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Leysdown Road Leysdown-on-Sea, Swale

16 addresses across 2 postcodes (ME12), about 40 m long, classed as a b road. USRN 39001242.

  • Sales: 53 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £248,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (C: 12, D: 3).
  • 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 A; Band D in Swale costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Whitstable, about 9.1 km (5.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, The Spinney, is about 220 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 11 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 15 of its 16 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Whitstable Medical Practice, about 9.1 km (5.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 230 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 49% of households owned their home and 11% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 61 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
20251£248,000£248,000£248,000
20221£250,000£250,000£250,000
20214£210,000£183,000£280,000
20181£210,000£210,000£210,000
20171£200,000£200,000£200,000
20161£203,000£203,000£203,000
20153£115,999£100,000£154,500
20141£145,000£145,000£145,000
20133£150,000£112,000£150,000
20114£170,098£105,000£200,000
20104£192,500£80,000£260,000
20092£95,000£90,000£100,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 53)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Sep 202529A ME12 4RESemi-detached£248,000
22 Apr 202519 ME12 4REOther£115,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Dec 202359B ME12 4REOther£200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Mar 20239A ME12 4REOther£10,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Jul 202221 ME12 4REDetached£250,000
22 Oct 202133 ME12 4REDetached£280,000
28 Jun 202129A ME12 4RESemi-detached£230,000
26 May 202111A ME12 4REDetached£183,000
26 Feb 202111 ME12 4REDetached£190,000
24 Jan 202010 ME12 4REOther£265,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Jul 201914 ME12 4REOther£118,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Dec 201819 ME12 4RESemi-detached£111,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Dec 201819 ME12 4REOther£111,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Dec 201823 ME12 4REDetached£210,000
4 May 201819 ME12 4REOther£6,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Mar 201727 ME12 4REDetached£200,000
17 Oct 201629A ME12 4RESemi-detached£203,000
28 Oct 201521 ME12 4REDetached£154,500
3 Sep 201527 ME12 4REDetached£115,999
1 Sep 201537 ME12 4REDetached£100,000
24 Jan 201429 ME12 4RESemi-detached£145,000
21 Oct 201337 ME12 4REDetached£112,000
9 Aug 201329A ME12 4RESemi-detached£150,000
7 Feb 201359A ME12 4RESemi-detached£150,000
19 Aug 201125 ME12 4REDetached£200,000
26 Jul 201119 ME12 4RESemi-detached£105,000
27 Apr 201138 ME12 4RESemi-detached£175,000
23 Feb 201133 ME12 4REDetached£165,195
30 Mar 201010 ME12 4RETerraced£260,000
12 Mar 201041 ME12 4RESemi-detached£185,000
11 Mar 201029 ME12 4REDetached£80,000
22 Feb 201011A ME12 4REDetached£200,000
22 Oct 200916 ME12 4RETerraced£90,000
23 Jan 200919 ME12 4REDetached£100,000
27 Feb 200825 ME12 4REDetached£179,995
15 Feb 200868B ME12 4RESemi-detached£215,000Leasehold.
14 Dec 200723 ME12 4REDetached£167,000
7 Sep 200711 ME12 4REDetached£145,000
26 Feb 2007HYLTON LODGE ME12 4REDetached£215,000
20 Nov 200621 ME12 4REDetached£178,000
14 Feb 200616 ME12 4RETerraced£148,000
11 Apr 200521 ME12 4REDetached£190,000
11 Apr 200519 ME12 4REDetached£90,000
13 Sep 2004HYLTON LODGE ME12 4REDetached£183,000
29 Oct 200223 ME12 4REDetached£120,000
8 Dec 20009 ME12 4REDetached£80,000
4 Aug 200038 ME12 4RESemi-detached£72,000
19 Oct 199958 ME12 4REDetached£89,995
20 Aug 199923 ME12 4REDetached£59,995
6 Apr 199938 ME12 4RESemi-detached£45,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2020 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 43 m². Most common: Flat (15). Built: 1991-1995 (13); 1996-2002 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (14); rented (social) (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 A (74% of about 2,500 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.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 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 4RTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME12 4REnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 7 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 11 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 4RE98%0%0%0%
ME12 4RT100%0%0%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 2024–259.1 km (5.7 miles)
Faversham 1.5 million journeys in 2024–259.8 km (6.1 miles)
Teynham 181,000 journeys in 2024–2510.6 km (6.6 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shops Leysdown70 m
Car parksCliff Drive Car Park1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station240 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN24.8 km (15 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN72 km (45 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 surgeriesWhitstable Medical Practice9.1 km (5.6 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Leysdown Pharmacy50 m
NHS dentistsSwaleside (Dental Practice)4.5 km (2.8 miles)
HospitalSheppey Community Hospital9 km (5.6 miles)
Police stationFaversham Police Station9.3 km (5.8 miles)
Cash machinesLondis, Eastchurch4.3 km (2.7 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Spinney 5,430 m²220 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Leysdown Coastal Park 28 ha690 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 300 m²230 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 9,390 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,740 m²360 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 29 hectares in all.

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Priory HillHill470 m (0.3 miles) south-east
The BayBay840 m (0.5 miles) north
Leysdown MarshesWetland1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Furze HillHill1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Warden SpringWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Warden PointWetland2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west

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)6.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

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
60 to 64150
Under 55116

15 of the street's 16 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
St. Clement's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11790 m (0.5 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
Leysdown Bakery ME12 4RERetailers - other70 m5 Very good24 Feb 2025
Paul's Pie And Mash ME12 4RERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good28 Apr 2026
Dining Room By Curryholics ME12 4RERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good2 Jul 2025
Pizza And Kebab ME12 4RETakeaway/sandwich shop70 m5 Very good12 Dec 2024
Corrigan's ME12 4REPub/bar/nightclub70 m4 Good21 Oct 2024
KK Chinese Takeaway ME12 4RETakeaway/sandwich shop70 m3 Generally satisfactory28 Sep 2026
Pharmacy ME12 4RERetailers - other70 m4 Good23 Jun 2026
Nicolas Kitchen ME12 4PXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good19 Aug 2025
Woodys Fish And Chip Co ME12 4PXTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m4 Good17 Mar 2026
TCB Treatz ME12 4QBTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m5 Very good10 May 2025
Nibble 'N' Munch Cafe ME12 4RGTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m5 Very good12 Feb 2025
American Diner ME12 4QBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good7 Apr 2025
Sorbetto - Ice Cream Parlour ME12 4QBRetailers - other260 m5 Very good28 Apr 2026
The Rock Shop ME12 4QBRetailers - other270 m5 Very good9 Sep 2026
Central Beach Caravan Park ME12 4QERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 mAwaiting inspection

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.

61 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences29
Anti-social behaviour11
Criminal damage and arson6
Other crime3
Vehicle crime3
Possession of weapons3
Public order2
Other theft2
Drugs2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Eastern Road (29); On or near Leysdown Road (13); On or near Parking Area (11); On or near The Promenade (8).

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: 226 residents in 134 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 age5940
Children under 158%17%
Aged 65 and over34%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)49%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented49%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work28%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)19%6%
Retired (of adults)38%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)16%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%32%
Travel to work by car or van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)19%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away38%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)11%34%
No qualifications54%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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 Central Beach Holiday Park (restaurant/cafe/canteen, ME12 4QE) is no longer listed; it was rated 4 Good found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Candy Cabin (retailers - other, ME12 4QE) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Central Beach Caravan Park (restaurant/cafe/canteen, ME12 4QE) newly listed: Awaiting inspection 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.

Nearby streets

Eastern Court · Eastern Road · The Promenade · Grove Avenue · Nutts Avenue · Vanity Road · Park Avenue · Manor 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.