Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 3 secondary schools. Shoreham Academy is the nearest published school at 540 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN4 6BU
Southlands · Adur · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Southlands
- Local authority
- Adur
- Constituency
- East Worthing and Shoreham
- Postcode district
- BN4
- Postcode sector
- BN4 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN4 6BU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1981
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN4
- Postcode sector
- BN4 6
- Latitude
- 50.837739
- Longitude
- -0.253107
- British National Grid easting
- 523,100
- British National Grid northing
- 105,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Adur · E07000223
- Electoral ward
- Southlands · E05007573
- Parish or community
- E43000147
- Westminster constituency
- East Worthing and Shoreham · E14001218
- Output area
- E00159948
- Lower layer super output area
- Adur 004D · E01031371
- Middle layer super output area
- Adur 004 · E02006537
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 BN4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 3
- 540 m
Shoreham Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 704 m
Shoreham College
Other independent school
- 711 m
St Peter's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,645
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 523
- Anti social behaviour 284
- Shoplifting 241
- Criminal damage and arson 149
- Public order 135
Planning applications
Mapped applications within 1,000 metres of this postcode point.
- Available records
- 1,390
- Records since 17 September 2020
- 598
- 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/0982/25 Submitted 28 July 2025 993 m away
Proposed single storey rear extension, front extension to garage and garage conversion
6 Church Lane Southwick West Sussex BN42 4GD
Adur District Council Open council record - AWDM/0930/25 Submitted 15 July 2025 390 m away
Retention of single storey rear and side extensions, front porch, and hip-to-gable roof extension with front roof lights and rear dormer - Amendments to AWDM/1179/23: flat roof to porch, cladding to porch, gable and dormer, alterations to fenestration
17 Fairfield Close Shoreham-by-sea West Sussex BN43 6BH
- AWDM/0914/25 Submitted 11 July 2025 511 m away
Application for Certificate of Lawfulness for proposed use of land to site a mobile home for ancillary use to the main dwelling
3 Montford Close Shoreham-by-sea West Sussex BN43 6YP
- AWDM/0913/25 Submitted 11 July 2025 511 m away
Annexe in rear garden for ancillary use to the main dwellinghouse
3 Montford Close Shoreham-by-sea West Sussex BN43 6YP
- AWDM/0723/25 Submitted 7 July 2025 985 m away
Construction of replacement single storey rear extension with roof terrace
25 Victoria Road Southwick West Sussex BN42 4DJ
Adur District Council Open council record - AWDM/0694/25 Submitted 3 July 2025 397 m away
Rear conservatory
23 Elizabeth Road Shoreham-by-sea West Sussex BN43 6YJ
Adur District Council Open council record - AWDM/0859/25 Submitted 1 July 2025 545 m away
Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for a proposed single storey rear extension.
33 Franklin Road Shoreham-by-sea West Sussex BN43 6YE
- AWDM/0842/25 Submitted 27 June 2025 951 m away
Application for a Non-Material Amendment to previously approved AWDM/1999/21. Amendment: Additional cladding to the North, West and South elevations on Level 5 of Building 1.
Land At 7 To 27 Albion Street Southwick West Sussex
- AWDM/0834/25 Submitted 26 June 2025 787 m away
Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for a proposed room in roof consisting of rear dormer with rooflights in front roofslope
6 Old Shoreham Road Southwick West Sussex BN42 4HS
- AWDM/0816/25 Submitted 24 June 2025 961 m away
Single storey rear infill extension
16 Albert Road Southwick West Sussex BN42 4GE
- AWDM/0802/25 Submitted 19 June 2025 102 m away
Application for Certificate of Lawfulness for proposed loft conversion with rear dormer and rooflights to front
38 Mansell Road Shoreham-by-sea West Sussex BN43 6GQ
- AWDM/0781/25 Submitted 13 June 2025 542 m away
Approval of Details Reserved by Condition 6 (Drainage Details) of application AWDM/0782/24.
17 Ashcroft Close Shoreham-by-sea West Sussex BN43 6YR
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
5
within 5 km
ADUR HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
THE HEALTH CENTRE, POND ROAD, SHOREHAM-BY-SEA, BN43 5US
ODS code H82023
1.6 km
MILE OAK MEDICAL CENTRE
CHALKY ROAD, PORTSLADE, BRIGHTON, BN41 2WF
ODS code G81073
2.4 km
PORTSLADE HEALTH CENTRE
CHURCH ROAD, PORTSLADE, BRIGHTON, BN41 1LX
ODS code G81046
2.8 km
HOVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WEST WAY, HOVE, BN3 8LD
ODS code G81001
4.1 km
WISH PARK SURGERY
191A PORTLAND ROAD, HOVE, BN3 5JA
ODS code G81083
4.5 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
Buci Crescent
BCT · Shoreham-by-Sea
- 0.1 miles
Buci Crescent
BCT · Shoreham-by-Sea
- 0.1 miles
Williams Road North
BCT · Shoreham-by-Sea
- 0.1 miles
Williams Road North
BCT · Shoreham-by-Sea
- 0.1 miles
Arundel Close
BCT · Shoreham-by-Sea
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Adur 004D, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,454 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
1,645 published events cover 12 months, averaging 137.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 523 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.