3,209£3,793£4,376£5,252

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (29% of about 1,850 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 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 9 at medium risk and 8 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
PO36 8ANnot in 2 or 3 0 / 8 / 8 unlikely
PO36 8AWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
PO36 8APnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely

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 53 addresses are between 9 m and 13 m above sea level (11 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
PO36 8AN100%100%100%0%
PO36 8AP61%61%61%0%
PO36 8AW100%100%100%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 stationsSandown 82,000 journeys in 2024–25740 m (0.5 miles)
Lake 20,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Brading 17,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 27 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest High Street Sandown70 m
Bus or coach stationShanklin Bus Station3.3 km (2 miles)
Ferry terminalRyde Hoverport8.6 km (5.3 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station240 m
Airport with scheduled flightsSouthampton Airport SOU35.8 km (22 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW87.3 km (54 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 Bay Medical Practice930 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots310 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sandown Dental Practice630 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalSt Mary's Hospital12.2 km (7.6 miles)
Police stationHampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary3.2 km (2 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Sandown Cashzone110 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sandham Grounds 2.9 ha490 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Los Altos Public Park 5.5 ha780 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,020 m²440 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.9 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,420 m²500 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 10 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Sandown Barrack Battery, a scheduled monument, 880 m (0.5 miles) south-west. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sandown Barrack BatteryScheduled monument880 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Yaverland Battery, 660m south of Yaverland ChurchScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Brading Roman villaScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sandown BeachBeach160 m south-east
Whitehouse CopseWood1.6 km (1 mile) north
Red CliffCliff or slope1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Bragg's HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Little Stairs PointWetland2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Gear Gap PondLake or reservoir3.9 km (2.4 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)4.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)8.24015

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. 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 trafficRailways
60 to 64190
55 to 59150
Under 551953

34 of the street's 53 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 Isle of Wight: see them on the Isle of Wight page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
The Bay Church of England SchoolAll-through4–16550 m (0.3 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Broadlea Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Oct 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Albert Road Stores PO36 8ANRetailers - other40 m5 Very good20 Aug 2024
Sandown Discount Store PO36 8AQRetailers - other50 m5 Very good13 Oct 2023
Eastern Eye PO36 8AQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m3 Generally satisfactory13 Jan 2026
Delicious Artisan Bakery Co.Ltd PO36 8AQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m4 Good20 Nov 2025
The Buttie Box PO36 8ANRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good29 May 2025
P&J News PO36 8AFRetailers - other80 mExempt
Chicken And Pizza Land PO36 8AFTakeaway/sandwich shop80 m3 Generally satisfactory18 Aug 2025
The Reef PO36 8AEHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house80 m2 Improvement necessary5 Dec 2024
The Ocean Deck PO36 8AERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m4 Good27 Mar 2026
The View Ice Cream & Coffee Kiosk PO36 8AHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good22 Aug 2024
The Townhouse 101 PO36 8HDHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house90 m5 Very good3 Jul 2026
Bellamy's PO36 8ADRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good26 Jun 2026
Co-op Food Sandown PO36 8ADRetailers - other110 m5 Very good5 Jun 2024
Kates Cottage PO36 8ADRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m4 Good15 Jun 2026
Sandringham Hotel PO36 8AHHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house110 m5 Very good12 Aug 2026

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.

282 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences80
Shoplifting73
Anti-social behaviour55
Public order18
Criminal damage and arson15
Drugs11
Other theft10
Burglary9
Theft from the person3
Possession of weapons3
Other crime3
Robbery1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (101); On or near Avenue Slipway (54); On or near St John'S Road (19); On or near Albion Road (19); On or near Crescent Road (16).

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: 566 residents in 285 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 age4340
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)43%61%
Owned outright24%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented55%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van46%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle25%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 3 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.

  • PO36 8AN: 25 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • PO36 8AW: 25 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • PO36 8AP: 3 addresses of 23 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Albion Road · High Street · Esplanade · Esplanade Road · York Mews · Victoria Road · Avenue Slipway · Town Lane · St John's Road · Crescent Road · York Road · Wilkes Road

All the streets in PO36 and across Isle of Wight.

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.