Dorset Way Poole

5 addresses across 5 postcodes (BH15,BH17), about 13.3 km (8.3 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 30300843.

  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole cost £310,176 in August 2026 (-1.9% on a year); private rents averaged £1,400 a month.
  • Flood: 11 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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.
  • Landfill: 4 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Sandpit Off Old Wareham Road, is 180 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 18 times (106 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 2 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Whites Pit, Arena Way - Solar PV Array, is 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A3049, carries 54,451 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • 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 96% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Hamworthy, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Upton Country Park, is about 370 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 3 to 45 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 5 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Birchwood Practice, about 450 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,240 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 69% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 16 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.
  • Road safety: 31 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 6 of them fatal or serious; 3 involved a pedestrian.

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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.

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

House prices and rents in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

A typical home in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole cost £310,176 in August 2026, 1.9% less than a year before. That is 3% more than five years earlier and 22% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£550,618
Semi-detached£356,254
Terraced£292,487
Flat or maisonette£196,969
Bought by a first-time buyer£248,778

Private renters in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole paid £1,400 a month on average in September 2026, 2.2% more than a year before. That is 31% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£918
Two bedrooms£1,170
Three bedrooms£1,458
Four or more bedrooms£2,083

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 7,163 kWh of it on average in 2024, 24% less than the district's 9,473 kWh, and 2,529 kWh of electricity, 17% less than the district's 3,060 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
BH15 3LQ53,517 kWh 74,771 kWh
BH15 3NP281,770 kWh 286,316 kWh
BH17 8SS382,357 kWh 376,609 kWh
BH17 8SY351,670 kWh 344,588 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 BH15.

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 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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (49% of about 3,050 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 4 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: 2.
  • 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: yes, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

Listed buildings

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.

Energy projects nearby

6 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 2 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Holes Bay Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole APP/17/00186/F Battery storage 15 MW Operational Jun 2020 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Whites Pit, Arena Way - Solar PV Array Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole APP/23/01002/F Solar farm 2 MW Permission granted, not yet built Dec 2023 1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Whites Landfill Site (Canford) Landfill Gas 6 MW Operational May 1996 1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Dorset Green Solar Farm Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole APP/21/00400/F Solar farm 5 MW Operational Apr 2023 1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Canford Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole APP/12/01559/F Advanced Conversion Technologies 10 MW Being built Jan 2015 1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Beacon Hill Landfill Gas 3 MW Operational Dec 2004 2.5 km (1.5 miles)

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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 11 November 2026: Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Limited, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the verge (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 3 October 2026 to 4 October 2026: BOURNEMOUTH, CHRISTCHURCH AND POOLE COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 15 September 2026 to 21 September 2026: BOURNEMOUTH, CHRISTCHURCH AND POOLE COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)
  • 7 September 2026 to 13 September 2026: BOURNEMOUTH, CHRISTCHURCH AND POOLE COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the carriageway (major works)
  • 5 September 2026 to 6 September 2026: BOURNEMOUTH, CHRISTCHURCH AND POOLE COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major 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, 9 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 1 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
BH15 3LQnot in 2 or 3 7 / 1 / 0 unlikely
BH15 3NPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH17 7BJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH17 8SSnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH17 8SYnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 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

4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 18 times, for 106 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Holes Bay Via Sws (Estuarine), Holes Bay, Tributary of Holes Bay(E).

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Creekmoor Lane Pumping Station Wessex Water Holes Bay Via Sws (Estuarine) 0 0 430 m (0.3 miles)
Kennart Road Pumping Station Wessex Water Holes Bay Via Sws (Estuarine) 6 22 430 m (0.3 miles)
Wxw01343 Wessex Water Holes Bay 0 0 860 m (0.5 miles)
Poole E Stw Wessex Water Tributary of Holes Bay(E) 12 84 930 m (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

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

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

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

4 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 180 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Sandpit Off Old Wareham Road Old Wareham Road, Poole, Dorset 1975 to 1985 Inert, industrial, commercial, household 180 m
Mannings Heath Poole, Dorset 1978 to 1985 Inert, industrial, commercial, household, special (hazardous) 190 m
Phillips Tip Mannings Heath Road, Poole, Dorset from 1949 Commercial 350 m
Holes Bay North Poole 1977 to 1985 Inert, commercial, household 360 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

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 5 addresses are between 3 m and 45 m above sea level (28 m on average); the ground rises about 42 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
BH15 3LQ100%100%100%0%
BH15 3NP100%96%96%0%
BH17 8SS100%100%100%0%
BH17 8SY100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 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 stationsHamworthy 145,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Poole 965,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Parkstone (Dorset) 229,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Oakmead Road Creekmoor380 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Poole2.7 km (1.6 miles)
Ferry terminalPoole Quay Ferry Landing3 km (1.9 miles)
Car parksPremier Inn Poole Centre (Holes Bay) Car Park1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station460 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH12.5 km (7.7 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS87.5 km (54 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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 surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Birchwood Practice Good Nov 2016450 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy450 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Moonlight Surgery450 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSt Mary's Hospital2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Care homes2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Southmead Rest Home Good Nov 20221.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationDorset Police2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Southern Co-Operative Creekmoor Northmead Drive, Creekmore Cashzone520 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 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 Upton Country Park 63 ha370 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,310 m²220 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha270 m
AllotmentsBushell Mill Allotments 1.8 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 71 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Upton House, a listed building (Grade II*), 630 m (0.4 miles) west. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Upton HouseListed building, Grade II*630 m (0.4 miles) west
Poole CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.7 km (1.7 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pergins IslandIsland480 m (0.3 miles) south
Northmead CopseWood720 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Gorse HillHill2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Rockley ValeValley3 km (1.9 miles) south-west
Rockley PointWetland3.3 km (2.1 miles) south-west
Kingsbridge LakesLake or reservoir4.9 km (3 miles) west

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)8.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.9205
Particles (PM10)9.64015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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
70 to 74300
65 to 69100
60 to 64100
Under 55054

5 of the street's 5 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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole: see them on the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 10 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
Parkstone Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 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 GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 67.6 (68.5 in 2025 and 67.8 in 2024); 90.9% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B+; 26.4% AAB or better; progress above average
Stanley Green Infant AcademyPrimary2–71.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection None published
Hillbourne Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) 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 70% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 59% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)
Oakdale Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.8 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 54% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 14% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 51% in 2023)
Poole High SchoolSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 48.1 (51.0 in 2025); 50.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 12.5% AAB or better; progress average

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

4 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 560 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Creekmoor Day Nursery Limited BH17 7XZ Full day care 30 Good (May 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 560 m (0.3 miles)
The Old School House Cabot Lane BH17 7BX Full day care 48 Good (Nov 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Happy Days Day Nursery Poole BH17 7FF Full day care 90 Good (Jul 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Super Stars @Stanley Green BH15 3AA Out-of-school day care 25 Not inspected yet 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 131 childminders and 34 home childcarers (nannies) in Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole. 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 10 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
Shelly's Edible Art BH17 7XBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 mExempt

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.

16 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour11
Violence and sexual offences3
Public order1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Sports/Recreation Area (13); On or near Upton Road (3).

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.

31 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 2 fatal, 4 serious and 25 slight, in which 2 people died and 4 people were seriously hurt. 3 involved a pedestrian; 3 involved a cyclist; 6 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 29% happened in the dark, and 26% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 50 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
2021113
202261
202350
202431
202561
The most recent 10 of 31
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
11 Nov 2025 21:27 Slight 1 person A3049, 50 mph Dark, street lights on
1 Nov 2025 17:36 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
29 Oct 2025 16:14 Fatal 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A3049, 50 mph Daylight
5 Aug 2025 16:21 Slight 1 person A3049, 50 mph Daylight
2 Jul 2025 08:45 Slight 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
7 Jan 2025 13:43 Slight 2 people B3074, 30 mph Daylight
4 Dec 2024 20:13 Fatal 1 person: 1 pedestrian A3049, 70 mph Wet road
12 Oct 2024 14:40 Slight 2 people A3049, 50 mph Daylight
7 Jul 2024 11:41 Slight 2 people A3049, 50 mph Daylight
3 Nov 2023 08:21 Slight 2 people A3049, 70 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 A3049 between A35 Fleet's Corner and Old Wareham Road (roundabout), with 54,451 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 470 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A35 A350 Creekmoor Junction to A349 Fleet's Corner 10,049 estimated; counted 2023 3% -19% since 2015 70 m
A350 A3049 / A350 (roundabout) to A35 Creekmoor Junction 51,816 estimated; counted 2024 2% +25% since 2015 390 m
A3049 A35 Fleet's Corner to Old Wareham Road (roundabout) 54,451 counted 2025 2% +12% since 2015 470 m (0.3 miles)

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 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,236 residents in 546 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 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)69%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work66%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%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)84%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The 4 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.

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers November 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • BH15 3LQ: 1 address of 12 in the postcode
  • BH15 3NP: 1 address of 44 in the postcode
  • BH17 7BJ: 1 address of 19 in the postcode
  • BH17 8SS: 1 address of 41 in the postcode
  • BH17 8SY: 1 address of 39 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Blandford Road · Roberts Lane · Millfield · Upton Road

All the streets in BH15, 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; 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.