Dane Close Chatham, Medway

23 addresses across 1 postcode (ME5), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32100545.

  • Sales: 35 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £292,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 7).
  • 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 Medway costs £2,329 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chatham, about 5.1 km (3.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Opal Green, is about 160 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 131 to 133 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 23 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Reach Healthcare, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 15% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 129 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20232£292,500£250,000£335,000
20221£275,000£275,000£275,000
20211£250,000£250,000£250,000
20174£238,875£210,000£325,000
20161£232,500£232,500£232,500
20151£200,000£200,000£200,000
20141£179,995£179,995£179,995
20121£201,500£201,500£201,500
20112£147,000£135,000£159,000
20102£141,750£134,000£149,500
20071£150,000£150,000£150,000
20062£142,500£140,000£145,000
Most recent sales (35)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Aug 202315 ME5 8QJTerraced£335,000
4 Aug 20233 ME5 8QJTerraced£250,000
9 Dec 20222 ME5 8QJTerraced£275,000
29 Sep 20217 ME5 8QJTerraced£250,000
13 Dec 20171 ME5 8QJSemi-detached£325,000
20 Oct 20174 ME5 8QJTerraced£210,000
21 Aug 201715 ME5 8QJTerraced£255,000
18 Aug 20172 ME5 8QJTerraced£222,750
25 Nov 201620 ME5 8QJTerraced£232,500
2 Dec 201519 ME5 8QJTerraced£200,000
15 Dec 20145 ME5 8QJTerraced£179,995
7 Dec 201214 ME5 8QJTerraced£201,500
22 Dec 201111 ME5 8QJTerraced£135,000
14 Jan 201115 ME5 8QJTerraced£159,000
19 Oct 20105 ME5 8QJTerraced£149,500
12 Mar 20102 ME5 8QJTerraced£134,000
20 Dec 200711 ME5 8QJTerraced£150,000
5 Oct 200610 ME5 8QJTerraced£140,000
25 Sep 20065 ME5 8QJTerraced£145,000
4 Apr 200510 ME5 8QJTerraced£133,500
16 Jan 20042 ME5 8QJSemi-detached£121,750
28 Nov 200315 ME5 8QJTerraced£147,000
22 Nov 200320 ME5 8QJTerraced£136,000
17 Feb 200315 ME5 8QJTerraced£110,000
7 Dec 200111 ME5 8QJTerraced£79,995
14 Sep 20015 ME5 8QJTerraced£71,000
13 Jul 200110 ME5 8QJTerraced£77,000
1 Sep 20009 ME5 8QJTerraced£68,500
21 Jul 200022 ME5 8QJTerraced£78,500
13 Sep 199920 ME5 8QJTerraced£67,500
8 Jun 19996 ME5 8QJTerraced£49,000
15 May 19987 ME5 8QJTerraced£51,500
17 Oct 199719 ME5 8QJTerraced£58,500
31 Jul 199712 ME5 8QJTerraced£49,995
17 Jul 199714 ME5 8QJSemi-detached£66,995

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 June 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 72 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (8); House, end-terrace (3); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1967-1975 (9); 1976-1982 (2); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11).

Council tax

What each band costs in Medway in 2026-27: Band D £2,329 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,552£1,811£2,070£2,329£2,846£3,363£3,881£4,657

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (48% of about 670 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.

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

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 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 23 addresses are between 131 m and 133 m above sea level (132 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
ME5 8QJ100%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 stationsChatham 2.4 million journeys in 2024–255.1 km (3.2 miles)
Gillingham (Kent) 2.5 million journeys in 2024–255.6 km (3.5 miles)
Rainham (Kent) 1.7 million journeys in 2024–255.9 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Achilles Road Lordswood90 m
Bus or coach stationChatham Railway Station5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Car parksHempstead Valley Purple Car Park2.5 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station2 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN28.1 km (17 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW54.9 km (34 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 Reach Healthcare1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lordswood Pharmacy290 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lordswood Healthy Living Centre420 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSpire Alexandra Hospital1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationKent undercover police.3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone290 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Opal Green 400 m²160 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Mead Green 3,230 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 760 m²140 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha570 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hatton Road Allotment 3,080 m²460 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 0.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hall WoodWood200 m east
Ballen's RoughWood530 m (0.3 miles) north
Martin GroveWood660 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Dargets WoodWood780 m (0.5 miles) west
Coal BottomValley1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
East HillHill2.5 km (1.5 miles) north

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)11.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 5920
Under 552123

2 of the street's 23 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 Medway: see them on the Medway 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
St Benedict's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11210 m No published inspection
Swingate Primary SchoolPrimary3–11480 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Lordswood SchoolPrimary3–11560 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Walderslade Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Tunbury Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Maundene SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oaklands SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Greenacre SchoolSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) Inadequate (Mar 2023, 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
Pilscare ME5 8RUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises100 mExempt
Lordswood Under Fives Playgroup ME5 8PGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises140 m5 Very good18 Mar 2026
Tesco Express ME5 8THRetailers - other260 m4 Good25 Jun 2025
Lordswood Kebab ME5 8THTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good12 Mar 2025
Spice Village ME5 8THOther catering premises270 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Mar 2026
Lordswood Cafe ME5 8THRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Jun 2026
Lordswood Chinese Takeaway ME5 8THTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m4 Good26 Feb 2026
Premier Store ME5 8THRetailers - other280 m5 Very good27 Feb 2026
Farmhouse Pizza ME5 8THOther catering premises290 m5 Very good22 Sep 2026
Caterlink Ltd & St Benedicts Primary School ME5 8PUSchool/college/university350 m5 Very good22 May 2025
The Kent Autistic Trust ME5 8TJOther catering premises410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Mar 2023
Independent Catering Management ME5 8TJSchool/college/university410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Jul 2025

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.

129 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour59
Violence and sexual offences28
Criminal damage and arson14
Shoplifting10
Vehicle crime5
Other theft5
Public order3
Other crime2
Drugs1
Burglary1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (35); On or near Kestrel Road (34); On or near Cygnet Road (14); On or near Albemarle Road (13); On or near Albion Road (6).

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: 318 residents in 136 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 age4240
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright39%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van67%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%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)15%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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.

  • ME5 8QJ: 23 addresses of 26 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Exton Close · Mincers Close · Nash Close · Courtfield Avenue · Valiant Road · Cygnet Road · Opal Green · Achilles Road · Coppice Road · Albion Road · Trelawn Crescent · Kestrel Road

All the streets in ME5 and across Medway.

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.