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On Swiss Gardens, in Shoreham Central & Beach
What it's like at BN43 5WH: every home that has sold on Swiss 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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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.
Sales and extensions on Swiss Gardens; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 50 homes on the street are owned by companies (1 overseas).
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 Shoreham-by-Sea (Sussex), about a 5-minute walk (550 m), with 1.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Brighton.
The nearest bus stop is Swiss Gardens Primary School, 50 m away, with a bus about every 60 minutes on weekdays (route 9); 25 departures an hour from the 13 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 76 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Swiss Gardens Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 43% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Shoreham Academy, 2.2 km away; Attainment 8: 54.8 · 20.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Co-Op, 600 m away, with GSM Phone Centre closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is First Foot Clinic (350 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (500 m).
For a haircut, House Of Lashes is 250 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Worthing Hospital, 6.6 km away, rated outstanding 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: 29 restaurants and cafés and 27 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Calcutta 16 is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and Swiss Cottage the nearest pub (100 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (13 of them).
Crime is around the national middle: about 100 per 1,000 residents a year.
There are 46 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 40% flats and 19% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 213 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is The Meads Open Space, 150 m away; for exercise, Studio Three19 (500 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Shoreham Beach, 700 m away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Gatwick is 36 km away.
Most households own their home, 21% rent privately.
55 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.
East Worthing and Shoreham constituency: Tom Rutland MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 9,519 (19.4%), turnout 66%. Vote shares: Labour 45%, Conservative 26%, Reform UK 15%, Green Party 7%.
20 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 BN43 5WH →
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.
On this street: 0 of 45 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 40 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.6% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.9% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 79.6% | 88.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 15.4% | 10.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 3.4% | 0.8% | 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.
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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 50 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.