Brook Avenue Hassocks, Mid Sussex

52 addresses across 4 postcodes (BN6), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 25600732.

  • Sales: 7 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £487,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 47 homes have an energy certificate (B: 9, C: 33, D: 5).
  • Flood: 8 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 Mid Sussex costs £2,474 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Hassocks, about 510 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 310 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 47 to 50 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 52 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Mid Sussex Health Care, about 2.8 km (1.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 570 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 41% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 68 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£487,000£487,000£487,000
20202£348,750£330,000£367,500
20141£279,950£279,950£279,950
20121£235,000£235,000£235,000
20101£219,000£219,000£219,000
20061£192,500£192,500£192,500
Most recent sales (7)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Dec 202522 BN6 8LGSemi-detached£487,000
16 Oct 202020 BN6 8LGTerraced£330,000
21 Aug 202022 BN6 8LGSemi-detached£367,500
29 Aug 20144 BN6 8LGSemi-detached£279,950
5 Dec 201220 BN6 8LGSemi-detached£235,000
5 May 20104 BN6 8LGSemi-detached£219,000
11 Sep 20064 BN6 8LGSemi-detached£192,500

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 February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

47 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 42 m². Most common: Flat (42); House, semi-detached (4); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1983-1990 (21); 1950-1966 (9); 2014 (7). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (35); owner-occupied (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (29 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Mid Sussex in 2026-27: Band D £2,474 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,650£1,924£2,199£2,474£3,024£3,574£4,124£4,949

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (34% of about 770 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) 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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 13 November 2026 to 17 November 2026: WEST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major 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, 6 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 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: of the 37 homes the Environment Agency counts, 6 are in areas at high risk, 2 medium, 1 low and 0 very low.

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
BN6 8LQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN6 8LGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN6 8FAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN6 8JZnot in 2 or 3 6 / 2 / 1 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 52 addresses are between 47 m and 50 m above sea level (49 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
BN6 8FA100%0%0%0%
BN6 8JZ100%100%100%0%
BN6 8LG100%100%100%0%
BN6 8LQ100%0%0%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 stationsHassocks 1.3 million journeys in 2024–25510 m (0.3 miles)
Burgess Hill 1.7 million journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Wivelsfield 467,000 journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Downlands Community School Keymer160 m
Bus or coach stationSussex House University of Sussex7.4 km (4.6 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Orion Car Park190 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW25.5 km (16 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 surgeriesMid Sussex Health Care2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy220 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery280 m
HospitalPrincess Royal Hospital8.5 km (5.3 miles)
Police stationBurgess Hill Police Station3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Hassocks280 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,560 m²310 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 570 m²190 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Adastra Park 5.9 ha290 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parklands Road Allotment Site 7,540 m²220 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

6 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
Butcher's WoodWood520 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Lag WoodWood830 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Bonny's WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Reed PondLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Lodge HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) east
Coombe BottomValley2 km (1.2 miles) south-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)6.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

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
55 to 5910
Under 555152

1 of the street's 52 addresses is 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 Mid Sussex: see them on the Mid Sussex 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
Downlands Community SchoolSecondary11–16140 m Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Windmills Junior SchoolPrimary7–11260 m Good (Nov 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hassocks Infant SchoolPrimary4–7350 m Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
The Corner Cafe BN6 8QARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m4 Good5 Jun 2026
Day Lewis Chemist BN6 8QARetailers - other210 mExempt
Bake Out BN6 8QARetailers - other220 m5 Very good12 Feb 2025
Orion News BN6 8QARetailers - other240 m5 Very good19 Oct 2023
The Sussex Grocer BN6 8QARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets240 m5 Very good16 Oct 2024
Tim Fai BN6 8ARRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m4 Good4 Mar 2026
BN6 Craft Beer & Tap BN6 8ARPub/bar/nightclub270 m5 Very good17 Feb 2022
Boots UK Ltd BN6 8AGRetailers - other300 mExempt
Hassocks Pizza BN6 8AGTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m5 Very good13 Feb 2026
Green Folk Kitchen BN6 8AGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m4 Good28 Aug 2026
A Twine Butchers BN6 8ABRetailers - other320 m5 Very good30 Jan 2026
Hassocks Fish And Chips BN6 8ABTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m4 Good19 Sep 2025
Hassocks Foodbank BN6 8ABRetailers - other330 m5 Very good25 Jan 2023
Proper Cycling & Coffee BN6 8ANRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good29 Apr 2025
Sainsbury's BN6 8ANRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets350 m5 Very good18 Jan 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.

68 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences21
Anti-social behaviour16
Burglary6
Shoplifting5
Drugs4
Criminal damage and arson3
Public order3
Other crime3
Vehicle crime2
Robbery2
Possession of weapons2
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Windmill Avenue (20); On or near Brook Avenue (17); On or near Parking Area (14); On or near John Saxby Place (13); On or near Parklands Road (4).

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 251 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 age3740
Children under 1525%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)41%61%
Owned outright14%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented45%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)39%32%
Travel to work by car or van37%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram8%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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.

Nearby streets

Windmill Avenue · Downs View Road · Parklands Road · Keymer Road · The Orchard · John Saxby Place · Lagwood Close · Ockenden Way · The Minnels · Clayton Avenue · Willowbrook Way · Highlands Close

All the streets in BN6 and across Mid Sussex.

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.