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On The Avenue, in Branksome Park, Canford Cliffs & Sandbanks
What it's like at BH13 6HA: every home that has sold on The Avenue since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
7 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 18 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on The Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
6 of the 709 homes on the street are owned by companies (1 overseas).
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 44% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Branksome, a short drive or bike ride (1.7 km), with 280k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is Tower Road, 150 m away, with a bus about every 50 minutes on weekdays (routes 50, 443, 415); 10 departures an hour from the 9 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is St Michael's Church of England Primary School, a short drive or bike ride (1.5 km); 67% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Livingstone Academy Bournemouth, 3.1 km away.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Winton Academy (4.7 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Parkstone Grammar School (6.1 km) and Bournemouth School (6.2 km).
Few families with young children: only 9% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Marks & Spencer, 1.0 km away; Discount Health Store (1.0 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Westbourne Medical Centre (1.2 km), with Vantage Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.1 km).
For a haircut, Shore Aesthetics is 1.0 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Poole Hospital, 3.9 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 65% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 66% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 25 restaurants and cafés, 3 pubs and bars.
WA cafe is the closest café or restaurant (600 m), and Westbourne Conservative Club the nearest pub (850 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 80 per 1,000 residents a year.
Homes are mostly flats (64%).
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 192 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Pinecliff Gardens, 1.0 km away; for exercise, Sustudio (1.3 km).
The beach is on your doorstep: Poole Branksome Chine, 900 m away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, Bournemouth is 9.6 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 93 km.
11 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Poole constituency: Neil Duncan-Jordan MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 18 (0.0%), turnout 61%. Vote shares: Labour 32%, Conservative 32%, Reform UK 17%, Liberal Democrat 12%.
34 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near BH13 6HA →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 57% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 44% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 43% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is Arts University Bournemouth, 3.2 km away (TEF Silver).
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole since 2011.
police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 709 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 473 homes with certificates have solar panels, 4 a heat pump, and 153 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.4% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.4% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 83.1% | 85.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 13.3% | 11.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.9% | 1.4% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
Nearest: Town Quay · about 46 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.