Boscombe Promenade Bournemouth

600 addresses across 14 postcodes (BH5), about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 3770384.

  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole cost £310,176 in August 2026 (-1.9% on a year); private rents averaged £1,400 a month.
  • Energy: 1 homes have an energy certificate (D: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 1 times (1 hours) in 2025.
  • Coastal erosion: Part of it is in land the coast is projected to erode by 2055, even with the shoreline management plan carried out.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole costs £2,436 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 80% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Pokesdown, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 110 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 5 to 16 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Beaufort Road Surgery, about 930 m (0.6 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,520 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 47% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 21 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.
  • Road safety: 8 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025; 2 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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
The one sale, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Jul 2019POD 104, THE OVERSTRAND BH5 1BNOther£56,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

House prices and rents in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

A typical home in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole cost £310,176 in August 2026, 1.9% less than a year before. That is 3% more than five years earlier and 22% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£550,618
Semi-detached£356,254
Terraced£292,487
Flat or maisonette£196,969
Bought by a first-time buyer£248,778

Private renters in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole paid £1,400 a month on average in September 2026, 2.2% more than a year before. That is 31% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£918
Two bedrooms£1,170
Three bedrooms£1,458
Four or more bedrooms£2,083

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. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 March 2026 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

1 home with a current certificate; median floor area 104 m². Most common: Flat (1). Built: 2012-2021 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (1 address)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 11,022 kWh of it on average in 2024, 19% more than the district's 9,269 kWh, and 3,498 kWh of electricity, 19% more than the district's 2,946 kWh. There are gas meters for about 67% of the homes.

3 of its postcodes have no gas meters recorded among 10 or more homes: often flats heated by electricity, or homes off the gas grid.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
BH5 1JP191,233 kWh 215,456 kWh
BH5 1LG794,160 kWh none recorded
BH5 2EB151,623 kWh none recorded
BH5 1NS302,131 kWh 3014,420 kWh
BH5 1LT572,283 kWh 599,148 kWh
BH5 1LA511,499 kWh 486,572 kWh
BH5 1LL131,183 kWh 133,840 kWh
BH5 1JW24 9 Economy 76,136 kWh none recorded
BH5 1JN171,479 kWh 177,674 kWh
BH5 1NW243,814 kWh 2118,452 kWh
BH5 2DZ151,746 kWh 1612,845 kWh
BH5 2EL131,910 kWh 156,230 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is BH5.

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. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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 C (25% of about 1,990 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: yes, Boscombe Manor (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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.

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 street's postcodes, 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. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 5 August 2026: WESSEX WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (immediate - urgent works)

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, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
BH5 1JPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH5 1LGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH5 1BNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH5 2EBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH5 1LNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH5 1NSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH5 1LTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
BH5 1LAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH5 1LLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH5 1JWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH5 1JNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH5 1NWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH5 2DZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH5 2ELnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

Part of the street is in land the coast is projected to erode by 2055, with the shoreline management plan carried out. Lenders and insurers may decline homes in an erosion zone, and no compensation is paid for land lost to the sea.

ProjectionPolicy for the frontageErosionDistance
By 2055, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Hurst Spit to Durlston Head none (the line is held)Inside it
By 2105, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Hurst Spit to Durlston Head none (the line is held)Inside it
By 2105, if defences are not maintained or builtNo intervention Hurst Spit to Durlston Head up to 62 mInside it

Each shoreline management plan sets a policy for each stretch of coast: hold the line (keep defences where they are), managed realignment (let the shore move back in a controlled way), advance the line, or no active intervention. Erosion is the distance the shore may move back, counted from today, for the higher central climate change allowance. The maps are guidance from national modelling, not a survey of any one home; the council's coastal team can say more.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 1 time, for under an hour in all, in 2025. They discharge into English Channel.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Fisherman's Walk Overflow Wessex Water English Channel 1 1 600 m (0.4 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

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. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street 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. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

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. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 600 addresses are between 5 m and 16 m above sea level (9 m on average); the ground rises about 11 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
BH5 1BN100%80%80%0%
BH5 1JN100%100%100%0%
BH5 1JP96%96%96%0%
BH5 1JW100%100%100%0%
BH5 1LA100%100%100%0%
BH5 1LG100%99%99%0%
BH5 1LL100%100%100%0%
BH5 1LN100%100%100%0%
BH5 1LT100%100%100%0%
BH5 1NS100%100%100%0%
BH5 1NW100%100%100%0%
BH5 2DZ100%100%100%0%
BH5 2EB100%100%100%0%
BH5 2EL88%88%88%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 stationsPokesdown 377,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Bournemouth 2.7 million journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Christchurch 484,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ravine Road Boscombe130 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Boscombe1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Ferry terminalTuckton Tea Gardens Ferry Landing2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Woodside Road Car Park650 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mer650 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH6.7 km (4.2 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS96.7 km (60 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Beaufort Road Surgery Good Jul 2016930 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots730 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wentworth Clinic Dental Practice600 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalKings Park Hospital1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Care homes17 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Acorn Lodge - Bournemouth Good Dec 2024570 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationDorset Police1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM710 m (0.4 miles)

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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9.5 ha110 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,800 m²140 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 3.2 ha1.7 km (1 mile)
AllotmentsLingdale Road Allotments 3.0 ha1.8 km (1.1 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 14 hectares in all.

Landmarks

4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fisherman's WalkBeach740 m (0.5 miles) east
Honeycombe ChineValley1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Grove CopseWood3.5 km (2.2 miles) north
Brewhouse HoleLake or reservoir3.6 km (2.2 miles) north-east
Grimbury MarshWetland4.1 km (2.6 miles) east
Warren HillHill4.4 km (2.7 miles) east

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)7.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)8.44015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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
Under 55600600600

None of the street's 600 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, railways or aircraft.

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), 4 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Pokesdown Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11780 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 58% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 15% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 18% at the higher standard (2025; 83% in 2024 and 81% in 2023)
St James' Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 68% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 17% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
Stourfield Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Stourfield Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 18% at the higher standard (2025; 69% in 2024 and 69% in 2023)
King's Park AcademyPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Avonwood Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) Outstanding (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 84% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 24% at the higher standard (2025; 81% in 2024 and 76% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.2 km (0.8 miles); the nearest is 410 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Seaward Day Nursery BH6 3SJ Full day care 23 Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 410 m (0.3 miles)
Sandcastle Nursery & Preschool Ltd BH6 3PU Full day care 48 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 710 m (0.4 miles)
Fingers 'n' Thumbs Day Nursery BH6 5AB Full day care 20 Outstanding (Jan 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 790 m (0.5 miles)
Bears Hideaway Nursery BH6 3PN Full day care 45 Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 880 m (0.5 miles)
Woodland Day Nursery BH5 2JG Full day care 23 Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 890 m (0.6 miles)
Little Dreamers Nursery and Preschool BH5 2JU Full day care 27 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.7 miles)
Puffins Preschool BH6 3QJ Sessional day care 26 Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.7 miles)
Cats Whiskers Day Nursery BH5 1HJ Full day care 44 Good (Nov 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
115 Club St James BH7 6DW Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Tops Pokesdown BH7 6HT Full day care 135 Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)

Ofsted also registers 131 childminders and 34 home childcarers (nannies) in Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole. 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. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Cafe Riva BH5 2ELRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good23 Sep 2022
Commodore Hotel BH6 3TDHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house340 m5 Very good10 Feb 2023
Seaward Day Nursery BH6 3SJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Nov 2024
Bournemouth Collegiate School BH5 2DYSchool/college/university410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Nov 2025
Boscombe Cliff Bowling Club BH5 2DJPub/bar/nightclub440 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
On The Green BH5 2DJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Aug 2024

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.

21 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour9
Violence and sexual offences4
Robbery2
Burglary2
Public order1
Drugs1
Other theft1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Southbourne Promenade (9); On or near Wentworth Close (5); On or near Rotherfield Road (5); On or near Dingle Road (2).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

8 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 8 slight. 2 involved a pedestrian; 4 involved a cyclist. 13% happened in the dark, and 13% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202240
202310
202430
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
11 Dec 2024 07:16 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights off
10 Jul 2024 09:33 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
11 May 2024 09:45 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
22 Aug 2023 15:07 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
24 Dec 2022 13:23 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
14 Nov 2022 09:03 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
14 Jun 2022 14:48 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
31 Jan 2022 15:04 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. 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. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 5 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,518 residents in 749 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 age5240
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over31%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)66%61%
Owned outright46%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented31%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)35%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)45%32%
Travel to work by car or van42%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)47%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 6 to 9 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

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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.

  • BH5 1JP: 212 addresses of 235 in the postcode
  • BH5 1LG: 107 addresses of 196 in the postcode
  • BH5 1BN: 46 addresses of 117 in the postcode
  • BH5 2EB: 40 addresses of 55 in the postcode
  • BH5 1LN: 34 addresses of 45 in the postcode
  • BH5 1NS: 34 addresses of 68 in the postcode
  • BH5 1LT: 33 addresses of 99 in the postcode
  • BH5 1LA: 32 addresses of 86 in the postcode
  • BH5 1LL: 28 addresses of 43 in the postcode
  • BH5 1JW: 17 addresses of 42 in the postcode
  • BH5 1JN: 9 addresses of 28 in the postcode
  • BH5 1NW: 6 addresses of 50 in the postcode
  • BH5 2DZ: 1 address of 65 in the postcode
  • BH5 2EL: 1 address of 73 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Rotherfield Road · Wentworth Close · Ravine Road · Boscombe Overcliff Drive · Dingle Road · Portman Crescent · Montague Road · Fishermans Avenue

All the streets in BH5 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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.