Holcombe Road Upton, Dorset

28 addresses across 1 postcode (BH16), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 30800856.

  • Sales: 31 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £172,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 7, D: 6, E: 2).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 Dorset costs £2,765 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 93% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Hamworthy, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Meadow Garden, is about 830 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 5 to 7 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Adam Practice, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 350 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 89% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 23 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
20241£172,500£172,500£172,500
20231£300,000£300,000£300,000
20161£134,950£134,950£134,950
20144£119,000£110,000£237,500
20131£225,000£225,000£225,000
20113£109,500£72,000£182,000
20092£157,500£145,000£170,000
20081£240,000£240,000£240,000
20071£130,000£130,000£130,000
20062£182,000£180,000£184,000
20051£177,000£177,000£177,000
20041£215,000£215,000£215,000
Most recent sales (31)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Aug 20246 BH16 5LDFlat or maisonette£172,500Leasehold.
11 Aug 202311 BH16 5LDDetached£300,000
8 Dec 202017 BH16 5LDDetached£295,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Aug 201610 BH16 5LDFlat or maisonette£134,950Leasehold.
19 Sep 20146 BH16 5LDFlat or maisonette£110,000Leasehold.
15 Aug 20143 BH16 5LDSemi-detached£237,500
21 Feb 201410 BH16 5LDFlat or maisonette£113,000Leasehold.
10 Jan 201412 BH16 5LDFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
25 Feb 201316 BH16 5LDSemi-detached£225,000
17 Jun 20116 BH16 5LDFlat or maisonette£109,500Leasehold.
4 Mar 201117 BH16 5LDDetached£182,000
11 Feb 20116 BH16 5LDFlat or maisonette£72,000Leasehold.
27 Nov 200918 BH16 5LDSemi-detached£170,000
28 Aug 200928 BH16 5LDFlat or maisonette£145,000Leasehold.
24 Apr 200815 BH16 5LDDetached£240,000
20 Sep 200730 BH16 5LDFlat or maisonette£130,000Leasehold.
19 May 200622 BH16 5LDTerraced£184,000
27 Apr 20065 BH16 5LDDetached£180,000
26 Sep 20051 BH16 5LDSemi-detached£177,000
2 Jul 20047 BH16 5LDDetached£215,000
27 Nov 200316 BH16 5LDSemi-detached£170,000
16 May 200319 BH16 5LDDetached£210,000
13 Jun 20027 BH16 5LDDetached£157,000
12 Apr 200230 BH16 5LDFlat or maisonette£77,500Leasehold.
4 Jan 20027 BH16 5LDDetached£118,000
15 Mar 200110 BH16 5LDFlat or maisonette£55,000Leasehold.
21 Dec 200028 BH16 5LDFlat or maisonette£77,000Leasehold.
11 Sep 199810 BH16 5LDFlat or maisonette£37,500Leasehold.
31 Jul 199830 BH16 5LDFlat or maisonette£48,500Leasehold.
19 May 19958 BH16 5LDFlat or maisonette£36,000Leasehold.
16 Mar 19952 BH16 5LDSemi-detached£59,950

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

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 73 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (5); House, detached (4); House, semi-detached (4). Built: 1950-1966 (6); 2007-2011 (2); 2010 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Dorset in 2026-27: Band D £2,765 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,843£2,151£2,458£2,765£3,379£3,994£4,608£5,530

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (29% of about 900 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 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 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 4 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 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 28 addresses are between 5 m and 7 m above sea level (6 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
BH16 5LD100%93%93%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 stationsHamworthy 145,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Poole 965,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Holton Heath 42,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pearce Road Upton70 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Poole4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Ferry terminalPoole Ferry Terminal Lower Hamworthy4.2 km (2.6 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station510 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH14.5 km (9 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS86.3 km (54 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 Adam Practice2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy320 m
NHS dentistsDental Centre1.9 km (1.2 miles)
HospitalSt Mary's Hospital4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Police stationDorset Police4.1 km (2.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barclays ATM410 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 gardenMeadow Garden 830 m²830 m (0.5 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 920 m²570 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.6 ha450 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha660 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Upton WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Lytchett BayBay1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Rockley ValeValley1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Gorse HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Rockley PointWetland2 km (1.2 miles) south
Kingsbridge LakesLake or reservoir2.7 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)5.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)8.64015

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
Under 552828

None of the street's 28 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Dorset: see them on the Dorset 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
Upton Infant SchoolPrimary4–7220 m No published inspection
Upton Junior SchoolPrimary7–11300 m Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bayside AcademyPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Lytchett Minster SchoolSecondary11–191.9 km (1.2 miles) 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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Star Cuisine@ Upton Infants School BH16 5LQSchool/college/university150 m5 Very good12 Nov 2025
Drovers Retreat Bed and Breakfast BH16 5LLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house230 m5 Very good29 Apr 2019
Dorset Pizza Kitchen BH16 5LXTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good21 Jul 2026
Yarrells Preparatory School BH16 5EUSchool/college/university250 m5 Very good24 Jun 2025
Upton News and Wine BH16 5JSRetailers - other280 m5 Very good21 Jan 2025
The Phat Fryer BH16 5JSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good21 Jan 2025
CHIPPEE KI-YAY BH16 5LUTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m5 Very good28 May 2025
Costa Coffee BH16 5NJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good9 May 2025
Star Cuisine @ Upton Junior School BH16 5NQSchool/college/university330 m5 Very good17 Oct 2025
SPAR Upton BH16 5PGRetailers - other380 m5 Very good24 Jul 2026
Upton Central BH16 5PGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good9 May 2025
Domino's Pizza BH16 5PGTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m5 Very good9 May 2025
Upton Manor Care Home BH16 5NJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises390 m5 Very good27 Apr 2026

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.

23 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences10
Anti-social behaviour7
Other theft3
Criminal damage and arson2
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Holcombe Road (4); On or near Otter Close (3); On or near Moorland Way (3); On or near Moorland Crescent (3); On or near Cherry Hill Grove (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: 350 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 age4740
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)89%61%
Owned outright49%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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

Moorland Way · Birchwood Road · Chelmsford Road · Woodcote Drive · Pearce Road · Guest Road · Sandy Lane · Moorland Crescent · Heatherdell · Cherry Hill Grove · Otter Close · Pinewood Road

All the streets in BH16 and across Dorset.

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.