Hare Street Sheerness, Swale

8 addresses across 2 postcodes (ME12), about 20 m long. USRN 39000556.

  • Sales: 9 recorded sales since 1995; in 2018 the median was £86,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (D: 1, E: 2, G: 1).
  • Flood: 4 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 A; Band D in Swale costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 47% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Sheerness-On-Sea, about 270 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 240 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 3 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 8 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Om Medical Centre, about 100 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 28% of households owned their home and 16% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 902 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20182£86,500£83,000£90,000
20171£112,000£112,000£112,000
20161£89,700£89,700£89,700
20151£88,500£88,500£88,500
20092£87,500£85,000£90,000
Most recent sales (9)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Apr 2022THE GOLDEN KEY ME12 1AHOther£85,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Nov 2018HARE STREET HALL ME12 1AHOther£115,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Nov 2018FLAT 1, HARE STREET HALL ME12 1AHFlat or maisonette£90,000Leasehold.
8 Nov 2018FLAT 3, HARE STREET HALL ME12 1AHFlat or maisonette£83,000Leasehold.
20 Sep 2017FLAT 4, HARE STREET HALL ME12 1AHFlat or maisonette£112,000Leasehold.
29 Jul 2016FLAT 2, HARE STREET HALL ME12 1AHFlat or maisonette£89,700Leasehold.
14 Oct 2015FLAT 4, HARE STREET HALL ME12 1AHFlat or maisonette£88,500Leasehold.
30 Mar 2009FLAT 3, HARE STREET HALL ME12 1AHFlat or maisonette£90,000New build. Leasehold.
23 Mar 2009FLAT 1, HARE STREET HALL ME12 1AHFlat or maisonette£85,000New build. Leasehold.

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 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 54 m². Most common: Flat (4). Built: 1900-1929 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Council tax

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

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (65% of about 790 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: yes, Sheerness : Mile Town (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 6 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 13 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 13 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 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
ME12 1AHzone 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME12 1AJzone 3 3 / 1 / 6 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 3 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
ME12 1AH100%0%0%0%
ME12 1AJ100%53%47%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsSheerness-On-Sea 439,000 journeys in 2024–25270 m
Queenborough 196,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Swale 7,300 journeys in 2024–255.7 km (3.5 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Millennium Way Sheerness100 m
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rose Street Car Park60 m
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN15.3 km (9.5 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN61.5 km (38 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Om Medical Centre100 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Superdrug Pharmacy40 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sheerness Dental Centre120 m
HospitalSheppey Community Hospital3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Police stationSheerness Police Station210 m
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone90 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,580 m²240 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 1.1 ha600 m (0.4 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,560 m²240 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,530 m²340 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha770 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Numbers 1 to 8 Attached Basement Railings, Walls, Coach House and Stables, a listed building (Grade II*), 630 m (0.4 miles) north-west. 40 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Numbers 1 to 8 Attached Basement Railings, Walls, Coach House and StablesListed building, Grade II*630 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Former Royal Dockyard Church and Attached Wall and RailingsListed building, Grade II*670 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Numbers 1 to 15 and Attached RailingsListed building, Grade II*750 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Sheerness defencesScheduled monument780 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Medway Ports Authority Offices (Dockyard House)Listed building, Grade II*780 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Queenborough LinesScheduled monument800 m (0.5 miles) south
Sheerness Defences: C19 gun emplacements and magazines and early-C20 gun towers, fire-control building and pillbox on the Centre BastionScheduled monument840 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Jacob's BankWetland410 m (0.3 miles) north
Sheerness BeachBeach460 m (0.3 miles) north
The MoatLake or reservoir460 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Cheyney RockWetland1.2 km (0.8 miles) east
Sheppey Court MarshesWetland1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Doos HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) south

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)9.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)10.84015

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
55 to 5930
Under 5558

3 of the street's 8 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 Swale: see them on the Swale 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
Rose Street Primary SchoolPrimary3–11190 m No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Edward's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11380 m No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Richmond Primary SchoolPrimary2–11940 m (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
EKC Sheppey SecondarySecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
West Minster Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): 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: 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
Subway ME12 1TXTakeaway/sandwich shop40 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Oct 2025
Sheerness Turkish Meze And Mangal ME12 1TXTakeaway/sandwich shop40 m4 Good4 Sep 2025
Masala Reef ME12 1QHTakeaway/sandwich shop50 m2 Improvement necessary9 Sep 2025
Swale Food Bank ME12 1QHRetailers - other50 m5 Very good13 Aug 2025
Arizona Diner ME12 1NSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good13 Dec 2024
The Clock Tower Express ME12 1UBRetailers - other60 m5 Very good7 Apr 2025
Savers Health And Beauty ME12 1NTRetailers - other80 m4 Good3 Nov 2023
Mistry Chemist ME12 1UARetailers - other90 m5 Very good25 Aug 2022
Poundstretcher Limited ME12 1NTRetailers - other100 m4 Good31 Jan 2018
Favorite Chicken And Ribs ME12 1AFTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m3 Generally satisfactory28 Aug 2026
The Light House Coffee Shop ME12 1AJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good23 Feb 2026
Rose Cottage Tea Garden ME12 1AJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good16 Sep 2016
Loopy Lou's ME12 1AJMobile caterer110 m5 Very good30 Apr 2025
Cashconsoles Ltd ME12 1NXRetailers - other120 m5 Very good17 Mar 2026
Co-op ME12 1UBRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets120 m5 Very good27 Nov 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.

902 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour225
Violence and sexual offences222
Shoplifting209
Criminal damage and arson85
Other theft38
Burglary21
Public order21
Other crime21
Drugs19
Vehicle crime15
Robbery13
Possession of weapons8
Theft from the person3
Bicycle theft2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (211); On or near Hare Street (141); On or near Royal Road (104); On or near Victory Street (101); On or near Delamark Road (61).

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: 377 residents in 189 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 age3640
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)28%61%
Owned outright14%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented14%17%
Private rented58%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram10%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle24%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)56%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)16%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)84%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Island Fish Bar Ltd (restaurant/cafe/canteen, ME12 1UB) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Island Fish Bar (restaurant/cafe/canteen, ME12 1UB) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Europe Food Store (retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets, ME12 1UD) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings New China (takeaway/sandwich shop, ME12 1PL) now 5 Very good, was 4 Good (rated 29 October 2026) found 31 October 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • ME12 1AH: 7 addresses of 8 in the postcode
  • ME12 1AJ: 1 address of 24 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Old Garden Pasture · High Street Passage · Spring Garden Passage · Broadway · Bell Alley · Hope Street · Wood Street · Clock Tower Crescent · High Street · Portland Terrace · Regents Place · Delamark Road

All the streets in ME12 and across Swale.

What this page cannot tell you

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