Didcot Road Poole

43 addresses across 3 postcodes (BH17), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 30301073.

  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (B: 5, C: 7).
  • Flood: 11 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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole costs £2,436 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 81% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Poole, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 420 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 4 to 7 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 43 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Canford Heath Group Pract, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 64% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 33 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
Most recent sales (2)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Oct 20223 BH17 0GDOther£175,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Nov 20139 BH17 0GDOther£344,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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 2025 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 42 m². Most common: Flat (12). Built: 2012 onwards (12). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (12).

Council tax

What each band costs in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole in 2026-27: Band D £2,436 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,624£1,894£2,165£2,436£2,977£3,518£4,059£4,871

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (35% of about 550 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

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

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

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

Roadworks

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, 11 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 11 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
BH17 0GDnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH17 0GFnot in 2 or 3 7 / 0 / 9 unlikely
BH17 0RBnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 2 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 43 addresses are between 4 m and 7 m above sea level (6 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
BH17 0GD100%100%100%0%
BH17 0GF100%81%81%0%
BH17 0RB100%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 stationsPoole 965,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Parkstone (Dorset) 229,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Hamworthy 145,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 22 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Georges Church Oakdale460 m (0.3 miles)
Bus or coach stationBus Station Poole2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Ferry terminalPoole Quay Ferry Landing3.3 km (2 miles)
Car parksPremier Inn Poole Centre (Holes Bay) Car Park1.9 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station610 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH10.7 km (6.7 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS88.1 km (55 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 Canford Heath Group Pract1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy950 m (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Safety Drive (Dental Surgery)1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalSt Mary's Hospital2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Police stationDorset Police2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Oakdale - Oakdale Road, Oakdale Cashzone730 m (0.5 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.0 ha420 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 11 ha580 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,350 m²490 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.0 ha350 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bushell Mill Allotments 1.8 ha640 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Poole Cemetery, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Poole CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Poole ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parr's PlantationWood1 km (0.6 miles) east
Hillbourne CopseWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Pergins IslandIsland1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Lodge HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Weston's PointWetland3.4 km (2.1 miles) south
Bourne BottomValley4.3 km (2.7 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)11.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)9.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59100
Under 55424343

1 of the street's 43 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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole: see them on the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Canford Heath Junior SchoolPrimary7–11420 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Canford Heath Infant SchoolPrimary4–7470 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stanley Green Infant AcademyPrimary2–7730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Parkstone Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18810 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Haymoor Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Magna AcademySecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Edward's Roman Catholic/Church of England School, Poole Church of England/Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Ad Astra Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Oakdale Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.4 km (0.9 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
Hillbourne Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Poole Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.5 km (1 mile) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Poole Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection

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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Happyccino at the Hub BH17 0GDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good20 Apr 2026
Wah Hing Chinese Supermarket BH17 0GDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets40 m5 Very good6 Feb 2026
Innovation Fitness Limited BH17 0RURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good23 Jan 2025
Le Petit Prince Patisserie Ltd BH17 0GDManufacturers/packers110 mExempt
Insanity Retro Gaming BH17 0GERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets120 m5 Very good12 Jul 2024
Greggs BH17 0RATakeaway/sandwich shop160 m5 Very good5 Dec 2025
Entoyment War Gaming and Hobby Centre BH17 0GERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good21 Aug 2025
Flaming Peaches BH17 0GBMobile caterer210 m5 Very good29 Jun 2022
South Coast Building Supplies aka The Upstairs Cafe BH17 0SSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good19 Jan 2026
Two Cooks and a Van ltd BH17 0GGOther catering premises380 m5 Very good25 Feb 2025
Buddy Club BH17 8PJSchool/college/university410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Jun 2024
Longspee Academy BH17 8PJSchool/college/university410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Jan 2024
Canford Heath Infant School BH17 8PJSchool/college/university410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Dec 2025
Canford Heath Junior School BH17 8PJSchool/college/university410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Dec 2025
Cuddles Day Nursery BH17 8PJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 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.

33 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour6
Bicycle theft6
Burglary6
Other theft5
Violence and sexual offences5
Vehicle crime3
Shoplifting1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Banbury Road (11); On or near Kennington Road (9); On or near Benson Road (6); On or near Nuffield Road (5); On or near Didcot Road (2).

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: 341 residents in 173 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 age5140
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over33%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright31%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented21%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)37%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van70%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)84%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)23%34%
No qualifications28%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 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.

  • BH17 0GD: 41 addresses of 42 in the postcode
  • BH17 0GF: 1 address of 40 in the postcode
  • BH17 0RB: 1 address of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Benson Road · Harwell Road · Kennington Road · Banbury Road · Morris Road · Nuffield Road · Collwood Close · Worgret Road · Darbys Lane · Darby's Lane North · Learoyd Road

All the streets in BH17 and across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

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.