Deanwood Close Gillingham, Medway

19 addresses across 1 postcode (ME8), about 60 m long. USRN 32100560.

  • Sales: 18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £320,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Medway cost £297,757 in August 2026 (+0.5% on a year); private rents averaged £1,235 a month.
  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 5, 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.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Radon: Up to 3 to 5% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Phinia, Courteney Road - Solar Panels, is 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the Minor road, carries 10,452 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; 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 Rainham (Kent), about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Kenilworth Gardens, is about 310 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 96 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 19 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Wigmore Medical Centre, about 370 m away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 26 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious.

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House 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
20231£320,000£320,000£320,000
20221£297,500£297,500£297,500
20211£290,000£290,000£290,000
20191£243,000£243,000£243,000
20122£163,000£156,000£170,000
20102£158,000£146,000£170,000
20062£158,250£155,000£161,500
20032£131,500£129,000£134,000
20021£104,000£104,000£104,000
20011£87,995£87,995£87,995
19981£65,000£65,000£65,000
19971£59,995£59,995£59,995
All 18 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Aug 20101 ME8 9ETTerraced£146,000
9 Mar 20124 ME8 9ETTerraced£170,000
24 Jun 20195 ME8 9ETTerraced£243,000
5 Jun 20037 ME8 9ETTerraced£134,000
5 Sep 19977 ME8 9ETTerraced£59,995
22 Jul 20038 ME8 9ETTerraced£129,000
2 Mar 20129 ME8 9ETTerraced£156,000
10 Apr 20029 ME8 9ETTerraced£104,000
24 Apr 19989 ME8 9ETTerraced£65,000
28 Jun 19969 ME8 9ETTerraced£49,500
10 Nov 200612 ME8 9ETTerraced£161,500
28 Jun 200112 ME8 9ETTerraced£87,995
17 Aug 202214 ME8 9ETSemi-detached£297,500
8 Dec 200614 ME8 9ETSemi-detached£155,000
1 Mar 199514 ME8 9ETSemi-detached£52,000
31 Aug 202316 ME8 9ETTerraced£320,000
8 Oct 202116 ME8 9ETTerraced£290,000
19 Feb 201017 ME8 9ETTerraced£170,000

House prices and rents in Medway

A typical home in Medway cost £297,757 in August 2026, 0.5% more than a year before. That is 13% more than five years earlier and 31% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£530,444
Semi-detached£352,795
Terraced£276,029
Flat or maisonette£168,915
Bought by a first-time buyer£270,313

Private renters in Medway paid £1,235 a month on average in September 2026, 1.6% more than a year before. That is 36% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£897
Two bedrooms£1,140
Three bedrooms£1,340
Four or more bedrooms£1,827

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 86 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (8). Built: 1967-1975 (6); 1950-1966 (1); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (3); owner-occupied (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 8,769 kWh of it on average in 2024, 19% less than the district's 10,778 kWh, and 3,010 kWh of electricity, 7% less than the district's 3,233 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is ME8.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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 D (44% of about 640 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Phinia, Courteney Road - Solar Panels Medway MC/23/2763 Solar farm 1.8 MW Permission granted, not yet built Mar 2024 1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 19 October 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 9 September 2026 to 11 September 2026: SOUTHERN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre here is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square with radon potential up to 3 to 5%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of the square is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 96 m above sea level.

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
ME8 9ET100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 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 stationsRainham (Kent) 1.7 million journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Gillingham (Kent) 2.5 million journeys in 2024–254.9 km (3 miles)
Newington 141,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Deanwood Drive Top Parkwood150 m
Bus or coach stationChatham Railway Station5.9 km (3.7 miles)
Car parksHempstead Valley Purple Car Park1.7 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gridserve Charging Station1.5 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN25.2 km (16 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW59 km (37 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wigmore Medical Centre Good Nov 2022370 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Phoenix Pharmacy280 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Toothcare Dental230 m
HospitalMedway Maritime Hospital Requires improvement Nov 20254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Care homes9 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 351 Maidstone Road Good Dec 2018190 m
Police stationKent undercover police.5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone670 m (0.4 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 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 Kenilworth Gardens 1,480 m²310 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Rainham Park 2.7 ha570 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,180 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ryetop Playing Field 1.2 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsSeaview Road Allotment 530 m²1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 4.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Foxburrow WoodWood500 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Park WoodsWood640 m (0.4 miles) south
Spekes BottomValley1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Purple HillHill2.5 km (1.5 miles) south
Horrid HillHeadland4.2 km (2.6 miles) north
Cinque Port MarshesWetland4.6 km (2.8 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)10.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)11.64015

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 5910
Under 551819

1 of the street's 19 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 Medway: see them on the Medway page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 11 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Parkwood Primary SchoolPrimary4–11580 m (0.4 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Fairview Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11710 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 69% in 2024 and 68% in 2023)
Miers Court Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected 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 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 48% in 2024 and 59% in 2023)
Rainham School for GirlsSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 44.8 (44.3 in 2025 and 46.1 in 2024); 28.8% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 4.9% AAB or better; progress above average
Deanwood Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 28% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
The Howard SchoolSecondary11–181.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 47.3 (45.2 in 2025 and 42.5 in 2024); 36.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade D+; 0% AAB or better; progress below average
St Margaret's Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
St Margaret's Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection None published
St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 70% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 15% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 81% in 2023)
Hempstead Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)
Hempstead Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection None published

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

7 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 520 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Parkwood Pre-School ME8 9LP Sessional day care 51 Outstanding (Oct 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 520 m (0.3 miles)
Parkwood Christian Fellowship Preschool ME8 9PN Full day care 43 Outstanding (Nov 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 520 m (0.3 miles)
Parkwood 'Poppets' Playgroup ME8 9PN Full day care 25 Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 520 m (0.3 miles)
ID PE & Sport's Fairview Holiday Course Centre ME8 0NU Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 640 m (0.4 miles)
Fairview Fledglings ME8 0NU Full day care 30 Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 640 m (0.4 miles)
Rainbow Pre-School and Out of School Club ME8 8JR Full day care 30 Good (Jan 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 940 m (0.6 miles)
Scallywags (Medway) Limited ME8 7RJ Full day care 104 Outstanding (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 172 childminders and 53 home childcarers (nannies) in Medway. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 11 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
Voyage Care ME8 0HUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good19 May 2023
Fresh Food Stores & Newsagent ME8 0HXRetailers - other230 m5 Very good24 Jun 2024
Wigmore Florist ME8 0HXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good10 Dec 2024
Queens Head ME8 0HTOther catering premises250 m5 Very good21 Oct 2025
Hawthorn Manor ME8 0HXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good15 Oct 2026
Premier Shalu General Store ME8 9JURetailers - other310 m4 Good12 Feb 2025
Shell ME8 0JARetailers - other310 m5 Very good6 Aug 2026
Wheely Fun Club North Kent ME8 9LYOther catering premises340 mExempt
JB Treats And Trinkets ME8 8LHRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 May 2026
Parkwood Kebab And Pizza House ME8 9PWTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good17 Dec 2025
Silver Sea Chinese Takeaway ME8 9PWTakeaway/sandwich shop490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Mar 2026
Fenns Chemist ME8 9PWRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)Exempt

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.

26 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences9
Anti-social behaviour6
Criminal damage and arson3
Vehicle crime2
Other crime2
Public order2
Drugs1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Napwood Close (7); On or near Tanker Hill (6); On or near Gayhurst Close (6); On or near Wimbourne Drive (5); On or near Lineacre Close (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 2 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a motorcyclist. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202210
202300
202411
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
24 Jun 2025 08:44 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
28 Sep 2024 17:41 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
28 Sep 2022 08:02 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the Minor road, with 10,452 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 430 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
Minor road Not recorded 10,452 counted 2025 0% 430 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 307 residents in 122 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 age5040
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over30%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright57%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)34%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)60%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 qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: VIRGIN MEDIA: Utility asset works, 19 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers November 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • ME8 9ET: 19 addresses of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Callams Close · Tanker Hill · Napwood Close · Kyetop Walk · Chalfont Drive · Cowbeck Close · Megby Close · Lineacre Close · Gayhurst Close · Idenwood Close · Sunningdale Close · Woodpecker Glade

All the streets in ME8 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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.