Normans Way Ashley, New Forest

4 addresses across 2 postcodes (BH25), about 370 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 26721943.

  • 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 New Forest costs £2,420 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 96% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is New Milton, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 380 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 38 to 39 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 4 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Coastal Medical Partnership, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 660 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: 27 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.

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in New Forest in 2026-27: Band D £2,420 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,613£1,882£2,151£2,420£2,957£3,495£4,033£4,840

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (40% 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: 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

Started, not reported finished by 31 October 2026

  • 27 October 2026: HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)

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 4 addresses are between 38 m and 39 m above sea level (38 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
BH25 5BL100%96%96%0%
BH25 5FN100%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 stationsNew Milton 555,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Sway 81,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.5 miles)
Hinton Admiral 134,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ashley Crossroads New Milton290 m
Ferry terminalLymington Town Quay7.4 km (4.6 miles)
Car parksMarine Drive East Car Park2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station690 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH14.3 km (8.9 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS103 km (64 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 Coastal Medical Partnership1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ashley Pharmacy330 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Birchfield Dental Practice930 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalMilford On Sea War Memorial Hospital5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Police stationLymington Police Station6.5 km (4 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM610 m (0.4 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,870 m²380 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 430 m²190 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.6 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,950 m²530 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.2 hectares in all.

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
Golden HillHill890 m (0.6 miles) north-east
White CroftWood940 m (0.6 miles) east
Hordle LakesLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Great Ballard LakeLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Barton CliffCliff or slope2.5 km (1.6 miles) south
Barton on SeaBeach3 km (1.9 miles) south-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)5.6205
Particles (PM10)8.34015

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, 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
60 to 6410
Under 5534

1 of the street's 4 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 New Forest: see them on the New Forest 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
Ashley Junior SchoolPrimary7–11110 m No published inspection
Ashley Infant SchoolPrimary4–7410 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
New Milton Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Apr 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: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
New Milton Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.6 km (1 mile) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Arnewood SchoolSecondary11–181.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hordle CofE (VA) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–112 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
ASHLEY JUNIOR SCHOOL BH25 5FNSchool/college/university110 m5 Very good30 Sep 2025
NEW MILTON AND DISTRICT RUGBY CLUB BH25 5FNOther catering premises110 m5 Very good25 Jan 2016
YOUTH VOICE NEW MILTON BH25 5FNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m5 Very good31 Mar 2026
ASHLEY FOODMARKET BH25 5BPRetailers - other210 m5 Very good17 Nov 2025
SUMMERWOOD BH25 5BLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m2 Improvement necessary28 Sep 2026
ROKALIS BH25 5BSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good14 Oct 2025
DAMA PIZZA KEBAB BH25 5BSTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m4 Good14 Oct 2025
VICS FISH AND CHIPS BH25 5BSTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m5 Very good6 Mar 2026
HAPPY WOK BH25 5BSTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m3 Generally satisfactory20 May 2026
BOWDELLS BISTRO & BAR BH25 5BSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good7 Oct 2021
BARBERS AND BARBELLS BH25 5BLRetailers - other340 mExempt
LITTLE TREES PRE SCHOOL BH25 5AAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m5 Very good13 Sep 2016
ASHLEY INFANTS SCHOOL BH25 5AASchool/college/university350 m5 Very good8 Oct 2025
DFJ MULTISPORTS C.I.C. BH25 5QAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory15 Apr 2025
ASHLEY LODGE NURSING HOME BH25 5AHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises450 m (0.3 miles)4 Good1 Sep 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.

27 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting10
Violence and sexual offences8
Anti-social behaviour4
Public order3
Criminal damage and arson1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Molyneux Court (12); On or near Melrose Court (7); On or near Ashley Road (4); On or near High Ridge Crescent (3); On or near Benmore Close (1).

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: 655 residents in 265 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 age5140
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)89%61%
Owned outright53%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%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 9 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 27 October 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 27 October 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings SUMMERWOOD (hospitals/childcare/caring premises, BH25 5BL) now 2 Improvement necessary, was 5 Very good (rated 28 September 2026) found 3 November 2026

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.

  • BH25 5FN: 3 addresses of 4 in the postcode
  • BH25 5BL: 1 address of 37 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Benmore Close · High Ridge Crescent · Melrose Court · Molyneux Road · Carrick Way · Willowdene Close · Wentwood Gardens · Andrew Lane · Brecon Close · Daneswood Road · Somerton Close · Kings Road

All the streets in BH25 and across New Forest.

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.