Swallow Close Poole

22 addresses across 4 postcodes (BH17), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 30300882.

  • Sales: 35 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £320,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, 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 Hamworthy, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Creekmoor Ponds Nature Reserve, is about 80 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 9 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 22 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Birchwood Practice, about 720 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 460 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 21 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
20231£320,000£320,000£320,000
20201£260,000£260,000£260,000
20191£279,950£279,950£279,950
20161£265,000£265,000£265,000
20151£275,000£275,000£275,000
20143£233,000£225,000£249,950
20091£185,000£185,000£185,000
20081£211,000£211,000£211,000
20062£190,000£177,000£203,000
20052£179,750£176,000£183,500
20042£177,000£177,000£177,000
20032£163,000£160,000£166,000
Most recent sales (35)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 Nov 20231 BH17 7UWDetached£320,000
12 Oct 20204 BH17 7UUSemi-detached£260,000
1 Jul 201924 BH17 7UXDetached£279,950
4 Feb 20166 BH17 7UUSemi-detached£265,000
5 Aug 20159 BH17 7UWSemi-detached£275,000
6 Nov 201418 BH17 7UXSemi-detached£225,000
17 Sep 20145 BH17 7UWSemi-detached£233,000
2 Jun 20149 BH17 7UWSemi-detached£249,950
4 Dec 200922 BH17 7UXDetached£185,000
11 Apr 20087 BH17 7UWSemi-detached£211,000
8 Dec 20065 BH17 7UWSemi-detached£203,000
30 Jun 200614 BH17 7UXTerraced£177,000
20 Oct 200510 BH17 7UUSemi-detached£183,500
10 Jan 200511 BH17 7UWSemi-detached£176,000
19 Nov 20047 BH17 7UWSemi-detached£177,000
12 Nov 200422 BH17 7UXDetached£177,000
27 Jun 200318 BH17 7UXSemi-detached£166,000
17 Jan 200315 BH17 7UWSemi-detached£160,000
22 Oct 20026 BH17 7UUSemi-detached£140,000
30 Nov 200117 BH17 7UWDetached£124,950
14 Sep 20012 BH17 7UUDetached£122,000
18 Jun 20011 BH17 7UWDetached£126,500
15 Jun 20015 BH17 7UWSemi-detached£117,950
26 Aug 199912 BH17 7UXTerraced£84,000
3 Aug 199918 BH17 7UXSemi-detached£81,000
19 Jul 19997 BH17 7UWSemi-detached£84,000
28 May 199920 BH17 7UXTerraced£88,000
3 Oct 19973 BH17 7UWSemi-detached£74,000
9 Oct 19969 BH17 7UWSemi-detached£64,500
30 Apr 199612 BH17 7UXTerraced£59,900
23 Nov 199515 BH17 7UWSemi-detached£60,000
16 Jun 19957 BH17 7UWSemi-detached£62,500
30 May 19959 BH17 7UWSemi-detached£63,500
2 Mar 199520 BH17 7UXTerraced£62,000
28 Feb 19956 BH17 7UUSemi-detached£61,250

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 76 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (6); Bungalow, detached (3); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1983-1990 (9); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (1).

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (49% of about 1,340 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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

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

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 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 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 addresses are about 9 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
BH17 7TD100%100%100%0%
BH17 7UU100%100%100%0%
BH17 7UW100%100%100%0%
BH17 7UX100%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 stationsHamworthy 145,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Poole 965,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Parkstone (Dorset) 229,000 journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Swift Close Creekmoor120 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Poole3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Ferry terminalPoole Quay Ferry Landing3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Car parksPremier Inn Poole Centre (Holes Bay) Car Park2.3 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station920 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH12.5 km (7.8 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS86.7 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Birchwood Practice720 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy720 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Moonlight Surgery720 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalSt Mary's Hospital3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Police stationDorset Police3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Creekmoor, Upton580 m (0.4 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Creekmoor Ponds Nature Reserve 7.8 ha80 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Upton Country Park 63 ha680 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 390 m²660 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsBushell Mill Allotments 1.8 ha1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 74 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Upton House, a listed building (Grade II*), 870 m (0.5 miles) south. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Upton HouseListed building, Grade II*870 m (0.5 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Northmead CopseWood360 m south-west
Pergins IslandIsland1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Round HillHill2.8 km (1.7 miles) west
Pit BottomValley3.2 km (2 miles) west
Rockley PointWetland3.6 km (2.2 miles) south-west
Kingsbridge LakesLake or reservoir4.8 km (3 miles) 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)8.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.9205
Particles (PM10)9.64015

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 552122

1 of the street's 22 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
Hillbourne Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 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
Parkstone Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) 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
Springdale First SchoolPrimary5–91.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; 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
The Acorn BH17 7XZPub/bar/nightclub160 m5 Very good13 Jun 2025
Southern Aquatics & Pets aka The Dog House Cafe BH17 7XZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good13 Dec 2024
Christ Church Creekmoor Hub Cafe BH17 7XZOther catering premises300 m5 Very good9 Feb 2026
Rowlands Pharmacy BH17 7XPRetailers - other380 mExempt
The Southern Co-op (BH17 7XP) BH17 7XPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets380 m5 Very good13 May 2024
Happy Days Nursery BH17 7FFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 May 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.

21 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour12
Violence and sexual offences7
Burglary1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Woodpecker Drive (9); On or near Swift Close (5); On or near Linnet Road (3); On or near Goldfinch Road (2); On or near Swallow Close (2).

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: 464 residents in 215 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 age4440
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright38%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)79%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)33%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 8 to 9 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.

Nearby streets

Linnet Road · Northmead Drive · Swift Close · Goldfinch Road · Pine Tree Walk · Nightjar Close · Grebe Close · Bluebell Lane · Pinetree Walk · Martin Close · Meadowsweet Road · Hyacinth Close

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.