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On Elms Avenue, in Pier
What it's like at BN21 3DN: every home that has sold on Elms Avenue 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.
4 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Elms Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
12 of the 42 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Elms AvenueFlat · company-owned | Aug 2026 | £165,000 | 145 m² | £1,138/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Second Floor Flat, 1, Elms AvenueFlat | Jan 2008 | £155,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Ground And Lower Ground Floor Flat, 1, Elms AvenueFlat | Nov 2017 | £306,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 3, Elms AvenueDetached | Dec 2007 | £340,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 5, Elms AvenueTerraced | Mar 2012 | £90,000 | 178 m² | £506/m² | 1 |
| 6, Elms AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Mar 2022 | £475,000 | 187 m² | £2,540/m² | 2 |
| Flat 1, 7, Elms AvenueFlat | Jul 2021 | £147,000 | 53 m² | £2,774/m² | 3 |
| Flat 3, 7, Elms AvenueFlat | Mar 2022 | £149,950 | 62 m² | £2,419/m² | 5 |
| Flat 2, 7, Elms AvenueFlat · company-owned | Jan 2023 | £148,000 | 38 m² | £3,895/m² | 3 |
| 8, Elms AvenueTerraced | Aug 2022 | £580,000 | 205 m² | £2,829/m² | 1 |
| 10, Elms AvenueOther | Sept 2024 | £529,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 12, Elms AvenueSemi-detached · company-owned | Nov 2025 | £425,000 | 205 m² | £2,073/m² | 2 |
| 13, Elms AvenueTerraced | Jun 2013 | £300,000 | 192 m² | £1,563/m² | 2 |
| 14, Elms AvenueTerraced | Sept 2024 | £475,000 | 208 m² | £2,284/m² | 2 |
| 15, Elms AvenueTerraced | Sept 2000 | £114,500 | 191 m² | £599/m² | 2 |
| 16, Elms AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Jun 2020 | £600,000 | 221 m² | £2,715/m² | 3 |
| Flat 3, 17, Elms AvenueFlat | Feb 2014 | £129,950 | 63 m² | £2,063/m² | 3 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 17, Elms AvenueFlat | Jun 2025 | £178,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 18, Elms AvenueTerraced | Oct 1997 | £86,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 19, Elms AvenueTerraced | Mar 2021 | £548,000 | 179 m² | £3,061/m² | 2 |
| 20, Elms AvenueOther · company-owned | Dec 2014 | £500,000 | 204 m² | £2,451/m² | 3 |
| 21, Elms AvenueTerraced | Jun 2020 | £450,000 | 61 m² | £7,377/m² | 1 |
| 22, Elms AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Mar 1997 | £55,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 25, Elms AvenueTerraced | May 2022 | £470,000 | 187 m² | £2,513/m² | 6 |
| 26 - 28, Elms AvenueTerraced | Apr 2005 | £374,700 | – | – | 2 |
| 31, Elms AvenueTerraced · company-owned | May 2019 | £600,000 | 196 m² | £3,061/m² | 5 |
| 33, Elms AvenueOther · company-owned | Apr 2023 | £440,000 | 54 m² | £8,148/m² | 4 |
| 37, Elms AvenueSemi-detached · company-owned | Feb 2006 | £312,500 | 250 m² | £1,250/m² | 2 |
| Albion House, 11, Elms AvenueTerraced | Sept 2016 | £400,000 | 222 m² | £1,802/m² | 4 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Eastbourne, about a 10-minute walk (700 m), with 3.8m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is Pier, 150 m away, with a bus about every 13 minutes on weekdays (routes 99, 7, 44); 74 departures an hour from the 13 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 61 minutes away by public transport (42 by car).
49% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Bourne Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (550 m); 33% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Gildredge House, 1.5 km away; Attainment 8: 46.7 · 6.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 250 m away, with Saving closer still (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Bolton House (350 m), with Kamsons Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, Status Barbers is 50 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Eastbourne District General Hospital, 2.3 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 62% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 69% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 82 restaurants and cafés and 16 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
O Farol is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and The Town House the nearest pub (100 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (31 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 353 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 34% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Town Centre and Seafront, Warrior Square).
There are 27 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (65%).
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 76% were built before 1919.
It's growing: about 134 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Wishtower Slopes, 750 m away; for exercise, Anytime Fitness (200 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Eastbourne, 1.0 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.1 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Gatwick is 54 km away.
53 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.
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.
Eastbourne constituency: Josh Babarinde MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 12,204 (26.8%), turnout 63%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 52%, Conservative 25%, Reform UK 13%, Labour 6%.
25 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 BN21 3DN →
Many neighbours rent: 58% of households rent privately and 14% socially.
It's young: 23% of residents are aged 15–29.
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.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
On this street: 0 of 31 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 3 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.2% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 0.1% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 75.5% | 83.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 22.5% | 15.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 1.4% | 1.3% | 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: The Pells Outdoor Swimming Pool · about 32 min
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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 42 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.