Edgar Close Whitstable, Canterbury

13 addresses across 2 postcodes (CT5), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5600435.

  • Sales: 17 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £350,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 6, E: 2).
  • Flood: 11 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 C; Band D in Canterbury costs £2,419 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chestfield and Swalecliffe, about 460 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 190 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 6 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 13 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Heron Medical Practice, about 3.7 km (2.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 82% of households owned their home and 18% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 65 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
20261£350,000£350,000£350,000
20251£431,050£431,050£431,050
20212£332,500£300,000£365,000
20201£360,000£360,000£360,000
20191£344,000£344,000£344,000
20183£300,000£200,000£320,000
20161£295,292£295,292£295,292
20141£250,000£250,000£250,000
20131£209,600£209,600£209,600
20111£227,500£227,500£227,500
20031£157,500£157,500£157,500
20021£139,500£139,500£139,500
Most recent sales (17)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Mar 202611 CT5 2SASemi-detached£350,000
17 Oct 20255 CT5 2SASemi-detached£431,050
7 Apr 20219 CT5 2SASemi-detached£365,000
16 Mar 20216 CT5 2SASemi-detached£300,000
18 Dec 202010 CT5 2SASemi-detached£360,000
31 Jan 20199 CT5 2SASemi-detached£344,000
23 Nov 20184 CT5 2SASemi-detached£300,000
23 Nov 20188 CT5 2SADetached£200,000
17 Aug 20187 CT5 2SASemi-detached£320,000
26 Aug 20163 CT5 2SASemi-detached£295,292
31 Mar 20149 CT5 2SASemi-detached£250,000
31 May 20139 CT5 2SASemi-detached£209,600
16 Dec 20111 CT5 2SASemi-detached£227,500
13 Mar 200311 CT5 2SASemi-detached£157,500
20 May 20028 CT5 2SADetached£139,500
20 Dec 20016 CT5 2SASemi-detached£132,995
12 Oct 20017 CT5 2SASemi-detached£110,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 84 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (9). Built: 1950-1966 (7); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8).

Council tax

What each band costs in Canterbury in 2026-27: Band D £2,419 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,613£1,882£2,151£2,419£2,957£3,495£4,032£4,839

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (40% of about 850 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.

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 6 addresses are in areas at high risk, 5 at medium risk and 19 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 36 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 29 low and 0 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CT5 2SAzone 2 0 / 0 / 7 unlikely
CT5 2RJzone 2 6 / 5 / 12 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 addresses are about 6 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
CT5 2RJ100%100%100%0%
CT5 2SA100%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 stationsChestfield and Swalecliffe 108,000 journeys in 2024–25460 m (0.3 miles)
Whitstable 877,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Herne Bay 835,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Plough Swalecliffe60 m
Bus or coach stationKeynes College University of Kent7.7 km (4.8 miles)
Car parksSwalecliffe Avenue Car Park2 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station500 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN34.8 km (22 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN81.9 km (51 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 surgeriesThe Heron Medical Practice3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Swalecliffe Pharmacy410 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Swalecliffe Dental Centre440 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalWhitstable & Tankerton Hospital1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationKent Police4 km (2.5 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Sea Street2.9 km (1.8 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.5 ha190 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,910 m²260 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.1 ha220 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.3 ha1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 3.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Intertidal Wreck at Tankerton Beach, a scheduled monument, 1.4 km (0.9 miles) west. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Intertidal Wreck at Tankerton BeachScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Canterbury Cathedral, St. Augustine's Abbey and St. Martin's ChurchWorld Heritage Site9.5 km (5.9 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Long RockWetland750 m (0.5 miles) north
Purchas WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Tankerton SlopesCliff or slope1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Tankerton BeachBeach1.7 km (1.1 miles) west
Knowel HillHill2.5 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Brook's PondLake or reservoir4 km (2.5 miles) south-east

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)6.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.14015

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, 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
65 to 6910
55 to 5910
Under 551113

2 of the street's 13 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 Canterbury: see them on the Canterbury page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Swalecliffe Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11860 m (0.5 miles) 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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The West-Wood Table CT5 2RFRetailers - other170 mAwaiting inspection
Plough CT5 2RNPub/bar/nightclub190 m5 Very good19 Mar 2026
Swalecliffe & Chestfield Community Association CT5 2QUPub/bar/nightclub280 m5 Very good25 Mar 2025
Whitstable Local CT5 2QURetailers - other310 m4 Good11 Sep 2026
Swalecliffe Social Education Centre CT5 2SPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good10 Jul 2024
St. John The Baptist Church Centre Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good8 Sep 2009
Mr Beano's CT5 2QTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Jan 2026
Blue Marlin Fish Bar CT5 2QTTakeaway/sandwich shop410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Feb 2026
The Wheatsheaf CT5 2LURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Jun 2025
Cafe X CT5 3JDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good9 Oct 2025
Family Food Store CT5 2LXRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Jan 2025
The Brickfield Micropub CT5 2LXPub/bar/nightclub430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Feb 2026
Whitstable Stores CT5 2LXRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 May 2024
Pizza Hot CT5 2LXTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Sep 2025
MFG Shell Whitstable CT5 3JBRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good4 Jun 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.

65 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences26
Anti-social behaviour16
Other theft7
Other crime6
Burglary6
Public order2
Drugs1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near St Augustine'S Crescent (21); On or near Plough Lane (14); On or near Swalecliffe Court Drive (8); On or near Edgar Close (7); On or near Kite Farm (6).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 288 residents in 149 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 age6040
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over40%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)82%61%
Owned outright56%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)41%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)52%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)18%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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

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.

Nearby streets

Cowper Close · Plough Lane · St Johns Road · Lincoln Close · Church Way · Delmar Close · Russell Drive · St John's Road · Kite Farm · St Augustine's Crescent · Woodman Avenue · Tassell's Walk

All the streets in CT5 and across Canterbury.

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.