Forge Way Paddock Wood, Tunbridge Wells

18 addresses across 1 postcode (TN12), about 40 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41101240.

Sales: 60 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £215,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 13, D: 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.
Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Tunbridge Wells costs £2,446 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Paddock Wood, about 280 m away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1 km (0.7 miles) away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: It is about 16 m above sea level.
Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Woodlands Health Centre, about 540 m (0.3 miles) away.
People: About 240 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 46% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 78 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2026	1	£215,000	£215,000	£215,000
2025	2	£282,500	£260,000	£305,000
2023	1	£330,000	£330,000	£330,000
2022	2	£317,500	£280,000	£355,000
2021	3	£285,000	£205,750	£285,000
2020	1	£200,000	£200,000	£200,000
2018	2	£268,000	£251,000	£285,000
2017	1	£315,000	£315,000	£315,000
2015	2	£163,250	£150,000	£176,500
2013	3	£185,000	£151,500	£199,000
2012	2	£163,250	£146,500	£180,000
2011	1	£135,000	£135,000	£135,000

Most recent sales (latest 50 of 60)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
30 Jul 2026	1 TN12 6YE	Flat or maisonette	£215,000
8 Dec 2025	14 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£260,000
15 Jul 2025	8 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£305,000
13 Jan 2023	10 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£330,000
17 Jun 2022	16 TN12 6YE	Semi-detached	£355,000
3 Mar 2022	5 TN12 6YE	Semi-detached	£280,000
23 Jun 2021	7 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£205,750
1 Jun 2021	9 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£285,000
5 Jan 2021	10 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£285,000
27 Oct 2020	16 TN12 6YE	Semi-detached	£312,500	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 May 2020	2 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£200,000
6 Jul 2018	5 TN12 6YE	Semi-detached	£295,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Jul 2018	5 TN12 6YE	Semi-detached	£285,000
11 Jun 2018	9 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£251,000
29 Jun 2017	16 TN12 6YE	Semi-detached	£315,000
17 Jul 2015	7 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£150,000
24 Mar 2015	6 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£176,500
6 Sep 2013	8 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£185,000
24 Jul 2013	16 TN12 6YE	Semi-detached	£199,000
7 Jan 2013	14 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£151,500
26 Nov 2012	6 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£146,500
19 Jan 2012	4 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£180,000
24 Jan 2011	18 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£135,000
17 Dec 2010	6 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£144,000
26 Jun 2009	18 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£135,000
22 Jun 2007	18 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£148,000
16 Jun 2006	7 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£150,000
30 Mar 2006	11 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£175,000
23 Sep 2005	7 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£145,500
5 Aug 2005	14 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£148,000
18 May 2005	6 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£136,000
23 Mar 2005	8 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£167,000
8 Apr 2004	2 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£127,500
1 Mar 2004	4 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£156,000
27 Jan 2004	9 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£152,000
25 Jul 2003	6 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£118,000
9 Jul 2003	14 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£125,500
19 Dec 2002	18 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£113,000
8 Nov 2002	2 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£107,500
19 Dec 2001	16 TN12 6YE	Semi-detached	£118,000
19 Jun 2001	11 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£96,000
16 Mar 2001	7 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£73,000
23 Feb 2001	1 TN12 6YE	Flat or maisonette	£80,000
12 Oct 2000	6 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£78,000
4 Aug 2000	5 TN12 6YE	Semi-detached	£93,000
17 Dec 1999	2 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£65,000
30 Nov 1999	9 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£78,950
29 Nov 1999	3 TN12 6YE	Semi-detached	£83,950
29 Oct 1999	7 TN12 6YE	Terraced	£65,950
2 Jul 1999	16 TN12 6YE	Semi-detached	£74,500

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

C13

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 51 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (5); House, enclosed end-terrace (3); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 1991-1995 (8); 1983-1990 (5); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Tunbridge Wells in 2026-27: Band D £2,446 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,631	£1,903	£2,174	£2,446	£2,990	£3,533	£4,077	£4,892

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (43% of about 920 homes).

A11%

B11%

C43%

D28%

E5%

G1%

H0%

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 km (0.6 miles)

13 Church Road Paddock Wood Tonbridge Kent TN12 6EX: up to 9 homes, permissioned (150 m)
Land Rear of 7-9 Station Road, paddock Wood, Tonbridge: up to 14 homes, permissioned (210 m)
13 - 15 Commercial Road Paddock Wood Tonbridge Kent TN12 6EN: up to 5 homes, permissioned (240 m)
54 Commercial Road, Paddock Wood, Tonbridge, TN12 6DP: up to 8 homes, permissioned (270 m)
Bells Fish Bar 58 - 60 Maidstone Road Paddock Wood Tonbridge TN12 6AF: up to 8 homes, permissioned (380 m)
Rosemary Place, Maidstone Road, Paddock Wood, TN12 6DG: up to 9 homes, permissioned (440 m (0.3 miles))
Rosemary Place, Maidstone Road, Paddock Wood: up to 9 homes, permissioned (440 m (0.3 miles))
The Hop Pocket 59 Maidstone Road Paddock Wood Tonbridge Kent: up to 10 homes, permissioned (460 m (0.3 miles))

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 31 October 2026.

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.

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 16 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
TN12 6YE	100%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Paddock Wood 1.1 million journeys in 2024–25	280 m
	Beltring 15,000 journeys in 2024–25	2.8 km (1.7 miles)
	Yalding 42,000 journeys in 2024–25	5.3 km (3.3 miles)
Bus stops	5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Andrews Road Paddock Wood	110 m
Car parks	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Car Park B Paddock Wood Station Main \| Apcoa	270 m
EV charging points	2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station	120 m
Airport with scheduled flights	London Gatwick Airport LGW	40.6 km (25 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Woodlands Health Centre	540 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies	1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Paddock Wood Pharmacy	310 m
NHS dentists	2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Woodlands Health Centre	540 m (0.3 miles)
Hospital	Tunbridge Wells Hospital At Pembury	7 km (4.3 miles)
Police station	Tonbridge Police Station	8.5 km (5.3 miles)
Cash machines	2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM	260 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	Unnamed 3,270 m²	1 km (0.7 miles)
Play area	5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 450 m²	60 m
Playing field	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Andrews Recreation Ground 2.2 ha	200 m
Allotments	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,970 m²	290 m

Landmarks

10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Whetsted Wood	Wood	1.2 km (0.8 miles) west
Foal Hurst Wood	Wood	1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Brick Kiln Wood	Wood	2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Gain Hill	Hill	3.4 km (2.1 miles) north-east
Knells Bottom	Valley	4.2 km (2.6 miles) south-west
Furnace Pond	Lake or reservoir	4.5 km (2.8 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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	7.4	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	6.9	20	5
Particles (PM10)	10.9	40	15

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
Under 55	18	18

None of the street's 18 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Tunbridge Wells: see them on the Tunbridge Wells 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
Leigh Academy Paddock Wood	Primary	4–11	480 m (0.3 miles)	Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Leigh Academy Mascalls	Secondary	11–18	1.3 km (0.8 miles)	Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
John Brunt PH TN12 6HB	Pub/bar/nightclub	110 m	5 Very good	14 Nov 2024
Domino's Pizza TN12 6EZ	Takeaway/sandwich shop	160 m	5 Very good	22 Apr 2025
Simla Cuisine TN12 6EZ	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	160 m	4 Good	8 Sep 2026
Angelos Courier Shop TN12 6EW	Retailers - other	180 m	5 Very good	19 Dec 2011
M E Coffee Shop TN12 6ER	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	220 m	5 Very good	12 Sep 2025
Paddock Wood Cards TN12 6EN	Retailers - other	230 m	5 Very good	12 Jan 2022
C W Barsley And Son Ltd TN12 6EJ	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	250 m	5 Very good	22 Apr 2025
Greggs TN12 6EN	Retailers - other	260 m	5 Very good	9 Mar 2026
Costa Coffee TN12 6EN	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	260 m	5 Very good	20 Nov 2025
Jempsons Local TN12 6EN	Retailers - other	260 m	5 Very good	9 Jan 2026
Waitrose TN12 6ER	Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets	280 m	5 Very good	4 Sep 2025
Sushi Daily TN12 6ER	Retailers - other	280 m	5 Very good	8 Jun 2026
Pomfret Brothers TN12 6EN	Retailers - other	280 m	5 Very good	8 Jun 2026
Babyccino TN12 6EN	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	290 m	5 Very good	17 Feb 2026
Esquires Coffee Paddock Wood TN12 6EL	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	290 m	5 Very good	23 Sep 2024

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.

78 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Shoplifting	32
Anti-social behaviour	16
Violence and sexual offences	8
Other theft	6
Criminal damage and arson	4
Vehicle crime	3
Drugs	3
Public order	2
Burglary	2
Bicycle theft	1
Other crime	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bowls Place (49); On or near Clavadal Road (8); On or near Forge Way (7); On or near St Andrews Close (4); On or near The Cedars (4).

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: 239 residents in 138 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 street	England
Median age	37	40
Children under 15	15%	17%
Aged 65 and over	12%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	46%	61%
Owned outright	18%	33%
Shared ownership	under 1%	1%
Social rented	4%	17%
Private rented	49%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	77%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	0%	6%
Retired (of adults)	13%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	5%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	30%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	49%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	7%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	7%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	14%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	60%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	7%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	36%	34%
No qualifications	13%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	4%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	94%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	under 1%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

TN12 6YE: 18 addresses of 19 in the postcode

Nearby streets

The Ridings · The Cedars · The Shires · Old Kent Road · Bowls Place · Clavadal Road · Le Temple Road · St Andrews Close · Station Approach · Commercial Road · St Andrews Road · Dimmock Close

All the streets in TN12 and across Tunbridge Wells.

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.