Capstan Drive Littlehampton, Arun

59 addresses across 4 postcodes (BN17), about 580 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 1101376.

  • Sales: 103 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £337,500 across 4 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Arun cost £320,505 in August 2026 (-1.2% on a year); private rents averaged £1,240 a month.
  • Energy: 36 homes have an energy certificate (C: 14, D: 16, E: 6).
  • 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.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the Minor road, carries 4,151 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Arun costs £2,487 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 95% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Littlehampton, about 2 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Brookfield Park, is about 190 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 8 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 59 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Westcourt Medical Centre, about 740 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,080 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 49 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20254£337,500£310,000£468,000
20241£219,000£219,000£219,000
20232£276,500£200,000£353,000
20224£342,500£275,000£460,000
20212£265,000£180,000£350,000
20195£225,000£202,500£282,500
20183£249,950£189,500£289,000
20172£262,500£235,000£290,000
20152£283,750£252,500£315,000
20141£152,850£152,850£152,850
20133£207,000£140,000£207,000
20124£175,500£147,500£240,000
All 103 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Feb 20221 BN17 6RWDetached£460,000
2 Oct 20172 BN17 6RWTerraced£235,000
20 Dec 20133 BN17 6RWDetached£207,000
20 Aug 20044 BN17 6RWTerraced£159,950
21 Apr 20235 BN17 6RWDetached£353,000
7 Nov 19966 BN17 6RWTerraced£55,950
25 Oct 20187 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£249,950
10 Jun 20057 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£144,950
1 Nov 20017 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£90,000
27 Jan 20068 BN17 6RWTerraced£163,000
2 Oct 20028 BN17 6RWTerraced£125,500
25 Jan 20199 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£225,000
1 Oct 20109 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£147,500
12 Dec 200710 BN17 6RWTerraced£202,500
24 Nov 200410 BN17 6RWTerraced£175,000
25 Nov 202212 BN17 6RWTerraced£345,000
24 Sep 201212 BN17 6RWTerraced£176,000
25 May 201214 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£147,500
9 May 199714 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£52,000
14 Apr 202215 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£340,000
5 Jan 201815 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£289,000
3 Oct 202216 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£275,000
3 Aug 200916 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£149,000
21 Feb 200316 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£147,950
7 Jun 200116 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£93,500
19 Jun 202317 BN17 6RWTerraced£200,000
27 Jul 201117 BN17 6RWTerraced£123,000
30 Sep 200517 BN17 6RWTerraced£120,000
6 Jul 200117 BN17 6RWTerraced£68,950
2 Jun 200318 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£159,000
17 Nov 199718 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£64,950
30 Jul 199919 BN17 6RWTerraced£41,950
31 Jan 201920 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£225,000
12 Apr 200220 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£113,000
18 Jan 200120 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£42,000
22 Mar 202421 BN17 6RWTerraced£219,000
29 Aug 200621 BN17 6RWTerraced£129,000
8 Sep 200021 BN17 6RWTerraced£55,950
14 May 201825 BN17 6RWTerraced£189,500
22 Feb 200525 BN17 6RWTerraced£99,000
30 Jul 199925 BN17 6RWTerraced£44,950
29 Feb 199625 BN17 6RWTerraced£34,000
2 Sep 200426 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£144,000
12 Nov 200326 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£150,000
17 Apr 200326 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£105,000
24 May 202127 BN17 6RWTerraced£180,000
11 Jan 200827 BN17 6RWTerraced£131,000
24 Nov 200627 BN17 6RWTerraced£128,000
21 Oct 200327 BN17 6RWTerraced£98,500
19 Nov 199927 BN17 6RWTerraced£50,000
29 Mar 199927 BN17 6RWTerraced£41,000
17 Apr 201328 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£140,000
23 Sep 202529 BN17 6SFTerraced£327,500
14 Dec 200129 BN17 6SFTerraced£127,000
24 Sep 199929 BN17 6SFTerraced£85,000
10 Aug 200430 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£136,000
1 Dec 199930 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£62,250
14 Oct 202531 BN17 6SFTerraced£310,000
5 Jun 201932 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£202,500
15 Sep 199532 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£51,500
11 Jan 200833 BN17 6SFSemi-detached£240,000
30 Mar 200733 BN17 6SFSemi-detached£220,000
30 Jun 200033 BN17 6SFSemi-detached£114,000
5 Nov 200734 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£174,000
30 Jun 201035 BN17 6SFDetached£228,000
9 Dec 200535 BN17 6SFDetached£217,500
7 Apr 199535 BN17 6SFDetached£69,500
26 Jun 201936 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£210,000
14 May 200237 BN17 6SFDetached£160,000
19 Mar 200438 BN17 6RWDetached£223,000
29 Jul 200238 BN17 6RWDetached£167,000
26 Apr 201239 BN17 6SFDetached£240,000
11 Jun 200439 BN17 6SFDetached£220,000
4 Dec 199839 BN17 6SFDetached£97,000
26 Sep 202541 BN17 6SFDetached£468,000
10 Apr 201541 BN17 6SFDetached£315,000
16 Sep 200441 BN17 6SFSemi-detached£249,950
10 Dec 202143 BN17 6SFTerraced£350,000
22 Jul 201043 BN17 6SFTerraced£168,000
27 Nov 199743 BN17 6SFTerraced£69,950
8 Nov 200145 BN17 6SFSemi-detached£122,950
1 Feb 200847 BN17 6SFTerraced£224,000
29 Sep 201548 BN17 6RWDetached£252,500
11 Aug 199748 BN17 6RWDetached£80,000
8 Dec 201450 BN17 6RWTerraced£152,850
30 Oct 200950 BN17 6RWTerraced£135,000
27 Jul 200751 BN17 6SFDetached£269,950
15 Nov 199952 BN17 6RWTerraced£72,950
30 Mar 199853 BN17 6SFDetached£109,000
12 Apr 201954 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£282,500
28 Mar 200254 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£127,000
27 Apr 200154 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£124,950
9 Oct 200054 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£115,000
27 Feb 199854 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£76,950
7 Dec 199554 BN17 6RWSemi-detached£69,995
22 Feb 201755 BN17 6SFDetached£290,000
24 May 201355 BN17 6SFDetached£207,000
3 Oct 200355 BN17 6SFDetached£165,000
31 Mar 199555 BN17 6SFDetached£63,600
6 May 202557 BN17 6SFDetached£347,500
28 May 201257 BN17 6SFDetached£175,000
7 Dec 200157 BN17 6SFDetached£121,000
18 Sep 199657 BN17 6SFDetached£60,000

House prices and rents in Arun

A typical home in Arun cost £320,505 in August 2026, 1.2% less than a year before. That is 5% more than five years earlier and 24% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£549,293
Semi-detached£350,575
Terraced£275,785
Flat or maisonette£167,944
Bought by a first-time buyer£253,833

Private renters in Arun paid £1,240 a month on average in September 2026, 3.7% more than a year before. That is 36% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£855
Two bedrooms£1,149
Three bedrooms£1,407
Four or more bedrooms£1,997

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

36 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 60 m². Most common: House, detached (11); Bungalow, semi-detached (10); House, enclosed end-terrace (6). Built: 1983-1990 (16); 1976-1982 (8); 1967-1975 (7). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (20); rented (private) (8); rented (social) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (36 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 7,998 kWh of it on average in 2024, 10% less than the district's 8,918 kWh, and 2,871 kWh of electricity, 10% less than the district's 3,178 kWh. There are gas meters for about 99% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
BN17 6RW38 9 Economy 71,713 kWh 365,646 kWh
BN17 6SF162,689 kWh 169,540 kWh
BN17 6PW59 8 Economy 72,607 kWh 598,072 kWh
BN17 6SE212,452 kWh 228,704 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 BN17.

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 Arun in 2026-27: Band D £2,487 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,658£1,935£2,211£2,487£3,040£3,593£4,145£4,974

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (46% of about 1,570 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.

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

1 energy project near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Land at Brookbarn Farm Arun LU/385/14/PL Solar farm 3 MW Operational Oct 2015 1.7 km (1 mile)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

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

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, 0 at medium risk and 15 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
BN17 6RWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN17 6SFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
BN17 6PWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 12 unlikely
BN17 6SEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

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 addresses are about 8 m above sea level.

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
BN17 6PW100%97%100%0%
BN17 6RW100%95%95%0%
BN17 6SE100%100%100%0%
BN17 6SF100%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 stationsLittlehampton 804,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.3 miles)
Angmering 843,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Arundel 309,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hollyhock Way Rustington140 m
Car parksBroadmark Lane Car Park1.4 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points9 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Henry Avenue590 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW43.7 km (27 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Westcourt Medical Centre Good Oct 2018740 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Miss B Logan1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalZachary Merton Hospital1.6 km (1 mile)
Care homes10 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ashdown Lodge Good Jun 2026420 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationLittlehampton Police Station1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shell East Field Cashzone600 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brookfield Park 8.9 ha190 m
Play area11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 220 m²280 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha360 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,900 m²680 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 9.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Romano-British villa and traces of Iron Age occupation 500m WSW of New Barn, a scheduled monument, 1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east. 16 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Romano-British villa and traces of Iron Age occupation 500m WSW of New BarnScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lobs WoodWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Littlehampton BeachBeach2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Decoy WoodWood2.5 km (1.6 miles) north-east
Steyne WoodWood2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-east
Knucker HoleLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-west
Warningcamp HillHill4.6 km (2.9 miles) north

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)6.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.24015

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
55 to 5960
Under 555359

6 of the street's 59 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 Arun: see them on the Arun page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 6 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
Summerlea Community Primary SchoolPrimary5–11400 m (0.2 miles) Requires improvement (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Rustington Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11430 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
The Littlehampton Academy ChristianSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 36.3 (37.2 in 2025 and 37.3 in 2024); 32.8% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 11.8% AAB or better; progress well above average
St Catherine's Catholic Primary School, Littlehampton Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Lyminster Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework) 50% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 45% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
River Beach Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 58% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 63% in 2023)
Georgian Gardens Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 45% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
White Meadows Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection 64% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 66% in 2024 and 71% 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 380 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Rustington Funstars BN16 3PW Out-of-school day care 35 Not inspected yet 380 m
The Co-Operative Childcare Body Shop BN17 6LS Full day care 113 Not inspected yet 740 m (0.5 miles)
The Co-operative Childcare Body Shop BN17 6LS Full day care 113 Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 740 m (0.5 miles)
Applepips Day Nursery BN16 3LN Full day care 22 Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 770 m (0.5 miles)
Bright Little Kiddies BN17 6AF Sessional day care 42 Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 850 m (0.5 miles)
Littlehampton Day Nursery CIC BN17 6AH Full day care 50 Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Applepips Day Nursery (Heritage House) BN16 3EY Full day care 25 Feb 2026: Expected standard in 6 areas 1 km (0.6 miles)
Play Centre Pre-School BN16 3NJ Full day care 25 Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Activ8 Nursery Rustington BN16 3HB Full day care 53 Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Rascals Pre-School Playgroup BN16 2NL Sessional day care 26 Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)

Ofsted also registers 388 childminders and 67 home childcarers (nannies) in West Sussex. 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 6 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
Rustington Funstars BN16 3PWSchool/college/university380 m4 Good10 Mar 2023
ISS @ Rustington Community Primary School BN16 3PWSchool/college/university380 m5 Very good21 Sep 2026
Ashdown Lodge Care Home BN16 3PJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Oct 2026
South Saxon Spirits BN17 6UXManufacturers/packers500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Aug 2021

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.

49 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences25
Anti-social behaviour9
Public order5
Criminal damage and arson3
Other crime3
Other theft2
Vehicle crime1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Jib Close (9); On or near Pebble Walk (7); On or near Westlands (6); On or near Barque Close (4); On or near Hide Gardens (4).

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.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. 1 involved a motorcyclist. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202300
202410
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
27 Aug 2024 16:25 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist B2187, 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

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the Minor road, with 4,151 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 290 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
Minor road Not recorded 4,151 counted 2025 0% 290 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

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 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,075 residents in 488 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 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright38%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work66%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)59%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 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

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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.

  • BN17 6RW: 41 addresses of 49 in the postcode
  • BN17 6SF: 16 addresses of 17 in the postcode
  • BN17 6PW: 1 address of 67 in the postcode
  • BN17 6SE: 1 address of 25 in the postcode

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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.