Crossways Avenue Worthing

19 addresses across 3 postcodes (BN12), about 150 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 45100329.

  • Sales: 18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £323,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 5, E: 1, F: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 Worthing costs £2,456 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Goring-By-Sea, about 410 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 440 m (0.3 miles) away, and Highdown Gardens (12 hectares) is about 670 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 8 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Barn Surgery, about 1.4 km (0.8 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 78% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 85 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£323,000£323,000£323,000
20232£398,250£388,000£408,500
20211£355,000£355,000£355,000
20181£300,000£300,000£300,000
20132£189,725£179,950£199,500
20121£205,000£205,000£205,000
20101£192,000£192,000£192,000
20062£205,250£198,000£212,500
20031£155,000£155,000£155,000
20011£115,000£115,000£115,000
20001£112,500£112,500£112,500
19991£86,500£86,500£86,500
Most recent sales (18)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Jan 202516 BN12 6LZSemi-detached£323,000
28 Jul 20238 BN12 6LYSemi-detached£388,000
27 Jan 202311 BN12 6LZSemi-detached£408,500
26 Mar 20214 BN12 6LYDetached£355,000
7 Dec 201817 BN12 6LZSemi-detached£300,000
2 Aug 201314 BN12 6LZSemi-detached£179,950
5 Jun 201312 BN12 6LZDetached£199,500
7 Dec 20128 BN12 6LYSemi-detached£205,000
28 Apr 20104 BN12 6LYDetached£192,000
14 Dec 200617 BN12 6LZSemi-detached£198,000
20 Jun 20064 BN12 6LYDetached£212,500
29 Aug 200312 BN12 6LZTerraced£155,000
14 Mar 200117 BN12 6LZSemi-detached£115,000
12 Jun 20008 BN12 6LYSemi-detached£112,500
30 Jul 199919 BN12 6LZSemi-detached£86,500
27 Jul 199810 BN12 6LYSemi-detached£80,500
15 May 19986 BN12 6LYSemi-detached£75,000
15 Nov 19965 BN12 6LZSemi-detached£55,500

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 June 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 91 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (7); House, detached (2); Bungalow, semi-detached (1). Built: 1967-1975 (7); 1950-1966 (2); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Worthing in 2026-27: Band D £2,456 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,910£2,183£2,456£3,002£3,548£4,094£4,912

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (72% of about 670 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.

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

  • 4 November 2026 to 6 November 2026: BT, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 14 September 2026 to 19 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, priority working, on the footway, carriageway (standard works)

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

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 7 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
BN12 6LZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
BN12 6LYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN12 6LXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 6 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 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
BN12 6LX100%100%100%0%
BN12 6LY100%100%100%0%
BN12 6LZ100%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 stationsGoring-By-Sea 549,000 journeys in 2024–25410 m (0.3 miles)
Durrington-On-Sea 507,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
West Worthing 672,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 39 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Crossways Avenue Durrington30 m
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Apcoa400 m (0.2 miles)
EV charging points11 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Galsworthy Road420 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW40.3 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 Barn Surgery1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kamsons Pharmacy1.2 km (0.8 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.2 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalGoring Hall Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationWorthing Durrington Police Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Worthing Cashzone580 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,250 m²440 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Highdown Gardens 12 ha670 m (0.4 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 270 m²460 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.4 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,470 m²620 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 19 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Highdown, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 900 m (0.6 miles) north-west. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
HighdownRegistered park or garden, Grade II*900 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Highdown Hill Camp: A Ram's Hill type enclosure, an Anglo-Saxon cemetery and associated remainsScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Northbrook PondLake or reservoir580 m (0.4 miles) north
Street's CopseWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Highdown HillHill1.5 km (1 mile) north-west
The PlantationWood1.6 km (1 mile) south
Cote BottomValley3.1 km (1.9 miles) north
Worthing BeachBeach4.9 km (3 miles) east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)7.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)10.14015

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 5920
Under 551719

2 of the street's 19 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 Worthing: see them on the Worthing 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
St Oscar Romero Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18600 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
The Laurels Primary School, WorthingPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Goring-By-Sea CofE (Aided) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Orchards Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Hawthorns Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (Oct 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Orchards Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.1 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ferring C of E Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
West Park CofE Primary (Controlled) School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, Worthing Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Durrington High SchoolSecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Mar 2022, 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 Chip Shop BN12 6BRTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good15 Sep 2023
Bugdens BN12 6BRRetailers - other120 m4 Good22 May 2024
Arundel Restaurant and Brookes Coffee Shop BN12 6NUSchool/college/university200 m5 Very good24 Apr 2025
Theatre & Theatre Bar BN12 6NURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good24 Apr 2025
Aramark at Northbrook College BN12 6NUSchool/college/university200 m5 Very good29 Sep 2025
West Sussex Music BN12 6NUSchool/college/university200 mAwaiting inspection
Connect Catering at Haviland House BN12 6FEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m5 Very good24 Mar 2026
The Swallows Return BN12 6NZPub/bar/nightclub320 m5 Very good7 Apr 2026
ST BARNABAS BN12 6NZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Nov 2025
Southern Water BN13 3NXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 May 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.

85 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences38
Criminal damage and arson14
Anti-social behaviour13
Other crime5
Public order4
Other theft4
Drugs3
Possession of weapons2
Shoplifting1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Coleridge Road (30); On or near Boxgrove (20); On or near Lavant Close (9); On or near Fittleworth Close (5); On or near Coleridge Crescent (5).

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: 307 residents in 133 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 age4440
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)78%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)74%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)22%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Utility asset works, 4 November 2026 to 6 November 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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

Fittleworth Close · Harting Close · Lavant Close · Patching Close · Boxgrove Parade · Goring Chase · Boxgrove Parade · Boxgrove · The Pallant · Goring Street · Goring Street · The Green Way

All the streets in BN12 and across Worthing.

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.