Downland Close Locks Heath, Fareham

39 addresses across 1 postcode (SO31), about 240 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14407661.

  • Sales: 51 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £550,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 20 homes have an energy certificate (C: 11, D: 9).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Fareham costs £2,271 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Swanwick, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 560 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 41 to 43 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Lockswood Surgery, about 350 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 43 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
20261£550,000£550,000£550,000
20251£305,000£305,000£305,000
20231£575,000£575,000£575,000
20221£456,000£456,000£456,000
20213£340,000£260,000£385,000
20203£262,500£220,000£385,000
20192£332,500£285,000£380,000
20183£300,000£275,000£395,000
20171£265,000£265,000£265,000
20161£280,000£280,000£280,000
20141£332,000£332,000£332,000
20132£188,250£172,500£204,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 51)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
2 Mar 202634 SO31 6WBDetached£550,000
28 Nov 202524 SO31 6WBTerraced£305,000
12 Apr 202333 SO31 6WBDetached£575,000
9 Sep 202232 SO31 6WBDetached£456,000
30 Sep 202118 SO31 6WBTerraced£340,000
7 May 202126 SO31 6WBTerraced£260,000
5 Feb 202136 SO31 6WBDetached£385,000
7 Dec 20207 SO31 6WBDetached£385,000
17 Aug 202019 SO31 6WBTerraced£262,500
31 Jul 202010 SO31 6WBTerraced£220,000
19 Dec 201937 SO31 6WBDetached£380,000
26 Jul 201917 SO31 6WBTerraced£285,000
1 Jun 201827 SO31 6WBTerraced£275,000
2 Mar 201828 SO31 6WBTerraced£300,000
31 Jan 201834 SO31 6WBDetached£395,000
14 Jul 201722 SO31 6WBSemi-detached£265,000
3 Mar 201618 SO31 6WBTerraced£280,000
28 May 20148 SO31 6WBDetached£332,000
6 Dec 201324 SO31 6WBTerraced£204,000
8 Mar 201327 SO31 6WBTerraced£172,500
18 May 20129 SO31 6WBTerraced£238,000
21 Apr 201135 SO31 6WBDetached£223,000
30 Oct 200917 SO31 6WBTerraced£202,000
20 Apr 200716 SO31 6WBTerraced£189,950
20 Dec 20067 SO31 6WBDetached£240,000
14 Jul 200636 SO31 6WBDetached£232,950
29 Oct 200438 SO31 6WBDetached£249,950
14 Apr 200426 SO31 6WBTerraced£200,000
27 Feb 200416 SO31 6WBTerraced£152,500
12 Dec 200336 SO31 6WBDetached£215,950
31 Jul 200338 SO31 6WBDetached£212,000
5 Mar 200325 SO31 6WBTerraced£164,950
17 Oct 200232 SO31 6WBDetached£215,000
29 Jul 200237 SO31 6WBDetached£215,000
12 Jul 200225 SO31 6WBTerraced£127,000
21 Jun 200210 SO31 6WBTerraced£130,500
31 May 200226 SO31 6WBTerraced£158,000
12 Mar 200236 SO31 6WBDetached£165,500
8 Mar 200226 SO31 6WBTerraced£148,000
9 Mar 200114 SO31 6WBSemi-detached£117,500
10 Nov 200018 SO31 6WBSemi-detached£114,950
17 Mar 200018 SO31 6WBSemi-detached£91,000
27 Mar 199822 SO31 6WBSemi-detached£59,950
1 Dec 199712 SO31 6WBSemi-detached£81,500
10 Sep 199710 SO31 6WBTerraced£69,950
18 Apr 19974 SO31 6WBDetached£89,500
28 Feb 19978 SO31 6WBDetached£104,000
5 Jan 199611 SO31 6WBTerraced£57,000
7 Nov 199515 SO31 6WBTerraced£59,000
27 Oct 199511 SO31 6WBTerraced£58,000

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 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

20 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 86 m². Most common: House, detached (9); House, end-terrace (6); House, mid-terrace (5). Built: 1983-1990 (17); 1991-1995 (2); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Fareham in 2026-27: Band D £2,271 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,514£1,766£2,018£2,271£2,775£3,280£3,784£4,541

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (27% of about 510 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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

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

Height above sea level

The street's 39 addresses are between 41 m and 43 m above sea level (42 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
SO31 6WB100%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 stationsSwanwick 563,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Bursledon 68,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Hamble 90,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 27 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Home Rule Road Locks Heath170 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Fareham6.7 km (4.2 miles)
Ferry terminalWarsash Ferry Landing2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Car parksMiddle Road Car Park820 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station330 m
Airport with scheduled flightsSouthampton Airport SOU11.1 km (6.9 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW82.5 km (51 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lockswood Surgery350 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest H J Everett350 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 112 Dental Care1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalFareham Community Hospital Cdc520 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationHampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary Park Gate Police Station800 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Netley, Netley Abbey810 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,840 m²560 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 3,250 m²770 m (0.5 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 170 m²230 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.2 ha100 m
AllotmentsHunts Pond Road Allotments 4,470 m²830 m (0.5 miles)

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

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lock's WoodWood210 m south-west
WendleholmeWetland2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Centre LakeLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) north
Dibles BottomValley2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Brownwich BeachBeach4.1 km (2.6 miles) south
Providence HillHill4.3 km (2.7 miles) north-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)9.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.44015

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
Under 553939

None of the street's 39 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Fareham: see them on the Fareham 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
Park Gate Primary SchoolPrimary4–11530 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Brookfield Community SchoolSecondary11–16810 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Sarisbury Infant SchoolPrimary5–71 km (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sarisbury Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Locks Heath Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 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
St John the Baptist Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Locks Heath Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Anthony's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Whiteley Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

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

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Pirate Pasties Mobile caterer300 m5 Very good2 Oct 2026
Locks Heath Fish And Chips Mobile caterer300 m4 Good29 Jan 2026
Pizza Hut Delivery SO31 6DXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good25 Sep 2025
Iceland Frozen Foods Ltd SO31 6DXRetailers - other310 m5 Very good24 Feb 2025
Mini Town Role Play Cafe SO31 6DXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 mAwaiting inspection
Greggs Plc SO31 6DXOther catering premises330 mAwaiting inspection
Alexander Hadleigh Wine Merch. SO31 6DXRetailers - other340 mExempt
Leons Fruit N Veg Mobile caterer340 m5 Very good19 Jan 2024
Marie Curie SO31 6DXRetailers - other340 m5 Very good1 Jun 2023
Costa Coffee SO31 6DXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m5 Very good5 Mar 2026
The Oaty Goat Ltd SO31 6DXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good24 Sep 2026
The Strawberry Field Tavern SO31 6DXPub/bar/nightclub370 m5 Very good27 Feb 2025
Cook SO31 6DXRetailers - other380 m5 Very good19 Mar 2026
Occasions Thorntons SO31 6DXRetailers - other380 m5 Very good16 Jan 2023
H J Everett Chemist Ltd SO31 6DXRetailers - other390 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.

43 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences19
Anti-social behaviour13
Criminal damage and arson4
Drugs3
Other crime1
Theft from the person1
Vehicle crime1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Old Common Gardens (12); On or near Parklands (9); On or near Battle Close (5); On or near Moorland Close (5); On or near The Glades (3).

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: 314 residents in 134 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 age5040
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright52%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)35%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)43%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%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)39%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Basmati Restaurant (restaurant/cafe/canteen, SO31 6DX) now 4 Good, was 5 Very good (rated 8 October 2026) found 30 October 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

Chine Close · Old Common · Moorland Close · Old Common Gardens · Meadow Avenue · Fell Close · Locks Road · Parklands · Headland Drive · Battle Close · Weald Close · The Glades

All the streets in SO31 and across Fareham.

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.