Kent Street Whitstable, Canterbury

48 addresses across 2 postcodes (CT5), about 170 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5600707.

  • Sales: 85 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £331,875 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 31 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 17, E: 5).
  • Flood: 3 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 B; Band D in Canterbury costs £2,419 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Whitstable, about 790 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Propsect Field, is about 520 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 6 to 7 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 48 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Whitstable Medical Practice, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 61% of households owned their home and 41% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 257 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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
20262£331,875£300,000£363,750
20251£380,000£380,000£380,000
20231£200,000£200,000£200,000
20221£326,500£326,500£326,500
20211£347,500£347,500£347,500
20184£342,500£293,000£380,000
20177£315,000£171,000£450,000
20163£320,000£313,500£324,000
20152£263,748£167,500£359,995
20145£229,995£110,000£243,000
20133£219,000£219,000£238,900
20121£225,000£225,000£225,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 85)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Jul 202641 CT5 4HSSemi-detached£363,750
29 May 202634B CT5 4HSDetached£300,000
28 Mar 20256 CT5 4HSTerraced£380,000
16 Jan 202333 CT5 4HSFlat or maisonette£200,000Leasehold.
21 Feb 202224 CT5 4HSTerraced£326,500
7 Jun 20212 CT5 4HSTerraced£347,500
15 Nov 201818 CT5 4HSTerraced£335,000
18 Sep 20183 CT5 4HSTerraced£293,000
27 Jul 20188 CT5 4HSTerraced£380,000
23 Jul 201812 CT5 4HSTerraced£350,000
11 Dec 201716 CT5 4HSTerraced£325,000
1 Sep 201741 CT5 4HSSemi-detached£308,500
31 Aug 20179 CT5 4HSTerraced£349,000
25 Aug 201728 CT5 4HSTerraced£450,000
7 Apr 201720 CT5 4HSTerraced£315,000
31 Mar 201738 CT5 4HSFlat or maisonette£171,000
24 Feb 201739 CT5 4HSDetached£300,000
18 Nov 201637 CT5 4HSSemi-detached£324,000
18 Jul 20167 CT5 4HSTerraced£313,500
25 Apr 201628 CT5 4HSTerraced£320,000
5 Nov 201527 CT5 4HSTerraced£359,995
2 Sep 201536 CT5 4HSFlat or maisonette£167,500
17 Dec 201433A CT5 4HSFlat or maisonette£172,000Leasehold.
27 Jun 201433A CT5 4HSFlat or maisonette£110,000Leasehold.
15 Apr 201424 CT5 4HSTerraced£229,995
2 Apr 201419 CT5 4HSTerraced£243,000
28 Feb 20142 CT5 4HSTerraced£237,500
27 Nov 201318 CT5 4HSTerraced£238,900
4 Oct 201343 CT5 4HSSemi-detached£219,000
27 Sep 201339 CT5 4HSDetached£219,000
14 May 201212 CT5 4HSTerraced£225,000
15 Jul 201134 CT5 4HSDetached£230,000
15 Oct 201019 CT5 4HSTerraced£205,000
3 Sep 20109 CT5 4HSTerraced£202,000
24 Mar 20109 CT5 4HSTerraced£167,500
18 Dec 200921 CT5 4HSTerraced£184,995
14 Aug 20093 CT5 4HSTerraced£172,300
3 Oct 20085 CT5 4HSTerraced£113,180
12 Sep 200837 CT5 4HSSemi-detached£214,995
12 Oct 200718 CT5 4HSTerraced£207,500
17 Aug 20072 CT5 4HSTerraced£199,995
27 Jul 200716 CT5 4HSTerraced£185,000
3 Jul 200719 CT5 4HSTerraced£190,000
30 Mar 200712 CT5 4HSTerraced£185,000
26 Mar 200733 CT5 4HSFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
22 Dec 20062 CT5 4HSTerraced£177,500
20 Oct 200617 CT5 4HSTerraced£175,000
11 Aug 200621 CT5 4HSTerraced£169,500
28 Jul 200629 CT5 4HSFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
26 Jul 2006FLAT 2, 26 CT5 4HSFlat or maisonette£85,000Leasehold.

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

31 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 80 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (15); Flat (6); House, semi-detached (3). Built: 1900-1929 (16); before 1900 (6); 1930-1949 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (20); rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (21 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Canterbury in 2026-27: Band D £2,419 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,613£1,882£2,151£2,419£2,957£3,495£4,032£4,839

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (35% 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, SOUTH WHITSTABLE (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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 3 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
CT5 4HSnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 2 unlikely
CT5 4HRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 1 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 48 addresses are between 6 m and 7 m above sea level (7 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
CT5 4HR100%100%100%0%
CT5 4HS100%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 stationsWhitstable 877,000 journeys in 2024–25790 m (0.5 miles)
Chestfield and Swalecliffe 108,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Herne Bay 835,000 journeys in 2024–256.5 km (4.1 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Harwich Street Whitstable130 m
Bus or coach stationKeynes College University of Kent7 km (4.3 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Middle Wall Car Park640 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN33.5 km (21 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN80.7 km (50 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 Whitstable Medical Practice1.6 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Prx Pharmacy630 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whitstable Dental Centre370 m
HospitalWhitstable & Tankerton Hospital2 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationKent Police7.3 km (4.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest *Deposit & Withdrawal* The Cooperative Food Whitstable Cashzone370 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 Propsect Field 2.0 ha520 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Duncan Down 16 ha550 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 420 m²590 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha230 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,370 m²510 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 18 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Canterbury Cathedral, St. Augustine's Abbey and St. Martin's Church, a World Heritage Site, 9.1 km (5.7 miles) south-east. 64 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Canterbury Cathedral, St. Augustine's Abbey and St. Martin's ChurchWorld Heritage Site9.1 km (5.7 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Trench WoodWood610 m (0.4 miles) south
Gorrell WoodWood860 m (0.5 miles) south
The PaddockWetland1.6 km (1 mile) north
Tankerton BayBay1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Tankerton SlopesCliff or slope2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Shrub HillHill3.6 km (2.2 miles) south-east

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)7.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

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 5920
Under 554648

2 of the street's 48 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 Canterbury: see them on the Canterbury 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
Whitstable Junior SchoolPrimary7–11420 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Alphege Church of England Infant SchoolPrimary3–7460 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whitstable and Seasalter Endowed Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–11670 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Joy Lane Primary Foundation SchoolPrimary1–11740 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
The Whitstable SchoolSecondary11–18850 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Westmeads Community Infant SchoolPrimary2–7930 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Whitstable Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection

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
Four Seasons Take Away CT5 4HHTakeaway/sandwich shop150 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Aug 2026
Cliftonville House CT5 4EZHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house150 m5 Very good14 May 2026
Seven Seas Fish Bar And Restaurant CT5 4EYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good14 Feb 2024
The Two Brewers CT5 4HDPub/bar/nightclub170 m4 Good29 Aug 2025
Benecare CT5 4JBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises170 m5 Very good19 Dec 2025
Co-Op Stores CT5 4EXRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets190 m5 Very good20 Mar 2026
Bradbury Grange CT5 4HEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m5 Very good1 Jul 2026
St Andrews Playgroup CT5 4LHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m5 Very good20 May 2024
The Handsome Sam CT5 4HJPub/bar/nightclub240 m5 Very good7 Oct 2024
Labour Club CT5 1QPPub/bar/nightclub250 m5 Very good25 Nov 2025
Fable & Green CT5 1DARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m4 Good3 Mar 2026
The East Kent CT5 1DAPub/bar/nightclub290 m2 Improvement necessary29 Jul 2026
St Alphege CE Infant School After School Club CT5 1DAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good21 Nov 2024
St Alphege Infant School CT5 1DASchool/college/university300 m5 Very good16 Oct 2025
British Legion Social Centre CT5 1DAPub/bar/nightclub310 m5 Very good26 Apr 2018

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.

257 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting215
Anti-social behaviour19
Violence and sexual offences8
Criminal damage and arson5
Vehicle crime5
Public order2
Bicycle theft2
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (223); On or near Suffolk Street (8); On or near Kent Street (4); On or near Grimshill Road (4); On or near Norfolk Street (3).

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: 291 residents in 137 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 age4040
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)61%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented38%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work69%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van39%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)60%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)41%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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 Londis (retailers - other, CT5 4LX) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 23 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The Rock Lodge (pub/bar/nightclub, CT5 1DB) now 5 Very good, was 4 Good (rated 22 October 2026) found 30 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.

Nearby streets

Harwich Street · Old Printworks Close · Essex Street · Swanfield Road · St James' Gardens · Green Lane · Forge Lane · Vale Road · Hillview Road · Swanfield Road · Vicarage Gardens · Salisbury Road

All the streets in CT5 and across Canterbury.

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.