Busbridge Close East Malling, Tonbridge and Malling

24 addresses across 2 postcodes (ME19), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40606052.

  • Sales: 40 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £745,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 14).
  • Flood: 13 addresses on its postcodes are 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 Tonbridge and Malling costs £2,472 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is East Malling, about 630 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Manor Park Country Park, is about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 36 to 40 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 Thornhills Medical Practice, about 1.5 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 510 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 63% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 23 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
20251£745,000£745,000£745,000
20232£447,500£360,000£535,000
20201£360,000£360,000£360,000
20191£635,000£635,000£635,000
20181£515,000£515,000£515,000
20171£552,000£552,000£552,000
20154£454,750£365,000£510,000
20141£498,000£498,000£498,000
20121£449,000£449,000£449,000
20111£472,500£472,500£472,500
20092£248,750£242,500£255,000
20081£235,000£235,000£235,000
Most recent sales (40)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Jun 20256 ME19 6BDDetached£745,000
27 Jul 202314 ME19 6BDSemi-detached£535,000
5 Apr 202312 ME19 6BDSemi-detached£360,000
3 Jul 202017 ME19 6BDSemi-detached£360,000
29 Nov 20191 ME19 6BDDetached£635,000
23 Jul 201822 ME19 6BDDetached£515,000
3 Feb 201720 ME19 6BDDetached£552,000
18 Dec 201518 ME19 6BDDetached£510,000
18 Dec 201514 ME19 6BDSemi-detached£432,500
2 Sep 201522 ME19 6BDDetached£477,000
24 Jul 20153 ME19 6BDSemi-detached£365,000
1 Jul 20146 ME19 6BDDetached£498,000
21 Nov 201218 ME19 6BDDetached£449,000
16 May 20111 ME19 6BDDetached£472,500
11 Sep 20093 ME19 6BDDetached£255,000
29 Jun 200917 ME19 6BDSemi-detached£242,500
19 Jun 200813 ME19 6BDSemi-detached£235,000
10 Oct 20061 ME19 6BDDetached£470,000
4 Sep 20066 ME19 6BDDetached£465,000
1 Jun 200620 ME19 6BDDetached£350,000
9 Jan 20067 ME19 6BDDetached£484,951New build.
16 Dec 20059 ME19 6BDDetached£467,950New build.
27 Sep 20056 ME19 6BDDetached£400,000New build.
23 Sep 200510 ME19 6BDDetached£429,950New build.
26 Aug 20051 ME19 6BDDetached£430,950New build.
24 Jun 200515 ME19 6BDSemi-detached£233,950New build.
17 Jun 200512 ME19 6BDSemi-detached£195,950New build.
10 Jun 200511 ME19 6BDDetached£314,950New build.
10 Jun 20055 ME19 6BDDetached£314,950New build.
27 May 200513 ME19 6BDSemi-detached£192,950New build.
12 May 200516 ME19 6BDSemi-detached£265,950New build.
29 Apr 200514 ME19 6BDSemi-detached£242,250New build.
22 Apr 200518 ME19 6BDDetached£410,950New build.
15 Apr 200517 ME19 6BDSemi-detached£233,950New build.
6 Apr 200519 ME19 6BDDetached£429,950New build.
23 Mar 20052 ME19 6BDDetached£370,000New build.
21 Mar 20054 ME19 6BDSemi-detached£265,950New build.
11 Mar 200520 ME19 6BDDetached£318,702New build.
11 Mar 20053 ME19 6BDDetached£275,950New build.
14 Jan 200521 ME19 6BDDetached£306,950New build.

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 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 117 m². Most common: House, detached (10); House, semi-detached (5). Built: 2003-2006 (15). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Tonbridge and Malling in 2026-27: Band D £2,472 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,648£1,923£2,197£2,472£3,021£3,570£4,120£4,944

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (29% 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), 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: yes, Mill Street, East Malling (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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.

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 11 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 41 homes the Environment Agency counts, 11 are in areas at high risk, 1 medium, 0 low and 0 very low.

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
ME19 6BDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
ME19 6BFnot in 2 or 3 11 / 1 / 1 unlikely

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

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

Height above sea level

The street's 24 addresses are between 36 m and 40 m above sea level (38 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
ME19 6BD100%100%100%0%
ME19 6BF100%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 stationsEast Malling 93,000 journeys in 2024–25630 m (0.4 miles)
West Malling 897,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Aylesford 185,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stickens Lane East Malling150 m
Bus or coach stationEast Farleigh - Bull Inn5.4 km (3.4 miles)
Car parksKenden Car Park1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY35.6 km (22 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW45.8 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Thornhills Medical Practice1.5 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Paydens Pharmacy1.5 km (1 mile)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Southcot Dentalcare1.4 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalPreston Hall Hospital3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Police stationKent Police Tactical Operations3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Waitrose Allington Park, Allington Park290 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 gardenManor Park Country Park 21 ha1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 500 m²540 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.3 ha540 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest East Malling Research Station 4,440 m²730 m (0.5 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Barracks, a listed building (Grade II*), 580 m (0.4 miles) south. 62 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The BarracksListed building, Grade II*580 m (0.4 miles) south
DerbiesListed building, Grade II*590 m (0.4 miles) south
4 and 6, Church WalkListed building, Grade II*590 m (0.4 miles) east
Clare HouseListed building, Grade I650 m (0.4 miles) north
Part of an Iron Age enclosure and a minor Roman villa 128m SSE of the Church of St JamesScheduled monument740 m (0.5 miles) east
St Mary's Abbey: a Benedictine abbey north and east of Water LaneScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Leybourne CastleScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Mill PondLake or reservoir120 m north-east
Springetts HillHill600 m (0.4 miles) west
Woods MeadowWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Hoath WoodWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Upper CutTidal water2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-east
Burham MarshesWetland4.8 km (3 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)8.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.34015

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
55 to 5903
Under 552421

3 of the street's 24 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from railways, 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 Tonbridge and Malling: see them on the Tonbridge and Malling 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
The Malling SchoolSecondary11–18360 m Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lift St James the GreatPrimary3–11660 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
More Park Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Brookfield Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.7 km (1 mile) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Leybourne, St Peter and St Paul Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Lunsford Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Brookfield Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Ditton Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
West Malling Church of England Primary School and McGinty Speech and Language SrpPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ditton Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Discovery SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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.

23 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences11
Anti-social behaviour3
Vehicle crime3
Burglary2
Other theft2
Public order1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Upper Mill (7); On or near Darcy Court (5); On or near Elizabeth Smith'S Court (5); On or near Mill Street (4); On or near Stickens Lane (1).

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: 505 residents in 229 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 age4740
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)63%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership5%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)51%32%
Travel to work by car or van40%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)49%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away17%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)38%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.

Nearby streets

Middle Mill Road · Upper Mill · Darcy Court · Stickens Lane · Godden Drive · Vigor Close

All the streets in ME19 and across Tonbridge and Malling.

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.