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On Cross Street, in Portsea
What it's like at PO1 3GE: every home that has sold on Cross Street 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.
6 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 3 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 Cross Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
3 of the 162 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Unicorn House, Cross StreetFlat | Jun 2014 | £126,000 | 42 m² | £3,000/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, Unicorn House, Cross StreetFlat | Nov 2013 | £122,000 | 44 m² | £2,773/m² | 1 |
| 9, Unicorn House, Cross StreetFlat | Oct 2009 | £43,750 | 69 m² | £634/m² | 1 |
| 10, Unicorn House, Cross StreetFlat | Nov 2017 | £210,000 | 70 m² | £3,000/m² | 2 |
| 12, Unicorn House, Cross StreetFlat | May 2022 | £130,000 | 43 m² | £3,023/m² | 1 |
| 24, Unicorn House, Cross StreetFlat | Aug 2020 | £230,000 | 55 m² | £4,182/m² | 2 |
| 25, Unicorn House, Cross StreetFlat | Aug 2012 | £160,000 | 76 m² | £2,105/m² | 2 |
| 26, Unicorn House, Cross StreetFlat | Nov 2012 | £157,500 | 65 m² | £2,423/m² | 1 |
| 28, Unicorn House, Cross StreetFlat | Apr 2018 | £241,000 | 67 m² | £3,597/m² | 1 |
| 29, Unicorn House, Cross StreetFlat | Mar 2014 | £179,000 | 60 m² | £2,983/m² | 2 |
| 31, Unicorn House, Cross StreetFlat | May 2021 | £290,000 | 65 m² | £4,462/m² | 3 |
| 34, Unicorn House, Cross StreetFlat | Jul 2018 | £230,000 | 59 m² | £3,898/m² | 2 |
| 35, Unicorn House, Cross StreetFlat | Mar 2015 | £225,000 | 64 m² | £3,516/m² | 1 |
| 37, Unicorn House, Cross StreetFlat | Jun 2020 | £235,000 | 70 m² | £3,357/m² | 2 |
The nearest station is Portsmouth Harbour, a few minutes' walk (500 m), with 2.1m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Havant.
The nearest bus stop is Curzon Howe Road, 50 m away, with a bus about every 1 minute on weekdays (routes 3, 1, 23, 2); 213 departures an hour from the 14 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 4 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
59% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is St George's Beneficial Church of England (Voluntary Controlled) Primary School, a few minutes' walk (150 m); 69% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is St Edmund's Catholic School, 1.3 km away; Attainment 8: 58.9 · 23.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: UTC Portsmouth (4 km).
Few families with young children: only 9% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Co-Op Queen Street - Portsmouth, 50 m away; Pompey Market (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Unicity Medical Centre (1.0 km), with H Merali Dispensing Chemist the closest pharmacy (200 m).
For a haircut, Wink is 50 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Queen Alexandra Hospital, 6.0 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 59% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 61% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 53 restaurants and cafés and 12 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Subway Admiralty Quarter is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and The Ship And Castle the nearest pub (300 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (18 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 277 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 106 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (87%).
It's new: 57% of homes were built since 2000.
It's growing: about 170 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Powell Square, 250 m away; for exercise, Portsmouth Tennis Academy (700 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Eastney, 3.9 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
38 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 63, Queen Street | II | 70 m |
| 61 and 62, Queen Street | II | 80 m |
| 57,58 and 59, Queen Street | II | 80 m |
| 60, Queen Street | II | 80 m |
| 46,46a,46b and 46c, Queen Street | II | 130 m |
| 45,45a and 45b, Queen Street | II | 130 m |
| 44, Queen Street | II | 130 m |
| Treadgolds | II | 140 m |
| George Public House | II | 140 m |
| Former Royal Naval Academy (Buildings Numbers 1/14, 1/116-19) and Attached Railings | II* | 150 m |
| Mitre Court House | II | 150 m |
| Church of Saint Ann (Building No 1/66) | II | 160 m |
Portsmouth South constituency: Stephen Morgan MP (Labour), since June 2017. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 13,155 (33.8%), turnout 53%. Vote shares: Labour 48%, Reform UK 15%, Conservative 15%, Liberal Democrat 13%.
17 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 PO1 3GE →
On this street: 0 of 153 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 149 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.0% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 25.9% | 85.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 60.3% | 12.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 13.0% | 1.5% | 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.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 14.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, Southampton is 25 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 75 km.
Most households own their home, 34% rent privately.
It's young: 64% of residents are aged 15–29.
This is a student area: 60% of adults were full-time students at the 2021 census, so expect shared houses, busy term times and quiet summers.
The nearest university is University of Portsmouth, 800 m away (TEF Gold).
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 12 shown. Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Nearest 8 shown. Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Portsmouth since 2011.
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 162 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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