Patching Close Worthing

33 addresses across 3 postcodes (BN12), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 45100334.

49 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £354,250 across 2 sales. 19 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 9, D: 8, E: 1). 12 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Worthing costs £2,456 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Goring-By-Sea, about 460 m away in a straight line. There is a small park or garden about 420 m away, and Highdown Gardens (12 hectares) is about 750 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. It is about 8 m above sea level. The nearest GP surgery is Strand Medical Group, about 1.4 km away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km. About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 82% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 107 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
20262£354,250£318,500£390,000
20253£362,500£317,000£380,000
20231£289,000£289,000£289,000
20211£260,000£260,000£260,000
20201£302,000£302,000£302,000
20191£299,950£299,950£299,950
20162£231,975£229,950£234,000
20151£222,000£222,000£222,000
20144£227,000£205,500£245,000
20131£201,000£201,000£201,000
20112£194,500£185,000£204,000
20101£178,000£178,000£178,000
Most recent sales (49)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 May 202621 BN12 6AUTerraced£390,000
9 Feb 202620 BN12 6AUTerraced£318,500
15 Dec 20254 BN12 6AUSemi-detached£380,000
11 Sep 202519 BN12 6AUTerraced£317,000
24 Jul 202525 BN12 6AUSemi-detached£362,500
25 Aug 202317 BN12 6AUTerraced£289,000
20 Dec 202115 BN12 6AUTerraced£260,000
11 Aug 20201 BN12 6AUSemi-detached£302,000
26 Sep 201923 BN12 6AUSemi-detached£299,950
21 Oct 201620 BN12 6AUTerraced£234,000
31 Mar 201619 BN12 6AUTerraced£229,950
2 Jan 201525 BN12 6AUSemi-detached£222,000
19 Dec 201416 BN12 6AUTerraced£230,000
13 Aug 20142 BN12 6AUDetached£245,000
25 Jun 201423 BN12 6AUSemi-detached£224,000
10 Jan 201427 BN12 6AUSemi-detached£205,500
14 Jun 201324 BN12 6AUSemi-detached£201,000
27 Jul 20115 BN12 6AUSemi-detached£204,000
25 Jan 201128 BN12 6AUSemi-detached£185,000
6 Jul 201018 BN12 6AUTerraced£178,000
21 Dec 200911 BN12 6AUTerraced£165,000
12 Jun 20091 BN12 6AUSemi-detached£155,000
15 Feb 200812 BN12 6AUTerraced£183,000
31 Aug 200715A BN12 6AUSemi-detached£190,000
4 Sep 200621 BN12 6AUTerraced£165,000
31 Aug 200628 BN12 6AUSemi-detached£175,000
20 Mar 200615 BN12 6AUTerraced£160,000
1 Nov 200415 BN12 6AUTerraced£157,000
27 Aug 200428 BN12 6AUSemi-detached£165,000
26 May 20043 BN12 6AUSemi-detached£163,000
18 Oct 200210 BN12 6AUTerraced£121,000
11 Jan 200216 BN12 6AUTerraced£68,750
29 Nov 200111 BN12 6AUTerraced£95,000
28 Sep 200118 BN12 6AUTerraced£100,000
3 Sep 200115 BN12 6AUTerraced£110,000
13 Aug 200117 BN12 6AUTerraced£98,500
27 Jul 200123 BN12 6AUSemi-detached£114,000
6 Jun 200012 BN12 6AUTerraced£83,000
21 Jun 19992 BN12 6AUDetached£98,500
25 Sep 199810 BN12 6AUTerraced£60,000
24 Jul 19982 BN12 6AUDetached£91,000
15 May 199811 BN12 6AUTerraced£61,250
15 Aug 199717 BN12 6AUTerraced£59,500
23 May 19975 BN12 6AUSemi-detached£69,950
17 Jan 199716 BN12 6AUTerraced£54,000
18 Nov 199614 BN12 6AUTerraced£43,995
18 Apr 19963 BN12 6AUSemi-detached£59,950
21 Jul 199516 BN12 6AUTerraced£51,000
5 May 199528 BN12 6AUSemi-detached£60,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from August 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 74 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (8); House, semi-detached (7); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 1967-1975 (11); 1950-1966 (5); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Worthing in 2026-27: Band D £2,456 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,910£2,183£2,456£3,002£3,548£4,094£4,912

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (72% of about 670 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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.

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 15 September 2026 to 28 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, give and take, on the footway, carriageway, verge (major works)

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 8 at medium risk and 21 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
BN12 6AUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 5 / 9 unlikely
BN12 6ARnot in 2 or 3 3 / 2 / 7 unlikely
BN12 6AXnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 5 unlikely

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.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 8 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
BN12 6AR100%100%100%0%
BN12 6AU100%100%100%0%
BN12 6AX100%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 stationsGoring-By-Sea 549,000 journeys in 2024–25460 m
Durrington-On-Sea 507,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km
West Worthing 672,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m, 39 within 800 m; nearest Patching Close Durrington50 m
Car parks1 within 800 m; nearest Apcoa450 m
EV charging points12 within 1.6 km; nearest Galsworthy Road380 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW40.3 km

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; nearest Strand Medical Group1.4 km
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Kamsons Pharmacy1.2 km
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dental Surgery1.3 km
HospitalGoring Hall Hospital1.1 km
Police stationWorthing Durrington Police Station1.4 km
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest Morrisons Daily - Worthing Cashzone480 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 garden4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 5,250 m²420 m
Largest park within 800 mHighdown Gardens 12 ha750 m
Play area9 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 270 m²440 m
Playing field3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 4.4 ha580 m
Allotments1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,470 m²520 m

Within 800 m: 4 parks and gardens, 19 hectares in all.

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)7.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)10.14015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Noise figures are still being loaded.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 31 October 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 Oscar Romero Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18640 m No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
The Laurels Primary School, WorthingPrimary4–11930 m Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Orchards Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.0 km No published inspection
Orchards Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.0 km Requires improvement (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Goring-By-Sea CofE (Aided) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.1 km No published inspection
Hawthorns Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km Requires improvement (Oct 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ferring C of E Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.2 km Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
West Park CofE Primary (Controlled) School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.3 km No published inspection
English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, Worthing Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Durrington High SchoolSecondary11–161.8 km Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 31 October 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Bugdens BN12 6BRRetailers - other130 m4 Good22 May 2024
The Chip Shop BN12 6BRTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good15 Sep 2023
Arundel Restaurant and Brookes Coffee Shop BN12 6NUSchool/college/university200 m5 Very good24 Apr 2025
Theatre & Theatre Bar BN12 6NURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good24 Apr 2025
Aramark at Northbrook College BN12 6NUSchool/college/university200 m5 Very good29 Sep 2025
West Sussex Music BN12 6NUSchool/college/university200 mAwaiting inspection
Connect Catering at Haviland House BN12 6FEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises250 m5 Very good24 Mar 2026
The Swallows Return BN12 6NZPub/bar/nightclub410 m5 Very good7 Apr 2026
Southern Water BN13 3NXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m5 Very good12 May 2026
ST BARNABAS BN12 6NZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises450 m5 Very good25 Nov 2025
Goring Fish Bar BN12 6JLTakeaway/sandwich shop460 m5 Very good6 Apr 2022
OCS canteen BN99 3HHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m5 Very good12 Jan 2026
Ghost Lifestyle UK Ltd BN99 3HHManufacturers/packers460 m5 Very good29 Apr 2026
Premier Express BN12 6JJRetailers - other480 m4 Good28 Feb 2024
Limbrick Corner Cafe BN12 6JJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m5 Very good6 Jan 2023

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.

107 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences48
Anti-social behaviour16
Criminal damage and arson14
Other theft6
Public order6
Other crime6
Bicycle theft4
Drugs3
Possession of weapons2
Shoplifting1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Coleridge Road (30); On or near Boxgrove (20); On or near Nightingale Avenue (19); On or near Lavant Close (9); On or near Fittleworth Close (5).

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: 601 residents in 258 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 age4440
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)82%61%
Owned outright46%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)73%65%
Work 30 km or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%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 6 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.

  • BN12 6AU: 31 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • BN12 6AR: 1 address of 39 in the postcode
  • BN12 6AX: 1 address of 25 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Boxgrove · The Green Way · Crossways Avenue · Harting Close · Boxgrove Parade · The Pallant · Ditchling Close · Fittleworth Close · Boxgrove Parade · Poling Close · Lavant Close · Chilgrove Close

All the streets in BN12 and across Worthing.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.