A296 Stone, Dartford

166 addresses across 18 postcodes (DA1,DA2,DA9), about 2.5 km (1.5 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 10500753.

  • Energy: 68 homes have an energy certificate (B: 20, C: 12, D: 23, E: 11, F: 2).
  • 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 Dartford costs £2,375 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Stone Crossing, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 600 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 36 to 66 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 155 of its 168 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Swanscombe Health Centre, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 3,900 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 70% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 2 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often theft from the person.

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 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

68 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 98 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (27); House, end-terrace (11); House, enclosed mid-terrace (8). Built: 1900-1929 (14); 1930-1949 (13); 2012 (12). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (31); rented (private) (7); rented (social) (6).

Council tax

What each band costs in Dartford in 2026-27: Band D £2,375 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,583£1,847£2,111£2,375£2,903£3,431£3,959£4,750

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (35% of about 7,110 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 9 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): HMO Article 4(1) Direction North Order 2025.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: yes, Dartford.

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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 21 September 2026 to 4 October 2026: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 24 September 2026 to 25 September 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the verge (minor works)
  • 14 September 2026 to 19 September 2026: NATIONAL HIGHWAYS, Works for road purposes, no carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (standard works)
  • 4 September 2026 to 12 September 2026: NATIONAL HIGHWAYS, Works for road purposes, no carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (standard works)
  • 28 August 2026: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 6 July 2026 to 14 August 2026: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL, New service connection, lane closure, on the carriageway (major works)

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 5 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
DA2 6EGnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DA2 6EPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DA1 1RFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DA1 1RPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DA1 1RWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DA2 6AAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DA2 6EBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DA2 6FPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
DA1 1RNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
DA2 6AEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
DA2 6EWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DA2 6EFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
DA1 1RRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DA2 6GEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DA2 8AAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DA2 8AHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DA9 9NQnot in 2 or 3
DA9 9RLnot in 2 or 3

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 168 addresses are between 36 m and 66 m above sea level (45 m on average); the ground rises about 30 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
DA1 1RF100%95%95%0%
DA1 1RN100%0%0%0%
DA1 1RP100%100%100%0%
DA1 1RR100%86%86%0%
DA1 1RW100%88%88%0%
DA2 6AA100%100%100%0%
DA2 6AE100%100%100%0%
DA2 6EB100%100%100%0%
DA2 6EF100%80%80%0%
DA2 6EG100%79%79%0%
DA2 6EP100%100%100%0%
DA2 6EW100%100%100%0%
DA2 6FP100%100%100%0%
DA2 6GE100%100%100%0%
DA2 8AA0%0%0%98%
DA2 8AH93%93%93%7%
DA9 9NQ0%0%0%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 stationsStone Crossing 319,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Greenhithe for Bluewater 857,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Swanscombe 340,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Village Bluewater460 m (0.3 miles)
Bus or coach stationBus Station Bluewater520 m (0.3 miles)
Ferry terminalTilbury Ferry Terminal7 km (4.3 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY16.7 km (10 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW45 km (28 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 surgeriesSwanscombe Health Centre1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots300 m
NHS dentistsDental Beauty Greenhithe2.1 km (1.3 miles)
HospitalDarent Valley Hospital680 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationEssex Police Station4.8 km (3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine Lower Thames Walk Halifax320 m

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 Unnamed 1.3 ha600 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 470 m²590 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldStone Recreation Ground 5.6 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsKirby Road Allotments 1.7 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Medieval woodland boundary in Darenth Wood, a scheduled monument, 530 m (0.3 miles) south.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Medieval woodland boundary in Darenth WoodScheduled monument530 m (0.3 miles) south
Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Darenth ParkScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Darenth WoodWood820 m (0.5 miles) south
Ladies WoodWood1.5 km (1 mile) south
Eagle CliffCliff or slope2 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Stone NessWetland2.9 km (1.8 miles) north
Brooklands LakeLake or reservoir3.3 km (2.1 miles) west
St Clement's ReachTidal water3.6 km (2.3 miles) north-east

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)13.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.0205
Particles (PM10)13.94015

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
70 to 74110
65 to 69330
60 to 64870
55 to 59240
Under 5513168

155 of the street's 168 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 Dartford: see them on the Dartford 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
Stone St Mary's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11890 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Fleetdown Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) 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
Bean Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Brent Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stone Lodge SchoolSecondary11–191.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Alkerden Church of England AcademyAll-through3–182 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
Dinotropolis DA9 9SGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good6 Feb 2026
Krispy Kreme DA9 9SGManufacturers/packers230 m5 Very good18 Jun 2024
Nando's DA9 9SGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good17 Mar 2026
Wagamama DA9 9SGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good18 Mar 2026
Browns DA9 9SGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m4 Good23 Apr 2025
Gravity Trampoline Park DA9 9SGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good15 Sep 2021
Pizza Express DA9 9SGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good11 Sep 2024
Slim Chickens DA9 9SGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good23 Jan 2025
TGI Fridays/Conviction Chicken DA9 9SGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good23 Jan 2025
Card Factory DA9 9SJRetailers - other270 mExempt
Lolas Cupcakes DA9 9SJTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good8 Oct 2024
Primark DA9 9SQRetailers - other270 mExempt
Burger King DA9 9SJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good28 Jul 2026
Pho Vietnamese Restaurant DA9 9SJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good1 Jul 2025
Showcase Cinemas DA9 9SGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m3 Generally satisfactory24 Oct 2024

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.

2 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Theft from the person1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Park/Open Space (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 11 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 3,899 residents in 1,457 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 age3940
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)70%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented11%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 9 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 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.

  • DA2 6EG: 35 addresses of 38 in the postcode
  • DA2 6EP: 27 addresses of 30 in the postcode
  • DA1 1RF: 23 addresses of 25 in the postcode
  • DA1 1RP: 22 addresses
  • DA1 1RW: 11 addresses
  • DA2 6AA: 9 addresses
  • DA2 6EB: 7 addresses of 8 in the postcode
  • DA2 6FP: 7 addresses of 13 in the postcode
  • DA1 1RN: 5 addresses of 6 in the postcode
  • DA2 6AE: 5 addresses of 7 in the postcode
  • DA2 6EW: 4 addresses of 65 in the postcode
  • DA2 6EF: 3 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • DA1 1RR: 2 addresses of 35 in the postcode
  • DA2 6GE: 2 addresses of 13 in the postcode
  • DA2 8AA: 1 address of 74 in the postcode
  • DA2 8AH: 1 address of 41 in the postcode
  • DA9 9NQ: 1 address of 55 in the postcode
  • DA9 9RL: 1 address of 10 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lower Thames Walk · Scotney Drive · Plaza · Upper Thames Walk · Lower Thames Walk

All the streets in DA1, DA2, DA9 and across Dartford.

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.