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On St Leonards Gardens, in Portslade by Sea
What it's like at BN3 4QA: every home that has sold on St Leonards Gardens 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.
11 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on St Leonards Gardens; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 67 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 3, St Leonards GardensSemi-detached | Jan 2016 | £505,000 | 112 m² | £4,509/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, St Leonards GardensSemi-detached | Jul 2012 | £425,000 | 122 m² | £3,484/m² | 2 |
| 7, St Leonards GardensSemi-detached | Jun 2010 | £370,000 | 105 m² | £3,524/m² | 4 |
| 13, St Leonards GardensSemi-detached · company-owned | Jun 2025 | £520,000 | 99 m² | £5,253/m² | 4 |
| 15, St Leonards GardensSemi-detached | Dec 2019 | £610,000 | 141 m² | £4,326/m² | 1 |
| 21, St Leonards GardensTerraced | Mar 2006 | £308,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 23, St Leonards GardensTerraced | Jul 2023 | £800,000 | 102 m² | £7,843/m² | 2 |
| 25, St Leonards GardensSemi-detached | Jan 2022 | £750,000 | 100 m² | £7,500/m² | 1 |
| 27, St Leonards GardensSemi-detached | Jun 2005 | £284,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 29, St Leonards GardensSemi-detached | Aug 2007 | £424,000 | 150 m² | £2,827/m² | 2 |
| 31, St Leonards GardensSemi-detached | Nov 2011 | £427,500 | 132 m² | £3,239/m² | 1 |
| 35, St Leonards GardensTerraced | Sept 1998 | £125,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 37, St Leonards GardensTerraced | Sept 2004 | £295,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 39, St Leonards GardensSemi-detached | Oct 2015 | £495,000 | 117 m² | £4,231/m² | 2 |
| 41, St Leonards GardensSemi-detached | Jan 2019 | £629,950 | 101 m² | £6,237/m² | 2 |
| 49, St Leonards GardensSemi-detached | Apr 2017 | £607,500 | – | – | 3 |
| 51, St Leonards GardensSemi-detached | Dec 2022 | £840,000 | 109 m² | £7,706/m² | 4 |
| 53, St Leonards GardensDetached | Oct 2022 | £845,000 | 116 m² | £7,284/m² | 4 |
| 55, St Leonards GardensDetached | Aug 2012 | £486,500 | 116 m² | £4,194/m² | 1 |
| 57, St Leonards GardensSemi-detached | Jul 2006 | £335,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 59, St Leonards GardensDetached | May 1996 | £93,000 | 70 m² | £1,329/m² | 1 |
| 61, St Leonards GardensSemi-detached | Oct 1996 | £116,150 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 3, 63, St Leonards GardensFlat | Apr 2009 | £261,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 63a, St Leonards GardensFlat | Jul 2019 | £69,530 | 61 m² | £1,140/m² | 3 |
| 65, St Leonards GardensSemi-detached | Aug 2011 | £435,000 | 130 m² | £3,346/m² | 1 |
| 71, St Leonards GardensSemi-detached | Feb 2015 | £523,000 | 135 m² | £3,874/m² | 1 |
| 73, St Leonards GardensDetached | Sept 2016 | £555,000 | 104 m² | £5,337/m² | 1 |
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 5-minute walk (550 m), with 1.0m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is St Keyna Avenue North, 200 m away, with a bus about every 4 minutes on weekdays (routes 1, 6, 49, 25); 129 departures an hour from the 12 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 75 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is St Mary's Catholic Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (700 m); 63% 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, 2.1 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 Tesco, 400 m away, with BP SF Connect closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Portslade Health Centre (700 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (400 m).
For a haircut, Anna's Barber Shop is 250 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.
The Flour Pot is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and The Blue Anchor (wet Sales) the nearest pub (300 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 Vale Park, 650 m away; for exercise, Ty Paul Fitness (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%.
31 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 4QA →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Most households own their home, 26% rent privately.
It's highly educated: 46% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is BIMM University, 4.7 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.
No crimes recorded "on or near" St Leonards Gardens in the last 12 months.
On this street: 1 of 45 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 | 1.0% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 89.0% | 84.3% | 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.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.