Church Close Telscombe Cliffs, Lewes

2 addresses across 2 postcodes (BN10), about 80 m long, classed as a local access road. USRN 23301770.

  • Energy: 1 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1).
  • Flood: 2 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 C; Band D in Lewes costs £2,756 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Newhaven Town, about 5.2 km (3.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Chatsworth Park, is about 690 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 24 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 2 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Havenshealth, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 660 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 68% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 78 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from July 2014 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 80 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 2013 (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (1 address)

Council tax

What each band costs in Lewes in 2026-27: Band D £2,756 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,837£2,144£2,450£2,756£3,369£3,981£4,594£5,512

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (34% of about 1,400 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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

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

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 3 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
BN10 7AHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 2 unlikely
BN10 7FDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 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 addresses are about 24 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
BN10 7AH100%100%100%0%
BN10 7FD100%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 stationsNewhaven Town 431,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Newhaven Harbour 28,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Southease 27,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Broomfield Avenue Telscombe Cliffs110 m
Bus or coach stationLonghill School Grounds Ovingdean4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Ferry terminalNewhaven Harbour Ferry Terminal5.2 km (3.2 miles)
Car parksMarine Cliffs Car Park2.7 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging pointsLower Place Car Park4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW41 km (25 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Havenshealth1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kamsons Pharmacy310 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Peacehaven Dental Surgery1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalSussex Nuffield Hospital6.2 km (3.9 miles)
Police stationPeacehaven Police Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM360 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 Chatsworth Park 7.2 ha690 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,590 m²670 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldTelscombe Cliffs 5.2 ha950 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 7,170 m²2.6 km (1.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 7.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Bowl barrow on Telscombe Tye, 650m south west of Pedlersburgh, a scheduled monument, 670 m (0.4 miles) north-west. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bowl barrow on Telscombe Tye, 650m south west of PedlersburghScheduled monument670 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Pedlersburgh: a bowl barrow on Telscombe TyeScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north
Cross dyke on Telscombe TyeScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bannings BottomValley900 m (0.6 miles) north-west
The DellValley1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Tenant HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) north
Saltdean BeachBeach2 km (1.2 miles) west
Coombe BottomValley2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
Meeching DownWood4.1 km (2.5 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)5.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)9.34015

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 5512

1 of the street's 2 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 Lewes: see them on the Lewes 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
Telscombe Cliffs AcademyPrimary3–11570 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Peacehaven Heights AcademyPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Peacehaven Community SchoolSecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Meridian Community Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Tavern BN10 7ADPub/bar/nightclub140 m5 Very good12 Feb 2026
Kawa Sushi BN10 7BETakeaway/sandwich shop160 m5 Very good18 Jun 2025
Telscombe Cliffs Service Station BN10 7ETRetailers - other200 m5 Very good2 Oct 2025
Telscombe Parish Hall BN10 7AUOther catering premises210 mExempt
Fairlight Manor Care Home BN10 7BSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
Haven Care Home BN10 7DXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 mAwaiting inspection
Smugglers Rest BN10 7BEPub/bar/nightclub310 m5 Very good17 Sep 2025
Premier BN10 7LURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets350 m5 Very good28 Apr 2026
HEGY's CAFFE BN10 7LURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m4 Good14 Nov 2025
Maloncho Indian Restaurant BN10 7HHTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m3 Generally satisfactory29 Jul 2025
Central Fish Shop BN10 7HHTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m5 Very good11 Feb 2026
Homescare Ltd Peacehaven BN10 7EWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 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.

78 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences38
Other theft11
Anti-social behaviour8
Criminal damage and arson5
Drugs4
Public order3
Burglary3
Vehicle crime3
Robbery2
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (41); On or near South Coast Road (11); On or near Amhurst Road (9); On or near Church Close (5); On or near Cliff Gardens (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: 661 residents in 266 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 age4140
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)68%61%
Owned outright37%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented26%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)73%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)25%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 to 8 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.

  • BN10 7AH: 1 address of 27 in the postcode
  • BN10 7FD: 1 address of 7 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Buckhurst Road · Broomfield Avenue · Cliff Gardens · Tyedean Road · Fairlight Avenue · Amhurst Road · Ambleside Avenue · Sussex Way · Highview Road · Gorham Way · Central Avenue · Grassmere Avenue

All the streets in BN10 and across Lewes.

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.