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On Alverton Avenue, in Poole Town
What it's like at BH15 2QG: every home that has sold on Alverton 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Alverton Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 26 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 4, Alverton AvenueDetached | Jan 2023 | £550,000 | 174 m² | £3,161/m² | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12, Alverton AvenueDetached | Aug 2026 | £575,000 | 137 m² | £4,197/m² | 3 |
| 20, Alverton AvenueDetached | Nov 2018 | £440,000 | 130 m² | £3,385/m² | 4 |
| 22, Alverton AvenueDetached | Oct 2011 | £367,500 | 107 m² | £3,435/m² | 3 |
| 24, Alverton AvenueDetached | Aug 2023 | £710,000 | 153 m² | £4,641/m² | 5 |
| 26, Alverton AvenueDetached | Nov 2018 | £520,000 | 138 m² | £3,768/m² | 2 |
| 28, Alverton AvenueDetached | Oct 2001 | £280,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 30, Alverton AvenueDetached | Sept 2024 | £583,500 | 95 m² | £6,142/m² | 2 |
| 32, Alverton AvenueDetached | Apr 2021 | £628,000 | 178 m² | £3,528/m² | 2 |
| 32a, Alverton AvenueDetached | Oct 2012 | £300,000 | 102 m² | £2,941/m² | 1 |
| 34, Alverton AvenueDetached | Jun 2021 | £575,000 | 127 m² | £4,528/m² | 1 |
| 36, Alverton AvenueDetached | Jun 2024 | £525,000 | 141 m² | £3,723/m² | 2 |
| 36a, Alverton AvenueDetached | Sept 2025 | £465,000 | 121 m² | £3,843/m² | 2 |
| 40, Alverton AvenueDetached | Oct 2019 | £420,000 | 137 m² | £3,066/m² | 3 |
| 42, Alverton AvenueDetached | Jul 2015 | £410,000 | 136 m² | £3,015/m² | 2 |
| 48, Alverton AvenueDetached | Mar 2011 | £375,000 | 106 m² | £3,538/m² | 2 |
| 60, Alverton AvenueDetached | Sept 2013 | £350,000 | 97 m² | £3,608/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Parkstone (Dorset), a short drive or bike ride (1.3 km), with 229k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is Park Gates, 100 m away, with a bus about every 21 minutes on weekdays (routes U2, 60, 20, 449); 152 departures an hour from the 16 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 Ocean Academy Poole, about a 5-minute walk (550 m); 68% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Poole High School, 1.3 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 The Southern Co-op (BH14 0RF), 700 m away, with Park Gates Convenience Store closer still (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Adam Practice (400 m), with Rowlands Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (750 m).
For a haircut, Harrison‘s Barber Shop is 200 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.
Manara Grill is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and Shah Of Persia the nearest pub (300 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 Poole Park, 450 m away; for exercise, Breathe (200 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Poole Harbour Lake, 3.2 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
31 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%.
38 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 2QG →
On this street: 0 of 23 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 | 0.1% | 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.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.8 µg/m³).
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 26 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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