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On Forest View Road, in Moordown
What it's like at BH9 3BG: every home that has sold on Forest View 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 Forest View Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 34 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 4, Forest View RoadDetached | Oct 2018 | £282,500 | 103 m² | £2,743/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, Forest View RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2022 | £268,580 | 66 m² | £4,069/m² | 3 |
| 7, Forest View RoadDetached | Apr 2022 | £338,000 | 65 m² | £5,200/m² | 2 |
| 8, Forest View RoadDetached | Aug 2021 | £365,000 | 84 m² | £4,345/m² | 4 |
| 11, Forest View RoadDetached | Jul 2011 | £250,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 12, Forest View RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2006 | £210,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 12a, Forest View RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2005 | £205,000 | 91 m² | £2,253/m² | 4 |
| 15, Forest View RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2003 | £179,950 | – | – | 2 |
| 16, Forest View RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2024 | £315,000 | 79 m² | £3,987/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Bournemouth, a drive away (3.1 km), with 2.7m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is Haverstock Road, 300 m away, with a bus about every 55 minutes on weekdays (routes 20, 487, 746); 33 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is St. Walburga's Catholic Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (700 m); 98% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Bournemouth School, 1.0 km away; Attainment 8: 74.2 · 45.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Winton Academy (1.7 km) and Avonbourne Boys' Academy (3.7 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Bournemouth School (1.2 km) and Bournemouth School for Girls (1.4 km).
It's a family area: 20% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Co-op (BH9 2BN), 350 m away; Viet and Thai Market (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Moordown Medical Centre (400 m), with Wrights Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (700 m).
For a haircut, Mirror Mirror is 350 m away.
The nearest full A&E is The Royal Bournemouth Hospital, 3.7 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: 9 restaurants and cafés, 1 pubs and bars.
Bournemouth Kawasaki is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and Moordown Bowling 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 70% of homes.
It's largely interwar: 57% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Moordown Recreation Ground, 350 m away; for exercise, Sir David English Sport Centre (1.2 km).
A swim is a short trip away: Bournemouth Boscombe Pier, 4.5 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.5 µg/m³).
For holidays, Bournemouth is 3.4 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 91 km.
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.
Bournemouth East constituency: Tom Hayes MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 5,479 (12.2%), turnout 62%. Vote shares: Labour 41%, Conservative 29%, Reform UK 14%, Liberal Democrat 7%.
28 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 BH9 3BG →
Most households own their home, 18% rent privately.
The nearest university is Bournemouth University, 2.3 km away (TEF Silver).
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 34 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 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 | 0.7% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.2% | 85.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.3% | 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: Town Quay · about 42 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.