Downs Road Willingdon, Wealden

40 addresses across 5 postcodes (BN22), about 360 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 42701942.

  • Sales: 48 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £550,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 23 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 14, E: 1, F: 1).
  • 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 Wealden costs £2,728 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Hampden Park (Sussex), about 2 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Hampden Park Arboretum and History Garden, is about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 20 to 29 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 40 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Park Practice, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away.
  • People: About 580 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 95% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 24 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£550,000£550,000£550,000
20242£382,500£365,000£400,000
20232£470,000£410,000£530,000
20221£580,000£580,000£580,000
20211£285,000£285,000£285,000
20201£360,000£360,000£360,000
20181£355,000£355,000£355,000
20172£395,000£340,000£450,000
20163£330,000£325,000£392,000
20151£415,000£415,000£415,000
20143£300,000£256,000£350,000
20123£220,000£203,200£226,500
Most recent sales (48)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Mar 202530 BN22 0JJDetached£550,000
18 Dec 20243 BN22 0JHOther£370,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Aug 20242B BN22 0JHDetached£400,000
21 Jun 20249 BN22 0JHDetached£365,000
15 Nov 202320 BN22 0JJDetached£410,000
15 Feb 202319 BN22 0JJDetached£530,000
5 Dec 202230 BN22 0JJDetached£580,000
15 Feb 202130 BN22 0JJDetached£285,000
11 Sep 202025 BN22 0JJDetached£360,000
29 May 201831 BN22 0JJDetached£355,000
24 Nov 201727 BN22 0JJDetached£450,000
21 Sep 201729 BN22 0JJDetached£340,000
14 Sep 201634 BN22 0JJDetached£392,000
2 Mar 201620 BN22 0JJDetached£325,000
26 Feb 201621 BN22 0JJDetached£330,000
16 Jul 201522 BN22 0JJDetached£415,000
5 Nov 201411 BN22 0JHDetached£256,000
29 May 201428 BN22 0JJDetached£350,000
18 Mar 201422 BN22 0JJDetached£300,000
28 Jun 201215 BN22 0JHDetached£226,500
23 Mar 201224 BN22 0JJDetached£220,000
27 Feb 20126 BN22 0JHDetached£203,200
18 Nov 201019 BN22 0JJDetached£263,000
18 Jun 20108 BN22 0JHDetached£249,950
27 Feb 200825 BN22 0JJDetached£264,000
31 Aug 200727 BN22 0JJDetached£265,000
28 Mar 200734 BN22 0JJDetached£290,000
22 Nov 200629 BN22 0JJDetached£230,000
10 Nov 200617 BN22 0JJDetached£225,000
26 Sep 200618 BN22 0JJSemi-detached£224,000
22 Sep 200625 BN22 0JJDetached£200,000
12 Sep 200612 BN22 0JHDetached£241,000
7 Apr 200610 BN22 0JHDetached£249,950
24 Oct 20058 BN22 0JHDetached£229,950
18 Oct 200514 BN22 0JHDetached£289,950
30 Jun 20042B BN22 0JHDetached£218,000
4 Dec 20037 BN22 0JHDetached£205,000
27 Nov 200328 BN22 0JJDetached£202,000
1 Aug 200329 BN22 0JJDetached£172,500
7 Dec 20012B BN22 0JHDetached£132,500
25 May 200114 BN22 0JHDetached£169,950
18 Aug 200032 BN22 0JJDetached£136,000
14 Jan 200019 BN22 0JJDetached£139,950
16 Jun 199919 BN22 0JJDetached£120,000
12 May 199827 BN22 0JJDetached£139,950
30 May 199727 BN22 0JJDetached£65,000
28 Apr 19954 BN22 0JHDetached£71,000
23 Feb 19952A BN22 0JHDetached£59,950

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 March 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

23 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 93 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (23). Built: 1950-1966 (19); 1967-1975 (2); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (18); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Wealden in 2026-27: Band D £2,728 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,819£2,122£2,425£2,728£3,335£3,941£4,547£5,457

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (48% of about 670 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 neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

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

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

Roadworks

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 4 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
BN22 0JJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN22 0JHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
BN22 0JGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN22 0NFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN22 0NJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 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 40 addresses are between 20 m and 29 m above sea level (24 m on average); the ground rises about 9 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
BN22 0JG100%100%100%0%
BN22 0JH100%100%100%0%
BN22 0JJ100%100%100%0%
BN22 0NF100%100%100%0%
BN22 0NJ100%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 stationsHampden Park (Sussex) 861,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Polegate 1.1 million journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.3 miles)
Eastbourne 3.8 million journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 32 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coopers Hill Willingdon220 m
Ferry terminalNewhaven Harbour Ferry Terminal14.1 km (8.8 miles)
Car parksMobit Airport Parking2.2 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging pointsevyve Charging Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW49.3 km (31 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 surgeriesPark Practice1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy460 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pure Dental Surgery Limited1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalEastbourne District General Hospital2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Police stationHammonds Drive Police Station3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM450 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 gardenHampden Park Arboretum and History Garden 15 ha1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 380 m²330 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha320 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,880 m²1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, a listed building (Grade I), 320 m south. 29 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Parish Church of St Mary the VirginListed building, Grade I320 m south
The HooListed building, Grade I360 m south
The HooRegistered park or garden, Grade II*390 m south
Garden Walls and 2 Gazebos on South Side of Nos 1 to 11Listed building, Grade II*410 m (0.3 miles) south
Saucer barrow on Cold CrouchScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Bowl barrow on eastern summit of Combe HillScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Saucer barrow on Combe HillScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tas CombeValley670 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Allotment BeltWood920 m (0.6 miles) south
The CoppiceWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Combe HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Shinewater LakeLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) east
Eastbourne BeachBeach4.6 km (2.9 miles) south-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)5.54010
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
55 to 5960
Under 553440

6 of the street's 40 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 Wealden: see them on the Wealden 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
Oakwood Primary AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Willingdon Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Eastbourne AcademySecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Inadequate; Behaviour and attitudes: Inadequate; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Inadequate
Parkland Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Parkland Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Willingdon Community SchoolSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Ratton SchoolSecondary11–161.4 km (0.8 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ocklynge Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good

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
Willingdon SF Connect BN20 9LARetailers - other200 m5 Very good1 Mar 2024
Thai Village Restaurant BN20 9HRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good6 Feb 2025
The Pantry Coffee House Ltd BN20 9HRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good9 Dec 2025
Chalk Farm Hotel BN20 9JDHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house370 m5 Very good27 Mar 2025
Tesco BN22 0PSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 May 2024
Wonderland House Ltd BN22 0PRTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Feb 2026
Downsview Butchers BN22 0PRRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory4 Aug 2025
Trawlers BN22 0PRTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Feb 2026
Cafe Willingdon BN22 0PRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Nov 2025
Domino's Pizza BN22 0PRTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 May 2025
Willingdon Village Stores Ltd BN20 9HLRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Feb 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.

24 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting9
Anti-social behaviour4
Violence and sexual offences3
Other theft2
Other crime2
Burglary2
Criminal damage and arson2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (12); On or near Downs Road (4); On or near Willingdon Way (2); On or near Chichester Close (2); On or near Goodwood Close (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 578 residents in 271 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 age6040
Children under 158%17%
Aged 65 and over39%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)95%61%
Owned outright68%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented4%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work45%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)46%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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.

Nearby streets

Chichester Close · Summerlands Road · Willingdon Way · Canterbury Close · Eastbourne Road · Exeter Close · Winchester Way · St Mary's Close · Cleevelands · Goodwood Close · Tas Combe Way · Gloucester Close

All the streets in BN22 and across Wealden.

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.