Gaunt's Common

19°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 24° / 18° · 68% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 12° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:40Sunset 19:26

12h 46m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

17US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Bournemouth, United Kingdom

686 reported road collisions (2024)

156 killed or seriously injured · 883 casualties · 18.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

8 food businesses within 2 miles

• 8 rated 4–5 ★ (8 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Kingsmere (7.9 km)
• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£325,410 average▲ 1.6% YoY

Across Dorset · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,051 average monthly rent▲ 4.8% YoY

• 1 bed £728
• 2 bed £961
• 3 bed £1,184

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

9.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.9 times median annual pay (9.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 158.9p · Esso (11.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 191.9p · Asda (11.1 km)

8 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

19 charging locations within ~8 km

• 9 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Shorefield Holidays-Wilksworth Farm (4.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches5

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

379,579 residents in Dorset · 152/km²

• Under 16: 15%
• 16–64: 55%
• 65+: 30%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 197 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

3% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,765 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (23% of 187,680)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

184 schools · 51,332 pupils

119 primary · 18 secondary · 47 other

Ofsted: 68 of 86 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (79%)

158inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Dorset

385 CQC-registered services

• Care homes121
• GP practices59
• Dentists84
• Homecare agencies86
• Hospitals & hospices14

CQC ratings: 96% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Dorset

• Within the Green Belt
• 26 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

662 applications decided

92.4% granted · 612 granted, 50 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Vikki Slade

Liberal Democrat

Mid Dorset and North Poole

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat / Green coalition

• Lab 2
• Con 30
• LD 42
• Grn 4
• Oth 4

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

20,515 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£737 median full-time weekly pay

2.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£27,403 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

43% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 186,790 certificates

9.9% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

29% low-carbon electricity

Gas 62% · Wind 13% · Imports 9% · Biomass 8%

256 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.4 yrs women · 82.1 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 65.6 women · 65.3 men

66% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.9

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Mid Dorset and North Poole:

• Cap Academy Trust CEO Pay and Protect School Funding for Children646 local signatures · 3,627 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership371 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office347 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test320 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership286 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Hinton Martell · 1.2 km

  Hinton Martell is a village and former civil parish, now in the civil parish of Hinton, in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies within the Dorset unitary authority area of the county, three miles north of…

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  All Saints' Church, Chalbury · 1.2 km

  All Saints' Church is a Church of England church in Chalbury, Dorset, England. It has 13th-century origins, with later alterations and additions, and many 18th-century furnishings. The church is a Grade I listed build…

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  Chalbury · 1.2 km

  Chalbury is a village in the English county of Dorset. It lies on the southern edge of Cranborne Chase within the Dorset unitary authority area of the county, four miles north of Wimborne Minster and four miles west o…

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  Hinton, Dorset · 1.9 km

  Hinton is a civil parish in Dorset, England, situated 3 miles north of Wimborne Minster. It was created on 1 April 2015 from Hinton Martell and Hinton Parva.

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  Holt, Dorset · 2.0 km

  Holt is a village in east Dorset, England, 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Wimborne Minster. The village had a population of 1,265 in 2001. The electoral ward of the same name had a population of 2,286 at the 2011 census. I…

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  St Kenelm's Church, Stanbridge · 2.8 km

  St Kenelm's Church is a historic redundant church in the village of Stanbridge, Dorset, England. The church is dedicated to Saint Kenelm.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)