Beata Gardens Gillingham, Medway

31 addresses across 2 postcodes (ME8), about 250 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32103249.

  • Sales: 25 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £510,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Medway cost £297,757 in August 2026 (+0.5% on a year); private rents averaged £1,235 a month.
  • Energy: 28 homes have an energy certificate (B: 28).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A2, carries 16,335 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • 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 Rainham (Kent), about 860 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Cherry Tree Orchard, is about 300 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 39 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 Orchard Family Practice, about 670 m (0.4 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 410 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 86% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 30 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20251£510,000£510,000£510,000
20239£504,995£414,995£574,995
202214£487,495£394,995£609,995
Most recent sales (25)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Sep 202513 ME8 8GTDetached£510,000
4 Dec 202316 ME8 8GTDetached£515,000
31 Oct 202319 ME8 8GTDetached£550,000New build.
15 May 202318 ME8 8GTDetached£499,995New build.
31 Mar 202326 ME8 8GTDetached£574,995New build.
31 Mar 202328 ME8 8GTDetached£504,995New build.
24 Feb 202327 ME8 8GTDetached£569,995New build.
24 Feb 202325 ME8 8GTDetached£499,995New build.
24 Feb 202323 ME8 8GTSemi-detached£414,995New build.
30 Jan 202324 ME8 8GTSemi-detached£419,995New build.
2 Dec 202214 ME8 8GTSemi-detached£429,995New build.
28 Oct 202229 ME8 8GTDetached£609,995New build.
21 Oct 202217 ME8 8GTDetached£569,995New build.
23 Sep 202216 ME8 8GTDetached£549,995New build.
26 Aug 202215 ME8 8GTSemi-detached£399,995New build.
5 Aug 202213 ME8 8GTDetached£484,995New build.
22 Jul 202212 ME8 8GTDetached£539,995New build.
1 Jul 202211 ME8 8GTSemi-detached£394,995New build.
1 Jul 202210 ME8 8GTSemi-detached£394,995New build.
31 Mar 20229 ME8 8GTDetached£524,995New build.
25 Mar 20228 ME8 8GTDetached£489,995New build.
11 Mar 20226 ME8 8GTDetached£559,995New build.
11 Mar 20227 ME8 8GTDetached£474,995New build.
11 Mar 20225 ME8 8GTDetached£469,995New build.
23 Dec 20211 ME8 8GTOther£81,120New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

House prices and rents in Medway

A typical home in Medway cost £297,757 in August 2026, 0.5% more than a year before. That is 13% more than five years earlier and 31% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£530,444
Semi-detached£352,795
Terraced£276,029
Flat or maisonette£168,915
Bought by a first-time buyer£270,313

Private renters in Medway paid £1,235 a month on average in September 2026, 1.6% more than a year before. That is 36% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£897
Two bedrooms£1,140
Three bedrooms£1,340
Four or more bedrooms£1,827

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 December 2021 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

28 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 112 m². Most common: House, detached (15); House, semi-detached (6); Flat (4). Built: 2022 (20); 2023 (5); 2020 (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (28 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 (36% of about 780 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): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • 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.

Energy projects nearby

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Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

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Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 39 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 8GT100%100%100%0%
ME8 8JL100%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 2024–25860 m (0.5 miles)
Newington 141,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Gillingham (Kent) 2.5 million journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mierscourt Road Bottom Rainham280 m
Bus or coach stationWaterfront Bus Station Chatham7 km (4.4 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Station Road830 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN24.1 km (15 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW60.7 km (38 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 Orchard Family Practice Good Dec 2022670 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mediclinic Pharmacy Rainham800 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Portman Smile Clinic Rainham260 m
HospitalMedway Maritime Hospital Requires improvement Nov 20255.7 km (3.5 miles)
Care homes3 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Welcome House - Leeza Court Inadequate Nov 20251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationMedway Police Station6.3 km (3.9 miles)
Cash machinesLondon & South Eastern Railway - Rainham Cashzone810 m (0.5 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 Cherry Tree Orchard 1.8 ha300 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 160 m²50 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,260 m²570 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsBerengrave Chalk Pit Allotment 7,600 m²1.8 km (1.1 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Margaret, a listed building (Grade I), 650 m (0.4 miles) north-west. 19 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MargaretListed building, Grade I650 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Silver Spot WoodWood830 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Culvers HillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Foxburrow WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Horsham MarshWetland3.2 km (2 miles) north-east
Spekes BottomValley3.3 km (2 miles) west
Horrid HillHeadland3.6 km (2.2 miles) north

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)9.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)11.54015

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 553131

None of the street's 31 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), 4 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
Leigh Academy RainhamSecondary11–19620 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Miers Court Primary SchoolPrimary4–11690 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Riverside Primary SchoolPrimary3–11730 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Margaret's Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–11890 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Margaret's Infant SchoolPrimary3–7890 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Parkwood Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rainham School for GirlsSecondary11–181.7 km (1.1 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
The Howard SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 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
Thames View Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rainham Mark Grammar SchoolSecondary11–182 km (1.2 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

Nurseries and childcare

4 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 630 m (0.4 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Busy Bees Day Nursery at Rainham ME8 8EB Full day care 81 Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 630 m (0.4 miles)
MFSE ME8 8ET Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 770 m (0.5 miles)
Rainbow Pre-School and Out of School Club ME8 8JR Full day care 30 Good (Jan 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 780 m (0.5 miles)
First Class Learning Gillingham South Ltd ME8 7SG Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 870 m (0.5 miles)

Ofsted also registers 172 childminders and 53 home childcarers (nannies) in Medway. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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 Rose Inn ME8 8DRPub/bar/nightclub280 m3 Generally satisfactory11 Jun 2026
Medway Munch ME8 8DRTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m5 Very good1 Jun 2026
Asda Service Station ME8 8AYRetailers - other310 m5 Very good27 Aug 2026
KSA MiniMart ME8 8AYRetailers - other350 m5 Very good25 Nov 2025
Peking Chef ME8 8AYTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Sep 2026
Peking Chef ME8 8AYTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Sep 2026
Saffron Spice ME8 8AYOther catering premises350 m5 Very good19 Aug 2025
Darjeeling Heights ME8 8DSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m1 Major improvement necessary10 Aug 2026
Linehan And Co ME8 8ATRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good17 Jul 2025
United Services Club Ltd ME8 8AYRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good12 Jun 2026
Charcoal Grill ME8 8ARTakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Nov 2024
Tandoori Parlour & The Grill Guys ME8 8ARTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Hon's Restaurant ME8 8BARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Nov 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.

30 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences11
Anti-social behaviour7
Criminal damage and arson3
Other theft3
Vehicle crime2
Bicycle theft1
Other crime1
Burglary1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Challenger Close (11); On or near Moor Park Close (11); On or near The Maltings (3); On or near Middlefields (3); On or near Endeavour Drive (2).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A2 between B2004 and Meresborough Rd, with 16,335 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 230 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A2 B2004 to Meresborough Rd 16,335 estimated; counted 2022 2% +42% since 2015 230 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 412 residents in 160 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 age4440
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)86%61%
Owned outright48%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away18%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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.

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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 8GT: 30 addresses of 31 in the postcode
  • ME8 8JL: 1 address of 18 in the postcode

Nearby streets

The Maltings · Middlefields · Challenger Close · Bramling Way · Endeavour Drive · Oastview · Moor Park Close · Mierscourt Close · High Street · Jester Drive · Minstrel Close · Longford Close

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.