Constable Road Margate, Thanet

10 addresses across 2 postcodes (CT7), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40300320.

  • Sales: 11 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £550,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 1, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Thanet costs £2,491 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Birchington-On-Sea, about 330 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 170 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 17 to 18 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 10 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Birchington Medical Centre, about 610 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 41% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 15 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
20221£550,000£550,000£550,000
20171£295,782£295,782£295,782
20131£323,500£323,500£323,500
20112£328,250£319,000£337,500
20101£297,500£297,500£297,500
20091£250,000£250,000£250,000
19992£117,250£109,500£125,000
19981£132,000£132,000£132,000
19961£88,500£88,500£88,500
Most recent sales (11)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Oct 20221 CT7 9HDDetached£550,000
20 Jun 20176 CT7 9HDDetached£295,782
31 May 20133 CT7 9HDDetached£323,500
28 Jul 20115 CT7 9HDDetached£319,000
1 Apr 20111 CT7 9HDDetached£337,500
28 Jun 20105 CT7 9HDDetached£297,500
11 Dec 20093 CT7 9HDDetached£250,000
17 Dec 1999SPINDLE COTTAGE CT7 9HDDetached£125,000
19 Mar 19995 CT7 9HDDetached£109,500
25 Jun 19981 CT7 9HDDetached£132,000
27 Aug 19961 CT7 9HDDetached£88,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 100 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (2); House, detached (2). Built: 1976-1982 (2); 1930-1949 (1); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3).

Council tax

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

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (37% of about 1,230 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: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Birchington & Rural ED.
  • Tree preservation orders: 1 protected tree on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 25 September 2026: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, temp obstruction 15 minute delay, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 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: 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
CT7 9HDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CT7 9ESnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 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 10 addresses are between 17 m and 18 m above sea level (18 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
CT7 9ES100%100%100%0%
CT7 9HD100%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 stationsBirchington-On-Sea 350,000 journeys in 2024–25330 m
Westgate-On-Sea 199,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Margate 1.3 million journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Bus stops1 stop within 400 m (0.2 miles), 9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Railway Station Birchington-on-Sea360 m
Bus or coach stationCecil Street Council Offices Margate5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Ferry terminalRamsgate Ferry Terminal9.7 km (6 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Alpha Road Car Park410 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge640 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN47.4 km (29 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN92.9 km (58 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 Birchington Medical Centre610 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Courts Pharmacy440 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Station Road Dental Surgery440 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalQueen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital6 km (3.7 miles)
Police stationMargate Police Station5.7 km (3.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Birchington - Station Road Cashzone460 m (0.3 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.4 ha170 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 700 m²710 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Crispe Park 2.6 ha740 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 6,900 m²870 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 6.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of All Saints, a listed building (Grade II*), 720 m (0.4 miles) south. 28 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*720 m (0.4 miles) south
Group of ring ditches 400yds (360m) NW of Great Brooks End FarmScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Ring ditches and enclosures 500yds (450m) ESE of College FarmScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Epple BayBay730 m (0.5 miles) east
Grenham BayBay930 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Minnis BayBay1.6 km (1 mile) west
Shottendane CopseWood2.5 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Wade MarshWetland3.4 km (2.1 miles) south-west
Telegraph HillHill4.3 km (2.7 miles) south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)6.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.64015

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 55910

1 of the street's 10 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 Thanet: see them on the Thanet page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Birchington Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
King Ethelbert SchoolSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ursuline College Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.7 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2022, 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
Spencer House Nursing Home CT7 9EZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises90 m5 Very good10 Sep 2026
Birchington on Sea Bowls Club CT7 9JSOther catering premises230 m5 Very good2 Sep 2025
Beach House CT7 9JSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m5 Very good15 Jan 2025
Grenham Bay Court CT7 9JXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m5 Very good15 Jan 2026
Springfield House CT7 9EWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good18 Nov 2025
Highfield CT7 9EGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m5 Very good10 Sep 2026
Christies CT7 9RDPub/bar/nightclub330 m5 Very good28 Jul 2025
The Parlour CT7 9SDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Jun 2026
The Veterans Association CT7 9SAOther catering premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Nov 2023
Courts Pharmacy CT7 9RERetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Monty's CT7 9RERetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Jul 2025
Harbour Bakery & Driftwood Cafe CT7 9RERetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Aug 2026
Birchington United Services Club CT7 9REPub/bar/nightclub440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Aug 2024
Mandy's Deli CT7 9RERetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Apr 2026
Jay Express CT7 9RERetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 May 2021

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.

15 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences7
Other theft3
Criminal damage and arson2
Burglary1
Possession of weapons1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Winston Court (4); On or near St Magnus Close (3); On or near Epple Bay Road (3); On or near Beach Avenue (2); On or near Herschell Road (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: 271 residents in 126 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 age5740
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over35%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright58%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work43%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)38%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)39%32%
Travel to work by car or van45%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%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)41%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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 Birchington Blend (restaurant/cafe/canteen, CT7 9RA) now 4 Good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 24 September 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Blend Coffee Lounge (restaurant/cafe/canteen, CT7 9RA) now 4 Good, was 5 Very good (rated 24 September 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.

Nearby streets

Spencer Road · Gainsborough Road · Wilkie Road · St Magnus Close · Moray Avenue · Rossetti Road · Dallinger Road · Winston Court · Leslie Road · Beresford Gap · Beach Avenue · Herschell Road

All the streets in CT7 and across Thanet.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.