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On Brownsea View Avenue, in Parkstone
What it's like at BH14 8LQ: every home that has sold on Brownsea View 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.
8 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Brownsea View Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 64 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Feb 1995 | £140,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Apr 2003 | £458,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 8, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | May 2021 | £1,150,000 | 318 m² | £3,616/m² | 4 |
| 10, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Jan 2021 | £850,000 | 243 m² | £3,498/m² | 2 |
| 12, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Oct 2023 | £1,100,000 | 201 m² | £5,473/m² | 4 |
| 14, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Jun 2002 | £342,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 16, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Apr 2026 | £718,000 | 123 m² | £5,837/m² | 1 |
| 22, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Jun 2018 | £1,327,500 | 292 m² | £4,546/m² | 2 |
| 24, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Nov 2018 | £935,000 | 187 m² | £5,000/m² | 2 |
| 26, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Jan 2026 | £1,120,000 | 176 m² | £6,364/m² | 3 |
| 28, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Sept 2022 | £1,525,000 | 231 m² | £6,602/m² | 3 |
| 30, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Dec 2022 | £1,790,000 | 282 m² | £6,348/m² | 3 |
| 32a, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Jul 2022 | £1,500,000 | 204 m² | £7,353/m² | 3 |
| 32b, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Apr 2011 | £860,000 | 201 m² | £4,279/m² | 2 |
| 38, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | May 2015 | £980,000 | 224 m² | £4,375/m² | 2 |
| 44, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Feb 2004 | £380,000 | 145 m² | £2,621/m² | 2 |
| 54, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Dec 2025 | £785,000 | 125 m² | £6,280/m² | 2 |
| 56, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Jun 2021 | £1,016,000 | 219 m² | £4,639/m² | 1 |
| 58, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Oct 2001 | £425,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 60, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Feb 2016 | £1,500,000 | 273 m² | £5,495/m² | 2 |
| 64, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Jul 2009 | £568,505 | 305 m² | £1,864/m² | 1 |
| 66, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Aug 2002 | £242,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 71, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Nov 2020 | £1,100,000 | 208 m² | £5,288/m² | 2 |
| 73, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Sept 2022 | £1,470,000 | 261 m² | £5,632/m² | 3 |
| Gulliver'S View, 68, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | Mar 2018 | £1,250,000 | 276 m² | £4,529/m² | 5 |
| Vergo, 68a, Brownsea View AvenueDetached | May 2019 | £1,475,000 | 340 m² | £4,338/m² | 2 |
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 short drive or bike ride (1.4 km), with 229k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is Blake Dene Road, 250 m away, with a bus about every 55 minutes on weekdays (routes 60, 443, 418); 8 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Lilliput Church of England Infant School, about a 5-minute walk (500 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Poole High School, 3.2 km away; Attainment 8: 51 · 12% 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 Asda Express Poole - Sandbanks Road PFS, 250 m away; Salterns Marina (850 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Lilliput Medical Centre (500 m), with Day Lewis Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (500 m).
For a haircut, Dimond is 350 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.
Rockets and Rascals is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and The Cow the nearest pub (1.4 km).
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, 950 m away; for exercise, Sustudio (1.7 km).
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.
15 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%.
40 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 8LQ →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
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, 4.7 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 64 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
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 2 of 43 homes with certificates have solar panels, 2 a heat pump, and 5 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.