Acre Close Rochester, Medway

13 addresses across 1 postcode (ME1), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32100008.

  • Sales: 18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £307,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 3, E: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 C; Band D in Medway costs £2,329 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chatham, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 180 m away, and Copperfield Open Space (2.1 hectares) is about 750 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 81 to 82 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is City Way Surgery, about 380 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 69 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20241£307,500£307,500£307,500
20231£319,000£319,000£319,000
20202£277,500£275,000£280,000
20161£250,000£250,000£250,000
20151£193,000£193,000£193,000
20121£111,000£111,000£111,000
20111£170,000£170,000£170,000
20101£163,000£163,000£163,000
20092£146,750£130,000£163,500
20071£170,000£170,000£170,000
20062£170,000£155,000£185,000
20031£170,000£170,000£170,000
Most recent sales (18)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 Apr 202412 ME1 2RESemi-detached£307,500
15 Mar 20234 ME1 2RESemi-detached£319,000
5 Jun 20206 ME1 2RESemi-detached£280,000
10 Jan 202011 ME1 2RESemi-detached£275,000
12 Feb 20165 ME1 2REDetached£250,000
13 Feb 20157 ME1 2RESemi-detached£193,000
9 Aug 201210 ME1 2REDetached£111,000
7 Sep 201110 ME1 2RETerraced£170,000
9 Jun 20103 ME1 2RESemi-detached£163,000
4 Sep 200912 ME1 2RESemi-detached£163,500
9 Mar 20093 ME1 2RESemi-detached£130,000
7 Sep 20074 ME1 2RESemi-detached£170,000
25 Jul 20062 ME1 2REDetached£185,000
19 May 20061 ME1 2RESemi-detached£155,000
30 Jan 20035 ME1 2REDetached£170,000
16 Aug 20022 ME1 2REDetached£137,000
28 Nov 19971 ME1 2RESemi-detached£68,500
10 May 19967 ME1 2RESemi-detached£65,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from November 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 72 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (7); Bungalow, detached (3). Built: 1950-1966 (10). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (50% of about 720 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 neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) 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): Fort Pitt.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 is in flood zone 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 13 addresses are between 81 m and 82 m above sea level (82 m on average).

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
ME1 2RE100%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 stationsChatham 2.4 million journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Rochester 2.1 million journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Strood (Kent) 1.2 million journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 49 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Robert Bean Lodge Chatham90 m
Bus or coach stationChatham Railway Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Ferry terminalTown Pier Gravesend13.1 km (8.2 miles)
Car parksApcoa1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN25.7 km (16 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW54.6 km (34 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest City Way Surgery380 m
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Karsons Pharmacy280 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.2 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalMedway Maritime Hospital2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationKent undercover police.450 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Asda Rochester - CIty Way PFS Cashzone230 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,150 m²180 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Copperfield Open Space 2.1 ha750 m (0.5 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 400 m²310 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha280 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Anchor Road St Williams Way Allotment 1,810 m²590 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 2.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Fort Horstead, a scheduled monument, 1.2 km (0.8 miles) south. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fort HorsteadScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) south
Fort LutonScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Fort PittScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Jewish Burial Ground, Chatham Memorial SynagogueRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.6 km (1 mile) north
The Officers' Terrace, the Historic Dockyard, ChathamRegistered park or garden, Grade II3 km (1.9 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Snodhurst BottomValley1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Bishop's Hoath WoodWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Borstal MarshWetland2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Chatham NessHeadland2.2 km (1.3 miles) north
Couvre Port ReservoirLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-east
East HillHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-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)12.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)12.34015

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
Under 551313

None of the street's 13 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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), 3 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
Balfour Infant SchoolPrimary5–7160 m No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Crest Infant SchoolPrimary4–7510 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Balfour Junior SchoolPrimary7–11520 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Holcombe Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18540 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Delce AcademyPrimary5–11610 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
New Horizons Children's AcademyPrimary4–11740 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Warren Wood Primary SchoolPrimary3–11750 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
The Thomas Aveling SchoolSecondary11–18880 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
The Rochester Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18890 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical SchoolSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John Fisher Catholic Comprehensive School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
St Peter's Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Our Zone ME1 2RBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m5 Very good9 Apr 2026
Harmony House ME1 2RBHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house110 m5 Very good9 Apr 2026
Mumma Soraya's ME1 2BHTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m5 Very good10 Apr 2026
The George ME1 2BHPub/bar/nightclub260 m5 Very good15 Oct 2026
Independent Catering Management ME4 6QXSchool/college/university260 m5 Very good14 Oct 2026
Georges Kitchen ME1 2BHMobile caterer260 mAwaiting inspection
Beresford Pre-School ME1 2QXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 mAwaiting inspection
Sealand Fish And Chips ME1 2RATakeaway/sandwich shop310 m5 Very good13 Jan 2026
The Huntsman ME1 2RAPub/bar/nightclub320 m5 Very good17 Sep 2026
Karsons Pharmacy ME1 2BARetailers - other340 m5 Very good20 May 2026
Multi Express ME1 2RARetailers - other340 m5 Very good3 Jul 2025
St Lukes Pre School ME1 2BQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good15 Jan 2026
Karsons ME4 6JRRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good28 May 2026
Balfour Convenience Store ME4 6QSRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 Jul 2025
Co-Op ME4 6JRRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 Dec 2025

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.

69 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences21
Shoplifting20
Anti-social behaviour9
Public order5
Other theft4
Robbery2
Criminal damage and arson2
Burglary2
Other crime1
Vehicle crime1
Drugs1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (36); On or near Beresford Avenue (10); On or near City Way (8); On or near Haig Avenue (7); On or near Pattens Lane (4).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 356 residents in 133 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 age5440
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over36%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented15%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work45%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)39%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications34%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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.

  • ME1 2RE: 13 addresses of 15 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Copse Close · Huntsmans Close · Radleigh Gardens · Haig Avenue · Golding Close · Beresford Avenue · Ewart Road · Beaulieu Rise · Redland Shaw · Pattens Place · Blaker Avenue · Fairlead Road

All the streets in ME1 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.