Downs Close Purbrook, Havant

49 addresses across 1 postcode (PO7), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 17023707.

  • Sales: 123 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £137,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 37 homes have an energy certificate (C: 32, D: 5).
  • 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 C; Band D in Havant costs £2,320 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bedhampton, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 320 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 53 to 56 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 49 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Blossom Health, about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 55% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 59 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£137,000£137,000£137,000
20254£166,250£145,000£255,000
20231£161,500£161,500£161,500
20222£200,500£165,000£236,000
20213£150,000£149,000£184,000
20203£164,000£150,500£190,000
20192£157,500£155,000£160,000
20181£60,000£60,000£60,000
20172£135,000£130,000£140,000
20162£168,750£167,500£170,000
20156£126,000£122,500£170,000
20142£157,500£125,000£190,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 123)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
2 Feb 202628 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£137,000Leasehold.
16 Dec 202526 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£145,000Leasehold.
30 May 202512 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£162,500Leasehold.
29 Apr 202535 PO7 8SNSemi-detached£255,000
24 Mar 202516 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£170,000Leasehold.
6 Jun 202321 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£161,500Leasehold.
30 Jun 202231 PO7 8SNTerraced£236,000
27 Jan 202244 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£165,000Leasehold.
12 Nov 202119 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£150,000Leasehold.
23 Jul 202150 PO7 8SNSemi-detached£184,000
21 May 20217 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£149,000Leasehold.
16 Feb 202130 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£152,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 May 202031 PO7 8SNTerraced£164,000
30 Mar 202035 PO7 8SNSemi-detached£190,000
13 Mar 202012 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£150,500Leasehold.
25 Oct 20198 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£160,000Leasehold.
4 Apr 201915 PO7 8SNTerraced£210,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Apr 201936 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£155,000Leasehold.
3 Jan 201941 PO7 8SNSemi-detached£203,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Feb 201842 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£60,000Leasehold.
29 Nov 201712 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£140,000Leasehold.
28 Sep 201725 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£130,000Leasehold.
30 May 201746 PO7 8SNTerraced£189,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Aug 201648 PO7 8SNTerraced£167,500
4 Mar 201617 PO7 8SNTerraced£170,000
25 Sep 201536 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£127,000Leasehold.
10 Sep 201531 PO7 8SNTerraced£170,000
12 Aug 201518 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
29 Jun 201515 PO7 8SNTerraced£148,000
18 Mar 201530 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
9 Mar 201547 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£122,500Leasehold.
7 Nov 201416 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£190,000Leasehold.
12 Aug 201418 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
19 Nov 201346 PO7 8SNTerraced£135,000
15 Nov 201334 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
10 Aug 201229 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£101,999Leasehold.
21 Oct 201114 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£120,000Leasehold.
18 Feb 201143 PO7 8SNTerraced£142,000
26 Nov 201038 PO7 8SNTerraced£115,000
8 Oct 201017 PO7 8SNTerraced£146,000
20 Aug 201050 PO7 8SNSemi-detached£112,000
7 Oct 200922 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£113,250Leasehold.
17 Nov 200821 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£110,500Leasehold.
6 Aug 200734 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£135,000Leasehold.
27 Apr 20074 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
21 Dec 200641 PO7 8SNSemi-detached£141,500
27 Oct 200625 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£119,000Leasehold.
12 Oct 200650 PO7 8SNSemi-detached£119,000
6 Oct 200617 PO7 8SNTerraced£138,000
15 Jun 200622 PO7 8SNFlat or maisonette£124,995Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

37 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 53 m². Most common: Flat (24); House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 1983-1990 (22); 1991-1995 (7); 1976-1982 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (20); rented (private) (16).

Council tax

What each band costs in Havant in 2026-27: Band D £2,320 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,547£1,805£2,062£2,320£2,836£3,352£3,867£4,641

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (38% of about 650 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 49 addresses are between 53 m and 56 m above sea level (55 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
PO7 8SN100%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 stationsBedhampton 86,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Havant 2.1 million journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Cosham 896,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest South Downs College Purbrook80 m
Bus or coach stationBedhampton - New Road2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Ferry terminalEastney Ferry Landing7.2 km (4.5 miles)
Car parksParking space on Lantana Close, PO71.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station830 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsSouthampton Airport SOU25.4 km (16 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW66.9 km (42 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 surgeriesBlossom Health1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Crookhorn Pharmacy300 m
NHS dentistsFarlington Dental Practice1.6 km (1 mile)
HospitalHavant War Memorial Hospital2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Police stationHampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary2 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Southern Co-Operative Crookhorn The Precinct, Crookhorne Lane Cashzone450 m (0.3 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 7,530 m²320 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,100 m²80 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.5 ha90 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,250 m²1.2 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Roman villa and section of Roman road south-west of Littlepark Wood, a scheduled monument, 390 m south-east. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Roman villa and section of Roman road south-west of Littlepark WoodScheduled monument390 m south-east
Bevis's Grave long barrow and early medieval cemetery, 100m west of Belmont CastleScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Fort Purbrook, including covered-way to eastScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gundymoor WoodWood270 m north-east
Simond's HillHill800 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Old Mill DamLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Broad MarshWetland2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-east
North Binness IslandIsland2.8 km (1.7 miles) south
Thicket BottomValley3.5 km (2.2 miles) north-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)9.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)9.84015

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 5960
Under 554349

6 of the street's 49 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 Havant: see them on the Havant 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
Havant and South Downs College16 plus16–99160 m No published inspection
Crookhorn CollegeSecondary11–16490 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Morelands Primary SchoolPrimary4–11700 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oaklands Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18760 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Apr 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; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Waterlooville Roman CatholicPrimary4–11820 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Purbrook Park SchoolSecondary11–161.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Purbrook Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Purbrook Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Springwood Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Springwood Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Mill Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Barncroft Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 2020, 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
Rowlands Pharmacy PO7 5XPRetailers - other300 mExempt
The Phoenix Community Centre PO7 5QBOther catering premises390 m5 Very good3 Dec 2019
Crookhorn Tandoori PO7 5QHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Dec 2024
Dragon Inn PO7 5QHTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Apr 2025
Yard Pizza PO7 5QHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good18 Oct 2024
Plaice on the Hill PO7 5QHTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Jan 2026
The Southern Co-Operative PO7 5QHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 May 2025

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.

59 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences28
Public order7
Anti-social behaviour5
Criminal damage and arson4
Possession of weapons3
Bicycle theft3
Other theft2
Vehicle crime2
Robbery2
Theft from the person1
Drugs1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Lind Close (27); On or near Apollo Drive (13); On or near Tor Close (8); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (8); On or near Downs Close (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: 265 residents in 141 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 age3540
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)55%61%
Owned outright20%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented40%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work74%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%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)26%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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

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.

  • PO7 8SN: 49 addresses of 54 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lind Close · Apollo Drive · Tor Close · Atlantis Avenue · Athena Avenue · Zeus Lane · Trojan Way · Scratchface Lane · Midas Close · Morelands Court · Purbrook Way · Farthings Gate

All the streets in PO7 and across Havant.

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.