Cornflower Way Minster, Swale

35 addresses across 2 postcodes (ME12), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 39000186.

  • Sales: 32 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £295,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 34 homes have an energy certificate (B: 25, C: 9).
  • Flood: 6 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 B; Band D in Swale costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Queenborough, about 3.4 km (2.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 250 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 15 to 17 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 35 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Sheerness Health Centre, about 3.5 km (2.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 47% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 188 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£295,000£295,000£295,000
20231£327,000£327,000£327,000
20222£293,750£292,500£295,000
20212£277,500£270,000£285,000
20201£253,000£253,000£253,000
20191£245,000£245,000£245,000
20181£220,000£220,000£220,000
20172£266,500£230,000£303,000
20162£247,500£230,000£265,000
20153£207,950£205,934£230,000
20148£204,950£179,950£207,950
20134£171,250£169,000£173,000
Most recent sales (32)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Mar 202512 ME12 3GYTerraced£260,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Nov 202435 ME12 3GYTerraced£295,000
12 Jan 202325 ME12 3GYTerraced£327,000
21 Oct 202229 ME12 3GYTerraced£295,000
9 Jun 202223 ME12 3GYTerraced£292,500
17 Dec 202119 ME12 3GYTerraced£285,000
20 Aug 202127 ME12 3GYTerraced£270,000
7 Feb 202037 ME12 3GYTerraced£253,000
13 Jun 201923 ME12 3GYTerraced£245,000
31 Jan 201816 ME12 3GYTerraced£220,000
24 Mar 201727 ME12 3GYTerraced£230,000
17 Jan 201724 ME12 3GYDetached£303,000
14 Oct 201635 ME12 3GYTerraced£230,000
11 Mar 201628 ME12 3GYDetached£265,000
19 Oct 201539 ME12 3GYTerraced£230,000
27 Mar 201537 ME12 3GYTerraced£205,934New build.
27 Feb 201531 ME12 3GYTerraced£207,950New build.
18 Dec 201425 ME12 3GYTerraced£207,000New build.
18 Dec 201427 ME12 3GYTerraced£204,950New build.
12 Dec 201435 ME12 3GYTerraced£204,950New build.
12 Dec 201429 ME12 3GYTerraced£204,950New build.
28 Nov 201439 ME12 3GYTerraced£207,950
21 Nov 201421 ME12 3GYTerraced£195,950New build.
7 Nov 201423 ME12 3GYTerraced£199,950New build.
19 Sep 201417 ME12 3GYTerraced£179,950New build.
31 Jul 201312 ME12 3GYTerraced£171,250New build.
31 Jul 201318 ME12 3GYTerraced£171,250New build.
30 Apr 201314 ME12 3GYTerraced£173,000New build.
19 Apr 201320 ME12 3GYTerraced£169,000New build.
19 Sep 201216 ME12 3GYTerraced£173,000New build.
31 May 201228 ME12 3GYDetached£249,950New build.
22 Dec 201124 ME12 3GYDetached£230,000New build.

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

34 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 93 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (16); House, mid-terrace (10); House, semi-detached (4). Built: 2011 (8); 2014 (8); 2012 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (1); rented (social) (1).

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 (41% of about 580 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 3 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
ME12 3GYnot in 2 or 3 3 / 3 / 3 unlikely
ME12 3TUnot 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 35 addresses are between 15 m and 17 m above sea level (15 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
ME12 3GY100%100%100%0%
ME12 3TU100%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 stationsQueenborough 196,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Sheerness-On-Sea 439,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Swale 7,300 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.7 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Nettle Way Thistle Hill230 m
Car parksShinglebank Marine Parade Car Park2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN19.1 km (12 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN65.5 km (41 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 surgeriesSheerness Health Centre3.5 km (2.1 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pharmachem Limited520 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hillton Dentistry Minster900 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalSheppey Community Hospital520 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationSheerness Police Station4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Sheerness Minster, Minster on Sea Cashzone880 m (0.5 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 10 ha250 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,060 m²150 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,180 m²310 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Nunnery at Minster Abbey, a scheduled monument, 1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Nunnery at Minster AbbeyScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Thistle HillHill290 m west
Rape HillHill640 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Breakneck HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Southlees MarshesWetland1.5 km (1 mile) south
Minster BeachBeach2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-east
The Creek PondLake or reservoir3.6 km (2.2 miles) 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)8.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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 553435

1 of the street's 35 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
Thistle Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–11290 m No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Leigh Academy MinsterSecondary11–181.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Minster in Sheppey Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Apr 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
St Georges CofE (Aided) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Halfway Houses Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
Sheppey Rugby Football Club ME12 3RTPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 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.

188 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences63
Anti-social behaviour54
Criminal damage and arson24
Shoplifting23
Other theft7
Other crime5
Vehicle crime4
Drugs3
Public order2
Burglary1
Bicycle theft1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Myrtle Road (38); On or near Camellia Road (21); On or near Petunia Avenue (19); On or near Cornflower Way (17); On or near Aspen Drive (16).

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: 319 residents in 111 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 age2840
Children under 1532%17%
Aged 65 and over2%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)47%61%
Owned outright5%33%
Shared ownership13%1%
Social rented36%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work71%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)3%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van70%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)56%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away18%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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.

  • ME12 3GY: 34 addresses of 35 in the postcode
  • ME12 3TU: 1 address of 25 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Mallow Road · Petunia Avenue · Tulip Close · Dahlia Walk · Buttercup Avenue · Camellia Road · Aster Road · Queen Anne Close · Holly Drive · Daffodil Avenue · Daisy Close · Myrtle Road

All the streets in ME12 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.