Linton Hill Loose, Maidstone

143 addresses across 13 postcodes (ME15), about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 24200893.

  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Maidstone cost £352,878 in August 2026 (-1.1% on a year); private rents averaged £1,303 a month.
  • Energy: 69 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 15, D: 30, E: 18, F: 5).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Maidstone costs £2,503 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 3% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is East Farleigh, about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 56 to 115 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 129 of its 143 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Greensand Medical Group, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,950 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 81% of households owned their home and 34% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 8 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 15 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 6 of them fatal or serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

House prices and rents in Maidstone

A typical home in Maidstone cost £352,878 in August 2026, 1.1% less than a year before. That is 10% more than five years earlier and 21% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£608,280
Semi-detached£377,944
Terraced£296,023
Flat or maisonette£182,628
Bought by a first-time buyer£292,511

Private renters in Maidstone paid £1,303 a month on average in September 2026, 3% more than a year before. That is 37% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£922
Two bedrooms£1,199
Three bedrooms£1,468
Four or more bedrooms£1,979

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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

69 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 104 m². Most common: House, detached (29); Bungalow, detached (17); House, semi-detached (12). Built: 1930-1949 (25); 1900-1929 (13); 1950-1966 (9). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (55); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (69 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 14,409 kWh of it on average in 2024, 37% more than the district's 10,533 kWh, and 4,245 kWh of electricity, 23% more than the district's 3,453 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
ME15 0AS26 6 Economy 73,010 kWh 2510,784 kWh
ME15 0AL193,703 kWh 2213,705 kWh
ME15 0AT102,769 kWh 1116,587 kWh
ME15 0AH194,265 kWh 2116,001 kWh
ME15 0AG18 6 Economy 73,263 kWh 1616,725 kWh
ME15 0AJ162,174 kWh 1515,697 kWh
ME15 0DR373,360 kWh 3811,067 kWh
ME15 0AX163,010 kWh 1510,364 kWh
ME15 0BH152,551 kWh 1514,367 kWh
ME15 9RW34 7 Economy 73,110 kWh 3515,697 kWh
ME15 9UW30 10 Economy 73,223 kWh 3011,311 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is ME15.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Maidstone in 2026-27: Band D £2,503 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,668£1,946£2,225£2,503£3,059£3,615£4,171£5,005

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (25% of about 1,080 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: yes, Loose Valley (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 31.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Loose Conservation Area (Part of), Loose Conservation Area,.
  • Tree preservation orders: 66 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

And 1 more.

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.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Started, not reported finished by 31 October 2026

  • 22 July 2026 to 25 January 2027: SOUTHERN GAS NETWORKS PLC, Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway, verge (major works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 1 October 2026: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL, Works for road purposes, two-way signals, on the footway (minor works)
  • 2 September 2026 to 22 September 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS SOUTH EASTERN, Optional permit (no fee) e.g. for traffic management etc, no carriageway incursion, on the verge (immediate - urgent works)
  • 19 August 2026: SOUTH EAST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 18 August 2026: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)

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, 0 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
ME15 0ASnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
ME15 0ALnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME15 0ATnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME15 0AHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME15 0AGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME15 0AEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME15 0AJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME15 0ABnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME15 0DRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME15 0AXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME15 0BHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME15 9RWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME15 9UWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 143 addresses are between 56 m and 115 m above sea level (95 m on average); the ground rises about 59 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
ME15 0AB100%100%100%0%
ME15 0AE100%100%100%0%
ME15 0AG100%95%95%0%
ME15 0AH100%96%96%0%
ME15 0AJ100%100%100%0%
ME15 0AL100%100%100%0%
ME15 0AS100%100%100%0%
ME15 0AT100%100%100%0%
ME15 0AX100%100%100%0%
ME15 0BH100%100%100%0%
ME15 0DR100%100%100%0%
ME15 9RW100%3%3%0%
ME15 9UW100%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 stationsEast Farleigh 39,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Maidstone West 561,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Maidstone Barracks 275,000 journeys in 2024–254.3 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Nursing Home Loose80 m
Bus or coach stationEast Farleigh - Bull Inn2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Car parksKent Parking Services2.8 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN38.9 km (24 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW50.2 km (31 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Greensand Medical Group Good Feb 20171.3 km (0.8 miles)
PharmaciesPaydens Pharmacy1.7 km (1 mile)
NHS dentists1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Colosseum Dental (Maidstone)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalGstt @ Maidstone Hospital Requires improvement Feb 20244.5 km (2.8 miles)
Care homes2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Loose Valley Nursing Home Good Jan 201930 m
Police stationKent Police Recruitment1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machinesPayzone2.6 km (1.6 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 gardenUnnamed 5,540 m²1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,540 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest King George V Playing Field 2.3 ha620 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.3 ha410 m (0.3 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of All Saints, a listed building (Grade II*), 260 m north-west. 49 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*260 m north-west
The Wool House and Garden Wall to North and EastListed building, Grade II*360 m north-west
Boughton Quarry campScheduled monument750 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Harts HouseListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) east
Rock CottageListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) east
Linton ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2 km (1.2 miles) south
Boughton Monchelsea PlaceRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Quarry WoodWood720 m (0.4 miles) east
Loose ValleyValley1.2 km (0.8 miles) north
Five Acre WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Hamlet WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Mill PondLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.3 miles) north
Reason HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-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)8.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)11.04015

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
70 to 74180
65 to 69670
60 to 64350
55 to 5990
Under 5514143

129 of the street's 143 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 Maidstone: see them on the Maidstone page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Loose Primary SchoolPrimary3–11660 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 74% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Cornwallis AcademySecondary11–19910 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 37.2 (38.6 in 2025 and 37.9 in 2024); 27.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade D; 0% AAB or better; progress below average
Boughton Monchelsea Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 47% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 43% in 2024 and 43% in 2023)
New Line Learning AcademySecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 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 GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 29.2 (32.2 in 2025 and 33.9 in 2024); 13.8% grade 5+ in English and maths
Tiger Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 45% in 2023)
Coxheath Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
Leigh Academy OaksPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Exceptional; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Exceptional; Leadership and governance: Exceptional; Early years: Exceptional; Safeguarding standards: Met 89% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 30% at the higher standard (2025; 92% in 2024 and 89% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

6 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 1.3 km (0.8 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Harlequin Forest School ME17 4NA Full day care 15 Outstanding (Dec 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Boughton Monchelsea Playgroup Association ME17 4HN Sessional day care 50 Good (Oct 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Mega Camps Maidstone ME15 9QL Out-of-school day care 90 Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Junior Adventures Group @ Tiger ME15 ME15 9QL Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Tiger Cubs Day Nursery ME15 9QL Full day care 35 Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Junior Adventures Group @ Boughton Monchelsea ME17 4HP Out-of-school day care 60 Not inspected yet 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 757 childminders and 217 home childcarers (nannies) in Kent. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Loose Valley Nursing Home ME15 0AGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises20 m5 Very good12 Nov 2025
The Chequers ME15 0BLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m4 Good18 Feb 2026
The Loose Goose Coffee Shop ME15 0AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good4 Nov 2025
R2 Loose Post Office ME15 0AARetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Aug 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.

8 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences6
Criminal damage and arson1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Salts Lane (3); On or near Old Loose Close (2); On or near Church Street (1); On or near Rosemount Close (1); On or near Malthouse Hill (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

15 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 5 serious and 9 slight, in which 1 person died and 6 people were seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 2 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 33% happened in the dark, and 13% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 40 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202121
202221
202341
202452
202521
The most recent 10 of 15
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
27 Aug 2025 05:30 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist A229, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
25 Aug 2025 12:59 Slight 1 person A229, 30 mph Daylight
17 Sep 2024 13:33 Serious 2 people A229, 30 mph Daylight
8 Aug 2024 17:17 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A229, 40 mph Wet road
10 Jun 2024 20:30 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
17 Mar 2024 14:55 Slight 2 people A229, 40 mph Daylight
13 Mar 2024 18:48 Slight 1 person A229, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
28 Nov 2023 16:11 Slight 1 person A229, 40 mph Dark, street lights on
29 Jul 2023 04:12 Slight 1 person A229, 40 mph Dark, street lights on
28 Jul 2023 23:02 Slight 1 person A229, 40 mph Dark, street lights on

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 5 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,948 residents in 758 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 age4640
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)81%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%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 (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)53%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)34%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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

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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

Rosemount Close · Malthouse Hill · Old Loose Close · High Banks · Millers Field · Old Loose Hill · Hubbard's Lane · Church Street · Bridge Street · High Banks

All the streets in ME15 and across Maidstone.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.