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On Applegrove, in West Gower
What it's like at SA3 1BZ: every home that has sold on Applegrove 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Applegrove; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 17 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, ApplegroveDetached | Apr 2021 | £366,000 | 226 m² | £1,619/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, ApplegroveDetached | Jul 1999 | £138,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 7, ApplegroveDetached | Feb 2022 | £435,000 | 94 m² | £4,628/m² | 2 |
| 8, ApplegroveDetached | Aug 2006 | £335,000 | 117 m² | £2,863/m² | 1 |
| 9, ApplegroveDetached | Jan 2019 | £450,000 | 188 m² | £2,394/m² | 2 |
| 10, ApplegroveDetached | May 1998 | £135,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 11, ApplegroveDetached | Oct 2025 | £420,000 | 135 m² | £3,111/m² | 1 |
| 12, ApplegroveDetached | Apr 2014 | £315,000 | 140 m² | £2,250/m² | 1 |
| 14, ApplegroveDetached | Apr 2017 | £315,000 | 178 m² | £1,770/m² | 1 |
| 15, ApplegroveDetached | Nov 1995 | £200,000 | 289 m² | £692/m² | 1 |
| 17, ApplegroveDetached | Sept 2009 | £389,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 19, ApplegroveDetached | Jul 1998 | £175,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 20, ApplegroveDetached | Jul 1995 | £142,000 | 150 m² | £947/m² | 1 |
| 21, ApplegroveDetached | Nov 2025 | £400,000 | 139 m² | £2,878/m² | 2 |
| 22, ApplegroveDetached | Apr 1997 | £150,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Mossman House, 4a, ApplegroveDetached | Apr 2012 | £335,000 | 277 m² | £1,209/m² | 3 |
| Staughton House, ApplegroveDetached | Dec 2018 | £407,750 | 147 m² | £2,774/m² | 1 |
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: 43% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Llanelli, a drive away (9.7 km), with 393k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Swansea.
The nearest bus stop is Reynoldston Green, 250 m away, with a bus about every 38 minutes on weekdays (routes 118, 119, 115).
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Knelston Primary, a short drive or bike ride (1.6 km).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
Few families with young children: only 13% of residents are under 15.
The nearest GP surgery is Gower Medical Practice (3.0 km), with Scurlage Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (3.0 km).
For a haircut, Beachcombers Unisex Hair Salon is 3.1 km away.
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 28 restaurants and cafés, 9 pubs and bars.
Gower Retreats Ltd - T/A Olive Wine Bar and Tapas is the closest café or restaurant (1.5 km), and The Dolphin Inn the nearest pub (2.6 km).
It's a low-crime area: about 29 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Detached houses make up 69% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
Bungalow country: 29% of homes are bungalows.
It's growing: about 104 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 2.4 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Cardiff is 61 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 103 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 62% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 35% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 49% of adults have a degree.
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.
3 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.
Gower constituency: Tonia Antoniazzi MP (Labour), since June 2017. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 11,567 (24.5%), turnout 62%. Vote shares: Labour 43%, Conservative 19%, Reform UK 18%, Plaid Cymru 8%.
0 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 SA3 1BZ →
On this street: 2 of 12 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 11 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 2.7% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 7.5% | 0.5% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 39.1% | 89.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 41.6% | 2.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 8.8% | 7.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.2% | 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 17 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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