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On Highland Road, in Southsea Fawcett Road
What it's like at PO4 9BZ: every home that has sold on Highland 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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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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates). 4 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 Highland Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
32 of the 234 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2b, Festing Buildings, Highland RoadFlat | Jul 2026 | £75,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 2a, Festing Buildings, Highland RoadFlat | Jul 2026 | £85,000 | 91 m² | £934/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Fratton, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km), with 2.1m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is Festing Road, 50 m away, with a bus about every 4 minutes on weekdays (routes U1, 2, SD7); 99 departures an hour from the 8 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 15 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
The nearest primary school is Craneswater Junior School, a few minutes' walk (200 m); 53% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Priory School, 1.0 km away; Attainment 8: 44.7 · 10% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: St Edmund's Catholic School (1.1 km) and UTC Portsmouth (4.6 km).
Few families with young children: only 12% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Co-Op Southsea, 50 m away; Rowlands Pharmacy (under 50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Salisbury Road Surgery (300 m), with Rowlands Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (under 50 m).
For a haircut, Top Barbers is 50 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Queen Alexandra Hospital, 6.7 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: 25 restaurants and cafés, 11 pubs and bars.
Hunter Gatherer Coffee is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and Craneswater Club the nearest pub (under 50 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (15 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 151 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 33% flats and 3% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 84% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is Waverley Gardens, 550 m away; for exercise, Wimbledon Park Sports Centre (750 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Eastney, 2.4 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.7 µg/m³).
For holidays, Southampton is 26 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 75 km.
53 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Craneswater Middle School | II | 100 m |
| Trinity Methodist Church | II | 110 m |
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.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
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%.
24 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 9BZ →
Many neighbours rent: 51% of households rent privately and 8% socially.
It's young: 41% of residents are aged 15–29.
This is a student area: 32% 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, 2.0 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.
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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 234 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 116 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 26 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.7% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 91.7% | 85.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 8.0% | 12.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 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.
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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