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On Sterte Esplanade, in Poole Town
What it's like at BH15 2BA: every home that has sold on Sterte Esplanade 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 Sterte Esplanade; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 27 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Sterte EsplanadeSemi-detached | Oct 2008 | £160,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Sterte EsplanadeSemi-detached | Mar 2013 | £195,000 | 85 m² | £2,294/m² | 1 |
| 6, Sterte EsplanadeSemi-detached | Jun 2020 | £322,500 | 108 m² | £2,986/m² | 2 |
| 8, Sterte EsplanadeSemi-detached · company-owned | Oct 2024 | £450,000 | 87 m² | £5,172/m² | 1 |
| 10, Sterte EsplanadeSemi-detached | Dec 2008 | £167,500 | 95 m² | £1,763/m² | 1 |
| 12, Sterte EsplanadeSemi-detached | Apr 2015 | £275,000 | 115 m² | £2,391/m² | 1 |
| 20, Sterte EsplanadeSemi-detached | May 2003 | £150,000 | 87 m² | £1,724/m² | 1 |
| 22a, Sterte EsplanadeDetached | Feb 2024 | £695,000 | 112 m² | £6,205/m² | 2 |
| 24, Sterte EsplanadeSemi-detached | Mar 2015 | £295,000 | 138 m² | £2,138/m² | 2 |
| 26, Sterte EsplanadeSemi-detached | Nov 2019 | £329,000 | 113 m² | £2,912/m² | 3 |
| 30, Sterte EsplanadeSemi-detached | May 2004 | £229,950 | – | – | 2 |
| 32, Sterte EsplanadeSemi-detached | Dec 2012 | £200,000 | 164 m² | £1,220/m² | 1 |
| 34, Sterte EsplanadeSemi-detached | Mar 2026 | £490,000 | 138 m² | £3,551/m² | 2 |
| 36, Sterte EsplanadeDetached | Apr 2023 | £340,000 | 142 m² | £2,394/m² | 2 |
| 38, Sterte EsplanadeDetached | Mar 2001 | £102,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 40, Sterte EsplanadeDetached | Jun 2021 | £610,000 | 255 m² | £2,392/m² | 3 |
| 44, Sterte EsplanadeFlat | Oct 2006 | £150,000 | 59 m² | £2,542/m² | 2 |
| 46, Sterte EsplanadeSemi-detached | Nov 2015 | £321,000 | 151 m² | £2,126/m² | 2 |
| 50, Sterte EsplanadeDetached | Aug 2022 | £550,000 | 117 m² | £4,701/m² | 1 |
| 52, Sterte EsplanadeDetached | Jan 2017 | £432,500 | 147 m² | £2,942/m² | 2 |
| 54, Sterte EsplanadeFlat | Feb 1999 | £54,000 | 63 m² | £857/m² | 1 |
| 54a, Sterte EsplanadeFlat | Jan 2016 | £195,000 | 86 m² | £2,267/m² | 1 |
| 56, Sterte EsplanadeOther | Feb 2021 | £175,000 | 64 m² | £2,734/m² | 1 |
| 56a, Sterte EsplanadeFlat | Jul 1999 | £77,950 | – | – | 2 |
| 58, Sterte EsplanadeSemi-detached | Jul 2001 | £125,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 60, Sterte EsplanadeSemi-detached | Oct 2013 | £200,000 | 88 m² | £2,273/m² | 1 |
| 62, Sterte EsplanadeDetached · company-owned | Sept 2002 | £100,000 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Poole, a few minutes' walk (350 m), with 965k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is West View Road, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 10); 19 departures an hour from the 8 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 Oakdale Junior School, about a 10-minute walk (750 m); 54% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Poole High School, 250 m 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 The Southern Co-op, 550 m away, with Tricuro closer still (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Lifeboat Quay Medical Centre (400 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (500 m).
For a haircut, Great British Barbering Academy is 400 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.
Dine Contract Catering is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and Champs the nearest pub (400 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 Sterte Green, 100 m away; for exercise, Viewpoint Fitness (450 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).
35 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%.
19 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 2BA →
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.
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 27 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 21 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 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.
Nearest: Swanage Railway · about 41 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.