Sylvan Road Sompting, Adur

111 addresses across 7 postcodes (BN15), about 260 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 200099.

  • Sales: 41 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £175,000 across 5 sales.
  • Energy: 63 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 22, D: 26, E: 12).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas 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 Adur costs £2,548 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 93% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is East Worthing, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 70 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 8 to 10 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 111 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ball Tree Surgery, about 340 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 630 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 44% of households owned their home and 16% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 114 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
20255£175,000£160,000£277,500
20243£145,000£145,000£275,000
20221£165,000£165,000£165,000
20211£155,000£155,000£155,000
20192£143,750£140,000£147,500
20172£253,250£250,000£256,500
20162£234,500£232,000£237,000
20151£133,000£133,000£133,000
20141£185,000£185,000£185,000
20121£164,000£164,000£164,000
20112£131,500£103,000£160,000
20101£95,000£95,000£95,000
Most recent sales (41)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Oct 202527 BN15 0BTFlat or maisonette£168,000Leasehold.
30 May 202540 BN15 0BTTerraced£277,500
20 May 202542 BN15 0BTTerraced£275,000
20 May 202529 BN15 0BTFlat or maisonette£175,000Leasehold.
13 Feb 202527 BN15 0BTFlat or maisonette£160,000Leasehold.
23 Aug 202446 BN15 0BTTerraced£275,000
5 Jul 202424 BN15 0BTFlat or maisonette£145,000Leasehold.
11 Mar 202422 BN15 0BTTerraced£145,000Leasehold.
24 Nov 202324 BN15 0BTFlat or maisonette£160,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Jan 202230 BN15 0BTTerraced£165,000Leasehold.
23 Dec 202124 BN15 0BTFlat or maisonette£155,000Leasehold.
14 Oct 201927 BN15 0BTFlat or maisonette£147,500Leasehold.
26 Jul 201929 BN15 0BTFlat or maisonette£140,000Leasehold.
4 Sep 201721 BN15 0BTTerraced£250,000
21 Jul 201719 BN15 0BTTerraced£256,500
19 Dec 201660 BN15 0BTTerraced£237,000
8 Sep 201650 BN15 0BTTerraced£232,000
1 Dec 201527 BN15 0BTFlat or maisonette£133,000Leasehold.
25 Jul 201446 BN15 0BTTerraced£185,000
1 Nov 201260 BN15 0BTTerraced£164,000
2 Nov 201153 BN15 0BTFlat or maisonette£103,000Leasehold.
20 Jul 201148 BN15 0BTTerraced£160,000
6 Aug 201027 BN15 0BTFlat or maisonette£95,000Leasehold.
26 Oct 200950 BN15 0BTTerraced£100,000
5 Oct 200953 BN15 0BTFlat or maisonette£89,750Leasehold.
20 Oct 200653 BN15 0BTFlat or maisonette£90,000Leasehold.
28 Oct 200527 BN15 0BTTerraced£85,000Leasehold.
20 Aug 200456 BN15 0BTSemi-detached£152,500
19 Mar 200458 BN15 0BTTerraced£122,000
4 Jul 200329 BN15 0BTFlat or maisonette£82,000Leasehold.
9 Dec 200262 BN15 0BTTerraced£57,000
26 Apr 200241 BN15 0BTFlat or maisonette£59,000Leasehold.
18 Mar 200270 BN15 0BTTerraced£118,000
26 May 200056 BN15 0BTSemi-detached£79,950
17 Jul 199860 BN15 0BTTerraced£55,000
21 Nov 199723 BN15 0BTTerraced£59,000
17 Oct 199770 BN15 0BTTerraced£48,500
20 Jun 199727 BN15 0BTTerraced£25,000Leasehold.
29 Aug 199668 BN15 0BTTerraced£44,750
26 Apr 199642 BN15 0BTTerraced£48,250
23 Feb 199623 BN15 0BTTerraced£48,000

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

63 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 48 m². Most common: Flat (42); House, mid-terrace (10); House, end-terrace (9). Built: 1967-1975 (45); 1950-1966 (6); 1976-1982 (6). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (37); owner-occupied (16); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Adur in 2026-27: Band D £2,548 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,699£1,982£2,265£2,548£3,115£3,681£4,247£5,097

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (52% of about 660 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.

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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 26 October 2026 to 31 October 2026: WEST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, Section 50, priority working, on the carriageway (standard works)

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

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 3 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
BN15 0BTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
BN15 0BNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN15 0GAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN15 0NQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN15 0BSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely
BN15 0BLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN15 0DQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

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 111 addresses are between 8 m and 10 m above sea level (9 m on average).

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
BN15 0BL100%100%100%0%
BN15 0BN100%100%100%0%
BN15 0BS100%93%93%0%
BN15 0BT100%100%100%0%
BN15 0DQ100%100%100%0%
BN15 0GA100%100%100%0%
BN15 0NQ100%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 stationsEast Worthing 471,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Lancing 980,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Worthing 2.2 million journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 34 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Test Road Sompting20 m
Bus or coach stationSainsbury's West Hove Portslade9.8 km (6.1 miles)
Car parksWorthing Hospital - Staff Parking2.3 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations610 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW37.1 km (23 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 Ball Tree Surgery340 m
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cokeham Pharmacy500 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery700 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalWorthing Hospital2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Police stationSussex Police Federation840 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Sompting, Sompting150 m

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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha70 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 640 m²90 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.2 ha240 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 5.2 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

8 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
The MountainHill1.5 km (1 mile) north-west
Lancing BeachBeach2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Lancing HillHill2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-east
Cow BottomValley3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-east
Mill PlantationWood3.1 km (1.9 miles) west
WidewaterLake or reservoir3.3 km (2.1 miles) 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)7.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)9.94015

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 5930
Under 55108111

3 of the street's 111 addresses are 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 Adur: see them on the Adur 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
Sompting Village Primary SchoolPrimary4–11200 m Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Boundstone Nursery SchoolNursery3–5870 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
The Sir Robert Woodard Academy ChristianSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Globe Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Bramber Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Downsbrook Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Davison Church of England High School for Girls, WorthingSecondary11–161.5 km (1 mile) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whytemead Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Springfield Infant School and NurseryPrimary3–71.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Homefield Primary School and SSCPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
North Lancing Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Andrew's CofE High School Church of EnglandSecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Co-Op BN15 0ENRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets150 m5 Very good8 Feb 2022
Sompting Fish Bar BN15 0ENTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m4 Good8 May 2026
Breakfast Club at Sompting V Primary BN15 0BUOther catering premises190 m5 Very good30 Oct 2023
Premier Education BN15 0BUOther catering premises190 m5 Very good18 Feb 2026
Big Ted's Nursery BN15 0BUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises250 m5 Very good3 May 2022
Ball Tree Croft BN15 9UXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Aug 2025
Rectory House Nursing Home BN15 0DAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good2 Jun 2026
Sompting Mini Market BN15 9TPRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 May 2022

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.

114 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences50
Anti-social behaviour18
Shoplifting15
Criminal damage and arson8
Public order6
Drugs5
Other theft2
Vehicle crime2
Robbery2
Burglary2
Other crime2
Possession of weapons2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (30); On or near Maytree Close (27); On or near Avon Close (15); On or near Sylvan Road (11); On or near Florlandia Close (11).

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: 634 residents in 246 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 age3740
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)44%61%
Owned outright18%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented49%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%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)16%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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.

Nearby streets

Avon Close · Hamble Road · Hamble Road · Test Road · Florlandia Close · Blacksmiths Crescent · Northgate Close · Loose Lane · Grasmere Avenue · Peveril Drive · Peveril Close · Lotts Lane

All the streets in BN15 and across Adur.

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.