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On Vale Road, in Portslade by Sea
What it's like at BN41 1GE: every home that has sold on Vale 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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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.
4 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Vale Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 128 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 77, Vale RoadTerraced | Jun 2016 | £292,000 | 80 m² | £3,650/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 79, Vale RoadTerraced | Sept 2002 | £145,000 | 79 m² | £1,835/m² | 1 |
| 81, Vale RoadTerraced | Nov 2015 | £295,000 | 78 m² | £3,782/m² | 1 |
| 83, Vale RoadTerraced | Aug 2018 | £325,000 | 80 m² | £4,063/m² | 4 |
| 85, Vale RoadTerraced | Oct 2014 | £277,500 | 124 m² | £2,238/m² | 1 |
| 87, Vale RoadTerraced | Mar 2025 | £360,000 | 80 m² | £4,500/m² | 4 |
| 89, Vale RoadTerraced | May 2003 | £160,000 | 98 m² | £1,633/m² | 2 |
| 91, Vale RoadTerraced | Dec 2004 | £200,000 | 121 m² | £1,653/m² | 2 |
| 93, Vale RoadTerraced | Dec 2015 | £290,000 | 86 m² | £3,372/m² | 3 |
| 97, Vale RoadTerraced | Oct 2011 | £230,000 | 103 m² | £2,233/m² | 2 |
| 99, Vale RoadTerraced | Feb 2024 | £550,000 | 85 m² | £6,471/m² | 3 |
| 105, Vale RoadTerraced | Jul 2014 | £317,500 | 123 m² | £2,581/m² | 2 |
| 107, Vale RoadTerraced | Jul 2005 | £165,000 | 91 m² | £1,813/m² | 2 |
| 109, Vale RoadTerraced | Mar 2010 | £219,950 | 91 m² | £2,417/m² | 1 |
| 111, Vale RoadTerraced | Sept 2005 | £188,250 | – | – | 2 |
| 113, Vale RoadTerraced | Jul 2026 | £515,000 | 125 m² | £4,120/m² | 3 |
| 119, Vale RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2016 | £337,501 | 89 m² | £3,792/m² | 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, a few minutes' walk (500 m), with 1.0m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is Portslade Health Centre, 200 m away, with a bus about every 7 minutes on weekdays (routes 1, 16, 95A); 64 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, a few minutes' walk (300 m); 63% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Portslade Aldridge Community Academy, 2.0 km away; Attainment 8: 42.7 · 10.4% 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, 350 m away; Superdrug (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Portslade Health Centre (150 m), with Well the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Sunshine Tanning Studio is 350 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.
Boulder Brighton is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and British Legion 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, 150 m away; for exercise, Boulder Brighton (100 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.
53 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 BN41 1GE →
Most households own their home, 26% rent privately.
It's highly educated: 46% of adults have a degree.
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.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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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 128 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 66 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 19 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.