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On Beacon Drive, in Highcliffe & Walkford
What it's like at BH23 5DH: every home that has sold on Beacon Drive 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 Beacon Drive; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 55 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Beacon DriveDetached | Apr 2008 | £365,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Beacon DriveDetached | Dec 2016 | £450,000 | 102 m² | £4,412/m² | 2 |
| 3, Beacon DriveDetached | Dec 2016 | £400,000 | 107 m² | £3,738/m² | 3 |
| 4, Beacon DriveDetached | Dec 2011 | £397,500 | 101 m² | £3,936/m² | 1 |
| 5, Beacon DriveDetached | Dec 2014 | £440,000 | 105 m² | £4,190/m² | 2 |
| 6, Beacon DriveDetached | Jul 2015 | £432,000 | 101 m² | £4,277/m² | 1 |
| 7, Beacon DriveDetached | Jun 2026 | £769,000 | 153 m² | £5,026/m² | 3 |
| 9, Beacon DriveDetached | Jul 2003 | £300,000 | 125 m² | £2,400/m² | 1 |
| 10, Beacon DriveDetached | Feb 2017 | £454,700 | 96 m² | £4,736/m² | 2 |
| 11, Beacon DriveDetached | Mar 2021 | £540,000 | 121 m² | £4,463/m² | 1 |
| 12, Beacon DriveDetached | May 2004 | £305,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 14, Beacon DriveDetached | Oct 2007 | £425,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 15, Beacon DriveDetached | Jul 2017 | £443,000 | 127 m² | £3,488/m² | 3 |
| 16, Beacon DriveDetached | Sept 2017 | £527,500 | 105 m² | £5,024/m² | 2 |
| 17, Beacon DriveDetached | Nov 1995 | £100,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 19, Beacon DriveSemi-detached | Aug 2020 | £550,000 | 102 m² | £5,392/m² | 1 |
| 20, Beacon DriveDetached | Aug 2012 | £415,000 | 101 m² | £4,109/m² | 1 |
| 21, Beacon DriveDetached | Feb 2004 | £325,000 | 115 m² | £2,826/m² | 1 |
| 22, Beacon DriveDetached | Dec 2007 | £415,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 23, Beacon DriveDetached | Feb 2014 | £565,000 | 157 m² | £3,599/m² | 3 |
| 24, Beacon DriveDetached | Jan 2021 | £595,000 | 100 m² | £5,950/m² | 3 |
| Flat 1, Harrington Court, 27, Beacon DriveFlat | Jul 2025 | £401,600 | 70 m² | £5,737/m² | 5 |
| Flat 3, Harrington Court, 27, Beacon DriveFlat | Oct 1997 | £79,950 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 4, Harrington Court, 27, Beacon DriveFlat | Jun 2021 | £390,000 | 64 m² | £6,094/m² | 2 |
| Flat 2, Harrington Court, 27, Beacon DriveFlat | Sept 2017 | £355,000 | 76 m² | £4,671/m² | 2 |
| Flat 12, Wharncliffe Court, 29, Beacon DriveFlat | Aug 1995 | £69,000 | 68 m² | £1,015/m² | 1 |
| Flat 8, Wharncliffe Court, 29, Beacon DriveFlat | Oct 1995 | £68,500 | 71 m² | £965/m² | 1 |
| Flat 5, Wharncliffe Court, 29, Beacon DriveFlat | Oct 1996 | £73,500 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 4, Wharncliffe Court, 29, Beacon DriveFlat | Aug 1999 | £120,000 | 67 m² | £1,791/m² | 2 |
| Flat 11, Wharncliffe Court, 29, Beacon DriveFlat | Oct 2004 | £230,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 7, Wharncliffe Court, 29, Beacon DriveFlat | Jun 2006 | £242,000 | 71 m² | £3,408/m² | 1 |
| Flat 9, Wharncliffe Court, 29, Beacon DriveFlat | Sept 2012 | £217,500 | 65 m² | £3,346/m² | 1 |
| Flat 3, Wharncliffe Court, 29, Beacon DriveFlat | Mar 2019 | £270,000 | 68 m² | £3,971/m² | 1 |
| Flat 2, Wharncliffe Court, 29, Beacon DriveFlat | Aug 2017 | £297,000 | 71 m² | £4,183/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Hinton Admiral, a short drive or bike ride (1.7 km), with 134k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Brockenhurst.
The nearest bus stop is Highcliffe Medical Centre, 250 m away, with a bus about every 35 minutes on weekdays (routes 81, 82, C20, 788); 7 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 47 minutes away by public transport (23 by car).
The nearest primary school is Highcliffe St Mark Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (750 m); 58% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Highcliffe School, 1.4 km away; Attainment 8: 47 · 8.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Bournemouth School for Girls (10.8 km) and Bournemouth School (11.2 km).
Few families with young children: only 10% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Express [5381], 750 m away, with Sue Ryder closer still (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Highcliffe Medical Centre (400 m), with Kamsons Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, The Glow Lounge is 400 m away.
The nearest full A&E is The Royal Bournemouth Hospital, 8.5 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, 4 pubs and bars.
Bistro My Way is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and Premier Inn Christchurch/Highcliffe the nearest pub (350 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 24 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 47% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
Bungalow country: 29% of homes are bungalows.
It's growing: about 161 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Highcliffe Recreation Ground, 200 m away; for exercise, Society 23 (850 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Highcliffe, 900 m away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.1 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
33 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.
Christchurch constituency: Sir Christopher Chope MP (Conservative), since May 1997. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 7,455 (15.7%), turnout 67%. Vote shares: Conservative 36%, Liberal Democrat 20%, Reform UK 19%, Labour 16%.
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 BH23 5DH →
For holidays, Bournemouth is 11 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 101 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 57% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 45% are 65 or over.
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.
On this street: 0 of 47 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 4 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.7% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 89.9% | 85.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 9.4% | 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.
Nearest: Hythe Pier · about 36 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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 55 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.