Holmbush Close Southwick, Adur

20 addresses across 2 postcodes (BN43), about 170 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 200573.

  • Sales: 17 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £482,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 6, 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 Adur costs £2,548 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Southwick, about 1.7 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Southlands Village Green, is about 920 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 33 to 40 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 20 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Mile Oak Medical Centre, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 46 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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£482,500£482,500£482,500
20231£375,000£375,000£375,000
20193£350,000£310,000£394,000
20171£350,000£350,000£350,000
20131£245,000£245,000£245,000
20082£248,473£246,995£249,950
20071£249,999£249,999£249,999
20061£240,000£240,000£240,000
20054£192,000£100,000£240,000
19981£73,000£73,000£73,000
19961£65,000£65,000£65,000
Most recent sales (17)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Feb 20256 BN43 6TTTerraced£482,500
6 Jul 202314 BN43 6TTSemi-detached£375,000
6 Nov 20194 BN43 6TTSemi-detached£394,000
3 Sep 201915 BN43 6TTSemi-detached£310,000
22 Aug 20191 BN43 6TTDetached£350,000
8 Dec 20179 BN43 6TTSemi-detached£350,000
28 Nov 20135 BN43 6TTSemi-detached£245,000
6 Jun 200813 BN43 6TTSemi-detached£246,995
23 Apr 200810 BN43 6TTTerraced£249,950
4 Apr 20072 BN43 6TTDetached£249,999
17 Feb 20063 BN43 6TTDetached£240,000
30 Nov 20058 BN43 6TTTerraced£240,000
15 Jun 20056 BN43 6TTTerraced£196,000
1 Jun 20058 BN43 6TTTerraced£188,000
14 Apr 20052 BN43 6TTDetached£100,000
12 May 199816 BN43 6TTSemi-detached£73,000
10 May 199615 BN43 6TTSemi-detached£65,000

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 December 2012 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 79 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (8); Bungalow, detached (1); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1967-1975 (6); 1950-1966 (2); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Adur in 2026-27: Band D £2,548 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,699£1,982£2,265£2,548£3,115£3,681£4,247£5,097

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (51% of about 650 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: 3 protected trees on or by this street.
  • 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 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 20 addresses are between 33 m and 40 m above sea level (37 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
BN43 6TP100%100%100%0%
BN43 6TT100%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 stationsSouthwick 342,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Shoreham-By-Sea 1.3 million journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Fishersgate 97,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Holmbush Centre Shoreham-by-Sea230 m
Bus or coach stationSainsbury's West Hove Portslade2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Car parksTarmount Lane Car Park2.3 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station60 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW34 km (21 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mile Oak Medical Centre1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy580 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Windmill Dental Practice1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalSouthlands Hospital910 m (0.6 miles)
Police stationShoreham Police Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Southwick Square, Southwick Cashzone1.4 km (0.9 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 gardenSouthlands Village Green 9,860 m²920 m (0.6 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,250 m²380 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hillview Allotment 9,230 m²710 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Romano-British villa at Manor Hall Road, Southwick, a scheduled monument, 1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Romano-British villa at Manor Hall Road, SouthwickScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Martin Down style enclosure, bowl barrow, Iron Age hillfort, Romano-British village and associated field system on Thundersbarrow HillScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) north
Old manor house (remains of), Portslade-By-SeaScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Slonk HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Southwick HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Whitelot BottomValley1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Kingston BeachBeach1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
West LakeLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-west
Badgerhole ShawWood4.1 km (2.6 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)8.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.64015

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
55 to 5920
Under 551820

2 of the street's 20 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 Adur: see them on the Adur 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
Holmbush Primary AcademyPrimary2–11200 m No published inspection
Shoreham Academy ChristianSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Glebe Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mile Oak Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Peter's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Portslade Aldridge Community AcademySecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Nicolas & St Mary CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Eastbrook Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Buckingham Park Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Peter Gladwin Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 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
West Sussex County Council BN43 6TNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises130 m5 Very good26 Jan 2024
Hungry Herons BN43 6TNSchool/college/university130 m5 Very good16 Nov 2023
HCL at Holmbush Primary BN43 6TNOther catering premises130 m5 Very good21 Sep 2026
Tesco BN43 6TDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets210 m5 Very good21 Sep 2023
McDonalds BN43 6TDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good11 Nov 2025
Costa BN43 6TDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good23 Aug 2023
Costa Coffee BN43 6TDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good19 Aug 2024
Yo! To Go! BN43 6TDTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good31 Oct 2025
Junior Adventures Group @ Quayside BN42 4REHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Aug 2026
Nutmegs Cafe BN43 6TERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good23 Sep 2026
Victory Convenience Store BN43 6TERetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Feb 2022

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.

46 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting15
Anti-social behaviour12
Violence and sexual offences9
Other theft3
Public order2
Vehicle crime1
Theft from the person1
Criminal damage and arson1
Robbery1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shopping Area (40); On or near Hawkins Close (4); On or near Hawkins Crescent (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: 603 residents in 248 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 age5040
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright54%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van52%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%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

Hawkins Crescent · Hawkins Close · Shoreham Bypass · Shoreham Bypass · Upper Kingston Lane · Hawkins Road · Mulberry Close

All the streets in BN43 and across Adur.

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.