Swale

17 addresses across 2 postcodes (ME10), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 39000397.

14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 9, E: 1). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Swale costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Sittingbourne, about 1.4 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden is about 500 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 35 to 37 m above sea level. 1 of its 17 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Memorial Medical Centre, about 1.0 km away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km. About 220 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 89% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 11 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from July 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 57 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (11); Bungalow, detached (2); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1967-1975 (7); 1950-1966 (5); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (2).

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.

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£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 D (47% of about 780 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 1.0 km

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.

Height above sea level

The street's 17 addresses are between 35 m and 37 m above sea level (36 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
ME10 1SF100%100%100%0%
ME10 1SP100%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 stationsSittingbourne 2.3 million journeys in 2024–251.4 km
Kemsley 209,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km
Newington 141,000 journeys in 2024–254.5 km
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m, 20 within 800 m; nearest Sterling Road Sittingbourne80 m
Car parksThe Swallows Car Park1.2 km
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station1.8 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN26.6 km
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW66.6 km

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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Memorial Medical Centre1.0 km
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Pharmachem Limited1.0 km
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Park Road Dental Practice1.1 km
HospitalSittingbourne Hospital1.0 km
Police stationKent County Constabulary1.1 km
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest The Cooperative Food Sittingbourne, Northwood Drive Cashzone800 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 garden1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 7,690 m²500 m
Play area2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 840 m²400 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest King George V Playing Field 6.5 ha300 m
Allotments2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 3.9 ha470 m

Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 0.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St John the Baptist, a listed building (Grade I), 830 m south. 24 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 2 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St John the BaptistListed building, Grade I830 m south
Tunstall HouseListed building, Grade I940 m south
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Highsted WoodWood1.5 km south-east
Bex WoodWood2.0 km south
Cheney HillHill2.4 km south-east
Webbend Ditch PondLake or reservoir2.6 km north-west
Kemsley MarshesWetland3.8 km north-east
Elmley ReachTidal water5.0 km north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)8.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 551617

1 of the street's 17 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Minterne Junior SchoolPrimary7–11120 m Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Oaks Infant SchoolPrimary3–7180 m Report card (Jul 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
St Peter's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11270 m Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Westlands Primary SchoolPrimary4–11680 m No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Tunstall Church of England (Aided) Primary SchoolPrimary4–11850 m Outstanding (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Fulston Manor SchoolSecondary11–181.0 km Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Borden Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.0 km Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Highsted Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.0 km Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Westlands SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km No published inspection
South Avenue Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Canterbury Road Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Nourish Contract Catering At Minterne County Junior School ME10 1SBSchool/college/university100 m5 Very good9 Sep 2025
Nourish Contract Catering At The Oaks Infants School ME10 1GLSchool/college/university180 m5 Very good16 Oct 2026
Chartwells At St Peter' Roman Catholic Primary School ME10 1UJSchool/college/university310 m4 Good15 Dec 2025
Kings Nursery ME10 1QXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m4 Good24 Jan 2013
Kings Cafe ME10 1QXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good18 Feb 2026
Beauty Of Bath ME10 1LHPub/bar/nightclub360 m5 Very good5 Nov 2025
Chaucer Fish Bar ME10 1EZTakeaway/sandwich shop410 m4 Good30 Oct 2025
Yummy Yummy ME10 1EZTakeaway/sandwich shop410 m5 Very good30 Oct 2025
Chaucer Convenience Store ME10 1EZRetailers - other410 m5 Very good8 Nov 2023
Matt Matts Cafe Ltd ME10 1EZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m5 Very good10 Feb 2026
Chaucer News ME10 1EZRetailers - other410 m4 Good6 Jun 2024
Madras Cafe ME10 1EZTakeaway/sandwich shop410 m5 Very good21 Feb 2025
Achieve Together ME10 1EZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m5 Very good23 Aug 2024
The Gore Court Arms ME10 1EPPub/bar/nightclub450 mAwaiting inspection
Primrose House ME10 1QNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m5 Very good8 Feb 2022

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.

11 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences5
Anti-social behaviour2
Other theft2
Possession of weapons1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Minterne Avenue (4); On or near Windsor Drive (2); On or near Roseleigh Road (2); On or near Weald Court (2); On or near Downs Close (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 215 residents in 116 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 age6440
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over48%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)89%61%
Owned outright68%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work34%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)56%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km or more away0%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification14%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 6 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Food hygiene ratings The Gore Court Arms (pub/bar/nightclub, ME10 1EP) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The Gore Court Arms (pub/bar/nightclub, ME10 1EP) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Nourish Contract Catering At The Oaks Infants School (school/college/university, ME10 1GL) now 5 Very good, was 4 Good (rated 16 October 2026) found 31 October 2026

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.

Nearby streets

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All the streets in ME10 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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.