Prince's Crescent Brighton

102 addresses across 5 postcodes (BN2), about 270 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 4400801.

  • Energy: 66 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 27, D: 32, E: 6).
  • 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 Brighton and Hove costs £2,581 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is London Road (Brighton), about 280 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 390 m away, and Preston Park (15 hectares) is about 720 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 50 to 57 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 32 of its 102 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Park Crescent Health Centre, about 400 m (0.2 miles) away, with 14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 440 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 38% of households owned their home and 41% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 120 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 February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

66 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: Flat (34); House, mid-terrace (26); Maisonette, mid-terrace (3). Built: before 1900 (27); 1950-1966 (23); 1900-1929 (11). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (32); rented (private) (19); rented (social) (10).

Each home's certificates and sales (25 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Brighton and Hove in 2026-27: Band D £2,581 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,720£2,007£2,294£2,581£3,154£3,727£4,301£5,161

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (32% of about 1,510 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: yes, Round Hill (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

Finished in the last three months

  • 23 September 2026: BRIGHTON & HOVE CITY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 9 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works)
  • 9 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 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
BN2 3RAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
BN2 3RQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN2 3RBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN2 3RRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN2 3RSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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.

© 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 102 addresses are between 50 m and 57 m above sea level (55 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
BN2 3RA100%100%100%0%
BN2 3RB100%0%0%0%
BN2 3RQ100%100%100%0%
BN2 3RR100%100%100%0%
BN2 3RS100%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 stationsLondon Road (Brighton) 392,000 journeys in 2024–25280 m
Brighton 15 million journeys in 2024–25910 m (0.6 miles)
Moulsecoomb 445,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 65 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Prince's Crescent Brighton60 m
Bus or coach stationLondon Road Brighton - Ditchling Rise240 m
Ferry terminalNewhaven Harbour Ferry Terminal14.1 km (8.8 miles)
Car parksTrafalgar Street Car Park820 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apcoa Charging Station680 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW35.1 km (22 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 surgeries14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Park Crescent Health Centre400 m (0.2 miles)
Pharmacies16 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kamsons Pharmacy400 m (0.2 miles)
NHS dentists17 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery450 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalBrighton General Hospital1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationBrighton Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest MFG - Downsway Cashzone90 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha390 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Preston Park 15 ha720 m (0.4 miles)
Play area9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,000 m²490 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.6 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,760 m²260 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 17 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Numbers 17-24 and 26-32 Park Crescent, a listed building (Grade II*), 290 m south-east. 83 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 8 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Numbers 17-24 and 26-32 Park CrescentListed building, Grade II*290 m south-east
Numbers 1-16 Including Garden Walls and Piers and Cast Iron Area RailingsListed building, Grade II*330 m south
Church of St Martin and St WilfridListed building, Grade II*390 m south-east
Numbers 33-48 and Attached RailingsListed building, Grade II*390 m south-east
Preston Manor and Preston ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Woodvale CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.8 miles) east
Whitehawk Camp causewayed enclosureScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bear HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
The RookeryWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
The LakeLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Whitehawk HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Brighton BeachBeach1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Whitehawk BottomValley2.1 km (1.3 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)10.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

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 59320
Under 5570102

32 of the street's 102 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 Brighton and Hove: see them on the Brighton and Hove 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
Downs Infant SchoolPrimary5–7290 m No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Downs Junior SchoolPrimary7–11440 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Fairlight Primary SchoolPrimary3–11570 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Martin's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11640 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Elm Grove Primary SchoolPrimary4–11920 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Carlton Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Tarnerland Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Coombe Road Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Luke's Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College16 plus16–191.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Paul's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Stanford Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Red White Rose BN1 4SGRetailers - other90 m3 Generally satisfactory31 Jan 2026
MFG Esso Downsway/Londis Downsway BN1 4SGRetailers - other90 m5 Very good28 Oct 2025
The Roundhill Pub BN1 4SGPub/bar/nightclub90 m3 Generally satisfactory24 Jul 2025
The Signalman BN1 4QQPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good23 Jan 2019
Big Sams Kitchen At The Signalman BN1 4QQPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good31 Jan 2026
Smart Local Market BN2 3HTRetailers - other240 m5 Very good12 Sep 2023
The Green Room BN1 6JARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good19 Feb 2024
Salvation Army BN2 3JEOther catering premises270 m5 Very good28 Feb 2025
Bradleys (Kiroseiz) BN2 3FDRetailers - other290 m4 Good6 Apr 2022
Clyde News BN1 4NPRetailers - other290 m5 Very good10 Apr 2024
Downs Infant School BN1 6JASchool/college/university300 m5 Very good14 Jul 2026
The Jolly Brewer Beer House BN1 6JAPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good11 Jun 2026
Curio Cafe BN1 4NNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good26 Feb 2026
The Park Crescent BN2 3HEPub/bar/nightclub320 m5 Very good6 Jun 2024
Ecentra Hospitalitx At Park Crescent Pub BN2 3HEPub/bar/nightclub320 m5 Very good14 Mar 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.

120 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences45
Anti-social behaviour31
Criminal damage and arson10
Vehicle crime8
Drugs7
Other theft5
Public order5
Burglary2
Other crime2
Theft from the person2
Possession of weapons1
Shoplifting1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Canterbury Drive (40); On or near Wakefield Road (18); On or near Warleigh Road (12); On or near Prince'S Crescent (10); On or near Petrol Station (8).

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: 437 residents in 237 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 age4340
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)38%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented41%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)11%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)41%32%
Travel to work by car or van24%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle24%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)74%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away17%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)41%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, flat (lodged 30 October 2026) found 2 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.

Nearby streets

Belton Close · Belton Road · Round Hill Road · Round Hill Street · Vere Road · Ditchling Rise · Wakefield Road · Prince's Road · Bromley Road · Warleigh Road · Princes Crescent · Clyde Road

All the streets in BN2 and across Brighton and Hove.

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.