Chestnut Drive Ashurst, New Forest

33 addresses across 1 postcode (SO40), about 350 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 26721548.

Sales: 36 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £585,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 8, E: 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.
Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in New Forest costs £2,420 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Ashurst New Forest, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 22 to 24 m above sea level.
Noise: 7 of its 33 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is New Horizons Medical Partnership, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away.
People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 2 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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2026	1	£585,000	£585,000	£585,000
2025	1	£795,000	£795,000	£795,000
2021	4	£558,250	£540,000	£720,000
2020	1	£490,000	£490,000	£490,000
2018	3	£452,500	£380,000	£700,000
2017	1	£455,000	£455,000	£455,000
2013	4	£425,000	£410,000	£435,000
2011	2	£395,000	£365,000	£425,000
2008	1	£360,000	£360,000	£360,000
2007	1	£400,000	£400,000	£400,000
2006	4	£355,000	£275,000	£383,000
2005	1	£372,500	£372,500	£372,500

Most recent sales (36)
Date	Address	Type	Price
27 Feb 2026	30 SO40 7DW	Detached	£585,000
10 Dec 2025	9 SO40 7DW	Detached	£795,000
8 Dec 2021	17 SO40 7DW	Detached	£541,500
19 Nov 2021	14 SO40 7DW	Detached	£540,000
16 Sep 2021	2 SO40 7DW	Detached	£575,000
26 Mar 2021	9 SO40 7DW	Detached	£720,000
28 May 2020	12 SO40 7DW	Detached	£490,000
9 Aug 2018	30 SO40 7DW	Detached	£380,000
11 Jul 2018	20 SO40 7DW	Detached	£452,500
20 Feb 2018	9 SO40 7DW	Detached	£700,000
4 Aug 2017	25 SO40 7DW	Detached	£455,000
25 Oct 2013	15 SO40 7DW	Detached	£435,000
30 Aug 2013	22A SO40 7DW	Detached	£410,000
28 Mar 2013	5 SO40 7DW	Detached	£430,000
15 Feb 2013	9 SO40 7DW	Detached	£420,000
21 Sep 2011	15 SO40 7DW	Detached	£425,000
15 Sep 2011	3 SO40 7DW	Detached	£365,000
29 Feb 2008	18 SO40 7DW	Detached	£360,000
20 Jul 2007	24 SO40 7DW	Detached	£400,000
5 Dec 2006	3 SO40 7DW	Detached	£360,000
10 Nov 2006	26 SO40 7DW	Detached	£275,000
27 Jun 2006	12 SO40 7DW	Detached	£350,000
9 May 2006	19 SO40 7DW	Detached	£383,000
26 May 2005	16 SO40 7DW	Detached	£372,500
6 Aug 2004	31 SO40 7DW	Detached	£279,000
26 Jul 2004	8 SO40 7DW	Detached	£360,000
2 Oct 2003	1 SO40 7DW	Detached	£260,000
3 Sep 2003	30 SO40 7DW	Detached	£284,000
31 Jan 2003	30 SO40 7DW	Detached	£240,000
21 Jun 2001	10 SO40 7DW	Detached	£195,000
15 Jun 2001	5 SO40 7DW	Detached	£210,000
3 Nov 1999	21 SO40 7DW	Detached	£180,000
30 Sep 1999	20 SO40 7DW	Detached	£167,000
30 Sep 1998	1 SO40 7DW	Detached	£125,000
27 Aug 1998	6 SO40 7DW	Detached	£131,000
26 Jun 1998	18 SO40 7DW	Detached	£149,950

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 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 121 m². Most common: House, detached (11); Bungalow, detached (4); Bungalow, semi-detached (1). Built: 1976-1982 (10); 1983-1990 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14).

Each home's certificates and sales (10 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in New Forest in 2026-27: Band D £2,420 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,613	£1,882	£2,151	£2,420	£2,957	£3,495	£4,033	£4,840

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (37% of about 630 homes).

A2%

B2%

C3%

D37%

E33%

F19%

G5%

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 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): ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION NP NEW FOREST CAMPSITE, ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION NP NEW FOREST RECREATIONAL CAMPSITE, New Forest National Park Boundary, New Forest National Park Boundary.
Tree preservation orders: 59 protected trees on or by this street.
Green belt: no.

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

Former Service Station, 128 Lyndhurst Road, Ashurst, SO40 7AS: up to 2 homes, not permissioned (920 m (0.6 miles))

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

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

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

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 4 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 33 addresses are between 22 m and 24 m above sea level (23 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
SO40 7DW	100%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Ashurst New Forest 108,000 journeys in 2024–25	1.3 km (0.8 miles)
	Totton 216,000 journeys in 2024–25	3.1 km (1.9 miles)
	Redbridge 33,000 journeys in 2024–25	3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops	7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Whartons Lane Ashurst	110 m
Bus or coach station	Ashurst New Forest - Lyndhurst Park Hotel	1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Ferry terminal	Southampton Vehicle Ferry Terminal Eastern Docks	7.5 km (4.6 miles)
Car parks	Asda Totton (Southampton) Car Park	2.8 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging points	Mer	2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	Southampton Airport SOU	12.4 km (7.7 miles)
Nearest large airport	London Gatwick Airport LGW	97.1 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. 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	New Horizons Medical Partnership	2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Pharmacies	Ar Pharmacy	2.1 km (1.3 miles)
NHS dentists	Forest Gate Dental Care	2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Hospital	Ashurst Hospital	930 m (0.6 miles)
Police station	Totton Police Station	3 km (1.9 miles)
Cash machines	1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Southern Co-Operative Ashurst, Ashurst Cashzone	460 m (0.3 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	Unnamed 8,150 m²	1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Play area	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 810 m²	240 m
Playing field	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.0 ha	230 m
Allotments	Unnamed 1,460 m²	890 m (0.6 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Medieval hunting lodge in Churchplace Inclosure, a scheduled monument, 1.4 km (0.9 miles) south. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Medieval hunting lodge in Churchplace Inclosure	Scheduled monument	1.4 km (0.9 miles) south

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Hunters Inn Hill	Hill	390 m east
Wildcolbury Wood	Wood	690 m (0.4 miles) east
Costicles Pond	Lake or reservoir	1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Goatee Beach	Beach	2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-east
Eling Great Marsh	Wetland	3.2 km (2 miles) north-east
Shatterford Bottom	Valley	4.9 km (3.1 miles) south

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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	6.9	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	5.7	20	5
Particles (PM10)	8.6	40	15

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
60 to 64	4	0
55 to 59	3	0
Under 55	26	33

7 of the street's 33 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 New Forest: see them on the New Forest page.

Nearest schools

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

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
Foxhills Junior School	Primary	7–11	630 m (0.4 miles)	Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Foxhills Infant School	Primary	4–7	690 m (0.4 miles)	No published inspection
Hounsdown School	Secondary	11–16	1.6 km (1 mile)	Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

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

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
POITIERS CARE SO40 7DU	Other catering premises	100 m	4 Good	10 Jan 2025
FOREST INN SO40 7DU	Pub/bar/nightclub	110 m	3 Generally satisfactory	26 Aug 2026
WELCOME ASHURST SO40 7BE	Retailers - other	460 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	10 Feb 2026

Crime within 250 m

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

2 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	1
Public order	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cooper Road (1); On or near Chestnut Drive (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 296 residents in 125 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 street	England
Median age	54	40
Children under 15	16%	17%
Aged 65 and over	33%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	90%	61%
Owned outright	58%	33%
Shared ownership	0%	1%
Social rented	under 1%	17%
Private rented	9%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	49%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	2%	6%
Retired (of adults)	40%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	1%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	40%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	50%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	2%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	4%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	5%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	64%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	8%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	35%	34%
No qualifications	15%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	9%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	98%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	0%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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.

SO40 7DW: 33 addresses of 98 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Dene Way · Dene Road · Cooper Road · Wingrove Road · Boakes Place · Woodside Gardens · Cecil Avenue · Copsewood Road · New Road · Ash Grove · Pine Close · Whartons Close

All the streets in SO40 and across New Forest.

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.