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On Thornhill Way, in Mile Oak
What it's like at BN41 2YY: every home that has sold on Thornhill Way 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.
Sales and extensions on Thornhill Way; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 8 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Thornhill WaySemi-detached | Jan 2004 | £130,000 | 81 m² | £1,605/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, Thornhill WaySemi-detached | Jan 2009 | £196,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 6, Thornhill WaySemi-detached | Jul 2022 | £350,000 | 76 m² | £4,605/m² | 2 |
| 7, Thornhill WaySemi-detached | Apr 2021 | £370,000 | 84 m² | £4,405/m² | 4 |
| 8, Thornhill WayTerraced | Dec 2018 | £292,500 | 83 m² | £3,524/m² | 4 |
| 9, Thornhill WayTerraced | May 1999 | £67,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 11, Thornhill WaySemi-detached | Jun 1998 | £250,000 | 81 m² | £3,086/m² | 1 |
| 16, Thornhill WayTerraced | Dec 2021 | £320,000 | 67 m² | £4,776/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Fishersgate, a short drive or bike ride (2.1 km), with 97k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Brighton.
The nearest bus stop is Thornhill Rise, 50 m away, with a bus about every 7 minutes on weekdays (routes 1, 95A, 59A, 16A); 42 departures an hour from the 9 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 43 minutes away by public transport (21 by car).
Central London is 73 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Mile Oak Primary School, a few minutes' walk (400 m); 58% 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, 300 m away; Attainment 8: 42.7 · 10.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: King's School (2.2 km) and Shoreham Academy (2.4 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-op, 650 m away, with Well Pharmacy closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Mile Oak Medical Centre (300 m), with Well the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, Flawless Hair & Beauty is 1.5 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Sussex County Hospital, 8.2 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 2 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Yamas Coffee And Bakery is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and Mile Oak Inn the nearest pub (650 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 67 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 10% flats and 17% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
Bungalow country: 25% of homes are bungalows.
It's growing: about 119 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Warrior Park, 850 m away; for exercise, JFit (2.0 km).
The beach is on your doorstep: Southwick, 2.6 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.4 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Gatwick is 34 km away.
21 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%.
14 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 2YY →
Most households own their home, 13% rent privately.
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 8 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 6 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 | 0.4% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 97.6% | 84.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.2% | 11.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 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.