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On Osborne Villas, in King Alfred
What it's like at BN3 2RA: every home that has sold on Osborne Villas 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.
6 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Osborne Villas; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
12 of the 119 homes on the street are owned by companies (1 overseas).
| Lower Maisonette, 43aFlat | Mar 1996 | £80,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29, Osborne VillasTerraced | Dec 2009 | £400,000 | 98 m² | £4,082/m² | 3 |
| 31, Osborne VillasTerraced | Jun 2009 | £425,000 | 128 m² | £3,320/m² | 5 |
| 33a, Osborne VillasFlat · company-owned | Apr 2020 | £240,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Ground And First Floor Flat, 35, Osborne VillasTerraced | Apr 2005 | £247,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 35, Osborne VillasTerraced | Dec 2020 | £260,500 | 89 m² | £2,927/m² | 1 |
| 35a, Osborne VillasFlat | Aug 2021 | £330,000 | 41 m² | £8,049/m² | 1 |
| Upper Ground Floor Flat 2, 39, Osborne VillasFlat · company-owned | Aug 1999 | £39,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Flat 1, 39, Osborne VillasFlat · company-owned | Mar 2025 | £345,000 | 41 m² | £8,415/m² | 2 |
| Flat 3, 39, Osborne VillasFlat | Nov 1999 | £39,000 | 44 m² | £886/m² | 1 |
| Ground And First Floor Flat, 41, Osborne VillasFlat | Apr 2017 | £525,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 41a, Osborne VillasFlat | Mar 2022 | £320,000 | 49 m² | £6,531/m² | 5 |
| 43, Osborne VillasTerraced | Jun 2017 | £690,000 | 137 m² | £5,036/m² | 6 |
| Lower Ground Floor Flat, 47, Osborne VillasFlat | Nov 2006 | £183,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Lower Flat, 49, Osborne VillasFlat | Dec 2009 | £158,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 51, Osborne VillasTerraced | Sept 2019 | £834,000 | 146 m² | £5,712/m² | 2 |
| Lower Ground Floor, 51, Osborne VillasFlat | Jun 2006 | £160,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Upper Maisonette, 51, Osborne VillasFlat | Jun 2006 | £250,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 2, 53, Osborne VillasFlat | Jun 2012 | £162,000 | 41 m² | £3,951/m² | 2 |
| Flat 3, 53, Osborne VillasFlat | Jul 2011 | £160,000 | 48 m² | £3,333/m² | 3 |
| Flat 1, 53, Osborne VillasFlat | Mar 2025 | £322,000 | 43 m² | £7,488/m² | 3 |
| 55, Osborne VillasTerraced | Aug 2017 | £1,100,000 | 290 m² | £3,793/m² | 3 |
| 63, Osborne VillasDetached · company-owned | Sept 2020 | £850,000 | 102 m² | £8,333/m² | 3 |
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 48% 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 George Street South, 150 m away, with a bus about every 3 minutes on weekdays (routes 1, 1X, 6, 49); 144 departures an hour from the 12 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 76 km away as the crow flies.
43% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is St Andrew's CofE (Aided) Primary School, a few minutes' walk (400 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, 1.6 km away; Attainment 8: 50.4 · 15.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: King's School (3.1 km) and Shoreham Academy (5.1 km).
Few families with young children: only 10% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 150 m away; Mulhollands (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Psychology Sussex (400 m), with Osbon Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, The Float Spa is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Sussex County Hospital, 4.2 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: 26 restaurants and cafés, 9 pubs and bars.
Lounge Grill Persia is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and The Better Half the nearest pub (150 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 102 per 1,000 residents a year.
Much of it is protected: 86% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (The Avenues, Cliftonville).
There are 34 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (87%).
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 60% were built before 1919.
It's growing: about 228 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Museum Gardens, 550 m away; for exercise, Fit Box (200 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Hove, 800 m away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
65 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nos 42 and 43 Including Walls and Piers Fronting Road | II | 160 m |
| Nos 2 and 4 Including Walls and Railings | II | 170 m |
| Church of St Andrew | II* | 200 m |
| 3 and 5, Albany Villas | II | 200 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.
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%.
48 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 2RA →
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 9.0 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Gatwick is 36 km away.
Many neighbours rent: 46% of households rent privately and 7% socially.
It's highly educated: 53% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is BIMM University, 2.5 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.
Nearest 8 shown. 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 119 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.
On this street: 0 of 67 homes with certificates have solar panels, 2 a heat pump, and 9 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.1% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 67.5% | 84.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 14.1% | 11.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 17.9% | 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.