Fircroft Crescent Rustington, Arun

82 addresses across 5 postcodes (BN16), about 550 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 1101405.

  • Sales: 126 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £350,000 across 4 sales.
  • Energy: 52 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 7, D: 36, E: 8).
  • Flood: 2 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 C; 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 Angmering, about 660 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Brookfield Park, is about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 6 to 8 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 82 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Willow Green Surgery, about 600 m (0.4 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 490 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 110 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20254£350,000£297,445£450,000
20242£402,500£395,000£410,000
20236£412,500£375,000£473,120
20222£468,750£447,500£490,000
20211£335,000£335,000£335,000
20202£440,000£410,000£470,000
20192£404,000£348,000£460,000
20188£346,000£280,000£440,000
20171£425,000£425,000£425,000
20151£284,950£284,950£284,950
20144£280,000£225,000£299,950
20135£207,000£185,000£245,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 126)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Nov 202579 BN16 3HTDetached£375,000
17 Oct 2025101 BN16 3HTSemi-detached£325,000
19 Sep 202565 BN16 3HSDetached£450,000
24 Jan 202591 BN16 3HTSemi-detached£297,445
28 Jun 202433 BN16 3HSDetached£395,000
22 May 202451 BN16 3HSDetached£410,000
27 Nov 202395 BN16 3HTSemi-detached£375,000
24 Oct 20238 BN16 3HPDetached£473,120
5 Sep 202339 BN16 3HSSemi-detached£390,000
18 Aug 202317 BN16 3HPDetached£400,000
31 Mar 202331 BN16 3HSDetached£425,000
23 Mar 202312 BN16 3HSDetached£425,000
15 Aug 202267 BN16 3HSDetached£447,500
6 Jul 202259 BN16 3HSDetached£490,000
29 Jun 202183 BN16 3HTSemi-detached£335,000
12 Nov 202085 BN16 3HTDetached£410,000
20 Mar 202060 BN16 3HTDetached£470,000
4 Sep 201929 BN16 3HSDetached£460,000
18 Apr 201944 BN16 3HSSemi-detached£348,000
21 Sep 201854 BN16 3HTDetached£360,000
3 Aug 201857 BN16 3HSDetached£280,000
24 Jul 201824 BN16 3HSDetached£385,000
21 Jun 201830 BN16 3HSDetached£440,000
6 Jun 201812 BN16 3HSDetached£335,000
6 Jun 201871 BN16 3HSSemi-detached£292,500
8 Mar 201843 BN16 3HSDetached£357,000
18 Jan 201830 BN16 3HSDetached£296,000
20 Apr 201728 BN16 3HSDetached£425,000
7 Aug 201577 BN16 3HSSemi-detached£284,950
6 Oct 201447 BN16 3HSDetached£299,950
13 Aug 201411 BN16 3HPDetached£275,000
17 Jul 201462 BN16 3HTSemi-detached£225,000
23 Jun 201464 BN16 3HTSemi-detached£285,000
26 Jul 201345 BN16 3HSDetached£205,000
20 May 20132 BN16 3HPSemi-detached£185,000
10 May 201389 BN16 3HTSemi-detached£207,000
9 May 201391 BN16 3HTSemi-detached£230,000
3 May 201359 BN16 3HSDetached£245,000
13 Dec 201251 BN16 3HSDetached£224,000
29 Nov 201283 BN16 3HTSemi-detached£184,000
31 Aug 201260 BN16 3HTDetached£282,000
22 Jun 201240 BN16 3HSDetached£230,000
15 Mar 201255 BN16 3HSSemi-detached£247,000
9 Jan 201239 BN16 3HSSemi-detached£170,000
22 Dec 20118 BN16 3HPDetached£275,000
15 Nov 20116 BN16 3HPDetached£266,500
5 Aug 20113 BN16 3HPSemi-detached£250,000
17 Jun 201155 BN16 3HSSemi-detached£175,000
24 May 20118 BN16 3HPDetached£250,000
7 Apr 201193 BN16 3HTSemi-detached£183,000

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 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

52 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 83 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (36); Bungalow, semi-detached (15); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (45); 1967-1975 (4); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (39).

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (30% of about 1,880 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 11 September 2026 to 14 September 2026: SOUTHERN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 2 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
BN16 3HSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
BN16 3HTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN16 3HPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN16 3HLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN16 3JNnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 1 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 82 addresses are between 6 m and 8 m above sea level (7 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
BN16 3HL100%100%100%0%
BN16 3HP100%100%100%0%
BN16 3HS100%100%100%0%
BN16 3HT100%100%100%0%
BN16 3JN100%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 stationsAngmering 843,000 journeys in 2024–25660 m (0.4 miles)
Littlehampton 804,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Goring-By-Sea 549,000 journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sainsbury's Rustington170 m
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Apcoa700 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station110 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW43 km (27 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Willow Green Surgery600 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kamsons Pharmacy600 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Croft Dental Surgery370 m
HospitalZachary Merton Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationSussex Police - Littlehampton Police Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM620 m (0.4 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 gardenBrookfield Park 8.9 ha1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,990 m²430 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.9 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,550 m²490 m (0.3 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Parish Church of St Mary, a listed building (Grade I), 800 m (0.5 miles) south-east. 17 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 MaryListed building, Grade I800 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Romano-British villa and traces of Iron Age occupation 500m WSW of New BarnScheduled monument1.5 km (1 mile) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Decoy WoodWood2.2 km (1.3 miles) north
Steyne WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north
Orchard RoughWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) north
Littlehampton BeachBeach3.3 km (2 miles) south-west
Highdown HillHill3.6 km (2.3 miles) east
Patching PondLake or reservoir4 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)6.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.34015

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
60 to 6401
55 to 59512
Under 557769

5 of the street's 82 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 13 from railways, 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
Georgian Gardens Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11480 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rustington Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Summerlea Community Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Angmering SchoolSecondary11–191.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
East Preston Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
East Preston Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Wilfrids Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Sainsbury's BN16 3RTRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets100 m5 Very good1 Apr 2026
Caffe Pausa BN16 3RTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good12 Feb 2026
Costa Coffee BN16 3RTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good20 Aug 2026
Starbucks Coffee BN16 3RTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good11 Nov 2025
Charcoal Grill BN16 3JXTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m5 Very good12 Feb 2026
The Great Wall BN16 3JXTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m5 Very good12 Feb 2026
Rustington's Premier BN16 3JXRetailers - other360 m5 Very good28 Jul 2025
Aaru Food and Wine BN16 3RPRetailers - other360 m5 Very good11 May 2026
Sundarban BN16 3JXTakeaway/sandwich shop390 mAwaiting inspection
Charlottes Kitchen BN16 3JXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good13 Mar 2025
Uncle Sams Hamburger Express BN16 3JXTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good2 Dec 2025
THE HIVE BN16 3JJSchool/college/university470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Sep 2023
ISS @ Georgian Gardens Community Primary School BN16 3JJSchool/college/university470 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Aldi Stores Ltd BN16 3FHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Nov 2021
Costa Ltd BN16 3FHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Dec 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.

110 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour50
Shoplifting36
Violence and sexual offences9
Robbery6
Other theft3
Public order2
Criminal damage and arson1
Burglary1
Theft from the person1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Northcourt Close (51); On or near Fircroft Crescent (26); On or near Mill Close (24); On or near Richmond Close (4); On or near Lawrence Avenue (2).

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: 489 residents in 234 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 age6440
Children under 157%17%
Aged 65 and over48%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright67%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work42%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)50%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 6 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

Mill Close · Windmill Drive · Northcourt Close · Lawrence Avenue · Canterbury Road · New Road · Richmond Close · Park Drive · Mill Lane · Orchard Gardens · East Court Way · Mill Lane

All the streets in BN16 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.