Selham Close Brighton

12 addresses across 1 postcode (BN1), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 4400733.

  • Sales: 11 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £412,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 4).
  • 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 Brighton and Hove costs £2,581 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Falmer, about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 250 m away, and Moulsecoomb Wild Park (62 hectares) is about 660 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 73 to 78 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 12 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Carden Surgery, about 1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 660 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 50% of households owned their home and 7% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 200 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
20211£412,500£412,500£412,500
20161£360,000£360,000£360,000
20081£231,000£231,000£231,000
20052£191,000£187,000£195,000
20012£113,000£106,000£120,000
19991£78,000£78,000£78,000
19982£75,750£75,000£76,500
Most recent sales (11)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 Sep 202120 BN1 9EHSemi-detached£412,500
21 May 201810 BN1 9EHTerraced£340,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Mar 201620 BN1 9EHSemi-detached£360,000
7 Mar 200810 BN1 9EHTerraced£231,000
1 Jul 200520 BN1 9EHSemi-detached£195,000
14 Jan 200510 BN1 9EHTerraced£187,000
12 Apr 200112 BN1 9EHTerraced£106,000
2 Mar 200120 BN1 9EHSemi-detached£120,000
17 Sep 199910 BN1 9EHTerraced£78,000
16 Oct 199826 BN1 9EHSemi-detached£76,500
2 Jun 199816 BN1 9EHTerraced£75,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from January 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 106 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (2); House, semi-detached (2); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1950-1966 (4); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4).

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (53% of about 1,130 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.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre 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 12 addresses are between 73 m and 78 m above sea level (75 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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
BN1 9EH100%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 stationsFalmer 1.4 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Moulsecoomb 445,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
London Road (Brighton) 392,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ingham Drive Coldean90 m
Bus or coach stationSussex House University of Sussex1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Ferry terminalNewhaven Harbour Ferry Terminal14.3 km (8.9 miles)
Car parksUpper Moat Lodge Car Park1.2 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW32.2 km (20 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 Carden Surgery1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Coldean Pharmacy100 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalBrighton General Hospital3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Police stationBrighton Crowhurst Road Police Station850 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coldean Convenience Store Cashzone730 m (0.5 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 2,490 m²250 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Moulsecoomb Wild Park 62 ha660 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 520 m²310 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.0 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coldean Allotments 6,320 m²160 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 63 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Cross dyke in Great Wood, 500m south west of Stanmer House, a scheduled monument, 500 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cross dyke in Great Wood, 500m south west of Stanmer HouseScheduled monument500 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Bowl barrow in Great WoodScheduled monument650 m (0.4 miles) north
Prehistoric linear boundary and Bronze Age bowl barrow in Pudding Bag Wood, 350m south of Upper LodgesScheduled monument850 m (0.5 miles) north-west
The Former Stables of Stanmer HouseListed building, Grade II*930 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Stanmer HouseListed building, Grade I940 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Stanmer ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.8 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Great WoodWood630 m (0.4 miles) north
Coldean WoodWood750 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Park BottomValley1 km (0.6 miles) west
Coldean BeltWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Hollingbury CastleHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Lot's PondLake or reservoir1.5 km (1 mile) north-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)7.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
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, 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 5910
Under 551112

1 of the street's 12 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 Brighton and Hove: see them on the Brighton and Hove 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
Coldean Primary SchoolPrimary3–11120 m Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Carden Nursery and Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Brighton Aldridge Community AcademySecondary11–191.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Moulsecoomb Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Hertford Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 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: Outstanding

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
Coldean Community Corner BN1 9EDRetailers - other70 m5 Very good18 Jun 2025
Premier Coldean Food And Wine BN1 9EDRetailers - other110 m5 Very good27 Jul 2024
New Larchwood - Dining Room And Barista And Baker Cafe BN1 9EZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good27 May 2025
Breakfast Club - Coldean Primary School BN1 9ENSchool/college/university220 m5 Very good16 Jul 2024
Coldean Primary School BN1 9ENSchool/college/university220 m5 Very good14 Dec 2023
Team Care Group BN1 9ETHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 mAwaiting inspection
St Mary Magdalene Church Hall BN1 9GEOther catering premises300 m5 Very good2 Oct 2024

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.

200 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences83
Anti-social behaviour62
Public order13
Criminal damage and arson13
Vehicle crime8
Other theft7
Possession of weapons6
Other crime5
Drugs2
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Coldean Lane (127); On or near Haig Avenue (15); On or near Waldron Avenue (11); On or near The Charltons (10); On or near Monk Close (8).

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: 655 residents in 65 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 age2040
Children under 152%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)50%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented35%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work15%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)48%6%
Retired (of adults)6%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van44%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus21%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away19%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)7%34%
No qualifications5%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualificationunder 1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • BN1 9EH: 12 addresses of 17 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Selham Drive · Rusper Road · Ingham Drive · Waldron Avenue · Badger Way · Woodview Close · The Charltons · Monk Close · Kenwards · Talbot Crescent · Haig Avenue · Twyford Road

All the streets in BN1 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.