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On Robert Street, in North Laine & the Lanes
What it's like at BN1 4AH: every home that has sold on Robert Street 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). 3 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Robert Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
5 of the 96 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Robert StreetTerraced | Sept 2023 | £550,000 | 82 m² | £6,707/m² | 2 |
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| 2, Robert StreetTerraced | Jul 2018 | £600,000 | 78 m² | £7,692/m² | 3 |
| 3, Robert StreetTerraced | Feb 2006 | £260,000 | 96 m² | £2,708/m² | 1 |
| 5, Robert StreetTerraced | Nov 2003 | £269,600 | – | – | 3 |
| 8, Robert StreetTerraced | Dec 2025 | £530,000 | 89 m² | £5,955/m² | 3 |
| 9, Robert StreetTerraced | Apr 2022 | £630,000 | 90 m² | £7,000/m² | 3 |
| 10, Robert StreetTerraced | Aug 2007 | £420,000 | 92 m² | £4,565/m² | 2 |
| 11, Robert StreetTerraced · company-owned | May 2022 | £745,000 | 95 m² | £7,842/m² | 3 |
| 12, Robert StreetTerraced | Jan 2007 | £350,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Garden Flat A, 13, Robert StreetFlat | Mar 2006 | £115,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 13a, Robert StreetFlat | Jun 2013 | £150,000 | 30 m² | £5,000/m² | 1 |
| 14, Robert StreetTerraced | Aug 2021 | £600,000 | 91 m² | £6,593/m² | 2 |
| 15, Robert StreetTerraced | May 2014 | £475,000 | – | – | 4 |
| Lower Ground Floor Flat, 18, Robert StreetFlat | Sept 2010 | £158,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Upper Maisonette, 18, Robert StreetFlat | Nov 2025 | £365,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 19, Robert StreetFlat | Oct 2024 | £410,000 | 45 m² | £9,111/m² | 3 |
| 19a, Robert StreetFlat | Nov 2024 | £277,000 | 45 m² | £6,156/m² | 2 |
| 20, Robert StreetFlat · company-owned | Apr 1997 | £52,000 | 65 m² | £800/m² | 1 |
| 20b, Robert StreetFlat | May 2002 | £89,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 21, Robert StreetTerraced | Feb 2022 | £540,000 | 104 m² | £5,192/m² | 2 |
| 22, Robert StreetTerraced | Aug 2016 | £585,000 | 99 m² | £5,909/m² | 4 |
| Basement Flat, 23, Robert StreetFlat | Oct 2002 | £95,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Upper Maisonette, 23, Robert StreetFlat | Sept 2002 | £164,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 23, Robert StreetFlat | Apr 2017 | £370,000 | 66 m² | £5,606/m² | 1 |
| 23a, Robert StreetFlat | Jul 2011 | £143,000 | 30 m² | £4,767/m² | 1 |
| 24, Robert StreetTerraced | Aug 2022 | £770,000 | 95 m² | £8,105/m² | 3 |
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 (400 m), with 15.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is North Laine, 100 m away, with a bus about every 6 minutes on weekdays (routes 3X, 20, 37, 37B); 336 departures an hour from the 18 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 Carlton Hill Primary School, a few minutes' walk (450 m); 74% 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, 1.9 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 Budgens / Easy Hours, 200 m away, with Oxfam Bookshop closer still (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Arch Healthcare (250 m), with Ross Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, Square Roots is 100 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.
Vine Street Tap + Bottle is the closest café or restaurant (under 50 m), and The White Rabbit (Bar) the nearest pub (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.
79 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%.
68 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 4AH →
On this street: 0 of 75 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 61 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% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 64.5% | 84.3% | 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.
It's growing: about 540 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Grand Parade Gardens, 150 m away; for exercise, About Balance (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, 150 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.
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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 96 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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