Lock Street Gillingham, Medway

5 addresses across 3 postcodes (ME7), about 230 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32101160.

  • Sales: 3 recorded sales since 1995; in 2002 the median was £225,000 across 1 sale.
  • Flood: 7 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 Medway costs £2,329 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Gillingham (Kent), about 480 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 190 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 41 to 43 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 5 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Glebe Family Practice, about 410 m (0.3 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 630 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 31% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 637 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
20021£225,000£225,000£225,000
20011£100,000£100,000£100,000
19971£77,500£77,500£77,500
Most recent sales (3)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 May 20022 ME7 5EASemi-detached£225,000
14 Aug 20012 ME7 5EASemi-detached£100,000
9 Jul 19972 ME7 5EASemi-detached£77,500

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

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 B (57% of about 1,060 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, Brompton Lines. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Gillingham South.
  • 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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 6 October 2026 to 9 November 2026: ESP ELECTRICITY, Utility asset works, road closure, on the footway, carriageway (major (paa) works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 6 October 2026 to 27 October 2026: ESP ELECTRICITY, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (major 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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 6 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
ME7 5EAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME7 5HDnot in 2 or 3 3 / 4 / 4 unlikely
ME7 5TPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 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 5 addresses are between 41 m and 43 m above sea level (42 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
ME7 5EA100%100%100%0%
ME7 5HD100%100%100%0%
ME7 5TP100%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 stationsGillingham (Kent) 2.5 million journeys in 2024–25480 m (0.3 miles)
Chatham 2.4 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Rochester 2.1 million journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.6 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Mark's Church Gillingham130 m
Bus or coach stationWaterfront Bus Station Chatham1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Ferry terminalTown Pier Gravesend13.7 km (8.5 miles)
Car parksOld Road Car Park1.5 km (1 mile)
EV charging pointsAllego Charging Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN23 km (14 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW57.3 km (36 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Glebe Family Practice410 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies12 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots250 m
NHS dentists11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gillingham Dental Healthcare Practice150 m
HospitalMedway Maritime Hospital770 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationMedway Police Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Just Corner Shop Cashzone200 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 33 ha190 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 540 m²390 m
Playing field5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.5 ha150 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Black Lion Mill Road Allotment 3,450 m²670 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 34 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Brompton Lines, a scheduled monument, 730 m (0.5 miles) north-west. 52 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Brompton LinesScheduled monument730 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Chatham Naval War MemorialListed building, Grade I820 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Brompton Barracks, GymnasiumListed building, Grade II*840 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Memorial to General Gordon, Brompton BarracksListed building, Grade II*890 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Boer War Memorial Arch, Brompton BarracksListed building, Grade II*910 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Brook Low Level Pumping StationScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Chatham Dockyard, two stables SE of Sail LoftScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-west
The Officers' Terrace, the Historic Dockyard, ChathamRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Jewish Burial Ground, Chatham Memorial SynagogueRegistered park or garden, Grade II2 km (1.2 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Couvre Port ReservoirLake or reservoir750 m (0.5 miles) west
Chatham NessHeadland1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Finsborough NessWetland2.3 km (1.4 miles) north
Tower HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Ordnance PlantationWood2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-west
Snodhurst BottomValley3.2 km (2 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)12.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.8205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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
55 to 5910
Under 5545

1 of the street's 5 addresses is 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 Medway: see them on the Medway 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
Oasis Academy Skinner StreetPrimary2–11310 m Good (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brompton AcademySecondary11–18510 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Brompton-Westbrook Primary SchoolPrimary3–11650 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
MidKent College16 plus16–99770 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Burnt Oak Primary SchoolPrimary3–11830 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Napier Community Primary and Nursery AcademyPrimary3–11830 m (0.5 miles) Good (Dec 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11900 m (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Barnsole Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Byron Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Saxon Way Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
New Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.2 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
Will Adams ME7 5EGPub/bar/nightclub10 m5 Very good30 Jul 2026
Star Fish Bar ME7 5ESTakeaway/sandwich shop60 m4 Good24 Jul 2025
The Kent Autistic Trust ME7 5EAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises70 m4 Good13 Oct 2025
Pennys General Stores ME7 5ETRetailers - other90 m4 Good22 Dec 2022
Bruce Butchers ME7 5TPRetailers - other90 m5 Very good25 Jul 2025
Bollywood ME7 5TPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good6 Feb 2025
St Marks Church, Gillingham ME7 5TPOther catering premises90 m5 Very good24 Sep 2025
Chinatown Takeaway ME7 5TRTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m4 Good11 Sep 2025
Sweetsler ME7 5TPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good2 Feb 2026
Freshfix Limited ME7 5TPRetailers - other100 m5 Very good12 Jun 2025
Griller ME7 5TPOther catering premises100 m5 Very good25 Jul 2024
Dallas Chicken And Pizza ME7 5TXTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m5 Very good25 Feb 2025
The Falcon Cafe ME7 5HBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m4 Good7 Aug 2025
Turkish Grill Wrap N Go ME7 5TXTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good21 May 2026
Bombay To Gillingham ME7 5UJTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Jun 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.

637 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences198
Anti-social behaviour161
Other theft65
Public order45
Criminal damage and arson34
Shoplifting29
Drugs22
Other crime21
Vehicle crime15
Burglary12
Theft from the person10
Robbery9
Possession of weapons8
Bicycle theft8

Most of these are attached to: On or near A231 (115); On or near Parking Area (113); On or near Theodore Place (104); On or near Nightclub (61); On or near Upper Britton Place (52).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 627 residents in 256 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 age3340
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)31%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented18%17%
Private rented51%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van46%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram8%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle20%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)26%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)73%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all7%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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: ESP ELECTRICITY: Utility asset works, 6 October 2026 to 9 November 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Neema's Kitchen (other catering premises, ME7 4PG) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Red Pepper (retailers - other, ME7 1AZ) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 26 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

Paget Row · Saxton Street · Britton Street · Paget Street · Upper Britton Place · Green Street · High Street · Saunders Street · Theodore Place · Dawes Street · Lawrence Street · Sally Port Gardens

All the streets in ME7 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.