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On Waterston Close, in Canford Heath West
What it's like at BH17 9FD: every home that has sold on Waterston Close 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Waterston Close; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 13 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Waterston CloseSemi-detached | Dec 1996 | £74,950 | 74 m² | £1,013/m² | 1 |
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| 2, Waterston CloseTerraced | Mar 2019 | £267,000 | 64 m² | £4,172/m² | 2 |
| 3, Waterston CloseDetached | Nov 1996 | £76,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 4, Waterston CloseTerraced | Oct 2022 | £350,000 | 95 m² | £3,684/m² | 3 |
| 5, Waterston CloseTerraced | Aug 2023 | £245,000 | 53 m² | £4,623/m² | 4 |
| 6, Waterston CloseTerraced | Jun 2026 | £277,000 | 57 m² | £4,860/m² | 5 |
| 7, Waterston CloseTerraced | Apr 2003 | £67,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 8, Waterston CloseTerraced | Jan 2002 | £95,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 9, Waterston CloseTerraced | May 2021 | £113,500 | 58 m² | £1,957/m² | 4 |
| 10, Waterston CloseTerraced | Mar 1996 | £27,500 | 58 m² | £474/m² | 1 |
| 11, Waterston CloseSemi-detached | Oct 2007 | £190,000 | 54 m² | £3,519/m² | 6 |
| 12, Waterston CloseTerraced | Jan 2004 | £149,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 14, Waterston CloseDetached | Feb 2024 | £320,000 | 72 m² | £4,444/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, a drive away (3.3 km), with 965k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is Tollerford Road Roundabout, 150 m away, with a bus about every 17 minutes on weekdays (routes 25, 18, 447); 22 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 12 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
The nearest primary school is Haymoor Junior School, about a 10-minute walk (700 m); 64% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Canford Heath Infant School (1.1 km).
The nearest secondary is Poole Grammar School, 700 m away; Attainment 8: 70.2 · 34.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Winton Academy (5.9 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Poole Grammar School (0.6 km) and Parkstone Grammar School (0.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is Lidl, 700 m away, with Shell Darbys Corner closer still (400 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Canford Heath Group Pract (1.2 km), with Arrowedge Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (850 m).
For a haircut, Joanne is 850 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Poole Hospital, 3.1 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 10 restaurants and cafés, 1 pubs and bars.
Eurest c/o Royal Mail Staff Canteen is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and The Haymoor the nearest pub (850 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 75 per 1,000 residents a year.
Detached houses make up 48% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
The nearest park is Jubilee Gardens, 850 m away; for exercise, Ashdown Leisure Centre (800 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Poole Harbour Lake, 5.4 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, Bournemouth is 9.9 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 87 km.
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.
Mid Dorset and North Poole constituency: Vikki Slade MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 1,352 (2.7%), turnout 66%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 43%, Conservative 41%, Labour 9%, Green Party 5%.
11 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 BH17 9FD →
Most households own their home, 15% 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 13 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 8 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 | 1.7% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 95.3% | 85.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.6% | 11.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.6% | 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 40 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.