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On Bright Road, in Oakdale West
What it's like at BH15 3DG: every home that has sold on Bright 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Bright Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 14 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Bright RoadDetached | Aug 2021 | £440,000 | 94 m² | £4,681/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a, Bright RoadDetached | Jan 2003 | £235,000 | 124 m² | £1,895/m² | 1 |
| 2, Bright RoadDetached | Nov 2024 | £410,000 | 75 m² | £5,467/m² | 2 |
| 3, Bright RoadDetached | May 2019 | £397,000 | 143 m² | £2,776/m² | 3 |
| 4, Bright RoadDetached | May 2012 | £215,000 | 70 m² | £3,071/m² | 1 |
| 5, Bright RoadDetached | Dec 2012 | £315,000 | 166 m² | £1,898/m² | 1 |
| 7, Bright RoadTerraced | Apr 2000 | £68,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 8, Bright RoadDetached | Jul 2010 | £230,000 | 147 m² | £1,565/m² | 2 |
| 9, Bright RoadDetached | Jun 2000 | £136,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 10, Bright RoadDetached | Jan 2017 | £370,000 | 108 m² | £3,426/m² | 1 |
| 14, Bright RoadDetached | Jun 1999 | £126,000 | 145 m² | £869/m² | 2 |
| 15, Bright RoadDetached | Apr 2020 | £445,000 | 142 m² | £3,134/m² | 1 |
| 16, Bright RoadDetached | May 2022 | £385,000 | 90 m² | £4,278/m² | 2 |
| 18, Bright RoadDetached | Apr 2006 | £250,000 | – | – | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Poole, a short drive or bike ride (1.6 km), with 965k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is Oakdale Road Corner, 100 m away, with a bus about every 15 minutes on weekdays (routes 26, 25, 415); 40 departures an hour from the 16 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Stanley Green Infant Academy, about a 5-minute walk (600 m).
The closest top-rated primary is Canford Heath Infant School (1 km).
The nearest secondary is St Edward's Roman Catholic/Church of England School, Poole, 750 m away; Attainment 8: 46.4 · 5.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Parkstone Grammar School (1.7 km) and Poole Grammar School (2.5 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Express [3058], 550 m away, with Oakdale Post Office closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Hennings Park Surgery (300 m), with Rowlands Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, Gino’s is 300 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Poole Hospital, 1.1 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 7 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Clubhub Poole is the closest café or restaurant (800 m), and Oakdale Conservative Club the nearest pub (450 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Detached houses make up 55% of homes.
It's largely interwar: 50% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
Bungalow country: 28% of homes are bungalows.
The nearest park is Oakdale Community Park, 250 m away; for exercise, The Gym (1.0 km).
A swim is a short trip away: Poole Harbour Lake, 3.9 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.5 µg/m³).
For holidays, Bournemouth is 11 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 89 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 43% of households own their home outright.
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.
26 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%.
26 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 3DG →
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 14 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Swanage Railway · about 38 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: 1 of 11 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 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 | 0.4% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 93.8% | 85.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.7% | 11.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 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.