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On Mentone Road, in Parkstone
What it's like at BH14 8AU: every home that has sold on Mentone 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Mentone Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 23 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Mentone RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2026 | £500,000 | 108 m² | £4,630/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Mentone RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2020 | £450,000 | 91 m² | £4,945/m² | 4 |
| 4, Mentone RoadTerraced | Oct 2003 | £191,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 5, Mentone RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2020 | £462,000 | 93 m² | £4,968/m² | 2 |
| 6, Mentone RoadTerraced | Feb 2016 | £310,000 | 112 m² | £2,768/m² | 1 |
| 7, Mentone RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2007 | £340,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 8, Mentone RoadTerraced | Aug 2022 | £418,000 | 94 m² | £4,447/m² | 1 |
| 9, Mentone RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2021 | £490,000 | 105 m² | £4,667/m² | 6 |
| 10, Mentone RoadTerraced | Mar 2004 | £203,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 11, Mentone RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2022 | £535,000 | 99 m² | £5,404/m² | 4 |
| 12, Mentone RoadTerraced | Apr 2009 | £240,000 | 83 m² | £2,892/m² | 3 |
| 13a, Mentone RoadDetached | Jul 2017 | £370,000 | 82 m² | £4,512/m² | 2 |
| 15, Mentone RoadDetached | Dec 2015 | £403,750 | 124 m² | £3,256/m² | 1 |
| 16, Mentone RoadTerraced | Sept 2020 | £425,000 | 140 m² | £3,036/m² | 6 |
| 19, Mentone RoadDetached | Feb 1998 | £94,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 20, Mentone RoadTerraced | Apr 2014 | £339,950 | 116 m² | £2,931/m² | 3 |
| 20a, Mentone RoadDetached | Feb 2025 | £445,000 | 86 m² | £5,174/m² | 4 |
| 21, Mentone RoadSemi-detached · company-owned | Apr 2022 | £520,000 | 109 m² | £4,771/m² | 7 |
| 22, Mentone RoadTerraced | Oct 2024 | £515,000 | 93 m² | £5,538/m² | 6 |
| 23, Mentone RoadSemi-detached | Jan 1999 | £112,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 24, Mentone RoadTerraced | May 2005 | £210,000 | 65 m² | £3,231/m² | 3 |
| 25, Mentone RoadTerraced | Aug 1996 | £58,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 27, Mentone RoadTerraced | Sept 2015 | £358,000 | 115 m² | £3,113/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 41% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Parkstone (Dorset), a few minutes' walk (450 m), with 229k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is Mentone Road, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 20, 443, 418); 26 departures an hour from the 12 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Baden-Powell and St Peter's Church of England Junior School, a few minutes' walk (350 m); 73% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is St Edward's Roman Catholic/Church of England School, Poole, 1.9 km away; Attainment 8: 46.4 · 5.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Winton Academy (5.2 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Parkstone Grammar School (4.1 km) and Poole Grammar School (4.6 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-op (BH14 0JD), 250 m away; Lloyds Pharmacy (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Wessex Road Surgery (150 m), with Parkstone Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Meraki Beauty is 250 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Poole Hospital, 1.7 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: 29 restaurants and cafés, 8 pubs and bars.
Coast is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and The Britannia the nearest pub (100 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 50 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Detached houses make up 40% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 166 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Whitecliff Park, 700 m away; for exercise, Breathe (650 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Poole Canford Cliffs Chine, 2.8 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, Bournemouth is 10 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 91 km.
40 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%.
45 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 BH14 8AU →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 42% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 27% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 44% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is Arts University Bournemouth, 4.6 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 23 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Swanage Railway · about 43 min
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On this street: 0 of 17 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.6% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.3% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 80.3% | 85.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.3% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 16.4% | 11.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.4% | 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.