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HoveWestbourne & Poets' Corner

Westbourne & Poets' Corner

BN3 2 / BN3 3 / BN3 4 / BN3 5

Family-friendly

Poets' Corner is one of Hove's nicest residential pockets. Streets named after poets (Tennyson, Shelley, Byron) with well-kept Edwardian and Victorian houses, many of them still family-sized rather than converted into flats. Westbourne stretches down towards the seafront and shares the same comfortable, settled character. Richardson Road and the surrounding streets are popular with families who want a quiet road and a walk to the beach. It's not flashy, just well-kept and residential with a strong sense of people putting down roots.

Hove0.6 mi
£869kmedian house
Top 10%primary KS2
Top halfsafety
Westbourne & Poets' Corner

Flat

£333k

Terraced

£631k

Semi-detached

£960k

Detached

£1.1m

58% homeowners34% private rented8% social rented

Fastest travel times

Victoria61 min
London Bridge62 min
Waterloo74 min
Oxford Circus76 min
Canary Wharf78 min
Liverpool Street79 min

Nearest stations

Hove0.6 mi
Portslade1.0 mi
Preston Park1.6 mi
SafetyTop half

Breakdown of reported crime

Violence and sexual offences
31%
Anti-social behaviour
19%
Shoplifting
13%
Other theft
8%
Criminal damage and arson
7%
Public order
6%
Vehicle crime
4%
Drug offences
4%
Burglary
2%
AffluenceTop half

Ethnicity

White
87.6%
White British74.7%
Other White10.4%
Irish2.3%
Gypsy / Roma0.2%
Mixed
4.8%
Other Mixed1.8%
White & Asian1.6%
White & Black Caribbean0.7%
White & Black African0.7%
Asian
3.2%
Indian1.1%
Other Asian1%
Chinese0.6%
Bangladeshi0.3%
Pakistani0.2%
Black
1.2%
African0.8%
Caribbean0.3%
Other Black0.1%
Other
3%

State primary

Hove Junior School
🏆 Strong results🤝 Strong SEN support
West Hove Infant School
😊 Happy school
St Andrew's CofE (Aided) Primary School
😊 Happy school🤝 Strong SEN support

State secondary

Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre
Non-selective🤝 Strong SEN support
Cardinal Newman Catholic School
Non-selective🏆 Strong results
Blatchington Mill School
Non-selective🏆 Strong results

Independent

The Lioncare School
The Montessori Place
🏆 Exceptional sixth form
St Christopher's School
Green spaces46 nearby
Western Lawns
Brunswick Lawns
St Ann's Well Gardens
Dyke Road Park

If you like Westbourne & Poets' Corner...

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East Sussex

£787k (£82k less)

Safety: stronger · Green: same · Affluence: same

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East Sussex

£774k (£95k less)

Safety: less · Green: less · Affluence: same

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