Halfpenny Close Maidstone

33 addresses across 2 postcodes (ME16), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 24201821.

  • Sales: 72 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £431,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 20 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, D: 12).
  • 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 D; Band D in Maidstone costs £2,503 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 96% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is East Farleigh, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 72 to 76 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 7 of its 33 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Blackthorn, about 530 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 610 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 75 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
20263£431,000£405,000£450,000
20252£370,000£370,000£370,000
20244£433,750£365,000£485,000
20221£465,000£465,000£465,000
20212£358,500£352,000£365,000
20202£367,500£365,000£370,000
20181£285,000£285,000£285,000
20161£350,000£350,000£350,000
20141£250,000£250,000£250,000
20114£255,000£214,000£287,000
20103£265,000£240,000£272,500
20072£262,000£239,000£285,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 72)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Jul 202628 ME16 9AJDetached£405,000
19 Jun 202611 ME16 9AJSemi-detached£431,000
10 Apr 202626 ME16 9AJDetached£450,000
19 Dec 202520 ME16 9AJSemi-detached£370,000
12 Dec 202512 ME16 9AJDetached£370,000
7 Nov 20249 ME16 9AJSemi-detached£365,000
31 Oct 202429 ME16 9AJDetached£485,000
2 Aug 202432 ME16 9AJDetached£450,000
4 Jul 202423 ME16 9AJDetached£417,500
14 Mar 20221 ME16 9AJDetached£465,000
30 Jun 20215 ME16 9AJDetached£365,000
11 Mar 202128 ME16 9AJDetached£352,000
9 Dec 202023 ME16 9AJDetached£370,000
31 Jan 202027 ME16 9AJDetached£365,000
10 Dec 201816 ME16 9AJSemi-detached£285,000
18 Aug 201621 ME16 9AJDetached£350,000
13 Aug 201412 ME16 9AJDetached£250,000
23 Nov 20113 ME16 9AJDetached£287,000
12 Aug 201117 ME16 9AJDetached£275,000
11 Aug 201110 ME16 9AJSemi-detached£214,000
16 May 20112 ME16 9AJDetached£235,000
11 Nov 201017 ME16 9AJDetached£272,500
19 Feb 201012 ME16 9AJSemi-detached£240,000
29 Jan 201029 ME16 9AJDetached£265,000
20 Apr 200731 ME16 9AJDetached£285,000
13 Mar 200732 ME16 9AJDetached£239,000
10 Nov 20061 ME16 9AJDetached£282,500
5 May 200622 ME16 9AJDetached£226,000
28 Apr 200629 ME16 9AJDetached£275,000
7 Mar 200616 ME16 9AJSemi-detached£182,000
25 Feb 200523 ME16 9AJDetached£218,000
27 Oct 200411 ME16 9AJSemi-detached£185,000
2 Jul 200412 ME16 9AJSemi-detached£185,000
31 Jan 200321 ME16 9AJDetached£208,000
10 Jun 200215 ME16 9AJSemi-detached£152,000
31 May 20028 ME16 9AJSemi-detached£139,950
23 May 200220 ME16 9AJSemi-detached£155,000
4 Aug 200025 ME16 9AJSemi-detached£179,995
1 Sep 199916 ME16 9AJSemi-detached£99,950
27 Aug 199931 ME16 9AJDetached£145,000
13 Aug 199929 ME16 9AJDetached£129,000
22 Jul 199930 ME16 9AJDetached£130,000
19 Jul 199915 ME16 9AJSemi-detached£92,000
11 Jun 199923 ME16 9AJDetached£112,500
9 Mar 199920 ME16 9AJSemi-detached£103,000
7 Jan 19999 ME16 9AJSemi-detached£94,500
23 Dec 199824 ME16 9AJDetached£21,000
9 Oct 199811 ME16 9AJSemi-detached£95,000
28 Aug 199821 ME16 9AJDetached£107,500
28 Aug 19987 ME16 9AJSemi-detached£88,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

20 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, detached (14); House, semi-detached (6). Built: 1991-1995 (15); 1996-2002 (3); 1983-1990 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Maidstone in 2026-27: Band D £2,503 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,668£1,946£2,225£2,503£3,059£3,615£4,171£5,005

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (40% of about 1,450 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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)

  • 13/1709: up to 14 homes, not permissioned (550 m (0.3 miles))
  • 15/502970: up to 57 homes, permissioned (560 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
ME16 9AJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
ME16 9DGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 33 addresses are between 72 m and 76 m above sea level (73 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
ME16 9AJ100%100%100%0%
ME16 9DG100%96%96%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 stationsEast Farleigh 39,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Barming 237,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.3 miles)
Maidstone West 561,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.6 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 34 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Beverley Road Barming60 m
Bus or coach stationEast Farleigh - Bull Inn1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parking space on Tarragon Road, ME16580 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN37 km (23 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW48.3 km (30 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Blackthorn530 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Barming Pharmacy440 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Barming Dental Care640 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalGstt @ Maidstone Hospital950 m (0.6 miles)
Police stationKent Police Tactical Operations2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machinesKent Broadway News Ltd890 m (0.6 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 gardenUnnamed 1.8 ha1.6 km (1 mile)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,040 m²340 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha260 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.6 ha190 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Barming Place, a listed building (Grade II*), 290 m west. 20 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Barming PlaceListed building, Grade II*290 m west
East Farleigh Bridge, over the MedwayScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
West WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Quarry WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Mill PondLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.5 miles) east
Loose ValleyValley3 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Barn HillHill3.7 km (2.3 miles) south
Upper CutTidal water4.5 km (2.8 miles) north

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)11.24015

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
70 to 7410
60 to 6440
55 to 5920
Under 552633

7 of the street's 33 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 Maidstone: see them on the Maidstone page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Barming Primary SchoolPrimary2–11540 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Jubilee Primary SchoolPrimary2–11550 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
West Borough Primary SchoolPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Oakwood Park Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Francis' Catholic Primary School, Maidstone Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Simon Stock Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Augustine Academy Church of EnglandSecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
East Farleigh Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Sainsbury's ME16 9LNRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets230 m5 Very good17 Apr 2019
Duke Of Edinburgh ME16 9LQPub/bar/nightclub260 mAwaiting inspection
Melad Tandoori ME16 9LWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good12 Jun 2025
Nisa ME16 9JNRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets330 m5 Very good5 Mar 2018
Lloyds Pharmacy ME16 9LHRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)Exempt

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.

75 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences39
Criminal damage and arson10
Anti-social behaviour10
Other theft7
Vehicle crime4
Drugs3
Burglary2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Terminus Road (28); On or near Silverdale (23); On or near St Davids Gate (6); On or near The Cherries (4); On or near Heath Grove (4).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 609 residents in 248 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 age4140
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright34%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 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

Chervilles · Beverley Road · The Cherries · The Dunnings · Heath Grove · Plumtrees · Silverdale · Wood Court · Hurst Way · St Davids Gate · Terminus Road · Fountain Lane

All the streets in ME16 and across Maidstone.

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.