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On Knyveton Road, in East Cliff
What it's like at BH1 3QT: every home that has sold on Knyveton Road 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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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.
5 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 8 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 Knyveton Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
26 of the 477 homes on the street are owned by companies.
The nearest station is Bournemouth, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km), with 2.7m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is Boscombe Gardens, 100 m away, with a bus about every 4 minutes on weekdays (routes m2, 1A, 1C, 1B); 103 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 9 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
The nearest primary school is Bethany Church of England Junior School, a few minutes' walk (450 m); 35% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Livingstone Academy Bournemouth, 1.3 km away.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Avonbourne Boys' Academy (3 km) and Winton Academy (3.3 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Bournemouth School (2.8 km) and Bournemouth School for Girls (3.1 km).
Few families with young children: only 9% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Supermarket Romania, 550 m away, with Ecomini closer still (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Crescent Providence Surgery (500 m), with Kamsons Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (800 m).
For a haircut, Classy hairstyle is 350 m away.
The nearest full A&E is The Royal Bournemouth 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).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 66 restaurants and cafés and 11 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Boscombe Chine Gardens Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and Bournemouth Masonic Club the nearest pub (300 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (18 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 250 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 44% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (East Cliff).
There are 25 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (91%).
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 251 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Boscombe Chine Gardens, 300 m away; for exercise, Majestic Gym (550 m).
45 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Chine Pines | II | 170 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Bournemouth East constituency: Tom Hayes MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 5,479 (12.2%), turnout 62%. Vote shares: Labour 41%, Conservative 29%, Reform UK 14%, Liberal Democrat 7%.
36 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 BH1 3QT →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The beach is on your doorstep: Bournemouth Boscombe Pier, 1.3 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.7 µg/m³).
For holidays, Bournemouth is 6.4 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 95 km.
Many neighbours rent: 56% of households rent privately and 10% socially.
It's young: 40% of residents are aged 15–29.
This is a student area: 30% of adults were full-time students at the 2021 census, so expect shared houses, busy term times and quiet summers.
The nearest university is AECC University College, 1.5 km away (TEF Bronze).
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.
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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 477 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 323 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 96 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.1% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 55.6% | 85.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 30.1% | 11.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 14.2% | 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 40 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.