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On Alltwen Hill, in Pontardawe
What it's like at SA8 3BP: every home that has sold on Alltwen Hill 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.
5 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Alltwen Hill; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 42 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 53, Alltwen HillDetached | Feb 2021 | £95,000 | 76 m² | £1,250/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55, Alltwen HillSemi-detached | Aug 2023 | £137,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 59, Alltwen HillSemi-detached | Mar 2025 | £218,000 | 159 m² | £1,371/m² | 2 |
| 61, Alltwen HillSemi-detached | Mar 2024 | £230,000 | 88 m² | £2,614/m² | 2 |
| 65, Alltwen HillSemi-detached | Dec 1997 | £15,000 | 88 m² | £170/m² | 1 |
| 67, Alltwen HillTerraced | Apr 2026 | £140,000 | 78 m² | £1,795/m² | 4 |
| 69, Alltwen HillTerraced | May 2024 | £126,000 | 55 m² | £2,291/m² | 6 |
| 75, Alltwen HillTerraced | Jul 2016 | £180,000 | 109 m² | £1,651/m² | 1 |
| 77, Alltwen HillDetached | Mar 2000 | £32,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 78, Alltwen HillOther | Oct 2020 | £275,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 80, Alltwen HillOther | Oct 2020 | £275,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 85, Alltwen HillDetached | Mar 2025 | £355,000 | 118 m² | £3,008/m² | 4 |
| 87, Alltwen HillDetached | Dec 2020 | £75,000 | 105 m² | £714/m² | 1 |
| 89, Alltwen HillDetached | Aug 2024 | £280,000 | 127 m² | £2,205/m² | 1 |
| 90, Alltwen HillSemi-detached | Jun 2025 | £275,000 | 93 m² | £2,957/m² | 2 |
| 92, Alltwen HillSemi-detached | May 2002 | £58,000 | 103 m² | £563/m² | 1 |
| 94, Alltwen HillDetached | Apr 2025 | £600,000 | 302 m² | £1,987/m² | 3 |
| Pen-Yr-Allt Hotel, Alltwen HillOther | Oct 2020 | £275,000 | – | – | 1 |
| The Butchers Arms, Alltwen HillOther | Apr 2023 | £370,000 | – | – | 1 |
The nearest station is Skewen, a drive away (5.8 km), with 44k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Swansea.
The nearest bus stop is Junior School, 450 m away, with a bus about every 60 minutes on weekdays (routes 256, 905, 903).
The nearest primary school is Alltwen Primary School, a few minutes' walk (300 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Cwmtawe Community School, 650 m away.
The nearest supermarket is Farmfoods, 650 m away, with Welcome Stores closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Pontardawe Primary Care Centre (700 m), with Pontardawe Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (750 m).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 13 restaurants and cafés, 14 pubs and bars.
Davies's Diner is the closest café or restaurant (700 m), and The Butchers Arms Alltwen the nearest pub (under 50 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 61 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 8% flats and 37% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
The nearest park is Alltwen Park, 300 m away; for exercise, Pontardawe Leisure Centre (900 m).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 4.8 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Cardiff is 50 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 87 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 40% of households own their home outright.
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.
12 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.
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe constituency: David Chadwick MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 1,472 (3.2%), turnout 64%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 30%, Conservative 26%, Labour 21%, Reform UK 14%.
5 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 SA8 3BP →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
On this street: 1 of 30 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 2 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.3% | 1.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.0% | 0.4% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 93.6% | 93.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 2.8% | 3.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.6% | 1.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.0% | 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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Neath Port Talbot 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 42 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.