New Road Polegate, Wealden

22 addresses across 1 postcode (BN26), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 42701409.

  • Sales: 45 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £248,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, D: 5, E: 1).
  • 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 B; Band D in Wealden costs £2,728 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Polegate, about 340 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 16 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 12 of its 22 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Downlands Medical Centre, about 390 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 70% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 94 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£248,000£248,000£248,000
20241£205,000£205,000£205,000
20221£205,000£205,000£205,000
20211£299,950£299,950£299,950
20172£184,500£169,000£200,000
20161£250,000£250,000£250,000
20151£177,500£177,500£177,500
20131£159,950£159,950£159,950
20121£205,500£205,500£205,500
20092£166,250£123,500£209,000
20082£148,000£138,500£157,500
20071£149,000£149,000£149,000
Most recent sales (45)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Jul 202514 BN26 6ERTerraced£248,000
1 Aug 20249 BN26 6ERTerraced£205,000
30 Jun 20225 BN26 6ERTerraced£227,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Apr 20229 BN26 6ERTerraced£205,000
23 Jul 2021THE STABLE BN26 6ERDetached£299,950
11 Jun 20216 BN26 6ERTerraced£220,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Mar 201818 BN26 6ERTerraced£195,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Nov 20171 BN26 6ERTerraced£200,000
22 Jun 20175 BN26 6ERTerraced£169,000
22 Jan 2016THE STABLE BN26 6ERDetached£250,000
8 Jan 201516 BN26 6ERTerraced£177,500
22 Dec 20141 BN26 6ERTerraced£143,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Dec 201317 BN26 6ERTerraced£159,950
14 Dec 2012THE STABLE BN26 6ERDetached£205,500
5 Nov 2009THE STABLE BN26 6ERDetached£209,000
12 Oct 20095 BN26 6ERTerraced£123,500
5 Nov 200810 BN26 6ERTerraced£138,500
2 May 20081 BN26 6ERTerraced£157,500
19 Jul 20073 BN26 6ERTerraced£149,000
2 Oct 200615 BN26 6ERTerraced£133,500
12 May 20063 BN26 6ERTerraced£134,000
21 Oct 20051 BN26 6ERTerraced£115,000
12 Jul 200517 BN26 6ERTerraced£105,000
12 Mar 200415 BN26 6ERTerraced£126,000
3 Dec 200312 BN26 6ERTerraced£132,000
28 Nov 200316 BN26 6ERTerraced£128,500
3 Nov 20036 BN26 6ERTerraced£69,000
4 Apr 2003THE STABLE BN26 6ERDetached£126,000
21 Feb 20033 BN26 6ERTerraced£116,000
9 Aug 200210 BN26 6ERTerraced£94,000
7 Jun 200218 BN26 6ERTerraced£88,000
10 May 20022 BN26 6ERTerraced£77,000
21 Dec 2000THE STABLE BN26 6ERDetached£78,850
21 Dec 200015 BN26 6ERTerraced£65,000
15 Dec 20003 BN26 6ERTerraced£63,000
14 Sep 200013 BN26 6ERTerraced£68,500
16 Mar 20007 BN26 6ERTerraced£56,045
25 Feb 20002 BN26 6ERTerraced£62,000
18 Oct 199916 BN26 6ERTerraced£53,500
23 Jul 19992 BN26 6ERTerraced£40,000
26 Feb 19991 BN26 6ERTerraced£39,000
31 Mar 199818 BN26 6ERTerraced£46,500
8 Aug 1997THE STABLE BN26 6ERDetached£54,000
10 Jul 199715 BN26 6ERTerraced£25,000
16 Feb 19963 BN26 6ERTerraced£35,500

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 January 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 59 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (10); House, end-terrace (3); House, detached (1). Built: 1900-1929 (10); 1930-1949 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (2 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Wealden in 2026-27: Band D £2,728 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,819£2,122£2,425£2,728£3,335£3,941£4,547£5,457

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (41% of about 910 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 11 November 2026: BT, Utility asset works, road closure, on the footway (major (paa) works)
  • 11 November 2026: BT, Utility asset works, road closure, on the footway (major works, permit applied for)

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 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 addresses are about 16 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
BN26 6ER100%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 stationsPolegate 1.1 million journeys in 2024–25340 m
Hampden Park (Sussex) 861,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Pevensey and Westham 166,000 journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.3 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Porters Way Polegate130 m
Ferry terminalNewhaven Harbour Ferry Terminal14.2 km (8.8 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mobit Airport Parking60 m
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station3.8 km (2.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW47.4 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Downlands Medical Centre390 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Procter Health Care Pharmacy390 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Polegate Dental Surgery620 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalEastbourne District General Hospital4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Police stationHailsham Police Station4.4 km (2.7 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Polegate, High St Cashzone370 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 gardenUnnamed 1.4 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 330 m²280 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.6 ha360 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,230 m²410 m (0.3 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Remains of chapel at Otham Court, a scheduled monument, 770 m (0.5 miles) north. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Remains of chapel at Otham CourtScheduled monument770 m (0.5 miles) north
The Chapel at Otteham Court to the North West of the HouseListed building, Grade II*780 m (0.5 miles) north
Polegate WindmillListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Wootton ManorRegistered park or garden, Grade II2 km (1.2 miles) west
The HooRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wannock CoppiceWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Shepham WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
The RoughWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Wannock GlenValley2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-west
Hanging HillHill2.5 km (1.5 miles) south-west
Shinewater LakeLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-east

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)6.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)9.74015

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 59120
Under 551022

12 of the street's 22 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 Wealden: see them on the Wealden 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
Polegate Primary SchoolPrimary2–11350 m Outstanding (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Willingdon Community SchoolSecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Willingdon Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Maggie's Day Nursery BN26 6EBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises140 m5 Very good20 Feb 2026
Morrisons Daily BN26 6EHManufacturers/packers180 m5 Very good3 Dec 2025
Warm Hub Polegate Community Centre BN26 6QFRetailers - other330 m5 Very good24 Apr 2025
The Windsor Wayclub Ltd T/A The Windsor Club BN26 6QFPub/bar/nightclub330 m5 Very good7 Feb 2023
The Co-operative Group Food Limited BN26 6AQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets340 m5 Very good12 Jan 2026
The Mill Cafe BN26 6AQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m5 Very good26 Feb 2026
The Coffee Stop BN26 6AQTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m5 Very good6 Mar 2026
New Kao Wah BN26 6AGTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m4 Good19 Mar 2025
Calamar BN26 6AGTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m4 Good9 Jul 2025
The Dinkum BN26 6AGPub/bar/nightclub360 m5 Very good10 Jan 2024
Snack Attack BN26 6AJTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Aug 2025
Ramos Polegate BN26 6AJTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m5 Very good11 Mar 2025
Polegate Community Express BN26 6AHRetailers - other390 m5 Very good10 Feb 2026
Cherry Tree Eatery BN26 6AHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m3 Generally satisfactory21 Jan 2026
Yummy Pizza Polegate BN26 6AQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m3 Generally satisfactory9 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.

94 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences30
Shoplifting23
Anti-social behaviour19
Criminal damage and arson7
Public order5
Other theft3
Vehicle crime2
Other crime1
Bicycle theft1
Burglary1
Robbery1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Junction Street (45); On or near Gilda Close (9); On or near Parking Area (6); On or near Oaklands Close (6); On or near West Close (5).

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: 276 residents in 128 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 age4240
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)70%61%
Owned outright35%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented27%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%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)24%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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

Junction Street · Western Avenue · Westfield Court · Fairlight Close · Southern Avenue · Porters Way · Oaklands Close · Station Road · East Close · Black Path · Westfield Close · Gilda Close

All the streets in BN26 and across Wealden.

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.