Thread: info on rowner

hey all new to this site and would like a bit of info, we will be movin up to portsmouth to the area rowner near shckleton road and would like if any one could tel me a bit of info on the area and the falts there, as herd bad thing about that area and now unsure about moving there, witch is prob to late as we have now sent the forms off any help would be great

Hi and welcome to RP.

No experience personally of living down there but I'm sure someone will come along soon who can help

hey thanks hopefully someone can give me some info, dont think it will be long till we have to move up there and getting worried about it now

Have you been to have a look round? I was down there last month for OHs passing out from Sultan and it didn't look too bad, but then I don't know where you're moving from. It could be that anywhere looks good to me

I've just checked it out on Streetview and it looks like every other patch to me!

Can't help but hello anyway :-)


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moving from plymouth and this will be our first married quarters, so dont know what it will be like and have herd rowner is not the bestplace in portsmouth to live, so really wants some info from someone who lives there or used to live there plus we have a young daughter so dont really want her growing up some were in a bad area
so any info from would be a great help and some help on what the flat will be like ie storage if it has a shower and size thing like that really

Well I have no idea on the area or road, so take my comments for what they are.... random checks on the internet.

The nearest school to Shackleton Road is rated a 2 so a good school.. generally, when I've been assessing areas I don't know, I've gone for the Ofsted school report

Schools that rate 2, (only seen one with a 1), even if the area is a little run down, the cars tend to be well looked after, the parents seem to care more and make the best of what they've got.. hard to explain, but you don't have to live in a rich area for it to be nice...

Ofsted | Grange Infant School for the report

The Google maps around that area looks like decent houses, so that's my 2 pennies, the best bet is to drive there and find a friendly looking house and chat, my OH's quarters seems to be in a very friendly area... so I know he'd be happy to talk to someone if they were moving into the road.

And welcome to the forum.

Gosport - PatchPedia

This will help a bit, and maybe this too:

PO13 house prices, property, crime rate, local neighbourhood & schools | UpMyStreet

Rowner isn't really Portsmouth, it's Gosport (in important distinction to those living in Portsmouth), the fastest route into Pompey is via the Gosport ferry, it takes literally under 5 minutes (after the last ferry home there used to be a fishing boat that did the crossing until the wee small hours but not sure if he's still going). Gosport gets a huge amount of bad press and some of it is deserved but as is the same anywhere there are some very pretty parts, I live in Pompey but have quite a lot of friends in Gosport and they seem perfectly happy with it! Good luck