Old School Close Poole

36 addresses across 3 postcodes (BH14), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 30302238.

  • Sales: 9 recorded sales since 1995; in 2020 the median was £286,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 31 homes have an energy certificate (C: 29, D: 1, 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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole costs £2,436 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Parkstone (Dorset), about 490 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Ashley Cross Green, is about 250 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 15 to 22 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 36 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Evergreen Oak Surgery, about 240 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 180 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 13% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 146 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
20201£286,000£286,000£286,000
20191£278,000£278,000£278,000
20171£200,000£200,000£200,000
20072£237,750£235,500£240,000
20061£190,000£190,000£190,000
20051£166,000£166,000£166,000
20041£180,000£180,000£180,000
Most recent sales (9)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Sep 20211, THE OLD SCIENCE BLOCK BH14 0NLSemi-detached£347,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Jun 20202, THE OLD SCIENCE BLOCK BH14 0NLSemi-detached£286,000
23 Aug 20191, THE OLD SCIENCE BLOCK BH14 0NLSemi-detached£278,000
1 Sep 20172, THE OLD SCIENCE BLOCK BH14 0NLSemi-detached£200,000
14 Dec 20072, THE OLD SCIENCE BLOCK BH14 0NLSemi-detached£240,000
2 Aug 20071, THE OLD SCIENCE BLOCK BH14 0NLSemi-detached£235,500
31 Oct 20062, THE OLD SCIENCE BLOCK BH14 0NLSemi-detached£190,000
31 Mar 20051, THE OLD SCIENCE BLOCK BH14 0NLSemi-detached£166,000New build.
23 Jul 20042, THE OLD SCIENCE BLOCK BH14 0NLSemi-detached£180,000

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 August 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

31 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 64 m². Most common: Flat (13); House, semi-detached (6); House, end-terrace (5). Built: 1991-1995 (13); 2003-2006 (9); 1996-2002 (6). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (18); owner-occupied (13).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole in 2026-27: Band D £2,436 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,624£1,894£2,165£2,436£2,977£3,518£4,059£4,871

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (37% of about 1,000 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: yes, Ashley Cross (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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

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 36 addresses are between 15 m and 22 m above sea level (20 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
BH14 0AF100%0%0%0%
BH14 0NL100%100%100%0%
BH14 0NQ100%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 stationsParkstone (Dorset) 229,000 journeys in 2024–25490 m (0.3 miles)
Poole 965,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Branksome 280,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.5 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 44 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ashley Cross Parkstone60 m
Bus or coach stationSeldown Coach Station Poole1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Ferry terminalPoole Quay Ferry Landing2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Car parksParking space on Bournemouth Road, BH141 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station540 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH10.3 km (6.4 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS90.6 km (56 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Evergreen Oak Surgery240 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Parkstone Pharmacy260 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Poole Dental Practice260 m
HospitalPoole Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationDorset Police1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machinesPayzone1.1 km (0.7 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ashley Cross Green 1.1 ha250 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Poole Park 16 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,360 m²750 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.7 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,030 m²870 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 19 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Peter, a listed building (Grade II*), 140 m north-east. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade II*140 m north-east
Poole ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Poole CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Constitution HillHill660 m (0.4 miles) north
Parkstone BayBay1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Weston's PointWetland1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Parr's PlantationWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Luscombe ValleyValley2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Coy PondLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.2 miles) 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)9.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.9205
Particles (PM10)9.04015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
60 to 64100
55 to 59300
Under 55323636

4 of the street's 36 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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole: see them on the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 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
Baden-Powell and St Peter's Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–11490 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
The Bournemouth and Poole College16 plus16–99510 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Ocean Academy PoolePrimary7–11730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Poole Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Longfleet Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Livingstone Road Infant SchoolPrimary2–71.4 km (0.8 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; 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
Courthill Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Livingstone Road Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Edward's Roman Catholic/Church of England School, Poole Church of England/Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Oakdale Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Lilliput Church of England Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jul 2023, 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
Coffee Connexions BH14 0JBMobile caterer30 m5 Very good5 Aug 2025
Mandarin Chef BH14 0JBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 mAwaiting inspection
The Ox Pub & Rooms BH14 0JBPub/bar/nightclub50 m5 Very good24 Jul 2025
Chicken and Blues BH14 0JBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good19 Jun 2026
Pulcinella BH14 0JBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good28 Jul 2023
Bermuda Triangle BH14 0JYPub/bar/nightclub80 m4 Good7 Jan 2026
Skinny Malinkys BH14 0JYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good20 May 2025
Logo Mints BH14 0JRManufacturers/packers100 mExempt
Old School House Nursery BH14 0JWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good16 Jun 2025
Parkstone Conservative Club BH14 0JXPub/bar/nightclub120 m5 Very good29 Jul 2022
The Dancing Goat BH14 0JXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good16 May 2025
The Butcher's Dog BH14 0JXPub/bar/nightclub130 m5 Very good2 Aug 2018
Flamin Grate Food Co. BH14 0JXOther catering premises130 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
The Bricklayers BH14 0JXPub/bar/nightclub150 m4 Good13 May 2025
Co-op (BH14 0JD) BH14 0JDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets160 m5 Very good13 Oct 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.

146 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences52
Anti-social behaviour33
Criminal damage and arson17
Shoplifting12
Other theft9
Burglary6
Public order5
Drugs5
Vehicle crime4
Bicycle theft2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (34); On or near Chalice Close (28); On or near Chapel Road (17); On or near St Peters Mews (16); On or near Commercial Road (10).

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: 184 residents in 121 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 over32%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)13%61%
Owned outright4%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented72%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work34%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)36%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)15%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)82%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)27%34%
No qualifications29%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%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 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.

  • BH14 0NL: 33 addresses of 34 in the postcode
  • BH14 0NQ: 2 addresses of 5 in the postcode
  • BH14 0AF: 1 address of 6 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Buckholme Close · St Peters Mews · Church Road · Old Coach Mews · Parr Street · Chapel Road · Chalice Close · North Road · Charmouth Grove · Commercial Road · Glenair Road · Station Road

All the streets in BH14 and across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

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.