Cheyne Close Sittingbourne, Swale

17 addresses across 1 postcode (ME10), about 190 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 39000260.

  • Sales: 25 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £360,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 2).
  • 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 B; Band D in Swale costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 94% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Kemsley, about 520 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 30 m away, and Milton Creek Country Park (45 hectares) is about 260 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 4 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 17 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Green Porch Medical Partnership, about 460 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 430 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 50 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20241£360,000£360,000£360,000
20221£340,000£340,000£340,000
20211£290,000£290,000£290,000
20191£315,000£315,000£315,000
20181£280,000£280,000£280,000
20151£230,000£230,000£230,000
20131£232,000£232,000£232,000
20091£135,000£135,000£135,000
20061£148,000£148,000£148,000
20041£196,500£196,500£196,500
20032£184,000£183,000£185,000
20021£93,000£93,000£93,000
Most recent sales (25)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Aug 20242 ME10 2SQDetached£360,000
9 Dec 202214 ME10 2SQTerraced£340,000
19 Mar 20211 ME10 2SQDetached£290,000
20 Dec 20197 ME10 2SQDetached£325,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Dec 20197 ME10 2SQDetached£315,000
18 May 20184 ME10 2SQDetached£280,000
24 Apr 20155 ME10 2SQDetached£230,000
5 Apr 20137 ME10 2SQDetached£232,000
25 Mar 200910 ME10 2SQDetached£135,000
26 May 200614 ME10 2SQTerraced£148,000
10 Dec 20045 ME10 2SQDetached£196,500
10 Nov 20038 ME10 2SQDetached£185,000
29 Aug 200311 ME10 2SQDetached£183,000
4 Oct 200213 ME10 2SQSemi-detached£93,000
20 Jul 200115 ME10 2SQDetached£129,000
27 Apr 20012 ME10 2SQDetached£127,000
9 Jan 200113 ME10 2SQSemi-detached£61,000
16 Dec 199714 ME10 2SQSemi-detached£59,950
28 Apr 19972 ME10 2SQDetached£81,500
12 Feb 19978 ME10 2SQDetached£65,000
16 Aug 19967 ME10 2SQDetached£68,000
12 Feb 199612 ME10 2SQTerraced£41,500
28 Apr 199515 ME10 2SQDetached£63,000
31 Mar 19954 ME10 2SQDetached£59,995
12 Jan 19959 ME10 2SQDetached£60,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from August 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, detached (7); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1983-1990 (5); 1996-2002 (2); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7).

Council tax

What each band costs in Swale in 2026-27: Band D £2,406 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,604£1,871£2,138£2,406£2,940£3,475£4,009£4,811

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (30% of about 740 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: 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

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: of the 16 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 16 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: the postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

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 4 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
ME10 2SQ100%94%94%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 stationsKemsley 209,000 journeys in 2024–25520 m (0.3 miles)
Sittingbourne 2.3 million journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Swale 7,300 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Puttney Drive Kemsley110 m
Car parksMervo Trans Parking1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN23.7 km (15 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN68.2 km (42 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Green Porch Medical Partnership460 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Austinoma Chemist460 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Milton Regis Dental Clinic1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalSittingbourne Hospital2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationKent County Constabulary2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machinesMfg - Milton Regis, Milton Regis1.5 km (1 mile)

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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,390 m²30 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Milton Creek Country Park 45 ha260 m
Play area9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 580 m²260 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.6 ha170 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.0 ha1.8 km (1.1 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 48 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of the Holy Trinity, a listed building (Grade I), 410 m (0.3 miles) south. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of the Holy TrinityListed building, Grade I410 m (0.3 miles) south
'Castle Rough' Medieval moated siteScheduled monument920 m (0.6 miles) east
Murston Old Church, SittingbourneScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Kemsley MarshesWetland920 m (0.6 miles) east
Oyster PondLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Elmley ReachTidal water1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
The LiliesWetland1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
East Hall WoodWood2 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Bobbing HillHill3.1 km (2 miles) south-west

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)9.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

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 5910
Under 551617

1 of the street's 17 addresses is 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 Swale: see them on the Swale 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
Kemsley Primary AcademyPrimary3–11510 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Regis Manor Primary SchoolPrimary3–11880 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Milton Court Primary AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Moil Chicken ME10 2TZTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m5 Very good16 Oct 2026
Lakeside News ME10 2TZRetailers - other370 m5 Very good21 May 2015
Caterlink At Kemsley Primary ME10 2RPSchool/college/university490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Oct 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.

50 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences19
Criminal damage and arson12
Anti-social behaviour10
Other theft4
Public order2
Vehicle crime2
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Merleburgh Drive (17); On or near Donemowe Drive (11); On or near Aylewyn Green (6); On or near Ingleden Close (4); On or near Adisham Green (3).

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: 430 residents in 171 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 age3940
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work71%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)44%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)21%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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

  • Food hygiene ratings Moil Chicken (takeaway/sandwich shop, ME10 2TZ) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 16 October 2026) found 31 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.

  • ME10 2SQ: 17 addresses of 18 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Aylewyn Green · Puttney Drive · Vaughan Drive · Merleburgh Drive · Ingleden Close · Edyngham Close · Adisham Green · Donemowe Drive · Blue Houses · Colfe Way · Austin Close · Coleman Drive

All the streets in ME10 and across Swale.

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.