Lords Close Sittingbourne, Swale

28 addresses across 1 postcode (ME9), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 39000853.

Sales: 57 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £300,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 20 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, D: 12).
Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 E; Band D in Swale costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Sittingbourne, about 2.6 km (1.6 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 90 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 16 to 19 m above sea level.
Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Chestnuts Surgery, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away.
People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 78% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 35 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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2025	1	£300,000	£300,000	£300,000
2024	1	£250,000	£250,000	£250,000
2023	1	£277,500	£277,500	£277,500
2022	2	£296,000	£295,000	£297,000
2021	1	£233,500	£233,500	£233,500
2020	1	£215,000	£215,000	£215,000
2019	3	£207,500	£195,000	£230,000
2018	4	£222,500	£203,000	£230,000
2017	1	£215,000	£215,000	£215,000
2016	2	£191,500	£188,000	£195,000
2015	2	£172,250	£172,000	£172,500
2013	1	£147,500	£147,500	£147,500

Most recent sales (latest 50 of 57)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
8 Oct 2025	19 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£300,000
17 May 2024	12 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£250,000
30 Nov 2023	16 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£277,500
25 Nov 2022	18 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£297,000
24 Nov 2022	20 ME9 9PH	Semi-detached	£295,000
12 Mar 2021	16 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£233,500
9 Jul 2020	18 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£215,000
25 Jul 2019	3 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£207,500
15 Jul 2019	6 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£230,000
28 May 2019	15 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£195,000
14 Dec 2018	4 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£230,000
28 Sep 2018	1 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£230,000
6 Aug 2018	2 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£203,000
16 Jul 2018	13 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£215,000
8 Feb 2017	6 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£215,000
25 Nov 2016	18 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£195,000
8 Jul 2016	16 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£188,000
27 Mar 2015	11 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£172,000
28 Jan 2015	26 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£172,500
27 Jan 2014	3 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£142,500	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Feb 2013	12 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£147,500
23 Mar 2012	18 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£145,000
18 Nov 2011	26 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£148,000
3 Nov 2011	17 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£62,500
28 Apr 2011	19 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£143,000
10 Dec 2009	23 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£135,000
29 Nov 2007	16 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£148,000
13 Apr 2007	13 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£148,000
10 May 2006	6 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£151,000
20 Jan 2006	4 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£140,000
21 Oct 2005	11 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£139,500
22 Jun 2005	19 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£139,995
3 Jun 2005	20 ME9 9PH	Semi-detached	£131,000	New build.
21 Jan 2005	13 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£117,500
26 Jan 2004	18 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£124,000
12 Aug 2003	23 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£105,000
30 Jul 2003	19 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£125,000
11 Jan 2002	1 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£80,000
2 Nov 2001	9 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£81,300
24 Oct 2001	9 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£80,300
27 Sep 2001	19 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£89,500
5 Jan 2001	12 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£79,000
23 May 2000	10 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£70,500
27 Apr 2000	21 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£92,950
31 Mar 2000	26 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£67,500
27 Aug 1999	11 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£63,000
11 Feb 1999	4 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£60,000
17 Jul 1998	5 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£56,500
30 Jun 1998	18 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£56,000
8 May 1998	6 ME9 9PH	Terraced	£56,000

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

D12

20 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 65 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (11); House, end-terrace (5); House, semi-detached (4). Built: 1967-1975 (11); 1976-1982 (8); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (14 addresses)

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.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£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 E (28% of about 870 homes).

A5%

B8%

C25%

D23%

E28%

F7%

G5%

H0%

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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

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

Height above sea level

The street's 28 addresses are between 16 m and 19 m above sea level (18 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
ME9 9PH	100%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Sittingbourne 2.3 million journeys in 2024–25	2.6 km (1.6 miles)
	Teynham 181,000 journeys in 2024–25	2.7 km (1.7 miles)
	Kemsley 209,000 journeys in 2024–25	4.1 km (2.5 miles)
Bus stops	5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Vauxhall Garage Bapchild	200 m
Car parks	The Swallows Car Park	2.5 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points	MFG Charging Station	3 km (1.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	London Southend Airport SEN	27 km (17 miles)
Nearest large airport	London Gatwick Airport LGW	69.7 km (43 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	The Chestnuts Surgery	1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Pharmacies	1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest H 2 H Pharmacy Limited	1.6 km (1 mile)
NHS dentists	Dental Surgery	2 km (1.2 miles)
Hospital	Sittingbourne Hospital	2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police station	Kent County Constabulary	2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machines	The Cooperative Food Murston, Murston Cashzone	1.5 km (0.9 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,380 m²	90 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)	Unnamed 3,970 m²	100 m
Play area	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 440 m²	120 m
Playing field	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha	700 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments	Unnamed 7,750 m²	1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 0.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Lawrence, a listed building (Grade I), 290 m west. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Church of St Lawrence	Listed building, Grade I	290 m west

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Mill Pond	Lake or reservoir	730 m (0.5 miles) north-east
East Hall Wood	Wood	2 km (1.2 miles) north
Telegraph Hill	Hill	2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Scuttington Wood	Wood	2 km (1.3 miles) south
Kemsley Marshes	Wetland	3.2 km (2 miles) north
Elmley Reach	Tidal water	3.9 km (2.4 miles) north

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	7.7	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	7.0	20	5
Particles (PM10)	12.7	40	15

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
Under 55	28	28

None of the street's 28 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

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

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
Bapchild and Tonge Church of England Primary School and Nursery	Primary	2–11	230 m	No published inspection
Lansdowne Primary School	Primary	4–11	810 m (0.5 miles)	Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Sittingbourne School	Secondary	11–19	890 m (0.6 miles)	Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Canterbury Road Primary School	Primary	4–11	1.5 km (0.9 miles)	No published inspection
Sunny Bank Primary School	Primary	2–11	1.6 km (1 mile)	Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
South Avenue Primary School	Primary	4–11	1.8 km (1.1 miles)	Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
Bapchild And Tonge C Of E School And Nursery ME9 9NL	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	260 m	5 Very good	26 Sep 2025
Caterlink @ Bapchild And Tong CE Primary ME9 9NL	School/college/university	260 m	5 Very good	26 Sep 2025
Hempstead House Hotel ME9 9PP	Hotel/bed & breakfast/guest house	330 m	4 Good	2 Feb 2026

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.

35 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	11
Anti-social behaviour	9
Criminal damage and arson	4
Burglary	3
Vehicle crime	3
Other crime	2
Robbery	2
Other theft	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (9); On or near St Laurence Close (5); On or near The Street (5); On or near Avent Walk (5); On or near Morris Court Close (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: 320 residents in 138 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 street	England
Median age	50	40
Children under 15	13%	17%
Aged 65 and over	27%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	78%	61%
Owned outright	45%	33%
Shared ownership	under 1%	1%
Social rented	14%	17%
Private rented	7%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	57%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	4%	6%
Retired (of adults)	30%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	3%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	29%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	62%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	2%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	2%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	6%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	60%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	17%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	27%	34%
No qualifications	22%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	7%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	99%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	0%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

ME9 9PH: 28 addresses

Nearby streets

Randle Way · Morris Court Close · Doubleday Drive · Avent Walk · St Laurence Close · Wihtred Road · Ashtead Drive · Panteny Lane · The Street · Scoones Close · School Lane · Thornhill Gardens

All the streets in ME9 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.