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On Grand Avenue, in Hove Central
What it's like at BN3 2LF: every home that has sold on Grand 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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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.
12 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 9 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 Grand Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
9 of the 294 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| Flat 6, 6, Grand AvenueFlat | Jan 2000 | £129,950 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 4, 6, Grand AvenueFlat | Nov 2022 | £1,470,000 | 173 m² | £8,497/m² | 4 |
| Flat 8, 6, Grand AvenueFlat | Nov 2022 | £490,000 | 99 m² | £4,949/m² | 5 |
| Flat 7, 6, Grand AvenueFlat | Jun 2018 | £325,000 | 70 m² | £4,643/m² | 2 |
| Flat 2, 6, Grand AvenueFlat | Feb 2026 | £530,000 | 88 m² | £6,023/m² | 3 |
| Flat 5, 6, Grand AvenueFlat | Aug 2017 | £650,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 8, 7, Grand AvenueFlat | Mar 2023 | £350,000 | 75 m² | £4,667/m² | 5 |
| Flat 6, 7, Grand AvenueFlat | May 2023 | £520,000 | 73 m² | £7,123/m² | 3 |
| Flat 7, 7, Grand AvenueFlat | Oct 2019 | £280,000 | 77 m² | £3,636/m² | 3 |
| Flat 5, 7, Grand AvenueFlat | Mar 2016 | £230,000 | 49 m² | £4,694/m² | 2 |
| Flat 4, 7, Grand AvenueFlat | Aug 2013 | £560,000 | 146 m² | £3,836/m² | 2 |
| Flat 1, 7, Grand AvenueFlat | Nov 2020 | £1,100,000 | 163 m² | £6,748/m² | 3 |
| Flat 2, 7, Grand AvenueFlat | Apr 2019 | £465,000 | 78 m² | £5,962/m² | 3 |
| Flat 3, 7, Grand AvenueFlat | Nov 2022 | £485,000 | 71 m² | £6,831/m² | 4 |
| Flat 4, 8, Grand AvenueFlat | Jul 2024 | £720,000 | 94 m² | £7,660/m² | 3 |
| Flat 3, 8, Grand AvenueFlat | Jun 2023 | £300,000 | 65 m² | £4,615/m² | 6 |
| Flat 6, 8, Grand AvenueFlat | Jun 2025 | £530,000 | 106 m² | £5,000/m² | 6 |
| Flat 5, 8, Grand AvenueFlat | Jun 2014 | £649,500 | 132 m² | £4,920/m² | 2 |
| Flat 1, 8, Grand AvenueFlat | Dec 2012 | £435,000 | 151 m² | £2,881/m² | 1 |
| Flat 9, 8, Grand AvenueFlat · company-owned | Apr 2017 | £215,000 | 55 m² | £3,909/m² | 1 |
| The Cottage, 9, Grand AvenueFlat | Oct 2020 | £531,000 | 87 m² | £6,103/m² | 4 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 9, Grand AvenueFlat | Aug 2019 | £1,375,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 9a, Grand AvenueFlat | Aug 2017 | £325,000 | – | – | 6 |
| 9c, Grand AvenueFlat | Sept 2025 | £580,000 | 117 m² | £4,957/m² | 3 |
| 9d, Grand AvenueFlat | Dec 2006 | £320,000 | 123 m² | £2,602/m² | 1 |
| 9e, Grand AvenueFlat | Mar 2006 | £282,500 | – | – | 3 |
| Lower Ground Floor Flat, 10, Grand AvenueFlat | Sept 2020 | £485,000 | – | – | 4 |
| Flat 1, 10, Grand AvenueFlat | Feb 2021 | £1,200,000 | 201 m² | £5,970/m² | 3 |
| Ground Floor West, 10, Grand AvenueFlat | May 2015 | £670,000 | 135 m² | £4,963/m² | 3 |
| Ground Floor East, 10, Grand AvenueFlat | Jun 2024 | £750,000 | 110 m² | £6,818/m² | 4 |
| Second Floor Flat, 10, Grand AvenueFlat | Apr 2019 | £935,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 11, Grand AvenueDetached · company-owned | Apr 2017 | £2,100,000 | 35 m² | £60,000/m² | 1 |
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 50% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Hove, about a 10-minute walk (950 m), with 2.0m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is Second Avenue, 50 m away, with a bus about every 2 minutes on weekdays (routes 1, 5B, 700, 6); 260 departures an hour from the 15 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 76 km away as the crow flies.
52% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is St Andrew's CofE (Aided) Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (650 m); 68% 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, 1.3 km away; Attainment 8: 50.4 · 15.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: King's School (3.4 km) and Shoreham Academy (5.8 km).
Few families with young children: only 8% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 300 m away, with Taylors Of Hove closer still (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Psychology Sussex (150 m), with Osbon Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, H's Barber Shop is 100 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Sussex County Hospital, 3.5 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: 68 restaurants and cafés and 17 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Fika is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and The Plotting Parlour the nearest pub (50 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 88 per 1,000 residents a year.
Much of it is protected: 90% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Brunswick Town, The Willett Estate).
There are 48 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (96%).
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 82% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is Palmeira Square, 300 m away; for exercise, Fit State Training (600 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Hove, 500 m away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
60 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 9, Grand Avenue | II | 0 m |
| 8, Grand Avenue | II | 20 m |
| 10, Grand Avenue | II | 30 m |
| 11, Grand Avenue | II | 40 m |
| Former Mews | II | 40 m |
| No 6 Including Piers and Railings | II | 60 m |
| Hove War Memorial | II | 60 m |
| 4, Grand Avenue | II | 90 m |
| 7-12, QUEEN'S PLACE (See details for further address information) | II | 90 m |
| 41, FIRST AVENUE (See details for further address information) | II | 130 m |
| Exton House, Walls and Railings | II | 140 m |
| 2-9, KING'S MEWS (See details for further address information) | II |
Hove and Portslade constituency: Peter Kyle MP (Labour), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 19,791 (38.1%), turnout 70%. Vote shares: Labour 52%, Green Party 14%, Conservative 13%, Reform UK 9%.
54 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 BN3 2LF →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.4 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Gatwick is 36 km away.
Many neighbours rent: 61% of households rent privately and 4% socially.
It's young: 25% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 58% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is BIMM University, 2.1 km away (TEF Bronze).
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.
| 150 m |
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.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
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 294 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 233 homes with certificates have solar panels, 4 a heat pump, and 73 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.6% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 75.2% | 84.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 21.1% | 11.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 3.4% | 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.