Ventry Close Poole

18 addresses across 1 postcode (BH13), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 30302748.

  • Sales: 43 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £542,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 13, D: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole costs £2,436 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Branksome, about 230 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Coy Pond Gardens, is about 630 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 46 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 12 of its 18 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Westbourne Medical Centre, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 160 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 91% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 34 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
20252£542,500£500,000£585,000
20241£530,000£530,000£530,000
20222£609,250£578,500£640,000
20213£490,000£465,000£540,000
20191£465,000£465,000£465,000
20183£469,000£415,000£518,000
20161£425,000£425,000£425,000
20151£435,000£435,000£435,000
20142£427,500£395,000£460,000
20112£305,000£290,000£320,000
20091£310,000£310,000£310,000
20072£425,000£425,000£425,000
Most recent sales (43)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Dec 20254 BH13 6AWTerraced£500,000
5 Sep 202515 BH13 6AWTerraced£585,000
6 Dec 202412 BH13 6AWTerraced£530,000
21 Dec 202217 BH13 6AWTerraced£578,500
23 Nov 20228 BH13 6AWTerraced£640,000
23 Aug 20213 BH13 6AWTerraced£540,000
21 May 202115 BH13 6AWTerraced£490,000
12 Mar 20218 BH13 6AWTerraced£465,000
29 Oct 201912 BH13 6AWTerraced£465,000
27 Jul 201814 BH13 6AWTerraced£469,000
1 May 20185 BH13 6AWDetached£518,000
13 Apr 201815 BH13 6AWTerraced£415,000
4 Mar 20169 BH13 6AWTerraced£425,000
30 Sep 20153 BH13 6AWTerraced£435,000
17 Oct 201410 BH13 6AWTerraced£395,000
20 Jun 20148 BH13 6AWTerraced£350,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 May 20146 BH13 6AWTerraced£460,000
29 Sep 201111 BH13 6AWTerraced£320,000
16 Aug 201110 BH13 6AWTerraced£290,000
25 Aug 200914 BH13 6AWTerraced£310,000
7 Sep 200712 BH13 6AWTerraced£425,000
31 May 20075 BH13 6AWDetached£425,000
19 Feb 20061 BH13 6AWTerraced£400,000
10 Jun 20056 BH13 6AWSemi-detached£370,000
24 Mar 20054 BH13 6AWTerraced£390,000
24 Jun 200416 BH13 6AWTerraced£337,000
27 Sep 20024 BH13 6AWTerraced£360,000
14 Mar 200215 BH13 6AWTerraced£250,000
31 Jan 20018 BH13 6AWTerraced£244,000
28 Jul 20004 BH13 6AWTerraced£230,000
5 Nov 199912 BH13 6AWTerraced£195,000
3 Nov 199716 BH13 6AWTerraced£139,950New build.
10 Oct 199717 BH13 6AWTerraced£144,000New build.
8 Oct 199712 BH13 6AWTerraced£139,000New build.
3 Oct 199715 BH13 6AWTerraced£139,500New build.
1 Oct 199711 BH13 6AWTerraced£133,000New build.
26 Sep 199714 BH13 6AWTerraced£139,950New build.
15 Sep 19978 BH13 6AWTerraced£144,950New build.
9 Sep 19977 BH13 6AWTerraced£155,000New build.
5 Sep 19979 BH13 6AWTerraced£135,000New build.
29 Aug 199710 BH13 6AWTerraced£139,500New build.
8 Mar 19966 BH13 6AWSemi-detached£131,000
12 Apr 19952 BH13 6AWTerraced£127,500

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

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 143 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (12); House, end-terrace (2); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1996-2002 (7); 1983-1990 (4); 1991-1995 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (2).

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (22% of about 1,060 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: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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

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

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

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

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 46 m above sea level.

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

Broadband

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

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
BH13 6AW100%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 stationsBranksome 280,000 journeys in 2024–25230 m
Parkstone (Dorset) 229,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Bournemouth 2.7 million journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 41 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Victoria School Branksome50 m
Bus or coach stationBournemouth University Talbot Heath2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Ferry terminalBrownsea Island Ferry Landing Sandbanks4.9 km (3.1 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Penn Hill Surface Car Park610 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points12 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Source EV Charging Station550 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH8.2 km (5.1 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS92 km (57 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Westbourne Medical Centre1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy280 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Canford Cliffs Dental730 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalHerbert Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationWinton Police Station3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM260 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coy Pond Gardens 2.7 ha630 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 130 m²740 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8.8 ha800 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsAlder Farm Allotments 1.5 ha1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 3.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Aldhelm, a listed building (Grade II*), 80 m west. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of St AldhelmListed building, Grade II*80 m west
Fern Barrow: a bowl barrow on Talbot HeathScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Upper, Central and Lower Pleasure Gardens, and Coy Pond GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II2 km (1.2 miles) east
Compton AcresRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.2 km (1.4 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Branksome Park WoodWood650 m (0.4 miles) south
Coy PondLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Alum ChineValley1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Branksome Dene ChineBeach2.2 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Blake HillHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Blue LagoonWetland3 km (1.9 miles) south-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.14010
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
70 to 74400
65 to 69600
60 to 64100
55 to 59100
Under 5561818

12 of the street's 18 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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole: see them on the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Heatherlands Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Bishop Aldhelm's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (May 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; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Courthill Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Poole Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2022, 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
Melton Court Restaurant BH13 6BHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good19 Dec 2025
Victoria School BH13 6ASSchool/college/university90 m5 Very good26 Feb 2025
Horizons BH13 6ASSchool/college/university90 m5 Very good5 Mar 2020
Hollywood Bowl BH12 1DARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good20 Sep 2024
Finezza BH12 1AWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good23 Aug 2024
Dingley's Promise Poole BH12 1AWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good18 Nov 2025
Lidl BH12 1DQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets200 m5 Very good5 Aug 2024
Godfather Pizza BH12 1DFTakeaway/sandwich shop210 mAwaiting inspection
Park Manor Care Home BH13 6BSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m5 Very good22 Jan 2025
Tesco [3047] BH12 1AURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets280 m5 Very good9 Sep 2024
Rowe's Cornish Bakers BH12 1AURetailers - other280 m5 Very good7 Nov 2024
The Branksome Railway Hotel BH12 1DQPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good7 Jan 2020
Veritas Medical Aesthetics Limited BH12 1NBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 mAwaiting inspection
Puss 'n' Boots BH13 6ARHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good14 Apr 2025
Branksome Food Centre BH12 1DHRetailers - other370 m5 Very good21 Dec 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.

34 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences9
Other theft7
Shoplifting4
Anti-social behaviour3
Public order3
Vehicle crime3
Robbery1
Bicycle theft1
Criminal damage and arson1
Burglary1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (11); On or near Ventry Close (8); On or near St Aldhelm'S Road (4); On or near Petrol Station (4); On or near Poole Road (4).

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: 164 residents in 118 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 age8240
Children under 152%17%
Aged 65 and over72%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)91%61%
Owned outright83%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work18%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)15%6%
Retired (of adults)76%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.

  • BH13 6AW: 18 addresses of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Wilderton Road West · St Aldhelm's Road · St Aldhelms Road · Middleton Place · Cardigan Road · Silver Birch Close · Lindsay Road · St Aldhelm's Close · Wills Road · Cromer Gardens · Gorleston Road · Copper Beech Close

All the streets in BH13 and across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.