Grizedale Close Rochester, Medway

26 addresses across 1 postcode (ME1), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32102303.

  • Sales: 26 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £507,500 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Medway cost £297,757 in August 2026 (+0.5% on a year); private rents averaged £1,235 a month.
  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 5).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Radon: Up to 3 to 5% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A229, carries 13,448 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; 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 Chatham, about 2 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 580 m (0.4 miles) away, and Copperfield Open Space (2.1 hectares) is about 790 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 93 to 99 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 26 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Maidstone Road Surgery, about 770 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 520 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 70% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 62 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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House 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
20232£507,500£415,000£600,000
20211£465,000£465,000£465,000
20201£365,000£365,000£365,000
20141£332,000£332,000£332,000
20131£310,000£310,000£310,000
20111£340,000£340,000£340,000
20082£315,000£310,000£320,000
20071£348,000£348,000£348,000
20061£275,000£275,000£275,000
20042£275,000£265,000£285,000
20031£246,000£246,000£246,000
20022£213,500£212,000£215,000
All 26 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 May 20111 ME1 2UXDetached£340,000
3 Aug 20071 ME1 2UXDetached£348,000
26 Mar 20042 ME1 2UXDetached£285,000
8 Dec 20002 ME1 2UXDetached£210,000
13 Jul 20234 ME1 2UXDetached£600,000
2 Jun 20064 ME1 2UXDetached£275,000
16 Aug 20044 ME1 2UXDetached£265,000
13 Feb 19985 ME1 2UXSemi-detached£118,000
6 Mar 20037 ME1 2UXDetached£246,000
14 Feb 19967 ME1 2UXDetached£114,000
12 Aug 20028 ME1 2UXDetached£212,000
8 Nov 20239 ME1 2UXDetached£415,000
4 Dec 20209 ME1 2UXDetached£365,000
11 Dec 199611 ME1 2UXDetached£108,000
1 Aug 201412 ME1 2UXDetached£332,000
3 Jun 200812 ME1 2UXDetached£310,000
16 Dec 199914 ME1 2UXDetached£145,000
26 Sep 199717 ME1 2UXDetached£98,000
11 Feb 200819 ME1 2UXDetached£320,000
10 Mar 202120 ME1 2UXDetached£465,000
27 May 200220 ME1 2UXDetached£215,000
23 Jan 201321 ME1 2UXDetached£310,000
19 Jun 199621 ME1 2UXDetached£130,000
27 Nov 199822 ME1 2UXDetached£124,000
3 May 199626 ME1 2UXDetached£95,000
28 Mar 201830 ME1 2UXDetached£475,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

House prices and rents in Medway

A typical home in Medway cost £297,757 in August 2026, 0.5% more than a year before. That is 13% more than five years earlier and 31% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£530,444
Semi-detached£352,795
Terraced£276,029
Flat or maisonette£168,915
Bought by a first-time buyer£270,313

Private renters in Medway paid £1,235 a month on average in September 2026, 1.6% more than a year before. That is 36% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£897
Two bedrooms£1,140
Three bedrooms£1,340
Four or more bedrooms£1,827

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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.

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 114 m². Most common: House, detached (8). Built: 1983-1990 (4); 1991-1995 (2); 1900-1929 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 16,544 kWh of it on average in 2024, 60% more than the district's 10,337 kWh, and 3,768 kWh of electricity, 19% more than the district's 3,161 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is ME1.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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 E (42% of about 570 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.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 6 November 2026 to 10 November 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (minor works, permit applied for)

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.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre here is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square with radon potential up to 3 to 5%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of the square is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 26 addresses are between 93 m and 99 m above sea level (97 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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
ME1 2UX100%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 stationsChatham 2.4 million journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Rochester 2.1 million journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Cuxton 61,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 48 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Beatty Road Post Office Rochester160 m
Bus or coach stationChatham Railway Station2 km (1.3 miles)
Ferry terminalTown Pier Gravesend13.1 km (8.2 miles)
Car parksApcoa2 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN26.3 km (16 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW54 km (34 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Maidstone Road Surgery Good Aug 2023770 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rochester Pharmacy250 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery780 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalMedway Maritime Hospital Requires improvement Nov 20253 km (1.8 miles)
Care homes11 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Friston House Good Sep 2018250 m
Police stationKent undercover police.910 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Rochester Orion Road Cashzone560 m (0.3 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 4,150 m²580 m (0.4 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Copperfield Open Space 2.1 ha790 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 740 m²150 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha70 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Anchor Road St Williams Way Allotment 1,810 m²320 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 2.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Fort Horstead, a scheduled monument, 890 m (0.6 miles) south-east.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fort HorsteadScheduled monument890 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Fort BorstalScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Fort LutonScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) east
Jewish Burial Ground, Chatham Memorial SynagogueRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
East Cookham WoodWood860 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Snodhurst BottomValley1.2 km (0.8 miles) east
Borstal MarshWetland2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Wickham ReachTidal water2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Middle HillHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Couvre Port ReservoirLake or reservoir3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-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)11.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)12.54015

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
55 to 5910
Under 552526

1 of the street's 26 addresses is 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), 5 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Warren Wood Primary SchoolPrimary3–11140 m No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 38% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 47% in 2024 and 42% in 2023)
The Thomas Aveling SchoolSecondary11–18310 m No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 38.8 (41.3 in 2025 and 42.9 in 2024); 22.8% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C-; 0% AAB or better; progress below average
Crest Infant SchoolPrimary4–7690 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection None published
Delce AcademyPrimary5–11720 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 42% in 2023)
Balfour Infant SchoolPrimary5–7770 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good None published
Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical SchoolSecondary11–18860 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 69.9 (69.5 in 2025 and 70.3 in 2024); 96.3% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B+; 27.6% AAB or better; progress above average
The Rochester Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18870 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 67.5 (68.4 in 2025 and 71.6 in 2024); 93% grade 5+ in English and maths
Oasis Restore16 plus12–17870 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection None published
Holcombe Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18880 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 59.8 (62.4 in 2025 and 59.9 in 2024); 81.6% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 9.7% AAB or better; progress average
New Horizons Children's AcademyPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection 35% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 49% in 2023)
Balfour Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 71% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 14% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 50% in 2023)
St William of Perth Roman Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection None published

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1 km (0.6 miles); the nearest is 240 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
MFSE ME1 2UR Out-of-school day care 20 Not inspected yet 240 m
Kloisters Day Nursery and Pre-School ME1 2UR Full day care 87 Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 240 m
St Luke's Pre-School (Rochester) ME1 2BQ Sessional day care 30 Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 250 m
The Nest Nursery ME1 2QA Full day care 38 Not inspected yet 500 m (0.3 miles)
NexGen Sports ME1 2QA Out-of-school day care 20 Not inspected yet 500 m (0.3 miles)
Top of the Hill Pre-school Ltd ME1 2NB Sessional day care 44 Jan 2026: Strong standard in 1 area, Expected standard in 4, Needs attention in 1 580 m (0.4 miles)
St Stephens Playgroup ME4 6JE Sessional day care 30 Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 820 m (0.5 miles)
MFSE ME4 6QX Out-of-school day care 40 Not inspected yet 880 m (0.5 miles)
Beresford Pre-School ME1 2QX Out-of-school day care 26 Not inspected yet 890 m (0.6 miles)
Little Explorers ME1 3EJ Full day care 58 Nov 2025: Strong standard in 1 area, Expected standard in 5 1 km (0.6 miles)

Ofsted also registers 172 childminders and 53 home childcarers (nannies) in Medway. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 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
Barchester Health Care ME1 2BQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good10 Oct 2025
St Lukes Pre School ME1 2BQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises250 m5 Very good15 Jan 2026
Papas Fish Bar ME1 2TGTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m5 Very good22 Nov 2024
One Stop ME1 2TGRetailers - other260 m5 Very good4 Aug 2026
Independent Catering Ltd The Thomas Aveling School ME1 2UWSchool/college/university320 m5 Very good14 Jul 2025
Georges Kitchen ME1 2BHMobile caterer450 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
The George ME1 2BHPub/bar/nightclub450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Oct 2026
Mumma Soraya's ME1 2BHTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Apr 2026
St Justus Church Hall ME1 2LTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Oct 2026
Leander Stores ME1 2UQRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good8 Aug 2025
Fairway Food & Wine ME1 2LURetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory29 Jun 2026
Fairway House ME1 2LYTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Jan 2025
Morrisons Daily ME1 2UHRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Feb 2026
The Gurkha's Way ME1 2UHTakeaway/sandwich shop490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Mar 2026
Cappadocia Fish & Chips Kebab ME1 2UHTakeaway/sandwich shop500 m (0.3 miles)4 Good7 Jul 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.

62 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences26
Anti-social behaviour18
Other theft6
Shoplifting4
Criminal damage and arson3
Public order2
Possession of weapons1
Other crime1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Sports/Recreation Area (20); On or near Beatty Road (11); On or near Bedgebury Close (10); On or near Friston Way (9); On or near Grizedale Close (7).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A229 between A230 and A2, with 13,448 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 220 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A229 A230 to A2 13,448 estimated; counted 2021 1% -9% since 2015 220 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 524 residents in 169 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 age4740
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)70%61%
Owned outright37%33%
Shared ownership11%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Utility repair and maintenance works, 6 November 2026 to 10 November 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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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

Friston Way · Bedgebury Close · Arethusa Road · Anchor Road · Farraday Close · Beatty Road · Stock Close · Berkeley Close · Fleet Road · Palm Drive · St Williams Way · Emerald Close

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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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.