Royster Close Poole

19 addresses across 3 postcodes (BH17), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 30302267.

  • Sales: 37 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £560,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 3).
  • 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 Poole, about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 290 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 9 to 16 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 19 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Birchwood Practice, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 64% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 30 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20251£560,000£560,000£560,000
20241£320,000£320,000£320,000
20231£325,000£325,000£325,000
20161£263,000£263,000£263,000
20151£243,000£243,000£243,000
20142£252,500£215,000£290,000
20112£201,000£192,000£210,000
20073£216,000£204,950£217,500
20061£273,000£273,000£273,000
20041£178,000£178,000£178,000
20022£129,975£120,000£139,950
20011£116,000£116,000£116,000
Most recent sales (37)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Aug 202515 BH17 9LQDetached£560,000
20 Jun 20242 BH17 9LQSemi-detached£320,000
22 Aug 20238 BH17 9LQSemi-detached£325,000
13 Nov 20209 BH17 9LQTerraced£325,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 May 20169 BH17 9LQTerraced£263,000
13 Nov 201512 BH17 9LQSemi-detached£243,000
9 Jun 20145 BH17 9LQSemi-detached£215,000
3 Jan 201417 BH17 9LQDetached£290,000
5 Aug 20119 BH17 9LQTerraced£210,000
29 Jul 201112 BH17 9LQSemi-detached£192,000
28 Sep 20079 BH17 9LQTerraced£216,000
29 Jun 20073 BH17 9LQTerraced£217,500
1 Jun 20072 BH17 9LQSemi-detached£204,950
26 Sep 200614 BH17 9LQDetached£273,000
28 May 20042 BH17 9LQSemi-detached£178,000
6 Sep 20025 BH17 9LQSemi-detached£139,950
28 Mar 20023 BH17 9LQTerraced£120,000
2 Jul 200112 BH17 9LQSemi-detached£116,000
29 Oct 19999 BH17 9LQTerraced£102,500
24 Sep 199912 BH17 9LQSemi-detached£105,000
15 Jan 19992 BH17 9LQSemi-detached£79,000
24 Apr 199811 BH17 9LQSemi-detached£77,000
8 Apr 19989 BH17 9LQTerraced£77,000
8 Dec 19974 BH17 9LQSemi-detached£76,000
17 Mar 199714 BH17 9LQDetached£95,000New build.
21 Feb 199715 BH17 9LQDetached£95,000New build.
23 Oct 19961 BH17 9LQDetached£94,000
28 Jun 199611 BH17 9LQSemi-detached£69,950New build.
21 Jun 199610 BH17 9LQTerraced£63,500New build.
20 Jun 19969 BH17 9LQTerraced£63,950New build.
17 May 19968 BH17 9LQSemi-detached£65,000New build.
6 Nov 19955 BH17 9LQSemi-detached£68,500New build.
8 Sep 19957 BH17 9LQSemi-detached£66,500New build.
22 Aug 19956 BH17 9LQSemi-detached£66,000New build.
16 Jun 19953 BH17 9LQTerraced£66,500New build.
28 Apr 19954 BH17 9LQSemi-detached£67,000New build.
7 Mar 19952 BH17 9LQSemi-detached£65,000New build.

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 October 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 89 m². Most common: House, detached (4); House, end-terrace (3); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: 1991-1995 (7); 1983-1990 (2); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (2 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 (35% of about 550 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.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

  • Hillbourne: up to 90 homes, not permissioned (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

  • 17 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor 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

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 19 addresses are between 9 m and 16 m above sea level (11 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
BH17 9BH100%100%100%0%
BH17 9LL100%100%100%0%
BH17 9LQ100%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 stationsPoole 965,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Hamworthy 145,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Parkstone (Dorset) 229,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sopers Lane Waterloo Estate120 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Poole3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Ferry terminalPoole Quay Ferry Landing3.8 km (2.3 miles)
Car parksPremier Inn Poole Centre (Holes Bay) Car Park2.3 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station870 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH10.9 km (6.8 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS87.5 km (54 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Birchwood Practice1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy1.2 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Moonlight Surgery1.2 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalSt Mary's Hospital2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationDorset Police2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machinesThe Southern Co-Operative Creekmoor Northmead Drive, Creekmore Cashzone1.1 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.0 ha290 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 110 m²590 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 6.0 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsBushell Mill Allotments 1.8 ha890 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 1.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Bowl barrow cemetery and four other bowl barrows on Canford Heath, a scheduled monument, 1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bowl barrow cemetery and four other bowl barrows on Canford HeathScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Poole CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hillbourne CopseWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Lodge HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Pergins IslandIsland1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Weston's PointWetland4.1 km (2.5 miles) south-east
Merley PondLake or reservoir4.6 km (2.9 miles) north
Rockley ValeValley4.7 km (2.9 miles) south-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)9.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.1205
Particles (PM10)9.44015

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
Under 55181919

1 of the street's 19 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for 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
Parkstone Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18220 m No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Hillbourne Primary SchoolPrimary4–11800 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Poole Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Canford Heath Junior SchoolPrimary7–111 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Canford Heath Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Haymoor Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Magna AcademySecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stanley Green Infant AcademyPrimary2–71.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Ad Astra Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.4 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: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Edward's Roman Catholic/Church of England School, Poole Church of England/Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) 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

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
Lidl BH17 7LQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets240 m5 Very good8 Dec 2022
Shell Darbys Corner BH17 7JXRetailers - other240 m5 Very good8 Sep 2025
The Bakehouse BH17 7LGManufacturers/packers300 mExempt
Patisserie Mark Bennett aka PMB Street Kitchen BH17 7LGRetailers - other310 m5 Very good13 Jun 2024
Parkstone Grammar School BH17 7EPSchool/college/university330 m5 Very good25 Nov 2024
The Old School House Nursery & Pre School Cabot Lane BH17 7BXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises390 m5 Very good13 Mar 2025
Domino's Pizza BH17 7LGTakeaway/sandwich shop410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Jan 2025
Burger King BH17 7LGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 May 2025
Dolphin Indoor Bowls Club BH17 7LGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Mar 2023
Starbucks BH17 7LARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Mar 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

30 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour7
Vehicle crime7
Violence and sexual offences6
Other theft4
Bicycle theft2
Public order1
Drugs1
Shoplifting1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Holly Hedge Lane (22); On or near Waterloo Road (6); On or near Pond View Close (1); On or near Sandyhurst Close (1).

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: 341 residents in 173 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 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over33%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright31%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented21%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)37%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van70%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)84%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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.

  • BH17 9LQ: 17 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • BH17 9BH: 1 address of 6 in the postcode
  • BH17 9LL: 1 address of 24 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Royster Close · Holly Hedge Lane · Sandyhurst Close · Waterloo Road · Deneve Avenue · Waterloo Road · Sopers Lane · Apsley Crescent · Plantation Road · Underwood Close · Denison Road

All the streets in BH17 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.