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On Locking Road, in Weston Town
What it's like at BS23 3HG: every home that has sold on Locking 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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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.
10 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 7 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 Locking Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
48 of the 308 homes on the street are owned by companies (1 overseas).
| 203a, Locking RoadSemi-detached | Aug 1997 | £30,000 | 91 m² | £330/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 203b, Locking RoadFlat | Mar 1996 | £22,000 | 91 m² | £242/m² | 1 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 205, Locking RoadFlat | Apr 2003 | £90,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 205a, Locking RoadFlat | Sept 2011 | £95,000 | 87 m² | £1,092/m² | 2 |
| 207, Locking RoadTerraced | Apr 2021 | £225,000 | 105 m² | £2,143/m² | 2 |
| 209, Locking RoadTerraced | May 2004 | £128,000 | 53 m² | £2,415/m² | 2 |
| 209a, Locking RoadFlat | Mar 2024 | £160,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 209b, Locking RoadFlat | Aug 2025 | £118,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 211, Locking RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2020 | £220,000 | 119 m² | £1,849/m² | 3 |
| 213, Locking RoadTerraced | Dec 2007 | £177,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 215, Locking RoadTerraced | Oct 2024 | £253,000 | 130 m² | £1,946/m² | 4 |
| First Floor Flat, 217, Locking RoadFlat | Nov 1995 | £25,900 | – | – | 1 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 217, Locking RoadFlat | Feb 1999 | £28,999 | – | – | 1 |
| 221, Locking RoadTerraced | Apr 2021 | £247,500 | 87 m² | £2,845/m² | 3 |
| 223, Locking RoadTerraced | Nov 2025 | £247,000 | 135 m² | £1,830/m² | 4 |
| 225, Locking RoadTerraced · company-owned | Mar 2022 | £232,500 | 100 m² | £2,325/m² | 2 |
| 227, Locking RoadTerraced | Jul 2020 | £180,000 | 108 m² | £1,667/m² | 3 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 229, Locking RoadFlat | Jul 2008 | £92,500 | – | – | 1 |
| First Floor Flat, 229, Locking RoadFlat | Dec 2021 | £110,000 | – | – | 2 |
| First Floor Flat, 231, Locking RoadFlat | Mar 1996 | £25,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 231, Locking RoadFlat | Nov 1998 | £27,990 | – | – | 1 |
| 233, Locking RoadFlat | Jan 2026 | £163,000 | 57 m² | £2,860/m² | 2 |
| 235, Locking RoadFlat | Dec 2024 | £119,000 | 56 m² | £2,125/m² | 6 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 235, Locking RoadFlat | Jul 2021 | £107,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 237, Locking RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2014 | £165,000 | 125 m² | £1,320/m² | 1 |
The nearest station is Weston-super-Mare, about a 10-minute walk (950 m), with 1.0m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Bristol Temple Meads.
The nearest bus stop is Birchwood Avenue, 100 m away, with a bus about every 4 minutes on weekdays (routes X1, A3, X5, X11); 66 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 42 minutes away by public transport (30 by car).
The nearest primary school is Ashcombe Primary School, a few minutes' walk (250 m); 55% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Hans Price Academy, 950 m away; Attainment 8: 47.6 · 10.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Booker Cash & Carry, 450 m away; Locking Road Stores (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is 168 Medical Group (50 m), with Magna Pharmacy 168 Medical the closest pharmacy (50 m).
For a haircut, Mirror Image is 700 m away.
The nearest full A&E is UHBW Bristol Campus, 29 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 68% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 69% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 76 restaurants and cafés and 26 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing Gym is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and Weston Aerobic Gymnastics Club the nearest pub (350 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (37 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 322 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 57% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Weston-super-Mare, Beach Lawns).
There are 19 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (60%).
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 62% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is Ashcombe Park, 900 m away; for exercise, Hutton Moor Leisure Centre (650 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Brean, 4.0 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.7 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Bristol is 18 km away.
35 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.
Weston-super-Mare constituency: Dan Aldridge MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 4,409 (10.4%), turnout 59%. Vote shares: Labour 39%, Conservative 28%, Reform UK 18%, Liberal Democrat 9%.
29 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 BS23 3HG →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Many neighbours rent: 43% of households rent privately and 11% socially.
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.
Nearest: Ashton Gate Stadium · about 34 min
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: 1 of 202 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 28 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.9% | 1.9% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 1.0% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 79.3% | 86.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 3.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 19.7% | 8.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.7% | 0.6% | 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 308 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.