Albert Road Margate, Thanet

24 addresses across 1 postcode (CT9), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40300019.

  • Sales: 14 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £352,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 8, E: 1).
  • 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 A; Band D in Thanet costs £2,491 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Margate, about 110 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Marine Gardens, is about 580 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 11 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 The Limes Medical Centre, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 29% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 214 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
20211£352,000£352,000£352,000
20161£210,000£210,000£210,000
20152£188,675£172,000£205,350
20141£190,000£190,000£190,000
20112£140,000£130,000£150,000
20041£146,500£146,500£146,500
20031£134,000£134,000£134,000
20021£67,950£67,950£67,950
20011£64,950£64,950£64,950
20001£50,000£50,000£50,000
19961£31,000£31,000£31,000
19951£10,500£10,500£10,500
Most recent sales (14)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Jun 20213 CT9 5ANTerraced£352,000
18 Feb 20161 CT9 5ANTerraced£210,000
22 Dec 20157 CT9 5ANSemi-detached£172,000
23 Oct 20155 CT9 5ANTerraced£205,350
10 Jul 20143 CT9 5ANTerraced£190,000
9 Jun 20112 CT9 5ANTerraced£150,000
21 Mar 20113 CT9 5ANTerraced£130,000
26 Jul 20043 CT9 5ANTerraced£146,500
29 Oct 20034 CT9 5ANTerraced£134,000
28 Jun 20024 CT9 5ANTerraced£67,950
27 Jul 20013 CT9 5ANTerraced£64,950
1 Aug 20003 CT9 5ANTerraced£50,000
31 Oct 19965 CT9 5ANTerraced£31,000
18 Oct 1995FLAT 3, 2 CT9 5ANFlat or maisonette£10,500Leasehold.

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 August 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 97 m². Most common: Flat (6); House, mid-terrace (3); Maisonette, end-terrace (1). Built: before 1900 (8); 1900-1929 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Thanet in 2026-27: Band D £2,491 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,661£1,937£2,214£2,491£3,044£3,598£4,152£4,982

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (45% of about 1,040 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): Birchington & Rural ED.
  • 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 1 October 2026 to 5 October 2026: SOUTHERN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor 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

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 addresses are about 11 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
CT9 5AN100%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 stationsMargate 1.3 million journeys in 2024–25110 m
Westgate-On-Sea 199,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Birchington-On-Sea 350,000 journeys in 2024–254.9 km (3.1 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Nayland Rock Westbrook20 m
Bus or coach stationCecil Street Council Offices Margate830 m (0.5 miles)
Ferry terminalRamsgate Ferry Terminal7.2 km (4.5 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Market Street Car Park760 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge800 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN51.3 km (32 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN96.3 km (60 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Limes Medical Centre1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots730 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Portman Smile Clinic Margate710 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalQueen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationMargate Police Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest London & South Eastern Railway - Margate Station Cashzone120 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Marine Gardens 2,440 m²580 m (0.4 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Tivoli Park 10.0 ha620 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 550 m²320 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 8,480 m²820 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,720 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Dreamland Cinema, a listed building (Grade II*), 380 m east. 182 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Dreamland CinemaListed building, Grade II*380 m east
The Scenic Railway at DreamlandListed building, Grade II*490 m (0.3 miles) east
India HouseListed building, Grade II*850 m (0.5 miles) east
Parish Church of St John the BaptistListed building, Grade I930 m (0.6 miles) east
Salmestone GrangeScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Dent-de-Lion medieval gatehouseScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Margate BeachBeach360 m north
The BayBay660 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Westbrook BayBay800 m (0.5 miles) west
St Mildred's BayBay2 km (1.3 miles) west
Dane Valley WoodsWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
Staner HillHill4.8 km (3 miles) south

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)7.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.44015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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 552424

None of the street's 24 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 Thanet: see them on the Thanet 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
Hartsdown AcademySecondary11–18710 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Margate, Holy Trinity and St John's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Salmestone Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Garlinge Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, Margate Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Drapers Mills Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
The Bus Cafe CT9 5AFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good9 Apr 2025
Pizza By The Sea CT9 5FJTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m4 Good25 Apr 2025
Unit 2 CT9 5FJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good19 Nov 2021
Coffee Station CT9 5ADRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good9 Dec 2025
Premier Stores CT9 5ASRetailers - other140 m4 Good10 Oct 2022
Ali Raj CT9 5ASRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good9 Sep 2026
Charcoal Grill CT9 5ASTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m5 Very good22 Apr 2026
Pizza 2Night CT9 5ASTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m5 Very good6 Mar 2025
Yummy Yummy CT9 5ASTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m5 Very good22 Jan 2026
Strokes Adventure Golf CT9 5BJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good8 Jun 2026
Darcy's at 89 CT9 5AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good16 Apr 2026
Westbrook Food and Wine CT9 5AXRetailers - other290 m2 Improvement necessary20 Nov 2023
Local Express CT9 5AXRetailers - other290 m5 Very good20 May 2026
Drink Margate CT9 5AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good22 Mar 2022
Rad Burger CT9 1XJTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good2 Apr 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.

214 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences87
Anti-social behaviour43
Criminal damage and arson21
Other theft14
Drugs13
Public order10
Other crime6
Vehicle crime4
Burglary4
Robbery3
Shoplifting3
Possession of weapons3
Bicycle theft2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Westbrook Road (34); On or near Hatfeild Road (29); On or near Margate (28); On or near Shakespeare Passage (22); On or near Buenos Ayres (22).

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: 357 residents in 164 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 age4040
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)29%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented61%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)12%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van44%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%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)28%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)84%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all7%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

  • CT9 5AN: 24 addresses of 26 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Royal Crescent · Station Road · Crescent Road · Royal Crescent Promenade · Station Approach · Shakespeare Passage · Garfield Road · Buenos Ayres · Hatfeild Road · Beach Houses · Fulsam Place · Troughton Mews

All the streets in CT9 and across Thanet.

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.