Fontwell Close Fontwell, Arun

18 addresses across 1 postcode (BN18), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 1101210.

  • Sales: 29 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £356,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 3, E: 2).
  • 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 Arun costs £2,487 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barnham, about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, The Green, is about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 31 to 32 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 18 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Croft Surgery, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 510 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 34% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 111 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often other theft.

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£356,500£356,500£356,500
20242£455,000£420,000£490,000
20221£450,000£450,000£450,000
20211£470,000£470,000£470,000
20121£310,000£310,000£310,000
20112£310,000£305,000£315,000
20071£308,000£308,000£308,000
20061£292,000£292,000£292,000
20052£250,000£250,000£250,000
20043£205,000£192,500£205,000
20033£245,000£244,000£250,000
20013£157,950£70,000£176,000
Most recent sales (29)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 May 20265 BN18 0SWDetached£356,500
7 Nov 20247 BN18 0SWDetached£420,000
16 Aug 202414 BN18 0SWSemi-detached£490,000
20 Jul 202218 BN18 0SWSemi-detached£450,000
29 Jun 202115 BN18 0SWDetached£470,000
2 Aug 20128 BN18 0SWDetached£310,000
8 Nov 201111 BN18 0SWDetached£305,000
28 Apr 201115 BN18 0SWDetached£315,000
28 Sep 200714 BN18 0SWSemi-detached£308,000
16 Aug 200616 BN18 0SWDetached£292,000
2 Sep 200511 BN18 0SWDetached£250,000
30 Jun 200512 BN18 0SWDetached£250,000
15 Jun 20045 BN18 0SWDetached£205,000
20 Feb 20043 BN18 0SWDetached£205,000
29 Jan 20042 BN18 0SWTerraced£192,500
12 Jun 200314 BN18 0SWSemi-detached£244,000
23 Apr 20037 BN18 0SWDetached£245,000
22 Jan 200315 BN18 0SWDetached£250,000
8 Nov 200114 BN18 0SWSemi-detached£70,000
28 Jun 200116 BN18 0SWDetached£176,000
9 Mar 20019 BN18 0SWDetached£157,950
13 Dec 19993 BN18 0SWDetached£109,950
10 Aug 19991 BN18 0SWTerraced£106,000
22 May 19988 BN18 0SWDetached£127,000
5 Jan 19987 BN18 0SWDetached£116,000
3 Nov 19971 BN18 0SWTerraced£89,950
12 May 199718 BN18 0SWSemi-detached£95,000
12 May 19974 BN18 0SWDetached£84,750
31 May 199616 BN18 0SWDetached£92,000

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 August 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 117 m². Most common: House, detached (10). Built: 1976-1982 (4); 1996-2002 (3); 1983-1990 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

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 (22% of about 780 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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.

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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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 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 18 addresses are between 31 m and 32 m above sea level (32 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
BN18 0SW88%0%0%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 stationsBarnham 1.0 million journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Ford 117,000 journeys in 2024–255.6 km (3.5 miles)
Arundel 309,000 journeys in 2024–257.2 km (4.5 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fontwell Village30 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Chichester9.7 km (6 miles)
EV charging pointsMeadsway1.6 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW46.1 km (29 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 surgeriesThe Croft Surgery1.6 km (1 mile)
PharmaciesThe Croft Pharmacy1.6 km (1 mile)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Malvern Croft770 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalArundel And District Hospital5.8 km (3.6 miles)
Police stationArundel Police Station6.8 km (4.2 miles)
Cash machinesSpar MRH Westergate1.9 km (1.2 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 gardenThe Green 2,710 m²1.6 km (1 mile)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 440 m²150 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 3.1 ha1.6 km (1 mile)
AllotmentsUnnamed 4,230 m²1.6 km (1 mile)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Denmans Garden, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 810 m (0.5 miles) west. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Denmans GardenRegistered park or garden, Grade II810 m (0.5 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Slindon WoodWood460 m (0.3 miles) north
Wandleys CopseWood680 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Slindon BottomValley810 m (0.5 miles) north
Lights PlantationWood860 m (0.5 miles) north-west
The FollyHill2.5 km (1.6 miles) north
Limmer PondLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) 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)5.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.0205
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
60 to 6410
55 to 5950
Under 551218

6 of the street's 18 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 Arun: see them on the Arun 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
Slindon CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Ormiston Six Villages AcademySecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Nov 2022, 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
The Laurels BN18 0SBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises90 m5 Very good16 Mar 2023
David Kibble Wines BN18 0SDRetailers - other100 mExempt
The Chestnuts Day Centre Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good17 Aug 2022
Travelodge Hotels Limited BN18 0SBHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house200 m5 Very good4 Mar 2026
Shell Waitrose Fontwell BN18 0SBRetailers - other200 m5 Very good13 Jan 2025
KFC - Arundel Road Fontwell BN18 0SBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good27 Jun 2024
Burger King BN18 0SBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good30 Apr 2026
Siena Co-operative Ltd T/A The Southern Co-operative BN18 0UFRetailers - other300 m5 Very good3 Sep 2025
The Old Stables BN18 0SYPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good11 Mar 2026
MJM CARE GROUP LTD BN18 0SDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good27 Jul 2026
The Weighing Room BN18 0SXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Mar 2019
Fontwell Park Racecourse BN18 0SXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good22 Sep 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.

111 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Other theft30
Violence and sexual offences27
Shoplifting24
Anti-social behaviour6
Criminal damage and arson5
Public order5
Vehicle crime4
Other crime4
Robbery2
Burglary2
Drugs1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Fontwell Close (90); On or near The Chase (10); On or near Deans Close (5); On or near The Ridings (3); On or near Orchard Way (3).

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: 505 residents in 190 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 age5240
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright42%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)56%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)34%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.

  • BN18 0SW: 18 addresses of 19 in the postcode

Nearby streets

The Chase · The Ridings · Old Bottle Way · Orchard Crescent · Smithy Close · London Road · Deans Close · London Road · Cooke Road · Alfred Day Lane · Arundel Road · Hunters Mews

All the streets in BN18 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.