Highfield Wick, Arun

87 addresses across 3 postcodes (BN17), about 310 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 1101133.

36 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £60,000 across 1 sale. 57 homes have an energy certificate (C: 23, D: 27, E: 7). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Arun costs £2,487 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Littlehampton, about 1.2 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden is about 100 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. It is about 7 m above sea level. 39 of its 87 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Acf Medical Group, about 1.9 km away. About 420 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 20% of households owned their home and 15% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 124 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
20251£60,000£60,000£60,000
20241£45,000£45,000£45,000
20221£180,000£180,000£180,000
20211£145,000£145,000£145,000
20152£98,475£47,000£149,950
20102£84,975£57,000£112,950
20082£71,500£45,000£98,000
20075£107,000£82,000£147,000
20064£95,250£27,500£110,000
20043£90,500£40,000£97,000
20023£60,000£20,000£84,950
20012£14,875£14,750£15,000
Most recent sales (36)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 May 2025FLAT 9, MARDEN HOUSE BN17 7EUFlat or maisonette£60,000Leasehold.
15 Aug 2024FLAT 23, MARDEN HOUSE BN17 7EUFlat or maisonette£45,000Leasehold.
17 Feb 2022FLAT 12, MARDEN HOUSE BN17 7EUFlat or maisonette£180,000Leasehold.
28 Sep 2021FLAT 7, MARDEN HOUSE BN17 7EUFlat or maisonette£145,000Leasehold.
3 Apr 2017FLAT 11, SINGLETON HOUSE BN17 7EXFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Aug 20151, HIGHFIELD COTTAGES BN17 7DNTerraced£149,950
15 Jun 2015FLAT 13, MARDEN HOUSE BN17 7EUFlat or maisonette£47,000Leasehold.
15 Oct 2010FLAT 8, MARDEN HOUSE BN17 7EUFlat or maisonette£112,950Leasehold.
27 Sep 2010FLAT 24, MARDEN HOUSE BN17 7EUFlat or maisonette£57,000Leasehold.
29 Aug 2008FLAT 19, MARDEN HOUSE BN17 7EUFlat or maisonette£98,000Leasehold.
9 Jan 2008FLAT 22, MARDEN HOUSE BN17 7EUFlat or maisonette£45,000Leasehold.
29 Aug 2007FLAT 5, PAGHAM HOUSE BN17 7EXFlat or maisonette£107,000Leasehold.
11 Jun 2007FLAT 10, PAGHAM HOUSE BN17 7EXFlat or maisonette£102,000Leasehold.
26 Apr 2007FLAT 10, PAGHAM HOUSE BN17 7EXFlat or maisonette£82,000Leasehold.
12 Jan 20075, HIGHFIELD COTTAGES BN17 7DNTerraced£147,000
5 Jan 2007FLAT 12, MARDEN HOUSE BN17 7EUFlat or maisonette£126,000Leasehold.
7 Dec 2006FLAT 19, MARDEN HOUSE BN17 7EUFlat or maisonette£110,000Leasehold.
3 Nov 2006FLAT 20, MARDEN HOUSE BN17 7EUFlat or maisonette£27,500Leasehold.
10 Jul 2006FLAT 11, SINGLETON HOUSE BN17 7EXFlat or maisonette£98,000Leasehold.
6 Jan 2006FLAT 21, MARDEN HOUSE BN17 7EUFlat or maisonette£92,500Leasehold.
21 Dec 2004FLAT 11, SINGLETON HOUSE BN17 7EXFlat or maisonette£97,000Leasehold.
6 Jul 2004FLAT 22, MARDEN HOUSE BN17 7EUFlat or maisonette£40,000Leasehold.
9 Jan 2004FLAT 10, PAGHAM HOUSE BN17 7EXFlat or maisonette£90,500Leasehold.
23 Oct 2002FLAT 11, SINGLETON HOUSE BN17 7EXFlat or maisonette£84,950Leasehold.
20 Sep 2002FLAT 2, MARDEN HOUSE BN17 7EUFlat or maisonette£20,000Leasehold.
1 Mar 2002FLAT 10, PAGHAM HOUSE BN17 7EXFlat or maisonette£60,000Leasehold.
15 Oct 2001FLAT 3, MARDEN HOUSE BN17 7EUFlat or maisonette£15,000Leasehold.
31 May 2001FLAT 11, MARDEN HOUSE BN17 7EUFlat or maisonette£14,750Leasehold.
28 May 19998, FELPHAM HOUSE BN17 7EUFlat or maisonette£39,000Leasehold.
13 May 19995, HIGHFIELD COTTAGES BN17 7DNTerraced£51,500
16 Jun 19985, HIGHFIELD COTTAGES BN17 7DNTerraced£22,000
17 Nov 19975, HIGHFIELD COTTAGES BN17 7DNTerraced£26,000
29 Aug 19973, HIGHFIELD COTTAGES BN17 7DNTerraced£43,950
29 Apr 1997FLAT 11, SINGLETON HOUSE BN17 7EXFlat or maisonette£28,950Leasehold.
14 Mar 19973, HIGHFIELD COTTAGES BN17 7DNTerraced£30,000
10 Feb 1997FLAT 6, MARDEN HOUSE BN17 7EUFlat or maisonette£13,995Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

57 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 70 m². Most common: Flat (53); House, end-terrace (3); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1967-1975 (33); 1950-1966 (14); 1991-1995 (5). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (24); owner-occupied (11); rented (private) (4).

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 B (56% of about 590 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.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

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

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.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 7 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
BN17 7DN100%100%100%0%
BN17 7EU86%0%0%0%
BN17 7EX78%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 stationsLittlehampton 804,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km
Ford 117,000 journeys in 2024–252.0 km
Arundel 309,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m, 11 within 800 m; nearest Elspring Mead Littlehampton220 m
Car parksSt Martins Car Park1.3 km
EV charging points12 within 1.6 km; nearest Clun Road90 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW45.0 km

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 surgeriesAcf Medical Group1.9 km
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy420 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dental Surgery820 m
HospitalLittlehampton Hospital1.7 km
Police stationLittlehampton Police Station1.5 km
Cash machinesShell East Field Cashzone2.1 km

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; nearest Unnamed 2,620 m²100 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 5.2 ha530 m
Play area9 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 750 m²90 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.3 ha800 m
Allotments1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 8,060 m²560 m

Within 800 m: 3 parks and gardens, 6.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Medieval earthworks E and SE of St Mary's Church, a scheduled monument, 1.5 km west. 5 listed buildings are within 1.0 km.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Medieval earthworks E and SE of St Mary's ChurchScheduled monument1.5 km west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Knucker HoleLake or reservoir1.9 km north
Lobs WoodWood2.0 km south-east
West BeachBeach2.2 km south
Littlehampton BeachBeach2.3 km south-east
The Withy BedsWood2.7 km north-west
Park BottomValley4.2 km north

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)6.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)10.34015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 59390
Under 554887

39 of the street's 87 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
White Meadows Primary AcademyPrimary2–11670 m No published inspection
Lyminster Primary SchoolPrimary4–11930 m Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Catherine's Catholic Primary School, Littlehampton Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
River Beach Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km 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
The Littlehampton Academy ChristianSecondary11–181.5 km Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Mary's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.9 km No published inspection

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Mace Express BN17 7JDRetailers - other170 m5 Very good31 Oct 2016
Chilgrove Community hub Other catering premises220 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Sep 2026
AA mini market BN17 7ERRetailers - other290 m5 Very good24 Feb 2022
Tesco Family Dining BN17 5RARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets300 m5 Very good14 Oct 2025
Tesco Superstore BN17 5RARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets300 m5 Very good9 Apr 2026
Wickes BN17 5RARetailers - other300 m5 Very good17 Dec 2020
Kingley Premier BN17 7FARetailers - other340 m5 Very good28 Mar 2024
SHANCOCSM LTD BN17 7GARetailers - other420 m5 Very good24 Mar 2025
Currys BN17 5RARetailers - other450 mExempt

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.

124 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences60
Anti-social behaviour21
Criminal damage and arson13
Drugs9
Public order7
Other theft7
Burglary3
Vehicle crime2
Other crime1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Highfield (45); On or near Phoenix Close (27); On or near Latham Close (23); On or near Slindon Walk (18); On or near Thorgate Road (11).

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: 416 residents in 145 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 age2940
Children under 1531%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)20%61%
Owned outright10%33%
Shared ownership7%1%
Social rented66%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)12%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle21%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)15%34%
No qualifications34%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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

Phoenix Close · Thorgate Road · Heo Green · Eldon Way · White Acre · White Acre · Greenfields · Latham Close · Belloc Road · Elspring Mead · Egan Way · Helyer's Green

All the streets in BN17 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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.