Chapel Lane Gillingham, Medway

10 addresses across 4 postcodes (ME7), about 630 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 32100350.

  • Sales: 6 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £590,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 3, E: 1).
  • Flood: 5 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 F; Band D in Medway costs £2,329 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 98% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rainham (Kent), about 4.1 km (2.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 360 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 116 to 121 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 10 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Parkwood Family Practice, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 610 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 179 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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£590,000£590,000£590,000
20201£550,000£550,000£550,000
20181£565,000£565,000£565,000
20131£432,500£432,500£432,500
20041£380,000£380,000£380,000
19971£174,500£174,500£174,500
Most recent sales (6)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Apr 20215 ME7 3TDDetached£590,000
12 Jun 20202 ME7 3TDDetached£550,000
12 Jul 20185 ME7 3TDDetached£565,000
7 Jan 20132 ME7 3TDDetached£432,500
11 Jun 20049 ME7 3TDDetached£380,000
14 Nov 19979 ME7 3TDDetached£174,500

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 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 184 m². Most common: House, detached (5). Built: 1976-1982 (2); 1983-1990 (2); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band F (26% of about 1,280 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: in a protected area: G9-1969.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

  • 15/505317: up to 4 homes, permissioned (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

Finished in the last three months

  • 6 October 2026 to 7 October 2026: MEDWAY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, stop/go boards, on the carriageway (minor works)

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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 5 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
ME7 3TDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME7 3QJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
ME7 3SFnot in 2 or 3 3 / 2 / 3 unlikely
ME7 3TQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 10 addresses are between 116 m and 121 m above sea level (118 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
ME7 3QJ100%98%98%0%
ME7 3SF100%100%100%0%
ME7 3TD100%100%100%0%
ME7 3TQ100%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 2024–254.1 km (2.5 miles)
Gillingham (Kent) 2.5 million journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Chatham 2.4 million journeys in 2024–255.7 km (3.6 miles)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre110 m
Bus or coach stationChatham Railway Station5.7 km (3.6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hempstead Valley Purple Car Park480 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging pointsGridserve Charging Station2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN27.1 km (17 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW57 km (35 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 Parkwood Family Practice1.6 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots250 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wigmore Dental Practice1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalSpire Alexandra Hospital3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Police stationKent undercover police.4.8 km (3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest M&S ATM180 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.7 ha360 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,660 m²780 m (0.5 miles)
Playing fieldKings Frith Playing Fields 7.3 ha830 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hempstead Allotment 2.5 ha330 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 2.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Chapel Valley ShawWood80 m south-east
Chapel Hill WoodWood240 m south-east
Farthing WoodWood490 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Lambs Frith WoodWood490 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Spekes BottomValley2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
Purple HillHill2.2 km (1.3 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)11.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)12.44015

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
55 to 5920
Under 55810

2 of the street's 10 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for 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
Hempstead Junior SchoolPrimary7–11830 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Hempstead Infant SchoolPrimary4–71 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Bredhurst Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Deanwood Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Fairview Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
St Benedict's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–112 km (1.2 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
Home Bargains ME7 3PDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets130 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
Burger King ME7 3PBOther catering premises150 m4 Good16 Jun 2026
T G Jones ME7 3PDRetailers - other200 mExempt
Poundland ME7 3PDRetailers - other200 m4 Good31 Jul 2025
Menkind ME7 3PDRetailers - other200 mAwaiting inspection
McDonald's ME7 3PBOther catering premises210 m5 Very good29 Apr 2026
Costa Coffee ME7 3PDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good6 Aug 2025
Nando's ME7 3PDRetailers - other220 m5 Very good20 Aug 2025
Sainsbury's Petrol Station ME7 3PBRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets220 m5 Very good29 Dec 2025
Bella Italia ME7 3PDTakeaway/sandwich shop220 m5 Very good6 Jun 2025
Subway ME7 3PDOther catering premises220 m5 Very good26 Mar 2026
Bobatime ME7 3PBRetailers - other220 m5 Very good24 Sep 2025
Marks & Spencer ME7 3PDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets230 m5 Very good2 Oct 2025
Greggs ME7 3PDOther catering premises230 m4 Good16 Jun 2026
Frankie And Bennys/Stacks/BirdBox/Devonly Pies/Puddo ME7 3PDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good8 Sep 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.

179 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting75
Anti-social behaviour44
Violence and sexual offences20
Criminal damage and arson11
Other theft10
Public order9
Vehicle crime4
Robbery2
Bicycle theft2
Burglary1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shopping Area (107); On or near Supermarket (28); On or near Parking Area (18); On or near Sandy Dell (14); On or near Petrol Station (12).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 608 residents in 245 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 age4640
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%61%
Owned outright44%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented12%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)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van52%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 9 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Food hygiene ratings Sainsbury's (retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets, ME7 3PB) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 20 October 2026) found 30 October 2026

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.

  • ME7 3TD: 7 addresses
  • ME7 3QJ: 1 address of 49 in the postcode
  • ME7 3SF: 1 address of 14 in the postcode
  • ME7 3TQ: 1 address of 14 in the postcode

Nearby streets

The Rise · Sandy Dell · Landor Court · Hadleigh Court · Martin Court · Hempstead Road · Clermont Close

All the streets in ME7 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.