Nicholson Gardens Fratton, Portsmouth

48 addresses across 3 postcodes (PO1), about 10 m long. USRN 30501586.

  • Energy: 40 homes have an energy certificate (C: 40).
  • 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 A; Band D in Portsmouth costs £2,292 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Portsmouth and Southsea, about 510 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 190 m away, and Victoria Park (3.8 hectares) is about 610 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 7 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 48 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Unicity Medical Centre, about 370 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 610 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 7% of households owned their home and 13% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 478 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 July 2024 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

40 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 36 m². Most common: Flat (40). Built: 1983-1990 (40). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (40).

Council tax

What each band costs in Portsmouth in 2026-27: Band D £2,292 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,528£1,782£2,037£2,292£2,801£3,310£3,820£4,583

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (79% of about 2,750 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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.

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 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
PO1 1HL100%100%100%0%
PO1 1HX100%100%100%0%
PO1 1NH100%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 stationsPortsmouth and Southsea 1.6 million journeys in 2024–25510 m (0.3 miles)
Fratton 2.1 million journeys in 2024–25830 m (0.5 miles)
Portsmouth Harbour 2.1 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 49 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Canberra House Fratton140 m
Bus or coach stationFratton - Goldsmith Avenue1 km (0.6 miles)
Ferry terminalPortsmouth International Cruise & Ferry Terminal Stamshaw1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Car parks6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Crasswell Street Multi-Storey Car Park250 m
EV charging points11 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station530 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsSouthampton Airport SOU25.4 km (16 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW74 km (46 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Unicity Medical Centre370 m
Pharmacies14 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots340 m
NHS dentists14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery520 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSt Mary's Hospital1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationHampshire Constabulary600 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone340 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 garden10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,700 m²190 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Victoria Park 3.8 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
Play area26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 210 m²70 m
Playing fieldClarence Ground 2.3 ha1.7 km (1 mile)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Landport Community Garden 610 m²180 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 10 parks and gardens, 7.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Agatha, a listed building (Grade II*), 610 m (0.4 miles) north-west. 57 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St AgathaListed building, Grade II*610 m (0.4 miles) north-west
City of Portsmouth War MemorialListed building, Grade II*630 m (0.4 miles) west
Church of St Mary, KingstonListed building, Grade II*680 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Victoria ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II720 m (0.4 miles) west
Theatre RoyalListed building, Grade II*760 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Kingston CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Former Board of Ordnance Gunwharf, HMS VernonScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) south-west
Portsmouth Dockyard, the Block Mills and Stores 35 and 36Scheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Portsmouth Dockyard, the DocksScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Portsea IslandIsland1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
South CamberTidal water1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Basin No 1Lake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
North CamberTidal water1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
The PointWetland2 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Stagg WoodsWood2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-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)13.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.24015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 5910
Under 554748

1 of the street's 48 addresses is 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 Portsmouth: see them on the Portsmouth 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
St John's Cathedral Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11140 m Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Edmund's Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–16190 m No published inspection
Arundel Court Primary Academy and NurseryPrimary3–11200 m Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ark Ayrton Primary AcademyPrimary2–11490 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Ark Charter Academy Church of EnglandSecondary11–16520 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Ark Dickens Primary AcademyPrimary2–11560 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Penbridge Infant SchoolPrimary2–7730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Priory SchoolSecondary11–16770 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Portsmouth AcademySecondary11–16790 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Manor Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–71 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cottage Grove Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bramble Infant School and NurseryPrimary2–71.2 km (0.7 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
Nicholson Gardens Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m5 Very good2 Jun 2026
The Roberts Centre PO1 1HTOther catering premises80 m5 Very good26 Mar 2024
Stop 'N' Go PO1 1NHRetailers - other130 m4 Good27 Jan 2026
Caterlink At St John's Cathedral Catholic Primary School PO1 1PXSchool/college/university140 m4 Good10 Feb 2026
Mustard Seed Ministries Registered Charity PO1 1NPRetailers - other150 m5 Very good26 Mar 2025
Landport Adventure Playground PO1 1RXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good21 Nov 2019
St Edmunds Catholic School PO1 1RXSchool/college/university190 m5 Very good26 Jan 2026
Cafe Victory At Landport Community Centre PO1 1JDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good20 Jun 2026
Caterlink At Arundel Court Primary Academy PO1 1FGSchool/college/university200 m5 Very good31 Mar 2025
CFO Evoloution PO1 1NBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good5 Aug 2026
Bumblebee Nursery PO1 1SAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m5 Very good7 Feb 2017
Darin Cash & Carry PO1 1JYRetailers - other250 m3 Generally satisfactory13 Sep 2018
Tesco Portsmouth Superstore PO1 1RSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets260 m5 Very good23 Jun 2026
Frontiers Afro Superstore PO1 1NLRetailers - other270 m1 Major improvement necessary24 Aug 2026
Whody / SoBe Burger / Salt 'N Pepper PO1 1NBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good8 Jul 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.

478 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences183
Anti-social behaviour110
Public order45
Criminal damage and arson44
Other theft18
Vehicle crime14
Other crime13
Drugs12
Shoplifting10
Burglary8
Possession of weapons7
Robbery6
Bicycle theft4
Theft from the person4

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (131); On or near Fyning Street (33); On or near Settlers Close (27); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (21); On or near Railway View (19).

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: 609 residents in 272 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 age3340
Children under 1528%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)7%61%
Owned outright2%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented84%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work35%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)15%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)14%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)11%32%
Travel to work by car or van39%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle31%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)79%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)13%34%
No qualifications37%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 2 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.

  • PO1 1HL: 41 addresses
  • PO1 1NH: 6 addresses of 63 in the postcode
  • PO1 1HX: 1 address of 15 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Landport Street · Australia Close · Buriton Street · Settlers Close · Crasswell Street · Northam Mews · Settlers Close · Cottage View · Percy Chandler Street

All the streets in PO1 and across Portsmouth.

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.