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On St Leonards Avenue, in Portslade by Sea
What it's like at BN3 4QL: every home that has sold on St Leonards 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.
7 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 5 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 St Leonards Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
6 of the 131 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 30, St Leonards AvenueFlat | Oct 2025 | £245,000 | 47 m² | £5,213/m² | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32, St Leonards AvenueFlat | Nov 2013 | £185,000 | 50 m² | £3,700/m² | 5 |
| 36, St Leonards AvenueFlat · company-owned | Apr 2022 | £220,000 | 51 m² | £4,314/m² | 2 |
| 38, St Leonards AvenueFlat | Apr 2024 | £297,500 | 51 m² | £5,833/m² | 3 |
| First Floor Flat, 40, St Leonards AvenueFlat | Jun 2021 | £277,000 | – | – | 5 |
| First Floor Flat, 42, St Leonards AvenueFlat | Mar 2010 | £175,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 44, St Leonards AvenueFlat | Sept 1998 | £47,000 | 49 m² | £959/m² | 1 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 44, St Leonards AvenueFlat | Nov 2006 | £139,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 46, St Leonards AvenueFlat | Sept 2022 | £310,000 | 45 m² | £6,889/m² | 5 |
| Upper Flat, 48, St Leonards AvenueFlat | Sept 2007 | £185,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 48, St Leonards AvenueFlat | Jun 2017 | £244,000 | 48 m² | £5,083/m² | 1 |
| 50, St Leonards AvenueFlat | Nov 2005 | £135,000 | 53 m² | £2,547/m² | 3 |
| 52, St Leonards AvenueFlat | Nov 2005 | £135,000 | 53 m² | £2,547/m² | 3 |
| 62, St Leonards AvenueTerraced | Dec 2022 | £508,000 | 90 m² | £5,644/m² | 5 |
| 64, St Leonards AvenueTerraced | Oct 2022 | £522,000 | 87 m² | £6,000/m² | 5 |
| 66, St Leonards AvenueTerraced | Oct 2018 | £425,000 | 93 m² | £4,570/m² | 4 |
| 70, St Leonards AvenueFlat | Jan 2015 | £194,000 | 62 m² | £3,129/m² | 6 |
| 76, St Leonards AvenueFlat | Nov 1997 | £43,250 | 49 m² | £883/m² | 1 |
| 78, St Leonards AvenueFlat | Sept 2007 | £163,500 | 47 m² | £3,479/m² | 1 |
| 80, St Leonards AvenueFlat | Sept 2001 | £90,000 | 50 m² | £1,800/m² | 1 |
| 82, St Leonards AvenueFlat | Oct 1998 | £43,000 | 49 m² | £878/m² | 1 |
| 86, St Leonards AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Jun 2025 | £125,000 | 49 m² | £2,551/m² | 1 |
| 88, St Leonards AvenueFlat | Mar 2021 | £195,000 | 41 m² | £4,756/m² | 1 |
| Upper Flat, 90, St Leonards AvenueFlat · company-owned | May 2016 | £175,000 | – | – | 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 10-minute walk (650 m), with 1.0m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is St Keyna Avenue South, 150 m away, with a bus about every 12 minutes on weekdays (route 700); 104 departures an hour from the 11 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 5-minute walk (550 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, 2.3 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, 450 m away, with BP SF Connect closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Portslade Health Centre (650 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (500 m).
For a haircut, Tranquility in the City is 100 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.
Fanoos is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and The Blue Anchor (wet Sales) 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 Vale Park, 550 m away; for exercise, Boulder Brighton (750 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.
42 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%.
32 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 4QL →
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, 4.8 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 Avenue in the last 12 months.
On this street: 0 of 73 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 | 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.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.