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)
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.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
£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).
A8%
B15%
C37%
D19%
E17%
F3%
G2%
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.
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.
Postcode
Planning zone
Addresses at high / medium / low risk
Groundwater
CT7 9HD
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 0
unlikely
CT7 9ES
not 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.
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)
Postcode
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)
Gigabit
Below 10 Mbit/s
CT7 9ES
100%
100%
100%
0%
CT7 9HD
100%
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.
Nearest
Distance
Railway stations
Birchington-On-Sea 350,000 journeys in 2024–25
330 m
Westgate-On-Sea 199,000 journeys in 2024–25
2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Margate 1.3 million journeys in 2024–25
4.8 km (3 miles)
Bus stops
1 stop within 400 m (0.2 miles), 9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Railway Station Birchington-on-Sea
360 m
Bus or coach station
Cecil Street Council Offices Margate
5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Ferry terminal
Ramsgate Ferry Terminal
9.7 km (6 miles)
Car parks
2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Alpha Road Car Park
410 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points
2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge
640 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights
London Southend Airport SEN
47.4 km (29 miles)
Nearest large airport
London Stansted Airport STN
92.9 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.
Nearest
Distance
GP surgeries
1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Birchington Medical Centre
610 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies
2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Courts Pharmacy
440 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists
2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Station Road Dental Surgery
440 m (0.3 miles)
Hospital
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital
6 km (3.7 miles)
Police station
Margate Police Station
5.7 km (3.6 miles)
Cash machines
1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Birchington - Station Road Cashzone
460 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.
Nearest
Distance
Park or garden
4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed4.4 ha
170 m
Play area
1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed700 m²
710 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field
1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Crispe Park 2.6 ha
740 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments
Unnamed6,900 m²
870 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*.
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)
Pollutant
Here
UK limit
WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
6.7
40
10
Fine particles (PM2.5)
6.6
20
5
Particles (PM10)
10.6
40
15
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)
Level
Road traffic
Railways
55 to 59
1
0
Under 55
9
10
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.
School
Phase
Ages
Distance
Inspection
Birchington Church of England Primary School
Primary
5–11
1.1 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 School
Secondary
11–18
1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ursuline College Roman Catholic
Secondary
11–18
1.7 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.
Business
Type
Distance
Rating
Rated
Spencer House Nursing Home CT7 9EZ
Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises
90 m
5 Very good
10 Sep 2026
Birchington on Sea Bowls Club CT7 9JS
Other catering premises
230 m
5 Very good
2 Sep 2025
Beach House CT7 9JS
Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises
230 m
5 Very good
15 Jan 2025
Grenham Bay Court CT7 9JX
Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises
260 m
5 Very good
15 Jan 2026
Springfield House CT7 9EW
Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises
300 m
5 Very good
18 Nov 2025
Highfield CT7 9EG
Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises
320 m
5 Very good
10 Sep 2026
Christies CT7 9RD
Pub/bar/nightclub
330 m
5 Very good
28 Jul 2025
The Parlour CT7 9SD
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
410 m (0.3 miles)
5 Very good
24 Jun 2026
The Veterans Association CT7 9SA
Other catering premises
430 m (0.3 miles)
5 Very good
3 Nov 2023
Courts Pharmacy CT7 9RE
Retailers - other
440 m (0.3 miles)
Exempt
Monty's CT7 9RE
Retailers - other
440 m (0.3 miles)
5 Very good
14 Jul 2025
Harbour Bakery & Driftwood Cafe CT7 9RE
Retailers - other
440 m (0.3 miles)
5 Very good
5 Aug 2026
Birchington United Services Club CT7 9RE
Pub/bar/nightclub
440 m (0.3 miles)
5 Very good
28 Aug 2024
Mandy's Deli CT7 9RE
Retailers - other
440 m (0.3 miles)
5 Very good
24 Apr 2026
Jay Express CT7 9RE
Retailers - other
440 m (0.3 miles)
5 Very good
12 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
Category
Crimes
Violence and sexual offences
7
Other theft
3
Criminal damage and arson
2
Burglary
1
Possession of weapons
1
Anti-social behaviour
1
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 street
England
Median age
57
40
Children under 15
12%
17%
Aged 65 and over
35%
18%
Homes
Around this street
England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)
80%
61%
Owned outright
58%
33%
Shared ownership
0%
1%
Social rented
2%
17%
Private rented
18%
21%
Work and commuting
Around this street
England
Adults (16 and over) in work
43%
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 van
45%
48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram
3%
4%
By any public transport, including bus
6%
8%
On foot or by bicycle
9%
10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)
62%
65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away
17%
8%
Education and languages
Around this street
England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)
41%
34%
No qualifications
16%
18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification
7%
5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)
97%
91%
Cannot speak English well or at all
2%
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
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.
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.