Downs View Road St Helens, Isle of Wight

92 addresses across 3 postcodes (PO33), about 460 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 82000526.

  • Sales: 130 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £217,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 56 homes have an energy certificate (A: 2, B: 3, C: 13, D: 30, E: 7, G: 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 C; Band D in Isle of Wight costs £2,626 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 90% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Brading, about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, The Green, is about 130 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 7 to 29 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 92 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St. Helens Medical Centre, about 420 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 530 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 78% of households owned their home and 34% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 9 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£217,500£217,500£217,500
20258£235,000£205,000£280,000
20243£255,000£223,000£390,000
20233£275,000£235,000£280,000
20223£260,000£220,000£313,000
20216£220,000£110,000£310,000
20204£217,500£196,000£360,000
20195£179,600£155,000£189,950
20182£173,500£148,000£199,000
20161£165,000£165,000£165,000
20154£164,500£150,000£270,000
20144£162,000£162,000£210,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 130)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Mar 20264 PO33 1YETerraced£217,500
21 Nov 202546 PO33 1YETerraced£240,000
11 Sep 202541 PO33 1YESemi-detached£230,000
3 Jul 202543 PO33 1YESemi-detached£220,000
25 Jun 202581 PO33 1YDTerraced£230,000
13 Jun 20257 PO33 1YEDetached£265,000
31 Mar 202523 PO33 1YETerraced£240,000
28 Feb 202518 PO33 1YEDetached£280,000
21 Feb 202567 PO33 1YDTerraced£205,000
4 Oct 202473 PO33 1YDTerraced£255,000
13 Sep 202491 PO33 1YDSemi-detached£223,000
10 May 202415 PO33 1YEDetached£390,000
22 Sep 202345 PO33 1YESemi-detached£275,000
3 Aug 202354 PO33 1YDSemi-detached£235,000
17 Feb 202350 PO33 1YESemi-detached£280,000
2 Sep 202281 PO33 1YDTerraced£260,000
26 Jul 202240 PO33 1YESemi-detached£313,000
18 Mar 202246 PO33 1YETerraced£220,000
20 Dec 202173 PO33 1YDTerraced£220,000
24 Jun 202145 PO33 1YESemi-detached£220,000
21 Jun 202148 PO33 1YETerraced£220,000
21 May 20211 PO33 1YEDetached£310,000
29 Mar 202199 PO33 1YDSemi-detached£110,000
14 Jan 202144 PO33 1YETerraced£220,000
4 Sep 202040 PO33 1YESemi-detached£220,000
10 Jul 20209 PO33 1YEDetached£360,000
11 Jun 202026 PO33 1YESemi-detached£215,000
27 Feb 202030 PO33 1YESemi-detached£196,000
4 Dec 201956 PO33 1YDSemi-detached£179,600
30 Sep 201973 PO33 1YDTerraced£189,950
7 Jun 201912 PO33 1YETerraced£189,950
12 Apr 201997 PO33 1YDSemi-detached£155,000
6 Feb 201921 PO33 1YETerraced£176,000
14 Dec 201852 PO33 1YESemi-detached£199,000
23 May 201841 PO33 1YESemi-detached£200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Mar 201849 PO33 1YESemi-detached£148,000
30 Mar 201647 PO33 1YESemi-detached£165,000
13 Nov 201543 PO33 1YESemi-detached£150,000
26 Oct 201524 PO33 1YESemi-detached£177,000
26 Oct 201541 PO33 1YESemi-detached£152,000
28 Jul 20159 PO33 1YEDetached£270,000
28 Aug 201415 PO33 1YEDetached£210,000
1 Apr 201462 PO33 1YDTerraced£162,000
24 Jan 201446 PO33 1YETerraced£162,000
6 Jan 201477 PO33 1YDTerraced£162,000
14 Oct 201360 PO33 1YDTerraced£144,000
30 Sep 201345 PO33 1YESemi-detached£153,000
5 Feb 201350 PO33 1YESemi-detached£169,950
31 Jan 201351 PO33 1YESemi-detached£148,000
31 Aug 201229 PO33 1YEDetached£133,350Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

56 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 81 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (25); House, detached (9); House, mid-terrace (8). Built: 1967-1975 (41); 1950-1966 (9); 1976-1982 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (42); rented (private) (7).

Each home's certificates and sales (31 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Isle of Wight in 2026-27: Band D £2,626 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,751£2,042£2,334£2,626£3,209£3,793£4,376£5,252

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (38% of about 720 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 22 September 2026 to 2 October 2026: SOUTHERN GAS NETWORKS PLC, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - emergency 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

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 on this street 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 92 addresses are between 7 m and 29 m above sea level (18 m on average); the ground rises about 22 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
PO33 1TH100%100%100%0%
PO33 1YD100%100%100%0%
PO33 1YE100%90%90%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 stationsBrading 17,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Smallbrook Junction 8,980 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Ryde St Johns Road 53,000 journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Downsview Road St Helens90 m
Bus or coach stationTransport Interchange Ryde5.3 km (3.3 miles)
Ferry terminalRyde Hoverport5.2 km (3.3 miles)
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsSouthampton Airport SOU33.2 km (21 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW82.4 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St. Helens Medical Centre420 m (0.3 miles)
PharmaciesBoots1.7 km (1.1 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.5 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalGosport War Memorial Hospital11.1 km (6.9 miles)
Police stationRyde Police Station5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Cash machinesThe Southern Co-Operative Bembridge Sherbourne Street, Sherbourne Street Cashzone1.7 km (1.1 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 The Green 4.0 ha130 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)St Helen's Common 4.1 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 320 m²250 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.5 ha250 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,760 m²520 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 8.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Old Mill PondsWetland610 m (0.4 miles) east
Eight Acre CopseWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
St Helens BeachBeach1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Spring CopseWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Seagrove DellValley2 km (1.3 miles) north
Centurion's HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-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)4.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)8.94015

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 5950
Under 558792

5 of the street's 92 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 Isle of Wight: see them on the Isle of Wight page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
St Helens Primary SchoolPrimary5–11380 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Sage Coffee House PO33 1TSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good9 Oct 2025
St Helens Post Office PO33 1UNRetailers - other300 m5 Very good19 May 2025
St Helens Primary School - Compass PO33 1XHSchool/college/university350 m5 Very good16 Mar 2026
Pre-School @ ST Helens PO33 1XHSchool/college/university350 m5 Very good6 Jun 2025
St Helens Community Centre - Community Fridge PO33 1UHRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 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.

9 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences8
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Dove Close (5); On or near Downs View Road (2); On or near St Michaels Road (1); On or near Station Road (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: 526 residents in 241 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 age5540
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over32%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)78%61%
Owned outright57%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)39%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van52%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)52%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)34%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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

Hilbre Road · The Cut · Daish's Lane · Station Road · St Michaels Road · Nelsons Quay · Latimer Road · Yar Quay · Dove Close · Old Chapel Lane · Newlands · Westfield Road

All the streets in PO33 and across Isle of Wight.

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.