Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 5 secondary schools. Springboard Education is the nearest published school at 99 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN15 8FL
Widewater · Adur · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Widewater
- Local authority
- Adur
- Constituency
- East Worthing and Shoreham
- Postcode district
- BN15
- Postcode sector
- BN15 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN15 8FL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN15
- Postcode sector
- BN15 8
- Latitude
- 50.823504
- Longitude
- -0.322458
- British National Grid easting
- 518,253
- British National Grid northing
- 104,004
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Adur · E07000223
- Electoral ward
- Widewater · E05007575
- Parish or community
- E04009847
- Westminster constituency
- East Worthing and Shoreham · E14001218
- Output area
- E00159994
- Lower layer super output area
- Adur 008D · E01031377
- Middle layer super output area
- Adur 008 · E02006541
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore BN15
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 5
- 99 m
Springboard Education
Other independent special school
- 761 m
Seaside Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
The Globe Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,412
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 463
- Anti social behaviour 271
- Shoplifting 145
- Public order 125
- Criminal damage and arson 106
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BN15 8 residents
- 7,876
Age bands in BN15 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.2%
1,001 residents
553 residents
1,706 residents
2,115 residents
2,435 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Planning applications
Mapped applications within 1,000 metres of this postcode point.
- Available records
- 968
- Records since 17 September 2020
- 441
- Latest available record date
- 28 July 2025
Adur District Council
Partial beta coverage
This beta dataset covers only Adur, Camden, Doncaster and Worthing and is not a complete national planning register. Doncaster records have no published coordinates, so they cannot be matched to local reports.
Latest available applications
- AWDM/0967/25 Submitted 28 July 2025 766 m away
Demolition of existing single-storey dwelling and construction of new three-bedroom two-storey dwelling.
Craigwell Old Salts Farm Road Lancing West Sussex BN15 8JD
Adur District Council Open council record - AWDM/0951/25 Submitted 23 July 2025 650 m away
Change of use from Restaurant to Take Away (retrospective)
14 Queens Parade North Road Lancing West Sussex BN15 9BA
Adur District Council Open council record - AWDM/0888/25 Submitted 7 July 2025 362 m away
Installation of various internally illuminated and non-illuminated signage (main entrance illuminated sign), and associated site signage.
Lancing Beach Care Home 85 - 89 Brighton Road Lancing West Sussex BN15 8RB
- AWDM/0858/25 Submitted 4 July 2025 899 m away
First floor side extension
1 Monks Avenue Lancing West Sussex BN15 9DJ
- AWDM/0887/25 Submitted 4 July 2025 814 m away
Householder application for permitted development for prior approval for single storey extension to rear of property measuring 5.5m from rear wall of the original dwelling, maximum height 3.3m and height of eaves of the extension 3m
6 Links Road Lancing West Sussex BN15 9BY
- AWDM/0850/25 Submitted 30 June 2025 948 m away
Single storey flat-roof rear extension
18 Bushby Close Sompting West Sussex BN15 9JW
- AWDM/0836/25 Submitted 26 June 2025 636 m away
Single storey rear extension. Installation of weatherboard cladding to 1st floor rear of property
3 Old Salts Farm Road Lancing West Sussex BN15 8JE
- AWDM/0817/25 Submitted 23 June 2025 384 m away
Flat roof rear / side single storey extension
169 Brighton Road Lancing West Sussex BN15 8JA
- AWDM/0717/25 Submitted 3 June 2025 920 m away
Householder application for permitted development for prior approval for single storey extension to rear of property measuring 4.4m from rear wall of the original dwelling, maximum height 2.85m and height of eaves of the extension 2.85m
233 Brighton Road Lancing West Sussex BN15 8JP
- AWDM/0558/25 Submitted 29 April 2025 465 m away
Replacement aluminium windows and doors with UPVC, South elevation
20 The Haven Brighton Road Lancing West Sussex BN15 8EU
- AWDM/0499/25 Submitted 14 April 2025 647 m away
Dormers to East and West side roofslopes
21 Alexandra Road Lancing West Sussex BN15 8EJ
- AWDM/0459/25 Submitted 2 April 2025 948 m away
Application for Certificate of Lawfulness for proposed single storey rear extension in relation to Prior Approval AWDM/0104/25
16 Bushby Close Sompting West Sussex BN15 9JW
Source: MHCLG Planning Data, snapshot 2025-09-17, version 2025-09-17-beta. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Record dates use the submitted date where published, otherwise the decision date.
GP practices
9
within 5 km
NEW POND ROW SURGERY
35 SOUTH STREET, LANCING, BN15 8AN
ODS code H82091
156 m
THE ORCHARD SURGERY
PENSTONE PARK, LANCING, BN15 9AG
ODS code H82096
523 m
BALL TREE SURGERY
WESTERN ROAD NORTH, SOMPTING, LANCING, BN15 9UX
ODS code H82065
1.5 km
SELDEN MEDICAL CENTRE
6 SELDEN ROAD, WORTHING, BN11 2LL
ODS code H82061
2.8 km
ADUR HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
THE HEALTH CENTRE, POND ROAD, SHOREHAM-BY-SEA, BN43 5US
ODS code H82023
3.6 km
BROADWATER MEDICAL CENTRE
5-11 BROADWATER BOULEVARD, WORTHING, BN14 8JE
ODS code H82046
3.7 km
VICTORIA ROAD SURGERY
50 VICTORIA ROAD, WORTHING, BN11 1XE
ODS code H82041
3.9 km
WORTHING MEDICAL GROUP
23 SHELLEY ROAD, WORTHING, BN11 4BS
ODS code H82045
4.1 km
ST. LAWRENCE SURGERY
79 ST. LAWRENCE AVENUE, WORTHING, BN14 7JL
ODS code H82009
4.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
East Street
BCT · South Lancing
- 0.1 miles
East Street
BCT · South Lancing
- 0.1 miles
Ingleside Crescent
BCT · South Lancing
- 0.2 miles
Beach Green Hotel
BCT · South Lancing
- 0.2 miles
Ingleside Crescent
BCT · South Lancing
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Adur 008D, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,702 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,412 published events cover 12 months, averaging 117.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 463 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.