Copthall Gardens Folkestone

38 addresses across 2 postcodes (CT20), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 34500294.

  • Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £560,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 10, E: 4, F: 1, G: 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 A; Band D in Folkestone and Hythe costs £2,539 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 96% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Folkestone Central, about 680 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Payers Park, is about 230 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 21 to 31 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 34 of its 38 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Guildhall Street Surgery, about 110 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 210 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 17% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 749 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£560,000£560,000£560,000
20232£540,000£520,000£560,000
20211£417,000£417,000£417,000
20201£290,000£290,000£290,000
20191£305,000£305,000£305,000
20171£79,000£79,000£79,000
20141£290,000£290,000£290,000
20131£210,000£210,000£210,000
20121£270,000£270,000£270,000
20112£230,000£190,000£270,000
20063£235,000£81,000£245,000
20051£64,000£64,000£64,000
Most recent sales (23)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Jul 20241 CT20 1HFSemi-detached£560,000
21 Aug 20237 CT20 1HFSemi-detached£560,000
13 Feb 20236 CT20 1HFSemi-detached£520,000
19 Apr 20216 CT20 1HFSemi-detached£417,000
6 Feb 202010 CT20 1HFSemi-detached£290,000
29 Aug 20194 CT20 1HFSemi-detached£305,000
27 Apr 2017GROUND FLOOR FLAT, 15 CT20 1HFFlat or maisonette£79,000Leasehold.
5 Sep 20145 CT20 1HFSemi-detached£290,000
29 Nov 20137 CT20 1HFSemi-detached£210,000
19 Jul 20123 CT20 1HFSemi-detached£270,000
9 Nov 20111 CT20 1HFSemi-detached£270,000
8 Apr 20112 CT20 1HFSemi-detached£190,000
18 Dec 20067 CT20 1HFDetached£235,000
20 Nov 20063 CT20 1HFSemi-detached£245,000
24 Jan 2006GROUND FLOOR FLAT, 15 CT20 1HFFlat or maisonette£81,000Leasehold.
6 May 2005GROUND FLOOR FLAT, 15 CT20 1HFFlat or maisonette£64,000Leasehold.
29 Sep 20033 CT20 1HFSemi-detached£189,350
5 Jul 20021 CT20 1HFSemi-detached£152,500
5 Jul 20019 CT20 1HFSemi-detached£148,000
12 Dec 1997FIRST AND SECOND FLOOR MAISONETTE, 15 CT20 1HFFlat or maisonette£23,500Leasehold.
30 Apr 19973 CT20 1HFSemi-detached£77,500
19 Jul 19968 CT20 1HFSemi-detached£53,000
16 May 19956 CT20 1HFSemi-detached£54,200

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

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 102 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (8); Flat (7); House, detached (1). Built: 1900-1929 (13); before 1900 (3); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Folkestone and Hythe in 2026-27: Band D £2,539 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,693£1,975£2,257£2,539£3,103£3,667£4,231£5,078

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (58% of about 1,020 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: 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: 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.

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 38 addresses are between 21 m and 31 m above sea level (24 m on average); the ground rises about 10 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
CT20 1EF100%96%96%0%
CT20 1HF100%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 stationsFolkestone Central 817,000 journeys in 2024–25680 m (0.4 miles)
Folkestone West 970,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Sandling 75,000 journeys in 2024–258 km (5 miles)
Bus stops17 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 51 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shellons Street Car Park Folkestone60 m
Ferry terminalFolkestone Eurotunnel Terminal4.6 km (2.8 miles)
Car parks4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shellons Street Car Park150 m
EV charging points12 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Upper Payers Car Park240 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN64.1 km (40 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW95.9 km (60 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Guildhall Street Surgery110 m
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Guildhall Pharmacy170 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Portman Smile Clinic Folkestone140 m
HospitalRoyal Victoria Hospital (Folkestone)720 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationFolkestone Police Station870 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone220 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payers Park 2,980 m²230 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Lower Leas Coastal Park 18 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest F51 1,880 m²180 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Canterbury Road Recreation Ground 1.8 ha530 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.7 ha870 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 27 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 18 and 20, Church Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 320 m south-east. 87 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
18 and 20, Church StreetListed building, Grade II*320 m south-east
The Parish Church of St Mary and St EanswytheListed building, Grade II*390 m south-east
Folkestone War MemorialListed building, Grade II*440 m (0.3 miles) south
The Leas Lift, including waiting rooms, pump room, lower station tanks, track, cars, wheel houses, tank room, upper station tunnel and railingsListed building, Grade II*530 m (0.3 miles) south
Two Martello towers, East CliffScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
An unenclosed Iron Age urnfield and Roman villa, 60m ESE of No.64 Wear Bay RoadScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Martello tower no 4, Cliff Road, FolkestoneScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bayle PondLake or reservoir380 m south-east
Fishing PondLake or reservoir750 m (0.5 miles) north-west
West CliffCliff or slope840 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Folkestone BeachBeach860 m (0.5 miles) east
Sugarloaf HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
The WarrenWood2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-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)8.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

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
65 to 69200
60 to 64120
55 to 5920
Under 55438

34 of the street's 38 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 Folkestone and Hythe: see them on the Folkestone and Hythe 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
Christ Church Cep Academy, Folkestone Church of EnglandPrimary4–11280 m Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Eanswythe's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11360 m No published inspection
Folkestone, St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–11590 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Mundella Primary SchoolPrimary3–11720 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stella Maris Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Castle Hill Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Folkestone St. Mary's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Folkestone AcademySecondary11–191.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Folkestone PrimaryPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Martello PrimaryPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Harvey Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Sandgate Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Tofts Cafe Bar CT20 1HQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good12 Sep 2023
Mayfair Newsagents CT20 1EERetailers - other100 m4 Good16 May 2025
Hinxhill Fields CT20 1HSManufacturers/packers110 m5 Very good22 Nov 2023
Folkey Coffee CT20 1EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good22 Sep 2026
Londis Folkestone CT20 1HARetailers - other130 m4 Good5 Dec 2025
Cafe Tulip CT20 1BWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m3 Generally satisfactory27 Aug 2026
Trinity CT20 1EBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good30 Aug 2024
Harbourcraft CT20 1EBRetailers - other130 m5 Very good15 May 2026
Yoke CT20 1EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good5 Sep 2024
Guildhall Pharmacy CT20 1ESRetailers - other150 mExempt
The Full English CT20 1EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good25 Nov 2023
Flo's Pie and Mash CT20 1EBOther catering premises150 m4 Good31 Mar 2026
The Lord Morris CT20 1EAPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good18 Nov 2025
Sunflower House CT19 5AEOther catering premises180 m5 Very good1 Nov 2023
Aya Supermarket CT20 1EARetailers - other180 m5 Very good16 Feb 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.

749 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences262
Anti-social behaviour151
Shoplifting91
Criminal damage and arson61
Other theft34
Public order33
Drugs30
Other crime21
Burglary20
Possession of weapons14
Vehicle crime14
Robbery10
Theft from the person6
Bicycle theft2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (194); On or near Coolinge Road (74); On or near A2033 (54); On or near Rendezvous Street (51); On or near Foord Road South (49).

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: 208 residents in 104 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 age3340
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)17%61%
Owned outright7%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented79%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van43%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle29%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%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)20%34%
No qualifications31%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)76%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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.

  • CT20 1HF: 37 addresses of 38 in the postcode
  • CT20 1EF: 1 address of 49 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Foresters Way · Shellons Street · New Street · Guildhall Street North · Victoria Grove · Darby Place · Grace Hill · Bradstone New Road · Foord Road · Foord Road South · Connaught Road · Darby Road

All the streets in CT20 and across Folkestone and Hythe.

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.