Downview Road Ferring, Arun

20 addresses across 1 postcode (BN12), about 220 m long, classed as a local access road. USRN 1102442.

  • Sales: 29 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £760,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 7, E: 1, F: 1).
  • Flood: 9 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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 Arun costs £2,487 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Goring-By-Sea, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Highdown Gardens, is about 800 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 5 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 20 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Barn Surgery, about 540 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 94% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 15 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
20221£760,000£760,000£760,000
20211£683,000£683,000£683,000
20191£380,000£380,000£380,000
20181£417,000£417,000£417,000
20161£477,000£477,000£477,000
20143£329,950£315,000£500,000
20131£547,500£547,500£547,500
20122£275,000£235,000£315,000
20081£200,000£200,000£200,000
20051£185,000£185,000£185,000
20041£295,000£295,000£295,000
20031£233,000£233,000£233,000
Most recent sales (29)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Feb 20225 BN12 6QRDetached£760,000
4 Feb 202115 BN12 6QRDetached£683,000
28 Oct 20194 BN12 6QRDetached£380,000
8 Oct 201811 BN12 6QRDetached£417,000
5 Oct 20162 BN12 6QRDetached£477,000
24 Nov 201416 BN12 6QRDetached£500,000
8 Sep 20149 BN12 6QRDetached£315,000
5 Sep 20148 BN12 6QRDetached£329,950
2 Sep 20135 BN12 6QRDetached£547,500
12 Nov 20124 BN12 6QRDetached£235,000
28 Feb 201210 BN12 6QRDetached£315,000
20 Jun 200816 BN12 6QRDetached£200,000
22 Jul 20053 BN12 6QRDetached£185,000
10 Sep 20045 BN12 6QRDetached£295,000
17 Mar 20031 BN12 6QRDetached£233,000
20 Jun 20022 BN12 6QRDetached£218,000
7 Jun 20029 BN12 6QRDetached£191,500
22 May 200215 BN12 6QRDetached£284,500
3 May 200219 BN12 6QRDetached£205,000
2 Aug 20018 BN12 6QRDetached£160,000
16 Jul 20011 BN12 6QRDetached£125,000
11 Aug 200015 BN12 6QRDetached£133,950
15 Jun 199919 BN12 6QRDetached£129,600
26 Feb 199818 BN12 6QRDetached£115,000
8 Aug 19975 BN12 6QRDetached£86,000
10 Apr 19979 BN12 6QRDetached£89,500
12 Dec 199610 BN12 6QRDetached£89,855
2 Aug 19962 BN12 6QRDetached£77,500
8 Sep 19957 BN12 6QRDetached£84,000

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

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 101 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (10); House, detached (2). Built: 1930-1949 (8); 1900-1929 (2); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8).

Council tax

What each band costs in Arun in 2026-27: Band D £2,487 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,658£1,935£2,211£2,487£3,040£3,593£4,145£4,974

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (36% of about 880 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, 9 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 18 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 9 medium, 1 low and 0 very low.

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: the postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

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 addresses are about 5 m above sea level.

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
BN12 6QR100%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 stationsGoring-By-Sea 549,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Durrington-On-Sea 507,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Angmering 843,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Highdown Way Ferring140 m
Car parksAsda Ferring Car Park880 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations410 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW41.2 km (26 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 Barn Surgery540 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy400 m (0.2 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery400 m (0.2 miles)
HospitalGoring Hall Hospital1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationWorthing Durrington Police Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Southern Co-operative Ferring Ferring Street, Ferring420 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 gardenHighdown Gardens 12 ha800 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 670 m²350 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,660 m²320 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,180 m²300 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Parish Church of St Andrew, a listed building (Grade I), 680 m (0.4 miles) south. 19 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Parish Church of St AndrewListed building, Grade I680 m (0.4 miles) south
HighdownRegistered park or garden, Grade II*910 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Highdown Hill Camp: A Ram's Hill type enclosure, an Anglo-Saxon cemetery and associated remainsScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Highdown HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Highdown CopseWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Ham SpinneyWood1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Street's CopseWood1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Northbrook PondLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Cote BottomValley4 km (2.5 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)6.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)9.64015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road 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 5910
Under 551920

1 of the street's 20 addresses is 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 Arun: see them on the Arun 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
Ferring C of E Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11710 m (0.4 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Oscar Romero Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding

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
The Henty Arms BN12 6QYPub/bar/nightclub310 m5 Very good19 Aug 2025
Sea Spray BN12 5JPTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m5 Very good25 Nov 2025
Ferring Kebab House BN12 5JPTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m4 Good10 Mar 2026
Ferring News BN12 5JPRetailers - other370 m5 Very good14 Jul 2022
John May Butchers BN12 5JPRetailers - other380 m5 Very good27 Aug 2024
Restaurante Andalucia BN12 5JPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good25 Nov 2025
On Your Doorstep BN12 5JPRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)3 Generally satisfactory11 Mar 2026
Siena Co-operative Ltd T/A The Southern Co-operative BN12 5JPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Oct 2025
Rassasy BN12 5JPRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Sep 2024
Beehive Care Group BN12 5JPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Jan 2020
D-Cafe BN12 5JPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Mar 2024
Beehive Care Group BN12 5HLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Feb 2026
Ferring Country Centre BN12 5JZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Mar 2024

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.

15 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences6
Vehicle crime4
Anti-social behaviour2
Burglary1
Criminal damage and arson1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Langbury Lane (5); On or near Brookside Close (2); On or near Highdown Close (2); On or near Downview Avenue (2); On or near Rifeside Gardens (1).

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: 273 residents in 136 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 age6540
Children under 157%17%
Aged 65 and over49%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)94%61%
Owned outright69%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work40%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)51%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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

Highdown Way · Cissbury Road · Highdown Way · Highdown Close · Downview Avenue · Orchard Close · Langbury Lane · Brookside Close · Hangleton Grange · St Mary's Gardens · Littlehampton Road · West Onslow Close

All the streets in BN12 and across Arun.

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.