Durham Road Gillingham, Medway

70 addresses across 4 postcodes (ME8), about 510 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 32100606.

  • Sales: 83 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £410,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 39 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 10, D: 20, E: 6, F: 2).
  • Flood: 2 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 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 is about 280 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 91 to 102 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 21 of its 70 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Wigmore Medical Centre, about 400 m (0.2 miles) away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 660 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 96% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 18 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often other theft.

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
20261£410,000£410,000£410,000
20251£707,500£707,500£707,500
20243£660,000£350,000£760,000
20231£610,000£610,000£610,000
20221£655,000£655,000£655,000
20218£432,500£360,000£705,000
20201£635,000£635,000£635,000
20193£420,000£375,000£545,000
20182£356,000£342,000£370,000
20172£610,000£550,000£670,000
20162£450,000£380,000£520,000
20151£365,000£365,000£365,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 83)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Jun 202617 ME8 0JWSemi-detached£410,000
25 Sep 202569 ME8 0JNDetached£707,500
29 Aug 202416 ME8 0JWDetached£660,000
9 Jul 202466 ME8 0JJDetached£350,000
29 May 202467 ME8 0JNDetached£760,000
22 Sep 20235 ME8 0JWDetached£610,000
4 Feb 202216 ME8 0JWDetached£655,000
9 Dec 202118 ME8 0JWDetached£555,000
24 Jun 202148 ME8 0JNDetached£705,000
13 Apr 202164A ME8 0JJDetached£360,000
9 Apr 202162 ME8 0JNDetached£400,000
5 Mar 202115 ME8 0JWDetached£465,000
5 Mar 202110 ME8 0JWSemi-detached£395,000
1 Mar 202168 ME8 0JJDetached£360,000
26 Feb 202130 ME8 0JWDetached£527,000
11 May 202029 ME8 0JWDetached£635,000
14 Nov 201949 ME8 0JNDetached£420,000
28 Jun 20193 ME8 0JWDetached£545,000
27 Mar 201935 ME8 0JNSemi-detached£375,000
29 Oct 201866A ME8 0JJDetached£370,000
19 Jul 20189 ME8 0JWSemi-detached£342,000
11 Aug 201732 ME8 0JWDetached£550,000
27 Feb 201754 ME8 0JNDetached£670,000
10 Oct 201659 ME8 0JNDetached£520,000
13 Apr 201612 ME8 0JWDetached£380,000
7 Jul 201530 ME8 0JWDetached£365,000
8 Dec 201455 ME8 0JNDetached£430,000
28 Nov 201435 ME8 0JNSemi-detached£230,000
17 Jul 201422 ME8 0JWDetached£265,000
2 May 20148 ME8 0JWSemi-detached£270,000
11 Apr 201468 ME8 0JJDetached£190,000
22 Jan 201464 ME8 0JNDetached£305,000
24 Oct 201332 ME8 0JWDetached£197,000
5 Apr 201329 ME8 0JWDetached£200,000
18 Jan 201316 ME8 0JWDetached£232,000
18 May 201218 ME8 0JWDetached£174,000
21 Oct 20119 ME8 0JWSemi-detached£237,000
9 Sep 201167 ME8 0JNDetached£450,000
11 May 201177 ME8 0JJSemi-detached£243,000
15 Oct 201022 ME8 0JWDetached£172,500
5 Aug 201075 ME8 0JJSemi-detached£245,000
21 Jun 201062 ME8 0JNDetached£249,000
30 Apr 201069 ME8 0JNDetached£395,000
30 Oct 200966 ME8 0JJDetached£196,500
14 Jul 200962 ME8 0JNDetached£217,000
14 Jul 200867 ME8 0JNDetached£390,000
25 Apr 20083 ME8 0JWDetached£235,000
18 Apr 200859 ME8 0JNDetached£372,500
26 Nov 200739 ME8 0JNDetached£300,000
28 Jun 200732 ME8 0JWDetached£210,000

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

39 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 122 m². Most common: House, detached (21); Bungalow, detached (8); House, semi-detached (6). Built: 1930-1949 (17); 1950-1966 (13); 1900-1929 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (28); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (26 addresses)

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 (41% of about 630 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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 1 December 2026 to 3 December 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 0 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
ME8 0JWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME8 0JNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME8 0JJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME8 0HSnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 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 70 addresses are between 91 m and 102 m above sea level (98 m on average); the ground rises about 12 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
ME8 0HS100%100%100%0%
ME8 0JJ100%100%100%0%
ME8 0JN100%100%100%0%
ME8 0JW100%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 stationsRainham (Kent) 1.7 million journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Gillingham (Kent) 2.5 million journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.7 miles)
Newington 141,000 journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 33 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lyndhurst Avenue Rainham110 m
Bus or coach stationChatham Railway Station5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Car parksHempstead Valley Purple Car Park1.8 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging pointsGridserve Charging Station2 km (1.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN25 km (16 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW58.9 km (37 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wigmore Medical Centre400 m (0.2 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Phoenix Pharmacy490 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Toothcare Dental310 m
HospitalMedway Maritime Hospital4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Police stationKent undercover police.5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Cash machinesPayzone1.1 km (0.7 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha280 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 340 m²360 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ryetop Playing Field 1.2 ha670 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsSeaview Road Allotment 530 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 1.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
East Hoath WoodWood580 m (0.4 miles) west
Foxburrow WoodWood930 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Spekes BottomValley1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Purple HillHill2.8 km (1.8 miles) south
Horrid HillHeadland3.9 km (2.4 miles) north
Cinque Port MarshesWetland4.2 km (2.6 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)10.74010
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
60 to 6410
55 to 59200
Under 554970

21 of the street's 70 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), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Rainham School for GirlsSecondary11–18750 m (0.5 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
Fairview Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11870 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
The Howard SchoolSecondary11–18890 m (0.6 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
Parkwood Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Margaret's Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Margaret's Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Miers Court Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 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
Deanwood Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Hempstead Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Hempstead Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Thomas of Canterbury RC Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Voyage Care ME8 0HUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises270 m5 Very good19 May 2023
Queens Head ME8 0HTOther catering premises360 m5 Very good21 Oct 2025
Fresh Food Stores & Newsagent ME8 0HXRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Jun 2024
Wigmore Florist ME8 0HXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Dec 2024
Post Office Convenience Store ME8 0PNRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)4 Good25 Aug 2026
Wigmore & District Smallholders Club ME8 0JGPub/bar/nightclub450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 May 2026
Forks And Corks Limited ME8 0JGPub/bar/nightclub450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Sep 2025
Platters Farm Lodge ME8 0EQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Jun 2026
Shell ME8 0JARetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Aug 2026
Hawthorn Manor ME8 0HXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Oct 2026

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.

18 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Other theft5
Criminal damage and arson4
Anti-social behaviour4
Violence and sexual offences3
Public order1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Mailyns (8); On or near Cambridge Road (5); On or near Lyndhurst Avenue (3); On or near Lancaster Court (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 662 residents in 265 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 age5240
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over32%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)96%61%
Owned outright60%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented3%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)35%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)56%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away17%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%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 10 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, detached (lodged 30 October 2026) found 2 November 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

Cambridge Road · Lancaster Court · Kenilworth Drive · The Mailyns · Brockenhurst Close · Lyndhurst Avenue · Asquith Road · Camellia Close · Sandown Drive · Tanker Hill · Gayhurst Close · Chalfont Drive

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.
  • 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.