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On Skinner Street, in Poole Town
What it's like at BH15 1RH: every home that has sold on Skinner Street 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 Skinner Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
4 of the 23 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 10, Skinner StreetTerraced | May 2010 | £165,000 | 71 m² | £2,324/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18, Skinner StreetFlat | Aug 2005 | £125,000 | 57 m² | £2,193/m² | 1 |
| 30, Skinner StreetFlat · company-owned | May 2022 | £150,000 | 43 m² | £3,488/m² | 2 |
| 32, Skinner StreetFlat | Aug 2022 | £147,000 | 45 m² | £3,267/m² | 1 |
| 34, Skinner StreetFlat | Jun 2005 | £136,000 | 53 m² | £2,566/m² | 1 |
| 44, Skinner StreetTerraced · company-owned | Nov 2023 | £280,000 | 71 m² | £3,944/m² | 4 |
| 48, Skinner StreetTerraced | Jun 2010 | £190,000 | 83 m² | £2,289/m² | 2 |
| 50, Skinner StreetTerraced | Aug 2007 | £210,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 52, Skinner StreetTerraced | Oct 2024 | £325,000 | 87 m² | £3,736/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Poole, about a 10-minute walk (700 m), with 965k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is Perry Gardens, 150 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 448); 55 departures an hour from the 14 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 7 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
The nearest primary school is Old Town Infant School and Nursery, a few minutes' walk (250 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Poole High School, 1.2 km away; Attainment 8: 51 · 12% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Parkstone Grammar School (3.2 km) and Poole Grammar School (4.1 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Express [6136], 100 m away; Dorset Booze (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Lifeboat Quay Medical Centre (600 m), with Savers the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, Buddha Beauty is 150 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Poole Hospital, 700 m 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: 87 restaurants and cafés and 24 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
The Swan Inn is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and Sound Waves Bar and Kitchen the nearest pub (100 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (23 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 209 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 41% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Town Centre Heritage, Heckford Park).
There are 167 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (62%).
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 231 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Harbourside Park, 950 m away; for exercise, Viewpoint Fitness (600 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Poole Harbour Lake, 3.2 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.8 µg/m³).
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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| United Reform Church and Attached Wall and Railings to North East | II* | 30 m |
| Former Quaker Meeting House | II | 110 m |
| Numbers 87 and 89 Including Front Area Railings | II | 170 m |
| 73 High Street | II* | 170 m |
| 75 High Street | II | 170 m |
| 79 and 79A High Street | II | 170 m |
| Number 91 and Attached Rear Yard Wall | II | 180 m |
| 10, Strand Street | II | 200 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.
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%.
13 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 BH15 1RH →
On this street: 0 of 17 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 2 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 | 0.1% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 73.0% | 85.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 22.7% | 11.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 4.0% | 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.
For holidays, Bournemouth is 12 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 90 km.
Most households own their home, 32% rent privately.
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.
Nearest 8 shown. Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
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 41 min
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