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On North Gardens, in North Laine & the Lanes
What it's like at BN1 3LB: every home that has sold on North Gardens 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.
Sales and extensions on North Gardens; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 37 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 3, North GardensTerraced | Oct 2009 | £267,000 | 68 m² | £3,926/m² | 3 |
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| 5, North GardensTerraced | Jul 2018 | £470,000 | 60 m² | £7,833/m² | 6 |
| 7a, North GardensTerraced | Jun 1999 | £110,000 | 88 m² | £1,250/m² | 1 |
| 8, North GardensTerraced | Jul 2019 | £425,000 | 67 m² | £6,343/m² | 1 |
| 9, North GardensTerraced | Jun 2015 | £427,375 | 63 m² | £6,784/m² | 3 |
| 10, North GardensTerraced | Mar 2004 | £225,000 | 70 m² | £3,214/m² | 1 |
| 11, North GardensTerraced | Jan 2022 | £500,000 | 68 m² | £7,353/m² | 1 |
| 12, North GardensTerraced | Apr 2017 | £480,000 | 75 m² | £6,400/m² | 2 |
| 13, North GardensTerraced | Dec 2007 | £375,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 15, North GardensTerraced | Sept 2011 | £310,000 | 78 m² | £3,974/m² | 1 |
| 16, North GardensTerraced | Mar 2004 | £270,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 17, North GardensTerraced | Dec 2002 | £284,000 | 73 m² | £3,890/m² | 2 |
| 20, North GardensTerraced | Oct 2014 | £397,000 | 78 m² | £5,090/m² | 4 |
| 22, North GardensTerraced | Sept 2014 | £420,000 | 74 m² | £5,676/m² | 2 |
| 23, North GardensTerraced | Jul 2012 | £385,000 | 74 m² | £5,203/m² | 3 |
| 24, North GardensTerraced | Jul 2026 | £545,000 | 75 m² | £7,267/m² | 5 |
| 25, North GardensSemi-detached | Nov 1999 | £148,600 | – | – | 2 |
| 26, North GardensTerraced | Sept 2016 | £710,000 | 84 m² | £8,452/m² | 2 |
| 27, North GardensTerraced | Oct 1997 | £136,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 32, North GardensDetached | Mar 2008 | £395,000 | 103 m² | £3,835/m² | 2 |
| 33, North GardensTerraced · company-owned | Nov 2023 | £560,000 | 117 m² | £4,786/m² | 1 |
| 34, North GardensFlat | Aug 2023 | £500,000 | 112 m² | £4,464/m² | 1 |
| 35, North GardensDetached | Oct 2002 | £275,000 | 113 m² | £2,434/m² | 2 |
| 37, North GardensTerraced | Oct 1999 | £117,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 38, North GardensTerraced | Dec 2014 | £415,000 | 105 m² | £3,952/m² | 2 |
| 39, North GardensTerraced | Jul 2015 | £534,950 | 105 m² | £5,095/m² | 3 |
| 40, North GardensTerraced | Jan 2019 | £574,000 | 123 m² | £4,667/m² | 2 |
| 41, North GardensTerraced | Feb 2021 | £641,500 | 102 m² | £6,289/m² | 4 |
| 42, North GardensTerraced | Aug 2006 | £310,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 43, North GardensTerraced | Mar 2007 | £337,500 | 118 m² | £2,860/m² | 1 |
| 44, North GardensSemi-detached | Jan 2011 | £249,950 | 60 m² | £4,166/m² | 3 |
| Upper Flat, 44, North GardensFlat | Aug 2004 | £160,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 45, North GardensTerraced | Jul 2020 | £600,000 | 118 m² | £5,085/m² | 2 |
| 46, North GardensTerraced · company-owned | Jun 2022 | £625,000 | 115 m² | £5,435/m² | 4 |
| 47, North GardensTerraced | Sept 2020 | £490,000 | 86 m² | £5,698/m² | 5 |
| 48, North GardensTerraced | Nov 2023 | £500,000 | 81 m² | £6,173/m² | 5 |
| 49, North GardensTerraced | Jul 1996 | £62,000 | 60 m² | £1,033/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 47% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Brighton, a few minutes' walk (250 m), with 15.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is North Road, 50 m away, with a bus about every 2 minutes on weekdays (routes 7, 12X, 12, 27); 398 departures an hour from the 30 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 6 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 76 km away as the crow flies.
66% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is St Paul's CofE Primary School, a few minutes' walk (100 m); 76% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Cardinal Newman Catholic School, 1.5 km away; Attainment 8: 50.4 · 15.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: King's School (4.7 km).
Few families with young children: only 7% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 50 m away; Leonidas Brighton (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Brighton Station Health Centre (150 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, Dead Zebra Barbers is 50 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Sussex County Hospital, 1.8 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 57% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 53% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 17 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 415 restaurants and cafés and 119 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Ikigai Coffee is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and Caxton Arms the nearest pub (under 50 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (49 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 921 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 72% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (North Laine, Old Town).
There are 317 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (68%).
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 54% were built before 1919.
78 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.
Brighton Pavilion constituency: Siân Berry MP (Green Party), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Green hold, majority 14,290 (27.3%), turnout 70%. Vote shares: Green Party 55%, Labour 28%, Conservative 8%, Reform UK 5%.
69 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 BN1 3LB →
It's growing: about 540 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Brighthelm Gardens, 150 m away; for exercise, PureGym (150 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Brighton Central, 700 m away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 11.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Gatwick is 37 km away.
Many neighbours rent: 53% of households rent privately and 14% socially.
It's young: 39% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 53% of adults have a degree.
There's a sizeable student population: 23% of adults were full-time students in 2021.
The nearest university is INTO University Partnerships, 500 m away.
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.
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Nearest 12 shown. Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Nearest 8 shown. Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
On this street: 1 of 29 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 | 0.3% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.1% | 0.6% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 64.6% | 84.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 29.1% | 11.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 5.2% | 3.8% | 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.
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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 37 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.