Florence Place Brighton

6 addresses across 3 postcodes (BN1), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 4401134.

  • 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 A; Band D in Brighton and Hove costs £2,581 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 75% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is London Road (Brighton), about 340 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Blakers Park, is about 500 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 53 to 59 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 6 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Preston Park Surgery, about 510 m (0.3 miles) away, with 11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 30% of households owned their home and 37% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 170 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Brighton and Hove in 2026-27: Band D £2,581 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,720£2,007£2,294£2,581£3,154£3,727£4,301£5,161

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (38% of about 820 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: 3.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

  • 21 October 2026: BRIGHTON & HOVE CITY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent 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 6 addresses are between 53 m and 59 m above sea level (57 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
BN1 6JA100%99%99%0%
BN1 7BB100%75%75%0%
BN1 7GU100%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 stationsLondon Road (Brighton) 392,000 journeys in 2024–25340 m
Brighton 15 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Moulsecoomb 445,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 59 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rugby Road East Brighton20 m
Bus or coach stationLondon Road Brighton - Ditchling Rise380 m
Ferry terminalNewhaven Harbour Ferry Terminal14.3 km (8.9 miles)
Car parksTrafalgar Street Car Park1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apcoa Charging Station940 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW34.7 km (22 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 surgeries11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Preston Park Surgery510 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies14 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kamsons Pharmacy520 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists16 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fiveways Dencare390 m
HospitalBrighton General Hospital1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationBrighton Police Station1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bp - Orsett North Sf Connect, Orsett290 m

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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Blakers Park 1.8 ha500 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Preston Park 15 ha710 m (0.4 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,070 m²450 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Saunders Recreation Ground 1.7 ha550 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,760 m²260 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 18 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Numbers 17-24 and 26-32 Park Crescent, a listed building (Grade II*), 680 m (0.4 miles) south. 41 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Numbers 17-24 and 26-32 Park CrescentListed building, Grade II*680 m (0.4 miles) south
Church of St Martin and St WilfridListed building, Grade II*720 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Numbers 1-16 Including Garden Walls and Piers and Cast Iron Area RailingsListed building, Grade II*730 m (0.5 miles) south
Numbers 33-48 and Attached RailingsListed building, Grade II*770 m (0.5 miles) south
Preston Manor and Preston ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) west
Woodvale CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Hillfort, the possible remains of a Romano-Celtic temple and a group of three bowl barrows at HollingburyScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north
Whitehawk Camp causewayed enclosureScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The RookeryWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) west
Bear HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
The LakeLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
Tivoli CopseWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Whitehawk BottomValley2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Brighton BeachBeach2.3 km (1.4 miles) south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)9.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)10.44015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 5910
Under 5546

2 of the street's 6 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 Brighton and Hove: see them on the Brighton and Hove 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
Downs Junior SchoolPrimary7–1180 m Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Downs Infant SchoolPrimary5–7120 m No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Fairlight Primary SchoolPrimary3–11730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Martin's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11760 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Balfour Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Coombe Road Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Hertford Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Elm Grove Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Varndean SchoolSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stanford Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Dorothy Stringer SchoolSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College16 plus16–191.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

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
Rainbow Club BN1 6JASchool/college/university70 m5 Very good15 Jul 2025
Best Deal Convenience Store BN1 6JERetailers - other80 m3 Generally satisfactory5 Aug 2025
Downs Junior School BN1 6EDSchool/college/university110 m5 Very good30 Jan 2026
Play At Downs BN1 6EDSchool/college/university110 m5 Very good30 Sep 2026
Downs Infant School BN1 6JASchool/college/university110 m5 Very good14 Jul 2026
The Jolly Brewer Beer House BN1 6JAPub/bar/nightclub110 m5 Very good11 Jun 2026
R P Meats (Wholesale) Ltd BN1 7GWDistributors/Transporters160 m5 Very good13 Dec 2023
The Green Room BN1 6JARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good19 Feb 2024
Acorn House BN1 6JEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good5 Aug 2025
The Little Anchor BN1 7GARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good1 Oct 2024
Work Canteen BN1 7GAOther catering premises180 m5 Very good30 Sep 2025
The Hollingbury PH BN1 7GBPub/bar/nightclub220 m5 Very good29 Jun 2024
Fiveways Playcentre BN1 6DJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good20 May 2026
Bears House Nursery BN1 6EEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m5 Very good9 Jun 2026
Florence Road Market / Lark & Bloom Cafe BN1 6DJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good16 Dec 2016

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.

170 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour50
Violence and sexual offences47
Other theft17
Public order17
Criminal damage and arson14
Vehicle crime5
Drugs4
Burglary4
Possession of weapons3
Shoplifting3
Other crime2
Bicycle theft2
Robbery2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Florence Place (92); On or near Upper Hollingdean Road (28); On or near Hollingdean Lane (13); On or near St Andrews Close (9); On or near Petrol Station (8).

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: 310 residents in 134 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 age3440
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)30%61%
Owned outright10%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented26%17%
Private rented42%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van20%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%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)37%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: BRIGHTON & HOVE CITY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 21 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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.

  • BN1 6JA: 3 addresses of 106 in the postcode
  • BN1 7GU: 2 addresses
  • BN1 7BB: 1 address of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Florence Road · Hollingdean Lane · Hayloft Mews · Upper Hollingdean Road · Prince's Road · St Andrew's Road · Southdown Avenue · Oldbury Row · Ditchling Rise · Semley Road · Hollingbury Road · Ditchling Gardens

All the streets in BN1 and across Brighton and Hove.

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.