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On Alington Road, in Parkstone
What it's like at BH14 8LX: every home that has sold on Alington 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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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.
5 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Alington Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 61 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1a, Alington RoadDetached | Mar 2022 | £1,540,000 | 214 m² | £7,196/m² | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7, Alington RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2018 | £1,600,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 7b, Alington RoadDetached | Oct 2023 | £1,825,000 | 204 m² | £8,946/m² | 2 |
| 7c, Alington RoadOther | Jun 2023 | £470,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 9, Alington RoadDetached | Oct 1996 | £800,000 | 247 m² | £3,239/m² | 1 |
| 13, Alington RoadDetached | Aug 2022 | £2,280,000 | 305 m² | £7,475/m² | 2 |
| 15, Alington RoadDetached | Aug 2013 | £1,600,000 | 290 m² | £5,517/m² | 1 |
| 17, Alington RoadDetached · company-owned | Aug 2012 | £1,820,000 | 644 m² | £2,826/m² | 1 |
| 19, Alington RoadDetached | Aug 2001 | £450,000 | 206 m² | £2,184/m² | 1 |
| Alba, Alington RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2019 | £1,500,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 3, Daytona, 5a, Alington RoadFlat | Mar 2021 | £1,675,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Flat 2, Daytona, 5a, Alington RoadFlat | Apr 2021 | £1,150,000 | 197 m² | £5,838/m² | 2 |
| Holly Hill House, Holly Hill Lodge, 9, Alington RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2017 | £1,190,000 | 205 m² | £5,805/m² | 2 |
| Flat 1, Holly Hill Lodge, 9, Alington RoadFlat | Sept 2018 | £1,250,000 | 221 m² | £5,656/m² | 1 |
| Flat 2, Holly Hill Lodge, 9, Alington RoadFlat | Jan 2019 | £1,400,000 | 234 m² | £5,983/m² | 1 |
| Penthouse, Holly Hill Lodge, 9, Alington RoadFlat | Nov 2019 | £1,700,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Holly View, 9a, Alington RoadDetached | Feb 2022 | £2,625,000 | 429 m² | £6,119/m² | 2 |
| Lilliput House, 7, Alington RoadTerraced | Oct 2024 | £1,600,000 | 225 m² | £7,111/m² | 2 |
| Marino, Alington RoadDetached | Jun 2023 | £2,575,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Sienna, Alington RoadDetached | Jun 2019 | £1,710,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Stella House, 7a, Alington RoadTerraced | Jan 2022 | £1,625,000 | 260 m² | £6,250/m² | 1 |
| The Lodge, 1, Alington RoadDetached | May 2022 | £1,600,000 | 156 m² | £10,256/m² | 3 |
| Tramonto, Alington RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2019 | £1,500,000 | 258 m² | £5,814/m² | 1 |
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 (2.3 km), with 229k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is Alington Road, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 60).
The nearest primary school is Lilliput Church of England Infant School, about a 5-minute walk (600 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Poole High School, 3.9 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 Tesco Express [3124], 800 m away; Salterns Marina (850 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Lilliput Medical Centre (1.3 km), with Day Lewis Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.3 km).
For a haircut, Skin:ID is 700 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.
Koh Thai is the closest café or restaurant (650 m), and The Cliff 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 Canford Cliffs Village Pocket Park, 1.1 km away; for exercise, The Watersports Academy (1.1 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.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 42% of households own their home outright.
4 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%.
27 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 8LX →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
It's an older community: 27% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 44% of adults have a degree.
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 61 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: 0 of 32 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 1 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.