Old Town

Old Town is flats and terraces packed tight along narrow streets, the kind of density that tells you this is a place built up rather than out — blocks of leasehold conversions where a For Sale board almost always means a flat, not a house. The population here skews older, median age into the mid-fifties, and the streets carry that quieter, settled feel rather than a young rental churn.

On transport, Collington Rail Station gives you a line out without needing a car, though this is a place better read as a base than a commuter hub — the older resident profile suggests plenty who've stopped commuting altogether. Housing is where the numbers do the talking: this is overwhelmingly a flat market, nearly two-thirds leasehold, and prices sit well below what "Rother" asks elsewhere in the district, over a third cheaper by the look of it. A national buyer's guide would call this affordable; a local one would just call it typical of a dense coastal-suburb flat stock, where detached houses are the rare exception rather than the norm.

Green space is tight here too — one plot of a few hectares serving a packed population, so this isn't an area built around long dog walks or big parks; it's a place where daily life happens on the street and at the shops rather than in the grass. Crime sits in a pattern worth naming plainly: shoplifting and anti-social behaviour dominate the local breakdown, well ahead of burglary or vehicle crime, which reads as town-centre friction rather than anything more threatening — the safety grade holds steady rather than sliding either way. Health and general liveability grades sit around the solid middle, not exceptional but not a concern either.