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On Port Hall Street, in Preston Park
What it's like at BN1 5PJ: every home that has sold on Port Hall 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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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 Port Hall Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 25 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 4, Port Hall StreetTerraced | Aug 2013 | £385,000 | 129 m² | £2,984/m² | 2 |
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| 6, Port Hall StreetTerraced | Apr 2025 | £420,500 | 69 m² | £6,094/m² | 1 |
| 8, Port Hall StreetTerraced | Jan 2021 | £570,000 | 97 m² | £5,876/m² | 5 |
| 9, Port Hall StreetTerraced | Mar 2026 | £275,000 | 63 m² | £4,365/m² | 2 |
| 9a, Port Hall StreetFlat | Jun 2005 | £186,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 10, Port Hall StreetTerraced | May 2022 | £960,000 | 162 m² | £5,926/m² | 6 |
| 11, Port Hall StreetTerraced | Sept 2008 | £360,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 12, Port Hall StreetTerraced | Oct 2015 | £650,000 | 142 m² | £4,577/m² | 4 |
| 13, Port Hall StreetTerraced | Aug 2008 | £444,000 | 146 m² | £3,041/m² | 2 |
| Flat 1, 14, Port Hall StreetFlat | Nov 1999 | £49,995 | 39 m² | £1,282/m² | 1 |
| Flat 3, 14, Port Hall StreetFlat | Aug 2017 | £293,000 | 52 m² | £5,635/m² | 3 |
| Flat 2, 14, Port Hall StreetFlat | Sept 2006 | £120,000 | 39 m² | £3,077/m² | 1 |
| Flat 4, 14, Port Hall StreetFlat | Mar 2010 | £147,500 | 47 m² | £3,138/m² | 1 |
| 17, Port Hall StreetTerraced | Nov 1997 | £119,995 | – | – | 2 |
| 18, Port Hall StreetTerraced | Jul 2002 | £225,000 | 72 m² | £3,125/m² | 2 |
| 19, Port Hall StreetTerraced | Nov 1999 | £148,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 20, Port Hall StreetSemi-detached | Jun 2023 | £670,000 | 97 m² | £6,907/m² | 3 |
| 21, Port Hall StreetTerraced | Jul 2018 | £500,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 23, Port Hall StreetTerraced | Aug 2019 | £537,000 | 130 m² | £4,131/m² | 3 |
| 25, Port Hall StreetTerraced | Dec 2003 | £276,980 | – | – | 2 |
| 27, Port Hall StreetTerraced | Oct 2014 | £492,500 | 117 m² | £4,209/m² | 1 |
| 29, Port Hall StreetTerraced | Feb 2015 | £586,000 | 119 m² | £4,924/m² | 3 |
| 31, Port Hall StreetTerraced | Nov 2006 | £347,535 | – | – | 3 |
| 35, Port Hall StreetTerraced | Dec 2020 | £420,000 | 97 m² | £4,330/m² | 1 |
| 39, Port Hall StreetTerraced | Jun 2021 | £640,000 | 157 m² | £4,076/m² | 2 |
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: 53% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is London Road (Brighton), about a 10-minute walk (1.0 km), with 392k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Falmer.
The nearest bus stop is Port Hall Road, 150 m away, with a bus about every 14 minutes on weekdays (routes 27, 27B, 14, 48); 58 departures an hour from the 12 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 14 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 74 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Stanford Primary School, a few minutes' walk (200 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Cardinal Newman Catholic School, 550 m away; Attainment 8: 50.4 · 15.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: King's School (3.8 km).
Few families with young children: only 13% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 350 m away; Port Hall Stores (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Stanford Medical Centre (250 m), with Kamsons Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Milo's is 350 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Sussex County Hospital, 2.7 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 24 restaurants and cafés, 11 pubs and bars.
The Fitness Bar is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and The Guinea Pig At The Dyke the nearest pub (150 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (12 of them).
It's a low-crime area: about 62 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Much of it is protected: 41% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Preston Park, Preston Village).
There are 16 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (66%).
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 71% were built before 1919.
It's growing: about 251 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Dyke Road Park, 250 m away; for exercise, BHASVIC Sports Centre (300 m).
55 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Port Hall and Attached Walls | II | 130 m |
| Booth Museum of Natural History and Attached Walls and Railings | II | 140 m |
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.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
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%.
84 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 5PJ →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
The beach is on your doorstep: Brighton Central, 1.9 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Gatwick is 35 km away.
Many neighbours rent: 38% of households rent privately and 8% socially.
It's young: 25% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 57% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is INTO University Partnerships, 1.6 km 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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Brighton and Hove 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 25 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 18 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.7% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.6% | 0.6% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 90.4% | 84.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.9% | 11.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 2.0% | 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.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.