Portelet Close Poole

20 addresses across 1 postcode (BH12), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 30300573.

  • Sales: 33 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £400,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 11, E: 2, F: 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 C; Band D in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole costs £2,436 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Branksome, about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 130 m away, and Turbary Common (45 hectares) is about 760 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 50 to 57 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 20 of its 20 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Rosemary Health Ctr, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 250 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 44 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
20231£400,000£400,000£400,000
20201£290,000£290,000£290,000
20192£310,000£300,000£320,000
20181£270,000£270,000£270,000
20171£350,000£350,000£350,000
20161£275,000£275,000£275,000
20141£232,000£232,000£232,000
20122£196,000£180,000£212,000
20101£235,000£235,000£235,000
20091£225,000£225,000£225,000
20071£227,000£227,000£227,000
20061£209,950£209,950£209,950
Most recent sales (33)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Jul 202316 BH12 4LNDetached£400,000
15 Sep 20203 BH12 4LNSemi-detached£290,000
28 Oct 201913 BH12 4LNDetached£300,000
17 Jul 20197 BH12 4LNDetached£320,000
12 Jan 201812 BH12 4LNDetached£270,000
9 Jun 20175A BH12 4LNSemi-detached£350,000
14 Oct 201617 BH12 4LNDetached£275,000
19 Feb 201410 BH12 4LNDetached£232,000
21 Sep 201214 BH12 4LNDetached£180,000
29 Feb 201213 BH12 4LNDetached£212,000
9 Jul 20107 BH12 4LNDetached£235,000
18 Dec 200918 BH12 4LNDetached£225,000
8 Aug 20078 BH12 4LNDetached£227,000
27 Apr 200610 BH12 4LNDetached£209,950
23 Apr 20047 BH12 4LNDetached£178,000
18 Jul 20035A BH12 4LNSemi-detached£184,000
19 Apr 20028 BH12 4LNDetached£133,000
2 Nov 200111 BH12 4LNDetached£134,000
31 Jul 200113 BH12 4LNDetached£124,000
13 Jul 200112 BH12 4LNDetached£121,000
9 May 20013 BH12 4LNSemi-detached£117,500
24 Apr 200110 BH12 4LNDetached£89,950
7 May 19998 BH12 4LNDetached£76,000
20 Aug 199816 BH12 4LNDetached£70,500
23 May 19973 BH12 4LNSemi-detached£65,000
31 Jan 19973 BH12 4LNSemi-detached£64,750
26 Mar 199610 BH12 4LNDetached£38,000
27 Oct 19959 BH12 4LNDetached£60,000
31 Mar 19953 BH12 4LNSemi-detached£51,000
24 Mar 19959 BH12 4LNDetached£50,000
24 Mar 19958 BH12 4LNDetached£46,500
24 Mar 199510 BH12 4LNDetached£37,500
20 Feb 19955 BH12 4LNDetached£21,200

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 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 79 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (15); House, detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (11); 1930-1949 (4); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (social) (2); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 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 C (44% of about 790 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

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 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 20 addresses are between 50 m and 57 m above sea level (53 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
BH12 4LN100%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 stationsBranksome 280,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Parkstone (Dorset) 229,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Poole 965,000 journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St. Helier Road Alderney120 m
Bus or coach stationBournemouth University Talbot Heath2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Ferry terminalPoole Quay Ferry Landing5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Car parksParking space on Bournemouth Road, BH142.8 km (1.8 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station510 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH7.6 km (4.7 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS89 km (55 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 The Rosemary Health Ctr1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Nimo Pharmacy740 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alderney Dental Practice480 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSsd Alderney Community Hospital350 m
Police stationWinton Police Station4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest MFG - Wallisdown Cashzone590 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 36 ha130 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Turbary Common 45 ha760 m (0.5 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 470 m²340 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 4.6 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsAlder Farm Allotments 1.5 ha1.7 km (1.1 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 83 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Bowl barrow on Knighton Heath Golf Course 320m south of Eastlands Farm, a scheduled monument, 1.6 km (1 mile) north.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bowl barrow on Knighton Heath Golf Course 320m south of Eastlands FarmScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north
Bowl barrow on Canford Heath 650m south of southern corner of New CovertScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Poole CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bourne BottomValley1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Butcher's CoppiceWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Lodge HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) west
Coy PondLake or reservoir3.1 km (1.9 miles) south-east
Parkstone BayBay4.6 km (2.8 miles) south-west
Weston's PointWetland4.6 km (2.9 miles) south

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)9.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
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, 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
65 to 69100
60 to 641600
55 to 59300
Under 5502020

20 of the street's 20 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), 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
Manorside AcademyPrimary3–11700 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Aldhelm's AcademySecondary11–16900 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Heathlands Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Poole Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oak AcademySecondary11–161.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Livingstone Road Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.8 km (1.1 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
Livingstone Road Infant SchoolPrimary2–71.9 km (1.2 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
LeAF StudioSecondary13–192 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good

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
Elizabeth House BH12 4PXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m5 Very good23 Dec 2025
Belben Stores (Premier) BH12 4PHRetailers - other270 m5 Very good7 Feb 2022
Renowned Catering BH12 4LLSchool/college/university270 m5 Very good5 Nov 2025
Alderney Hospital BH12 4NBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good9 Dec 2025
The Aldbury BH12 4NAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good30 Jul 2026
Miller & Carter BH12 5ADPub/bar/nightclub420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Jul 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.

44 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences23
Anti-social behaviour8
Criminal damage and arson4
Public order3
Other theft2
Other crime1
Burglary1
Drugs1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bedford Road South (10); On or near St Helier Road (7); On or near Dolbery Road South (5); On or near Dolbery Road North (5); On or near Guernsey Road (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: 246 residents in 113 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 age5540
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over39%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright54%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)40%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)92%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.

  • BH12 4LN: 20 addresses of 24 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Corbiere Avenue · Jersey Close · Dolbery Road South · Dolbery Road North · Gorey Road · Bowden Road · St Helier Road · Bedford Road South · Guernsey Road · Hudson Close · Belben Close · Bremble Close

All the streets in BH12 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.