A2 Gillingham, Medway

2 addresses across 2 postcodes (ME8), about 300 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 32102226.

  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Medway costs £2,329 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 92% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rainham (Kent), about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Vinall Park, is about 350 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 73 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 2 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Eastcourt Lane Surgery, about 270 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 620 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 89% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 141 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often other theft.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Medway in 2026-27: Band D £2,329 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,552£1,811£2,070£2,329£2,846£3,363£3,881£4,657

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (31% of about 1,130 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Watling.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 4 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
ME8 0PUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 4 unlikely
ME8 6HXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 73 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
ME8 0PU92%92%92%8%
ME8 6HX100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsRainham (Kent) 1.7 million journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Gillingham (Kent) 2.5 million journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Chatham 2.4 million journeys in 2024–254.3 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Eastcourt Lane Gillingham130 m
Bus or coach stationWaterfront Bus Station Chatham4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Car parksHempstead Valley Purple Car Park2.8 km (1.8 miles)
EV charging pointsStation Road2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN23.8 km (15 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW58.8 km (37 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Eastcourt Lane Surgery270 m
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy300 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mch House390 m
HospitalMedway Maritime Hospital2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationMedway Police Station3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM690 m (0.4 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Vinall Park 2.4 ha350 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,060 m²360 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 3.6 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsAllington Road Allotment 4,650 m²800 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 2.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Ambley WoodWood880 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Spekes BottomValley1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Mill HillHill2 km (1.3 miles) north
Cinque Port MarshesWetland2.7 km (1.7 miles) north
Horrid HillHeadland2.8 km (1.8 miles) north-east
Couvre Port ReservoirLake or reservoir3.9 km (2.4 miles) north-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)13.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.3205
Particles (PM10)13.04015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
75 dB or more10
65 to 6910
Under 5502

2 of the street's 2 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Medway: see them on the Medway page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Thomas of Canterbury RC Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11290 m No published inspection
Twydall Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–11500 m (0.3 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Featherby Junior SchoolPrimary7–11780 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Featherby Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7940 m (0.6 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Howard SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Rainham Mark Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rainham School for GirlsSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Thames View Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Academy of WoodlandsPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
The Robert Napier SchoolSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
St Margaret's Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
St Margaret's Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Holy Trinity Church ME8 6JUOther catering premises80 m5 Very good27 May 2026
Iceland ME8 0PURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets160 m5 Very good30 Dec 2025
Aldi ME8 0PURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets160 m5 Very good2 Dec 2025
Poundland ME8 0PURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets160 m5 Very good2 Feb 2026
Cheeky Clucker ME8 6JAMobile caterer210 m5 Very good12 Aug 2026
Kit Organic ME8 6HTOther catering premises220 mExempt
Planet Ice ME8 0PURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good17 Sep 2026
Caterlink @ St Thomas Of ME8 6JHSchool/college/university300 mAwaiting inspection
Tesco Family Dining ME8 0GXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good16 Sep 2025
Tesco ME8 0GXRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets310 m5 Very good2 Sep 2025
Yo To Go ME8 0GXTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m5 Very good9 Oct 2025
Dobbies Garden Centre ME8 0FBRetailers - other310 m5 Very good22 Sep 2025
Butcher Of Brogdale Ltd (Dobbies) ME8 0FBRetailers - other310 m5 Very good26 Nov 2025
Rainham Fish And Kebab ME8 6YXTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m5 Very good22 Sep 2026
Rainham Mark Social Club ME8 6YXRetailers - other350 m4 Good6 Aug 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

141 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Other theft41
Shoplifting25
Anti-social behaviour21
Violence and sexual offences19
Criminal damage and arson10
Bicycle theft8
Vehicle crime6
Robbery4
Burglary2
Other crime2
Theft from the person1
Drugs1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (50); On or near Shopping Area (32); On or near Supermarket (32); On or near A2 (15); On or near Court Meadow (5).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 621 residents in 254 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4940
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)89%61%
Owned outright50%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)55%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 6 to 9 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • ME8 0PU: 1 address of 28 in the postcode
  • ME8 6HX: 1 address of 27 in the postcode

Nearby streets

South Avenue · Sherman Close · Wilmington Way · Franks Court · Court Meadow · Courteney Road · Phillips Court · Grant Close · Beckett Close · Greenvale Gardens · Ambley Road · Cecil Avenue

All the streets in ME8 and across Medway.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.