The Close Shoreham-by-Sea, Adur

41 addresses across 4 postcodes (BN43), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 200390.

  • Sales: 51 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £585,000 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Adur cost £378,990 in August 2026 (+0% on a year); private rents averaged £1,416 a month.
  • Energy: 25 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 13, E: 5).
  • 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: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Ropetackle Road, is 500 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Storm overflows: 2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 7 times (2 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 5 to 10% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A283, carries 10,706 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • 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 27% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Shoreham-By-Sea, about 410 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Swiss Gardens, is about 370 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 7 to 10 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 41 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Adur Health Partnership, about 430 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 47% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 29 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.
  • Road safety: 3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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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
20252£585,000£420,000£750,000
20242£382,500£380,000£385,000
20211£580,000£580,000£580,000
20181£650,000£650,000£650,000
20152£402,500£310,000£495,000
20134£402,475£290,000£479,950
20101£155,000£155,000£155,000
20092£266,250£250,000£282,500
20081£370,000£370,000£370,000
20073£375,000£249,999£389,000
20062£251,000£152,000£350,000
20056£215,000£132,500£229,000
All 51 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Sep 20071 BN43 5AHDetached£389,000
4 Oct 20132 BN43 5AHSemi-detached£290,000
8 Dec 19982 BN43 5AHSemi-detached£122,500
10 Sep 20214 BN43 5AHSemi-detached£580,000
2 Mar 19984 BN43 5AHSemi-detached£100,000
12 Jul 19964 BN43 5AHSemi-detached£81,500
31 Mar 20154A BN43 5AHDetached£495,000
10 Apr 20084A BN43 5AHDetached£370,000
17 Sep 20024A BN43 5AHDetached£231,000
7 Nov 20255 BN43 5AHDetached£750,000
26 Mar 20135 BN43 5AHDetached£425,000
6 Jul 20075 BN43 5AHDetached£375,000
19 Dec 20137 BN43 5AHDetached£479,950
20 Jan 20068 BN43 5AHSemi-detached£350,000
27 Oct 19998 BN43 5AHSemi-detached£162,500
17 Aug 201810 BN43 5AHSemi-detached£650,000
13 Dec 201310 BN43 5AHSemi-detached£379,950
20 Jun 199712 BN43 5AHDetached£112,000
2 Dec 200918 BN43 5AHSemi-detached£282,500
13 Oct 200918 BN43 5AHSemi-detached£250,000
25 Apr 20241, SEAFIELDS BN43 5AHTerraced£380,000
27 Oct 20051, SEAFIELDS BN43 5AHTerraced£215,000
15 May 19961, SEAFIELDS BN43 5AHTerraced£66,000
12 Mar 20182, SEAFIELDS BN43 5AHTerraced£325,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Dec 20012, SEAFIELDS BN43 5AHTerraced£145,000
23 Jul 20244, SEAFIELDS BN43 5AHTerraced£385,000
8 Mar 20165, SEAFIELDS BN43 5AHTerraced£295,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Dec 19995, SEAFIELDS BN43 5AHSemi-detached£107,950
12 Feb 20046, SEAFIELDS BN43 5AHTerraced£225,000
23 Jul 20257, SEAFIELDS BN43 5AHTerraced£420,000
19 Jun 20157, SEAFIELDS BN43 5AHTerraced£310,000
16 Jun 20057, SEAFIELDS BN43 5AHTerraced£229,000
15 Apr 20057, SEAFIELDS BN43 5AHTerraced£229,000
5 Jan 20178, SEAFIELDS BN43 5AHTerraced£325,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Jan 20058, SEAFIELDS BN43 5AHTerraced£215,000
26 Jan 20079, SEAFIELDS BN43 5AHTerraced£249,999
19 Jan 201510, SEAFIELDS BN43 5AHSemi-detached£295,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Oct 20103-10, SHOREHAM COURT BN43 5ARFlat or maisonette£155,000Leasehold.
13 Apr 20063-10, SHOREHAM COURT BN43 5ARFlat or maisonette£152,000Leasehold.
19 Aug 20053-10, SHOREHAM COURT BN43 5ARFlat or maisonette£132,500Leasehold.
1 Jun 20053-10, SHOREHAM COURT BN43 5ARFlat or maisonette£134,000Leasehold.
12 Dec 20033-10, SHOREHAM COURT BN43 5ARFlat or maisonette£134,500Leasehold.
8 Jul 20033-10, SHOREHAM COURT BN43 5ARFlat or maisonette£105,000Leasehold.
10 May 20023-10, SHOREHAM COURT BN43 5ARFlat or maisonette£90,100Leasehold.
21 Dec 20013-10, SHOREHAM COURT BN43 5ARFlat or maisonette£65,000Leasehold.
21 Dec 20013-10, SHOREHAM COURT BN43 5ARFlat or maisonette£44,500Leasehold.
26 Oct 20013-10, SHOREHAM COURT BN43 5ARFlat or maisonette£42,700Leasehold.
16 Mar 20013-10, SHOREHAM COURT BN43 5ARFlat or maisonette£82,000Leasehold.
9 Dec 19973-10, SHOREHAM COURT BN43 5ARFlat or maisonette£43,950Leasehold.
29 Nov 19963-10, SHOREHAM COURT BN43 5ARFlat or maisonette£27,000Leasehold.
25 Mar 19963-10, SHOREHAM COURT BN43 5ARFlat or maisonette£22,000Leasehold.

House prices and rents in Adur

A typical home in Adur cost £378,990 in August 2026, the same as a year before. That is 8% more than five years earlier and 28% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£632,543
Semi-detached£443,049
Terraced£368,308
Flat or maisonette£215,437
Bought by a first-time buyer£322,256

Private renters in Adur paid £1,416 a month on average in September 2026, 3.3% more than a year before. That is 37% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£1,003
Two bedrooms£1,305
Three bedrooms£1,614
Four or more bedrooms£2,085

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 September 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

25 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 84 m². Most common: Flat (8); House, semi-detached (5); House, detached (3). Built: 1950-1966 (7); before 1900 (6); 1967-1975 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (19); rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (25 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 13,267 kWh of it on average in 2024, 28% more than the district's 10,334 kWh, and 3,106 kWh of electricity, 8% less than the district's 3,379 kWh. There are gas meters for about 93% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
BN43 5AH251,460 kWh 259,441 kWh
BN43 5AR11965 kWh 73,648 kWh
BN43 5AS152,234 kWh 146,839 kWh
BN43 5AG183,768 kWh 1818,680 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 BN43.

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 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 (40% of about 650 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 13 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 3 September 2026 to 7 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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 1 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
BN43 5AHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN43 5ARnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN43 5ASnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BN43 5AGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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

2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 7 times, for 2 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Adur, The River Adur (Tidal).

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Upper Shoreham Road Shoreham Cso Southern Water; monitored 86% of the year River Adur 5 1 630 m (0.4 miles)
Ropetackle Street, Shoreham P.s. Southern Water The River Adur (Tidal) 2 0 660 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

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 5 to 10%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

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

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 500 m (0.3 miles) away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Ropetackle Road Ropetackle Road, Shoreham 1945 to 1949 Inert, commercial, household 500 m (0.3 miles)

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 41 addresses are between 7 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
BN43 5AG100%94%94%0%
BN43 5AH100%56%56%0%
BN43 5AR100%100%100%0%
BN43 5AS100%27%27%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 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 stationsShoreham-By-Sea 1.3 million journeys in 2024–25410 m (0.3 miles)
Southwick 342,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Lancing 980,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 55 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Nicolson Drive Shoreham-by-Sea230 m
Bus or coach stationSainsbury's West Hove Portslade4.9 km (3 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tarmount Lane Car Park540 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Western Road Adur360 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Gatwick Airport LGW35.2 km (22 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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 surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Adur Health Partnership Good Mar 2017430 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Greens Pharmacy500 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alpha Dental Care320 m
HospitalSouthlands Hospital Good Oct 20191.3 km (0.8 miles)
Care homes6 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Meadowcroft Care Home Good Apr 2023260 m
Police stationShoreham Police Station480 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Shoreham, Shoreham-by-sea630 m (0.4 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Swiss Gardens 1.0 ha370 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 340 m²290 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,760 m²280 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,090 m²140 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary de Haura, a listed building (Grade I), 530 m (0.3 miles) south. 48 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Mary de HauraListed building, Grade I530 m (0.3 miles) south
The MarlipinsScheduled monument640 m (0.4 miles) south
Marlipins MuseumListed building, Grade II*640 m (0.4 miles) south
Church of St NicolasListed building, Grade I850 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Shoreham Airfield dome trainer, 240m south west of Sussex Pad HotelScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
West LakeLake or reservoir440 m (0.3 miles) south-west
West ArmTidal water740 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Shoreham HarbourTidal water780 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Mill HillHill910 m (0.6 miles) north
Mossy BottomValley2.7 km (1.7 miles) north
Badgerhole ShawWood3 km (1.8 miles) north-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)7.94010
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
60 to 6410
Under 554041

1 of the street's 41 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 Adur: see them on the Adur page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 14 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
Buckingham Park Primary SchoolPrimary4–11290 m No published inspection 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 70% in 2024 and 68% in 2023)
Swiss Gardens Primary SchoolPrimary4–11400 m (0.2 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 43% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 58% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
St Nicolas & St Mary CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–11660 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 71% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
St Peter's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11800 m (0.5 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: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 79% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 78% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
Shoreham Beach Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 59% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 65% 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 660 m (0.4 miles); the nearest is 290 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
ActiveMe 360 CIC @ Buckingham Park Primary School BN43 5UD Out-of-school day care 40 Not inspected yet 290 m
Little Nestlings Nursery BN43 5UD Full day care 51 Not inspected yet 290 m
The Childcare Club At Buckingham Park BN43 5UD Out-of-school day care 45 Not inspected yet 290 m
Bright Horizons Shoreham-by-sea Day Nursery and Preschool BN43 5UD Full day care 65 Good (Oct 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 290 m
Junior Adventures Group @ Swiss Gardens BN43 5WH Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 410 m (0.3 miles)
Shoreham Preschool LTD BN43 5WH Sessional day care 22 Not inspected yet 410 m (0.3 miles)
Young Sussex Nursery (Shoreham) BN43 6BA Full day care 35 Outstanding (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 430 m (0.3 miles)
Happy Hours Preschool BN43 5WB Sessional day care 22 Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 470 m (0.3 miles)
Sunshine Day Nursery BN43 6DA Full day care 85 Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 550 m (0.3 miles)
Bright Horizons Old Shoreham Day Nursery and Preschool BN43 5NE Full day care 97 Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 660 m (0.4 miles)

Ofsted also registers 388 childminders and 67 home childcarers (nannies) in West Sussex. 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 14 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
Meadowcroft Shoreham Limited BN43 5UBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m5 Very good16 Dec 2025
Bright Horizons Shoreham-by-Sea Day Nursery & Preschool BN43 5UDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good14 Sep 2026
The Childcare Club BN43 5UDOther catering premises290 m5 Very good28 Jun 2023
Pioneer Catering Ltd BN43 5UDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good22 Sep 2025
Little Nestlings Nursery BN43 5UDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good22 Sep 2025
ISS @ Swiss Gardens Primary School BN43 5WHOther catering premises310 m5 Very good14 Sep 2026
Shoreham Fish Bar BN43 5UATakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good8 May 2025
Shoreham News BN43 5UARetailers - other350 m5 Very good25 Mar 2025
Ergi & David Greek Gyros BN43 5UARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m3 Generally satisfactory1 Jul 2026
The Crabtree BN43 5UAPub/bar/nightclub360 mAwaiting inspection
One Stop BN43 5UARetailers - other380 m5 Very good28 Nov 2024
Shoreham Baptist Church BN43 5WDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good18 Oct 2022
The Buckingham Arms BN43 5WAPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good12 Jan 2022
The Pond Coffee BN43 5WURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good31 Aug 2022
Shoreham Centre (Bar) BN43 5WUPub/bar/nightclub410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Oct 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.

29 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour11
Violence and sexual offences10
Criminal damage and arson5
Vehicle crime1
Other theft1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Windlesham Road (8); On or near Buckingham Road (7); On or near Windlesham Gardens (5); On or near Rope Walk (2); On or near Raven'S Road (2).

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.

3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 3 slight. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a motorcyclist. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202220
202300
202400
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
17 Oct 2025 16:30 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
20 Dec 2022 10:30 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
16 Aug 2022 16:09 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist 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 A283 between A259 and Upper Shoreham Rd, with 10,706 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 490 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A283 A259 to Upper Shoreham Rd 10,706 estimated; counted 2018 3% -10% since 2015 490 m (0.3 miles)

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 Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 287 residents in 151 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 age5840
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over43%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright66%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)45%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)48%32%
Travel to work by car or van35%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)47%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.

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Postcodes on this street

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

Nearby streets

The Close · Windlesham Gardens · Northbourne Close · Overmead · Southdown Road · Windlesham Road · Overmead · Oxen Avenue · Buckingham Road · Mill Lane · Upper Shoreham Road · Victoria Road

All the streets in BN43 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; 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.