Echo Walk Minster, Swale

17 addresses across 1 postcode (ME12), about 80 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 39002035.

39 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £215,000 across 1 sale. 13 homes have an energy certificate (D: 9, E: 4). 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 Sheerness-On-Sea, about 4.7 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden is about 620 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 48 to 49 m above sea level. 5 of its 17 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Sheerness Health Centre, about 3.9 km away. About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 64% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 33 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20241£215,000£215,000£215,000
20223£240,000£202,000£255,000
20213£185,000£180,000£263,000
20203£220,500£180,000£233,500
20191£175,000£175,000£175,000
20171£187,500£187,500£187,500
20162£154,500£140,000£169,000
20131£117,000£117,000£117,000
20102£112,498£109,995£115,000
20091£107,500£107,500£107,500
20081£116,000£116,000£116,000
20043£95,000£85,000£145,000
Most recent sales (39)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Mar 202413 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£215,000
11 Oct 202215 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£240,000
30 Sep 20222 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£202,000
16 Sep 202212 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£255,000
15 Dec 202111 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£263,000
22 Sep 20217 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£185,000
5 Aug 20216 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£180,000
31 Mar 20214 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£193,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Nov 202011 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£233,500
30 Nov 202016 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£220,500
2 Oct 20209 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£180,000
3 Jun 201910 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£175,000
8 Dec 20179 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£187,500
30 Sep 20168 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£140,000
24 Mar 201614 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£169,000
19 Feb 20134 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£117,000
18 Oct 20102 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£109,995
24 Sep 201011 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£115,000
26 May 20092 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£107,500
31 Oct 200810 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£116,000
10 Dec 20044 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£145,000
30 Jul 20047 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£95,000
15 Mar 20041 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£85,000
30 Jan 200314 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£97,000
4 Apr 200215 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£84,000
20 Feb 20029 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£62,000
24 Aug 20005 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£59,995
18 May 19997 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£52,000
9 Apr 199910 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£49,995
17 Jul 199811 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£49,995
7 Nov 19977 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£43,000
3 Oct 19976 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£44,995
29 Aug 199710 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£40,000
6 Jun 199714 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£48,000
30 May 199710 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£39,000
7 Jun 19965 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£39,000
12 Jan 199612 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£40,000
17 Nov 19953 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£44,000
12 Oct 19954 ME12 3RFSemi-detached£46,000

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 December 2015 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 51 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (13). Built: 1983-1990 (5); 1976-1982 (3); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13).

Council tax

What each band costs in Swale in 2026-27: Band D £2,406 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,604£1,871£2,138£2,406£2,940£3,475£4,009£4,811

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (31% of about 830 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

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.

Height above sea level

The street's 17 addresses are between 48 m and 49 m above sea level (48 m on average).

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

Broadband

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

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
ME12 3RF100%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 stationsSheerness-On-Sea 439,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km
Queenborough 196,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km
Swale 7,300 journeys in 2024–256.0 km
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m, 18 within 800 m; nearest Tams Gardens Minster70 m
Car parksShinglebank Marine Parade Car Park2.2 km
EV charging pointsRoam Charging Station3.2 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN18.8 km
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN65.5 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 surgeriesSheerness Health Centre3.9 km
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Minster Pharmacy1.4 km
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Hillton Dentistry Minster1.3 km
HospitalSheppey Community Hospital1.8 km
Police stationSheerness Police Station4.6 km
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest The Cooperative Food Minster, Minster on Sea Cashzone470 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 3,110 m²620 m
Play area2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 460 m²610 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 3.6 ha130 m

Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 0.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Nunnery at Minster Abbey, a scheduled monument, 400 m north-west. 6 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 2 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Nunnery at Minster AbbeyScheduled monument400 m north-west
The Abbey Church of St Mary and St SexburgaListed building, Grade I400 m north-west
The Abbey GatehouseListed building, Grade I450 m north-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Round HillHill540 m north-east
Chequers HillHill930 m east
Breakneck HillHill940 m west
Minster BeachBeach1.2 km north
Paddy's PointWetland1.2 km north-east
The MoatLake or reservoir4.9 km north-west

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)7.0205
Particles (PM10)11.04015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 5940
Under 551217

5 of the street's 17 addresses are 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
St Georges CofE (Aided) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11190 m Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Minster in Sheppey Primary SchoolPrimary4–11650 m Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Thistle Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding

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
The Abbey Cake Shop ME12 3QFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good7 Apr 2026
Miramar ME12 3QDTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m4 Good18 Sep 2025
Hundal Kebab House Limited ME12 3QDTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m5 Very good23 Jul 2025
Gar Ho ME12 3QDTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m4 Good4 Jun 2025
Spice Of India ME12 3QDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good11 Feb 2026
The Highlanders ME12 3QDPub/bar/nightclub390 m5 Very good26 Nov 2013
Serve At The Highlander Pub ME12 3QDPub/bar/nightclub390 m5 Very good21 Aug 2026
Charisma Cocktail Bar ME12 3QDPub/bar/nightclub410 m5 Very good21 Jul 2020
Minster Playgroup At The Abbey ME12 2HEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises450 m5 Very good5 Dec 2025
Budgens ME12 3QNRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets470 m3 Generally satisfactory30 Oct 2025
Co-op ME12 2HDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets470 m5 Very good28 Sep 2026
Banks Restaurant ME12 3NZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m5 Very good9 Jan 2025
Seacliff Clubhouse ME12 3QSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m5 Very good14 Nov 2024
Minster Working Men's Club ME12 2HWPub/bar/nightclub490 m5 Very good28 Jan 2026
The Blak Bear ME12 2HWMobile caterer490 m5 Very good31 Oct 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.

33 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences19
Drugs3
Anti-social behaviour3
Vehicle crime2
Criminal damage and arson2
Possession of weapons2
Other theft1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Tams Gardens (17); On or near Chapel Street (11); On or near Boundary Close (4); On or near Churchill Road (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: 335 residents in 139 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 age4640
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright39%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented30%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van69%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)51%65%
Work 30 km or more away17%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%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.

  • ME12 3RF: 17 addresses of 18 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Boundary Close · Tams Gardens · Churchill Road · Baldwin Road · Chequers Road · Falcon Gardens · Eastchurch Road · Falcon Gardens · Baldwin Road · Queens Road · Back Lane · Abbey Close

All the streets in ME12 and across Swale.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from 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.