Hook Close Chatham, Medway

46 addresses across 1 postcode (ME5), about 230 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32100970.

  • Sales: 50 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £315,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 24 homes have an energy certificate (C: 13, D: 9, E: 2).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 C; 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 3.5 km (2.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 590 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 95 to 106 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is King George Road Surgery, about 290 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 89% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 32 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
20252£315,000£310,000£320,000
20242£290,500£281,000£300,000
20232£296,000£267,000£325,000
20221£315,000£315,000£315,000
20214£275,625£256,500£366,000
20192£240,500£238,000£243,000
20162£183,750£144,500£223,000
20151£177,500£177,500£177,500
20141£150,000£150,000£150,000
20131£160,000£160,000£160,000
20091£138,000£138,000£138,000
20062£138,998£135,000£142,995
Most recent sales (50)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 Sep 202519 ME5 9TPTerraced£320,000
19 Mar 202538 ME5 9TPTerraced£310,000
29 Jul 20243 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£281,000
4 Jun 202420 ME5 9TPTerraced£300,000
9 May 202331 ME5 9TPTerraced£325,000
30 Jan 20234 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£267,000
9 Dec 202236 ME5 9TPTerraced£315,000
14 Dec 202125 ME5 9TPTerraced£291,250
13 Sep 20217 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£366,000
31 Aug 202135 ME5 9TPTerraced£260,000
16 Jul 202126 ME5 9TPTerraced£256,500
4 Mar 202134 ME5 9TPTerraced£280,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Nov 201939 ME5 9TPTerraced£243,000
6 Jun 201915 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£238,000
15 Jul 201635 ME5 9TPTerraced£223,000
24 Mar 20167 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£144,500
27 Feb 201511 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£177,500
5 Feb 201431 ME5 9TPTerraced£150,000
28 Oct 201339 ME5 9TPTerraced£160,000
21 May 200917 ME5 9TPTerraced£138,000
6 Nov 200611 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£142,995
14 Jul 200639 ME5 9TPTerraced£135,000
17 Dec 20043 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£149,995
2 Jul 20044 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£136,000
20 Apr 20049 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£44,000
26 Mar 20046 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£125,000
20 Nov 200331 ME5 9TPTerraced£133,500
29 Nov 200242 ME5 9TPTerraced£117,995
18 Oct 200234 ME5 9TPTerraced£105,000
13 Sep 200226 ME5 9TPTerraced£112,500
9 Sep 200227 ME5 9TPTerraced£110,000
17 Apr 20028 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£86,995
27 Mar 200235 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£103,000
30 Jan 200228 ME5 9TPTerraced£97,000
26 Oct 20013 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£89,000
6 Mar 200011 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£72,000
24 Nov 19993 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£67,500
21 Jun 199942 ME5 9TPTerraced£62,995
4 May 199931 ME5 9TPTerraced£62,995
23 Apr 19991 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£84,000
6 Apr 199943 ME5 9TPTerraced£58,000
29 Jan 199934 ME5 9TPTerraced£58,000
14 Aug 199835 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£63,000
26 Jan 199837 ME5 9TPTerraced£57,000
31 Oct 199733 ME5 9TPTerraced£51,500
6 Oct 199711 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£57,000
29 Aug 19971 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£80,000
25 Jul 19974 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£46,000
9 Dec 199635 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£47,000
7 Dec 199510 ME5 9TPSemi-detached£49,000

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 October 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

24 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 71 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (10); House, semi-detached (9); House, end-terrace (5). Built: 1967-1975 (11); 1950-1966 (7); 1976-1982 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (17); rented (social) (3); rented (private) (1).

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 C (59% of about 660 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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

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

Height above sea level

The street's 46 addresses are between 95 m and 106 m above sea level (101 m on average); the ground rises about 11 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
ME5 9TP100%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 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Rochester 2.1 million journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.8 miles)
Cuxton 61,000 journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 44 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hook Close Davis Estate60 m
Bus or coach stationChatham Railway Station3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Ferry terminalTown Pier Gravesend14.7 km (9.2 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp Pulse1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN27.6 km (17 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW53.7 km (33 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest King George Road Surgery290 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Asda Pharmacy460 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lavender Dental Care340 m
HospitalSpire Alexandra Hospital2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationKent undercover police.2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Br Spar Chatham510 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 16 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 380 m²590 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hook Meadow 2.4 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsAnchor Road St Williams Way Allotment 1,810 m²2.1 km (1.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 17 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Fort Horstead, a scheduled monument, 1 km (0.6 miles) north.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fort HorsteadScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Watery WoodWood890 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Middle HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Nashenden BottomValley1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Borstal MarshWetland3.8 km (2.4 miles) north-west
Wickham ReachTidal water4.1 km (2.6 miles) north-west
Couvre Port ReservoirLake or reservoir4.5 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)11.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

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
Under 554646

None of the street's 46 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Medway: see them on the Medway page.

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
Horsted Junior SchoolPrimary7–11200 m No published inspection
Horsted Infant SchoolPrimary3–7290 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oaklands SchoolPrimary3–11600 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Walderslade SchoolSecondary11–18750 m (0.5 miles) Inadequate (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Greenacre SchoolSecondary11–18830 m (0.5 miles) Inadequate (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary4–11860 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
Walderslade Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Maundene SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wayfield Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.7 km (1 mile) Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Urgent improvement; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Urgent improvement; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Warren Wood Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) 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
Tunbury Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
New Horizons Children's AcademyPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Aquarius Residential Home ME5 9SHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m1 Major improvement necessary26 Aug 2026
Local Mini Market ME5 0SDRetailers - other370 m4 Good8 Apr 2026
George's Fish Bar \& Kebab ME5 0SDTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good15 Sep 2026
Delmergate Ltd ME5 9URRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Asda ME5 9SERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Apr 2024
The Avenue Cafe ME5 9URRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Sep 2025
Davis Grill ME5 9UROther catering premises470 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
A Taste Of India / Tandoori Grill ME5 9URTakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good22 Jan 2025
Holiday Inn (Traders Bar And Grill) ME5 9SFHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good22 Jul 2025
News Plus ME5 9UPRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Jul 2026
ATLANTIS KENT LIMITED ME5 0QXOther catering premises490 m (0.3 miles)4 Good20 Jan 2026
Davis Estate Fish Bar ME5 9UPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)4 Good16 Dec 2025
Shop \& Save Liquor Mart ME5 0QXRetailers - other500 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory30 Jun 2025
Magic Wok ME5 9UPTakeaway/sandwich shop500 m (0.3 miles)4 Good17 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.

32 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences12
Anti-social behaviour7
Criminal damage and arson4
Public order3
Other theft3
Vehicle crime2
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hurstwood (9); On or near King George Road (9); On or near Hill View Way (6); On or near Holland Road (4); On or near Madden Avenue (2).

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: 288 residents in 108 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 age4840
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)89%61%
Owned outright50%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented7%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)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications19%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 7 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

Hill View Way · Brake Avenue · Hurstwood · Holland Road · Barberry Avenue · Barberry Avenue · Watson Avenue · King George Road · Foxglove Crescent · Madden Avenue · Concord Avenue · Barberry Avenue

All the streets in ME5 and across Medway.

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.