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On Shirley Drive, in West Blatchington
What it's like at BN3 6UB: every home that has sold on Shirley Drive 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.
7 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Shirley Drive; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 123 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 45, Shirley DriveDetached | Oct 1997 | £299,950 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47, Shirley DriveDetached | Sept 2001 | £455,000 | 200 m² | £2,275/m² | 1 |
| 49, Shirley DriveDetached | Aug 2006 | £280,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 51, Shirley DriveDetached | Sept 1998 | £236,450 | – | – | 2 |
| 53, Shirley DriveDetached | Jul 2020 | £1,350,000 | 881 m² | £1,532/m² | 1 |
| 55, Shirley DriveDetached | Jun 2026 | £2,225,000 | 334 m² | £6,662/m² | 2 |
| 57, Shirley DriveDetached | Jul 2004 | £735,000 | 111 m² | £6,622/m² | 2 |
| 57a, Shirley DriveSemi-detached | Feb 2018 | £710,000 | 136 m² | £5,221/m² | 2 |
| 57b, Shirley DriveSemi-detached | Jan 2014 | £500,000 | 104 m² | £4,808/m² | 1 |
| 59, Shirley DriveDetached | May 2005 | £575,000 | 215 m² | £2,674/m² | 1 |
| 63, Shirley DriveDetached | Oct 1995 | £179,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 65, Shirley DriveDetached | Jan 2002 | £410,000 | 343 m² | £1,195/m² | 1 |
| 67, Shirley DriveDetached | May 2004 | £630,000 | 284 m² | £2,218/m² | 1 |
| 69, Shirley DriveDetached | May 2026 | £1,530,000 | 306 m² | £5,000/m² | 2 |
| 71, Shirley DriveDetached | Feb 2002 | £400,000 | 17 m² | £23,529/m² | 1 |
| 73, Shirley DriveDetached | Jan 2005 | £573,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 75, Shirley DriveDetached | Nov 2005 | £522,500 | 178 m² | £2,935/m² | 1 |
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 49% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Preston Park, about a 10-minute walk (700 m), with 1.1m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is Woodruff Avenue, 100 m away, with a bus about every 32 minutes on weekdays (route 21); 26 departures an hour from the 14 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 74 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Bilingual Primary School - Brighton & Hove, about a 10-minute walk (700 m); 76% 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, 850 m away; Attainment 8: 50.4 · 15.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: King's School (1.5 km) and Shoreham Academy (5.3 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 250 m away; Matlock Store (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Matlock Surgery (450 m), with Matlock Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, The Beauty Rooms is 400 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Sussex County Hospital, 5.0 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 7 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Zone 4 (Flint) is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and Hove Rugby Kitchen the nearest pub (500 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 35 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Detached houses make up 45% of homes.
It's largely interwar: 40% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Hove Park, 500 m away; for exercise, Withdean Sports Complex (1.1 km).
The beach is on your doorstep: Hove, 2.7 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Gatwick is 34 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 41% of households own their home outright.
27 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%.
62 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 6UB →
On this street: 3 of 90 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.4% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.6% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.2% | 84.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.6% | 11.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.6% | 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.
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
It's highly educated: 49% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is INTO University Partnerships, 2.8 km away.
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.
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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 123 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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