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On Sovereign Drive, in Milton
What it's like at PO4 8XX: every home that has sold on Sovereign Drive 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 Sovereign Drive; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 14 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Sovereign DriveTerraced | Mar 2022 | £328,000 | 85 m² | £3,859/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Sovereign DriveTerraced | Mar 2025 | £320,000 | 85 m² | £3,765/m² | 3 |
| 3, Sovereign DriveTerraced | Dec 2006 | £194,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 5, Sovereign DriveTerraced | Feb 2010 | £174,995 | – | – | 3 |
| 7, Sovereign DriveTerraced | Apr 2017 | £278,000 | 134 m² | £2,075/m² | 2 |
| 9, Sovereign DriveTerraced | Aug 2026 | £385,000 | 116 m² | £3,319/m² | 2 |
| 10, Sovereign DriveTerraced | Feb 2013 | £193,000 | 79 m² | £2,443/m² | 1 |
| 12, Sovereign DriveSemi-detached | Apr 2026 | £336,000 | 78 m² | £4,308/m² | 3 |
| 14, Sovereign DriveSemi-detached | Jul 2010 | £185,000 | 83 m² | £2,229/m² | 4 |
| 15, Sovereign DriveTerraced | Jul 2025 | £345,000 | 94 m² | £3,670/m² | 2 |
| 17, Sovereign DriveTerraced | Nov 2014 | £190,000 | 83 m² | £2,289/m² | 1 |
| 19, Sovereign DriveTerraced | Jul 1996 | £60,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 21, Sovereign DriveTerraced | Sept 2002 | £162,150 | – | – | 1 |
| 22, Sovereign DriveTerraced | Mar 2022 | £342,500 | 82 m² | £4,177/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Fratton, a short drive or bike ride (2.2 km), with 2.1m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is Sanderling Road, 100 m away, with a bus about every 60 minutes on weekdays (route 13); 9 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Moorings Way Infant School, a few minutes' walk (400 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Miltoncross Academy, 1.2 km away; Attainment 8: 36.3 · 5.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: St Edmund's Catholic School (2.2 km) and UTC Portsmouth (4 km).
The nearest supermarket is The Southern Co-operative - Portsmouth Eastney Road, 1.3 km away, with Premier - The Larder closer still (600 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is East Shore Partnership (1.3 km), with Rowlands Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.3 km).
For a haircut, Harrington Jenkins Salon is 900 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Queen Alexandra Hospital, 6.1 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 8 restaurants and cafés, 8 pubs and bars.
Oyster House is the closest café or restaurant (550 m), and Locks Sailing Club the nearest pub (500 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 115 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 22% flats and 5% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1930s.
The nearest park is Tamworth Park, 1.1 km away; for exercise, Goals (1.1 km).
The beach is on your doorstep: Eastney, 1.5 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, Southampton is 27 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 73 km.
Most households own their home, 19% rent privately.
The nearest university is University of Portsmouth, 3.7 km 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.
10 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.
Portsmouth North constituency: Amanda Martin MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 780 (1.9%), turnout 59%. Vote shares: Labour 35%, Conservative 33%, Reform UK 20%, Liberal Democrat 7%.
7 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 PO4 8XX →
On this street: 0 of 10 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 | 1.5% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.5% | 0.4% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 86.2% | 85.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.9% | 12.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 5.0% | 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
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 14 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.