Swanmore Road Bournemouth

60 addresses across 4 postcodes (BH7), about 580 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 3760551.

  • Sales: 66 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £650,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole cost £310,176 in August 2026 (-1.9% on a year); private rents averaged £1,400 a month.
  • Energy: 27 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 6, D: 14, E: 5, F: 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.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Landfill: 2 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Recreation Ground South of Harewood Avenue, is 130 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 40 times (41 hours) in 2025.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A35, carries 15,405 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; 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 Pokesdown, about 570 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, King's Park, is about 230 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 11 to 22 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 60 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Beaufort Road Surgery, about 940 m (0.6 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 79% of households owned their home and 42% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 14 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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House 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
20261£650,000£650,000£650,000
20252£787,500£675,000£900,000
20242£710,000£660,000£760,000
20231£765,000£765,000£765,000
20221£770,000£770,000£770,000
20213£498,000£183,000£575,000
20203£513,000£470,000£686,000
20182£187,000£130,000£244,000
20171£575,000£575,000£575,000
20163£380,000£205,000£450,000
20154£444,975£405,000£550,000
20132£330,000£320,000£340,000
All 66 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Mar 20161A BH7 6PADetached£205,000New build.
13 Jul 20012 BH7 6PADetached£210,000
11 Jun 20093 BH7 6PAFlat or maisonette£300,000
9 Jul 20124 BH7 6PADetached£400,000
26 Mar 20024 BH7 6PADetached£237,500
15 Feb 20004 BH7 6PADetached£160,000
15 Oct 20205 BH7 6PADetached£686,000
29 Jul 20155 BH7 6PADetached£550,000
22 Jun 20065 BH7 6PADetached£360,000
11 Aug 19995 BH7 6PADetached£148,000
11 Aug 20096 BH7 6PADetached£425,000
15 Nov 19966 BH7 6PADetached£124,950
6 Nov 20087 BH7 6PADetached£395,000
5 Dec 20228 BH7 6PADetached£770,000
27 Aug 19998 BH7 6PADetached£181,500
6 Dec 19968 BH7 6PADetached£108,000
13 Oct 20009 BH7 6PADetached£182,500
1 Dec 202310 BH7 6PADetached£765,000
13 Sep 201110 BH7 6PADetached£420,000
2 Jun 200310 BH7 6PADetached£346,000
30 Jul 201511 BH7 6PADetached£439,950
11 Jan 201311 BH7 6PADetached£320,000
29 Dec 201114 BH7 6PADetached£392,000
13 Oct 200018 BH7 6PBDetached£152,000
29 Jun 201818A BH7 6PAFlat or maisonette£244,000Leasehold.
29 Nov 202118B BH7 6PAFlat or maisonette£183,000Leasehold.
22 May 201818C BH7 6PAFlat or maisonette£130,000Leasehold.
20 Feb 202619 BH7 6PBDetached£650,000
2 Nov 200119 BH7 6PBDetached£212,000
6 Apr 201720 BH7 6PBDetached£575,000
9 Jul 201520 BH7 6PBDetached£450,000
16 May 200820 BH7 6PBDetached£375,000
23 Aug 200221 BH7 6PBDetached£249,050
4 May 201623 BH7 6PBDetached£380,000
23 Aug 200724 BH7 6PBDetached£404,000
22 Sep 200624 BH7 6PBDetached£365,000
1 Jul 202525 BH7 6PBDetached£675,000
14 Aug 201526 BH7 6PBDetached£405,000
15 Feb 200627 BH7 6PBDetached£336,000
8 Jun 200728 BH7 6PBDetached£385,000
15 Feb 200829 BH7 6PBDetached£375,000
27 Oct 200029 BH7 6PBDetached£200,000
30 Apr 199630 BH7 6PBDetached£91,500
18 Sep 202031 BH7 6PBDetached£513,000
14 Aug 202532 BH7 6PBDetached£900,000
6 Aug 200332 BH7 6PBDetached£275,000
20 Oct 202033 BH7 6PBDetached£470,000
5 Oct 201233 BH7 6PBDetached£378,000
28 Nov 200734 BH7 6PBDetached£423,500
17 Jul 202436 BH7 6PDDetached£760,000
16 Jan 200336 BH7 6PDDetached£395,000
4 Oct 199940 BH7 6PDDetached£195,000
25 Nov 201641 BH7 6PDDetached£450,000
4 Dec 199842 BH7 6PDDetached£159,000
27 Jun 199743 BH7 6PDDetached£112,000
21 Aug 200047 BH7 6PDDetached£198,000
26 Jul 199547 BH7 6PDDetached£97,000
2 Jun 200049 BH7 6PDDetached£285,000
1 Oct 202451 BH7 6PDDetached£660,000
6 Jun 200255 BH7 6PDDetached£249,950
21 Jan 202159 BH7 6PDDetached£575,000
29 Aug 201359 BH7 6PDDetached£340,000
27 Aug 199659 BH7 6PDDetached£97,000
30 Sep 202163 BH7 6PDDetached£498,000
31 May 201263 BH7 6PDDetached£280,000
9 Aug 200263 BH7 6PDDetached£207,000

House prices and rents in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

A typical home in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole cost £310,176 in August 2026, 1.9% less than a year before. That is 3% more than five years earlier and 22% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£550,618
Semi-detached£356,254
Terraced£292,487
Flat or maisonette£196,969
Bought by a first-time buyer£248,778

Private renters in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole paid £1,400 a month on average in September 2026, 2.2% more than a year before. That is 31% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£918
Two bedrooms£1,170
Three bedrooms£1,458
Four or more bedrooms£2,083

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

27 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 143 m². Most common: House, detached (24); Flat (3). Built: 1930-1949 (19); 1900-1929 (6); 2016 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (21).

Each home's certificates and sales (27 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 17,030 kWh of it on average in 2024, 45% more than the district's 11,763 kWh, and 4,276 kWh of electricity, 30% more than the district's 3,278 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
BH7 6PD163,667 kWh 1517,547 kWh
BH7 6PA173,646 kWh 1616,555 kWh
BH7 6PB163,879 kWh 1713,825 kWh
BH7 6NL143,544 kWh 1517,812 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is BH7.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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 E (38% of about 1,410 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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

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
BH7 6PDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH7 6PAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH7 6PBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH7 6NLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 40 times, for 41 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Stour, River Stour Via Sws, Trib of River Stour(S).

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Wxw00768 Wessex Water River Stour 23 10 640 m (0.4 miles)
Wxw00769 Wessex Water River Stour 4 2 640 m (0.4 miles)
Cooper Dean Combined Sewer Overflow Wessex Water River Stour Via Sws 12 30 710 m (0.4 miles)
Ashley Road Combined Sewer Overflow Wessex Water Trib of River Stour(S) 1 1 720 m (0.4 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

2 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 130 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Recreation Ground South of Harewood Avenue Bournemouth Not recorded Not recorded 130 m
Avonbourne Playing Fields Bournemouth Not recorded Not recorded 250 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 60 addresses are between 11 m and 22 m above sea level (15 m on average); the ground rises about 11 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
BH7 6NL100%100%100%0%
BH7 6PA100%100%100%0%
BH7 6PB100%100%100%0%
BH7 6PD100%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 stationsPokesdown 377,000 journeys in 2024–25570 m (0.4 miles)
Christchurch 484,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Bournemouth 2.7 million journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Durrington Road Iford250 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Boscombe1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Ferry terminalTuckton Tea Gardens Ferry Landing2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Seabourne Road Car Park610 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points10 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH5.2 km (3.2 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS95.4 km (59 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Beaufort Road Surgery Good Jul 2016940 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pharmacycare Travel And Health Clinic480 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bourne Dental1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalKings Park Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Care homes13 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wallfield Good Jul 2025740 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationDorset Police1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM430 m (0.3 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 King's Park 28 ha230 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 760 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.9 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsLingdale Road Allotments 3.0 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 37 hectares in all.

Landmarks

6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fisherman's WalkBeach1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Grove CopseWood2 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Honeycombe ChineValley2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Brewhouse HoleLake or reservoir3 km (1.9 miles) east
St Catherine's HillHill3.3 km (2.1 miles) north-east
Coward's MarshWetland3.5 km (2.2 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)8.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.9205
Particles (PM10)8.94015

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
55 to 59100
Under 55596060

1 of the street's 60 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), 6 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
St James' Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary4–11350 m No published inspection 68% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 17% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
Avonbourne Girls AcademySecondary11–19550 m (0.3 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 GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 54.0 (53.0 in 2025 and 48.7 in 2024); 64.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade D+; 0% AAB or better; progress well below average
Avonbourne Boys' AcademySecondary11–16560 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 47.4 (47.3 in 2025 and 45.7 in 2024); 56.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
Avonwood Primary SchoolPrimary4–11590 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 84% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 24% at the higher standard (2025; 81% in 2024 and 76% in 2023)
Pokesdown Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11870 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 58% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 15% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
Stourfield Infant SchoolPrimary5–7910 m (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Stourfield Junior SchoolPrimary7–11910 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 18% at the higher standard (2025; 69% in 2024 and 69% in 2023)
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 18% at the higher standard (2025; 83% in 2024 and 81% in 2023)
King's Park AcademyPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Jewell Academy BournemouthPrimary4–111.9 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 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 59% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1 km (0.7 miles); the nearest is 440 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
115 Club St James BH7 6DW Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 440 m (0.3 miles)
Little Dreamers Nursery and Preschool BH5 2JU Full day care 27 Not inspected yet 580 m (0.4 miles)
St Saviours Preschool BH7 6RZ Sessional day care 26 Good (Jan 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 640 m (0.4 miles)
St Claire'S@ St Peters BH7 6RG Out-of-school day care 50 Not inspected yet 760 m (0.5 miles)
Foundation Sports And Play BH6 5JG Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 840 m (0.5 miles)
Woodland Day Nursery BH5 2JG Full day care 23 Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 860 m (0.5 miles)
Teddy's Pre-School BH7 6JJ Full day care 65 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 920 m (0.6 miles)
Foundation Sports And Play BH6 5JS Out-of-school day care 25 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
Netanya Nature Pre-School BH7 6JB Sessional day care 20 Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Fingers 'n' Thumbs Day Nursery BH6 5AB Full day care 20 Outstanding (Jan 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 131 childminders and 34 home childcarers (nannies) in Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 6 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
Sala Thai Restaurant BH7 6DSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good12 Jun 2024
Kasbah Club BH7 6DTPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good16 Mar 2020
Sainsbury's BH7 6DTRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets300 m5 Very good13 Feb 2025
Pokesdown Chippy BH7 6BETakeaway/sandwich shop320 m5 Very good29 Aug 2025
LA Chicken Bournemouth Ltd BH7 6BQTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m1 Major improvement necessary18 Aug 2026
Darcys Bar and Kitchen BH7 6BQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good20 Mar 2026
Boscombe East News, Food & Wine BH7 6BQRetailers - other330 m5 Very good8 Oct 2018
Burbs Kitchen BH7 6BQOther catering premises330 m5 Very good20 Mar 2026
Kings Takeaway BH7 6BBTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Mar 2026
Batch BH7 6DYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good3 Jul 2026
Clean and Press Coffee BH7 6AZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Tesco Express [5352] BH7 6DWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Feb 2026
St James' CE Academy AKA Relish School Food BH7 6DWSchool/college/university440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Mar 2026
115 Club @ St James CE Primary School BH7 6DWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Mar 2019
Forest Spice BH7 6DYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 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.

14 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences4
Vehicle crime4
Anti-social behaviour3
Criminal damage and arson1
Bicycle theft1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Harewood Place (7); On or near Lascelles Road (4); On or near Meon Road (2); On or near Waltham Road (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight. 1 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 50% happened in the dark, and 50% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202210
202310
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
16 Mar 2023 21:13 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
5 Aug 2022 13:15 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A35 between B3059 Parkwood Road Junction and A3060 Castle Lane East (roundabout), with 15,405 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 320 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A35 B3059 Parkwood Road Junction to A3060 Castle Lane East (roundabout) 15,405 estimated; counted 2018 1% -16% since 2015 320 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,281 residents in 506 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 age4640
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)79%61%
Owned outright36%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)40%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%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)42%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 10 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

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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

Waltham Road · Durrington Place · Harewood Place · Waltham Close · Hambledon Road · Lascelles Road · Petersfield Place · Leaphill Road · Spurgeon Road · Swanmore Close · Christchurch Road · Abinger Road

All the streets in BH7 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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.