Harebell Close Minster, Swale

24 addresses across 2 postcodes (ME12), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 39001854.

  • Sales: 68 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £362,500 across 6 sales.
  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (C: 11, D: 6, E: 2).
  • Flood: 8 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 D; Band D in Swale costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Queenborough, about 3.0 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 100 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 8 to 11 m above sea level.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Sheerness Health Centre, about 3.3 km away.
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 34 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
20256£362,500£280,000£425,000
20232£352,500£325,000£380,000
20222£357,500£290,000£425,000
20212£331,250£300,000£362,500
20201£270,000£270,000£270,000
20181£340,000£340,000£340,000
20172£288,500£252,000£325,000
20161£234,000£234,000£234,000
20141£175,000£175,000£175,000
20111£165,000£165,000£165,000
20101£217,000£217,000£217,000
20091£190,000£190,000£190,000
Most recent sales (68)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Nov 20254 ME12 3ERDetached£350,000
25 Sep 202516 ME12 3ERDetached£425,000
22 Sep 202517 ME12 3ERDetached£280,000
27 Jun 202512 ME12 3ERDetached£395,000
9 Jun 202513 ME12 3ERDetached£335,000
24 Jan 202511 ME12 3ERDetached£320,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Jan 20257 ME12 3ERDetached£375,000
24 Mar 202315 ME12 3ERDetached£325,000
5 Jan 202312 ME12 3ERDetached£380,000
26 Aug 202216 ME12 3ERDetached£425,000
25 Mar 20221 ME12 3ERDetached£290,000
2 Mar 202113 ME12 3ERDetached£300,000
22 Feb 202116 ME12 3ERDetached£362,500
6 Nov 202024 ME12 3ERSemi-detached£270,000
3 Aug 20188 ME12 3ERDetached£340,000
20 Oct 201719 ME12 3ERDetached£252,000
3 Mar 201720 ME12 3ERDetached£325,000
30 Sep 201615 ME12 3ERDetached£234,000
5 Sep 201421 ME12 3ERDetached£175,000
6 May 201124 ME12 3ERSemi-detached£165,000
8 Oct 201010 ME12 3ERDetached£217,000
12 Feb 200920 ME12 3ERDetached£190,000
8 Feb 200824 ME12 3ERSemi-detached£190,000
31 Oct 200715 ME12 3ERDetached£191,000
29 Jun 200720 ME12 3ERDetached£235,000
11 May 200724 ME12 3ERSemi-detached£190,000
3 May 200721 ME12 3ERDetached£178,500
12 Oct 200610 ME12 3ERDetached£235,000
4 Aug 200611 ME12 3ERDetached£160,000
16 Dec 20058 ME12 3ERDetached£217,000
30 Apr 200410 ME12 3ERDetached£200,000
30 Apr 200424 ME12 3ERSemi-detached£169,995
8 Mar 200421 ME12 3ERDetached£150,000
27 Feb 200415 ME12 3ERDetached£159,950
12 Dec 200216 ME12 3ERDetached£179,000
29 Nov 200218 ME12 3ERDetached£185,000
29 Nov 20025 ME12 3ERDetached£162,500
2 Sep 20029 ME12 3ERDetached£130,000
8 Aug 200222 ME12 3ERSemi-detached£98,500
17 Jul 20027 ME12 3ERDetached£145,000
21 Jun 200211 ME12 3ERDetached£119,995
16 Apr 20021 ME12 3ERDetached£111,500
28 Mar 200213 ME12 3ERDetached£112,000
19 Dec 20013 ME12 3ERDetached£141,000New build.
21 Sep 200121 ME12 3ERDetached£98,500
27 Apr 20018 ME12 3ERDetached£145,000New build.
29 Dec 200012 ME12 3ERDetached£140,000New build.
7 Dec 200010 ME12 3ERDetached£146,995New build.
30 Nov 200014 ME12 3ERDetached£146,995New build.
31 Oct 200019 ME12 3ERDetached£95,950New build.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from August 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 101 m². Most common: House, detached (17); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1996-2002 (14); 2003-2006 (3); 1991-1995 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16); rented (private) (1).

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 D (30% of about 660 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 5 at medium risk and 7 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
ME12 3ERnot in 2 or 3 3 / 5 / 2 unlikely
ME12 3AWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 5 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 24 addresses are between 8 m and 11 m above sea level (9 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
ME12 3AW100%100%100%0%
ME12 3ER100%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 stationsQueenborough 196,000 journeys in 2024–253.0 km
Swale 7,300 journeys in 2024–254.0 km
Sheerness-On-Sea 439,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m, 21 within 800 m; nearest Thistle Hill Way Minster80 m
Car parksShinglebank Marine Parade Car Park2.8 km
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station2.4 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN19.0 km
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN65.3 km

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 surgeriesSheerness Health Centre3.3 km
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Pharmachem Limited480 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Hillton Dentistry Minster1.1 km
HospitalSheppey Community Hospital480 m
Police stationSheerness Police Station4.0 km
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Sheerness Minster, Minster on Sea Cashzone1.1 km

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 garden4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 5,740 m²100 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 10 ha180 m
Play area5 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 380 m²150 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 3.5 ha150 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 6,780 m²2.6 km

Within 800 m: 4 parks and gardens, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Nunnery at Minster Abbey, a scheduled monument, 1.9 km north-east. 2 listed buildings are within 1.0 km.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Nunnery at Minster AbbeyScheduled monument1.9 km north-east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Thistle HillHill230 m north-east
Rape HillHill480 m north
Southlees MarshesWetland1.3 km south
Furze HillHill1.5 km west
Isle of SheppeyIsland2.7 km south-east
The Creek PondLake or reservoir3.2 km west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)8.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Noise figures are still being loaded.

Nearest schools

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

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Thistle Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–11700 m No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Leigh Academy MinsterSecondary11–181.0 km No published inspection
Halfway Houses Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.7 km No published inspection
Minster in Sheppey Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Sheppey Rugby Football Club ME12 3RTPub/bar/nightclub150 m5 Very good19 Oct 2024
HCRG Care Group ME12 3LTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m5 Very good20 Oct 2025
Medway League Of Friends ME12 3LTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m5 Very good12 Dec 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

34 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences9
Vehicle crime8
Criminal damage and arson7
Anti-social behaviour5
Other theft2
Burglary1
Bicycle theft1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Penny Cress Road (12); On or near Orchid Close (6); On or near Harebell Close (5); On or near A2500 (4); On or near Bellflower Avenue (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: 600 residents in 218 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 age3940
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright27%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van72%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)55%65%
Work 30 km or more away16%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)26%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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.

  • ME12 3ER: 23 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • ME12 3AW: 1 address of 16 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Orchid Close · Thistle Hill Way · Bellflower Avenue · Penny Cress Road · Buckthorne Road · Charlock Drive · Poppy Crescent · Thistle Walk · Holly Drive · Shearwater Mews · Barton Hill Drive · Salamanda Way

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.