Streets Around Herbert Avenue
Recent sales on Herbert Avenue, Evering Avenue, Aspen Gardens, Slepe Crescent, Corbiere Avenue and Melbury Avenue show the mix here: late 19th century and interwar houses alongside postwar estates. Rossmore sits around the Herbert Avenue and Alder Road junction. Roughly one home in seven in the ward is socially rented, and about one in ten is a council home, so tenancy moves with fixed start and end dates are a regular part of our work.
For a few items or a quick shift between two addresses, our man and van hire is usually the best fit.
Why So Little Is Being Built
BCP's draft plan for the ward, later withdrawn, expected only about 35 new homes, because large parts of the area lie within 400 metres of protected Dorset heathland where new housing is restricted. The Bourne Valley nature reserve to the north is an 80-hectare SSSI, and Bourne Valley Park, the former Alderney Recreation Ground, covers 6.1 hectares south of Evering Avenue. In practice, most moves here are people already living locally moving house, not buyers of new-builds.
Roundabouts and Permit Parking
The Mountbatten and Wallisdown roundabouts mark the edges of Alderney, and Ringwood Road carries traffic past Alderney Hospital, which opened in 1888. Part of the area falls in the BCP permit zone R for Wallisdown. Small firms on Sharp Road and around Mannings Heath often book our rubbish removal for one-off clear-outs.