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On Roman Road, in Portslade by Sea
What it's like at BN3 4LB: every home that has sold on Roman Road 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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Roman Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 45 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| First Floor Flat, 3, Roman RoadFlat | Aug 1998 | £52,500 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ground Floor Flat, 3, Roman RoadFlat | Jul 1999 | £53,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 5, Roman RoadFlat · company-owned | Jul 2005 | £130,000 | 53 m² | £2,453/m² | 3 |
| First Floor Flat, 5, Roman RoadFlat | May 2014 | £212,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 7, Roman RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2019 | £765,000 | 128 m² | £5,977/m² | 5 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 9, Roman RoadFlat | Dec 2004 | £147,700 | – | – | 2 |
| 11, Roman RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2003 | £250,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 13, Roman RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2023 | £810,000 | 123 m² | £6,585/m² | 2 |
| 15, Roman RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2019 | £800,000 | 148 m² | £5,405/m² | 2 |
| 17, Roman RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2025 | £1,100,000 | 189 m² | £5,820/m² | 3 |
| 19, Roman RoadTerraced | Aug 2013 | £550,000 | 140 m² | £3,929/m² | 4 |
| Ground Floor Flat 4, 21, Roman RoadFlat | Aug 2001 | £149,950 | – | – | 2 |
| First Floor Flat 2, 21, Roman RoadFlat | Mar 1999 | £64,250 | – | – | 1 |
| 23, Roman RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2019 | £780,000 | 157 m² | £4,968/m² | 4 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 25, Roman RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2006 | £435,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 25, Roman RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2015 | £645,000 | 167 m² | £3,862/m² | 2 |
| 27, Roman RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2009 | £515,000 | 154 m² | £3,344/m² | 1 |
| 31, Roman RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2018 | £670,000 | 116 m² | £5,776/m² | 2 |
| 37, Roman RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2018 | £780,000 | 168 m² | £4,643/m² | 2 |
| 39, Roman RoadTerraced | May 2000 | £185,000 | 122 m² | £1,516/m² | 1 |
| 49, Roman RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2024 | £980,000 | 180 m² | £5,444/m² | 1 |
| 53, Roman RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2003 | £310,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 55, Roman RoadSemi-detached | Jan 1996 | £109,938 | 131 m² | £839/m² | 1 |
| 57, Roman RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2020 | £615,000 | 103 m² | £5,971/m² | 2 |
| 59, Roman RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2025 | £848,272 | 115 m² | £7,376/m² | 1 |
| 61, Roman RoadDetached | Nov 2006 | £485,000 | – | – | 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: 42% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Portslade, about a 10-minute walk (750 m), with 1.0m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is Brittany Court, 200 m away, with a bus about every 5 minutes on weekdays (routes 1, 6, 96, 71); 77 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 75 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Hove Junior School, about a 10-minute walk (800 m); 76% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre, 1.8 km away; Attainment 8: 41.1 · 10.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: King's School (2.5 km) and Shoreham Academy (2.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is The Co-operative, 650 m away, with Pumpkin Patch Nursery closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Wish Park Surgery (800 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (700 m).
For a haircut, Charlotte Benson Beauty Bar is 650 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Sussex County Hospital, 6.3 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: 33 restaurants and cafés and 7 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Feedwell Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and The Gather Inn - Bar Only the nearest pub (200 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (17 of them).
Crime is around the national middle: about 115 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 36% flats and 8% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 42% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
It's growing: about 182 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Hove Beach Park, 450 m away; for exercise, Hove Fitness Club (650 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Southwick, 2.1 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.0 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Gatwick is 36 km away.
39 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.
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%.
36 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 4LB →
Most households own their home, 26% rent privately.
It's highly educated: 46% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is BIMM University, 4.3 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.
On this street: 0 of 23 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.0% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 0.6% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 88.9% | 84.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 8.7% | 11.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 1.8% | 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.
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 45 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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