Southdown Close Chichester

19 addresses across 1 postcode (PO19), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 7202922.

  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 13, D: 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 B; Band D in Chichester costs £2,470 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chichester, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Jubilee Park, is about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 19 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 Cathedral Medical Group, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 420 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 22% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 334 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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 December 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 46 m². Most common: Flat (17). Built: 1996-2002 (15); 2007-2011 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (7); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (1 address)

Council tax

What each band costs in Chichester in 2026-27: Band D £2,470 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,646£1,921£2,195£2,470£3,018£3,567£4,116£4,939

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (37% of about 1,030 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 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 addresses are about 19 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
PO19 6GN100%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 stationsChichester 2.7 million journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Fishbourne (Sussex) 68,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Bosham 69,000 journeys in 2024–256 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Swanfield Drive Chichester190 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Chichester1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Ferry terminalBosham Hoe Ferry Landing8 km (5 miles)
Car parksNew Park Car Park1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points10 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station360 m
Airport with scheduled flightsSouthampton Airport SOU43.4 km (27 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW52.8 km (33 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 surgeriesCathedral Medical Group1.6 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kamsons Pharmacy930 m (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Special Care Dentistry380 m
HospitalSt Richards Hospital380 m
Police stationChichester Police1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machinesThe Southern Co-Operative Chichester Spitalfield Lane Cashzone870 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 gardenJubilee Park 9,530 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 210 m²110 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha120 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha520 m (0.3 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Chichester Dyke, earthwork extending N 360yds (330m) from Otter Memorial College, a scheduled monument, 850 m (0.5 miles) west. 33 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Chichester Dyke, earthwork extending N 360yds (330m) from Otter Memorial CollegeScheduled monument850 m (0.5 miles) west
Graylingwell HospitalRegistered park or garden, Grade II860 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Chichester CastleScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Greyfriars Chapel, Priory ParkScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Summersdale CopseWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Quarry LakeLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
Whyke LakeLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
Long LakeLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Brandy Hole PondLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Stone DellValley3.9 km (2.4 miles) 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)6.2205
Particles (PM10)10.24015

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 551819

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 Chichester: see them on the Chichester 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
Portfield Primary AcademyPrimary4–11500 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Chichester Nursery SchoolNursery3–5650 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
The March CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rumboldswhyke CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St. Joseph's CofE Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St. Joseph's Infant SchoolPrimary2–71.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Richard's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chichester High SchoolSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Kingsham Primary SchoolPrimary5–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jan 2020, 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
Lidl PO19 6EXRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets140 m5 Very good14 Jul 2026
OneStop PO19 6URRetailers - other160 m5 Very good30 Aug 2024
The Cottage PO19 7HWHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house240 m5 Very good18 Feb 2025
Crawler World PO19 7JURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good14 May 2025
Hellcats Cheerleaders PO19 7JUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 mExempt
Mud Foods PO19 7JUFarmers/growers330 m5 Very good30 Apr 2026
Whisk Art Cake Studio PO19 7JUFarmers/growers370 m5 Very good1 Oct 2024
Friends Shop PO19 6SERetailers - other380 m5 Very good22 Jan 2025
Patients Meals PO19 6SEOther catering premises380 m5 Very good9 Sep 2026
Chichester Suite PO19 6SEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good20 Jun 2025
Costa PO19 6SERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good10 Feb 2026
Doctors Orders PO19 6SERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good7 Oct 2026
WHSmith PO19 6SERetailers - other380 m5 Very good20 Dec 2024
Peabodys Coffee PO19 6SERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good17 Feb 2025
Harvester PO19 7AGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good24 Nov 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.

334 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting88
Violence and sexual offences77
Anti-social behaviour76
Public order34
Criminal damage and arson16
Other theft16
Robbery6
Burglary5
Drugs4
Bicycle theft3
Vehicle crime3
Other crime3
Possession of weapons2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Westhampnett Road (173); On or near Bradshaw Road (39); On or near Cornflower Close (30); On or near Sloe Close (18); On or near Millfield Close (16).

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: 421 residents in 179 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 age3440
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)22%61%
Owned outright12%33%
Shared ownership4%1%
Social rented57%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van40%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle35%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)80%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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.

  • PO19 6GN: 19 addresses of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Cullum Close · Seddon Close · Silverlock Close · Badger Walk · Conduit Mead · Fox Close · Swanfield Drive · Millfield Close · Bradshaw Road · Abel Smith Way · Cornflower Close · Sloe Close

All the streets in PO19 and across Chichester.

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.