May Road Hawley, Dartford

13 addresses across 3 postcodes (DA2), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 10500882.

  • Sales: 15 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £460,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 5, E: 1).
  • Flood: 2 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 D; Band D in Dartford costs £2,375 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Farningham Road, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Central Park, is about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 29 to 32 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 11 of its 13 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Dr Cj Shimmins & Partners, about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 89% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 38 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
20261£460,000£460,000£460,000
20222£441,250£412,500£470,000
20211£410,000£410,000£410,000
20191£360,000£360,000£360,000
20181£365,000£365,000£365,000
20161£360,000£360,000£360,000
20151£220,000£220,000£220,000
20131£242,000£242,000£242,000
20091£192,000£192,000£192,000
20081£244,000£244,000£244,000
20071£257,500£257,500£257,500
20051£220,000£220,000£220,000
Most recent sales (15)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 May 202611 DA2 7RUSemi-detached£460,000
9 Dec 20221 DA2 7RUSemi-detached£470,000
8 Dec 20224 DA2 7RUSemi-detached£412,500
28 Jun 20215 DA2 7RUDetached£410,000
27 Sep 20194 DA2 7RUSemi-detached£360,000
19 Dec 201815 DA2 7RUTerraced£365,000
21 Oct 20162 DA2 7RUSemi-detached£360,000
30 Mar 20151 DA2 7RUSemi-detached£220,000
29 Nov 20134 DA2 7RUSemi-detached£242,000
9 Jul 20093 DA2 7RUSemi-detached£192,000
25 Jun 200811 DA2 7RUSemi-detached£244,000
13 Nov 200715 DA2 7RUTerraced£257,500
21 Jan 20054 DA2 7RUSemi-detached£220,000
22 Oct 20043 DA2 7RUSemi-detached£172,500
24 Oct 19977 DA2 7RUDetached£117,500

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 dates from April 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (4); House, end-terrace (2); Bungalow, semi-detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (8); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Dartford in 2026-27: Band D £2,375 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,583£1,847£2,111£2,375£2,903£3,431£3,959£4,750

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (49% of about 730 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.

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
DA2 7RUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DA2 7RTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DA2 7SBnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 1 unlikely

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

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

Height above sea level

The street's 13 addresses are between 29 m and 32 m above sea level (30 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
DA2 7RT100%0%0%0%
DA2 7RU100%0%0%0%
DA2 7SB96%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 stationsFarningham Road 132,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Dartford 4.8 million journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.8 miles)
Stone Crossing 319,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shirehall Road Hawley450 m (0.3 miles)
Bus or coach stationStone Crossing - Horns Cross3.8 km (2.3 miles)
Ferry terminalWest Street Pier Gravesend10.3 km (6.4 miles)
Car parksApcoa2.5 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station2 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY15 km (9.3 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW41.8 km (26 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 surgeriesDr Cj Shimmins & Partners2.2 km (1.4 miles)
PharmaciesThe Brent Pharmacy2.2 km (1.4 miles)
NHS dentistsKreate Dental Dartford1.9 km (1.2 miles)
HospitalPhysio Livingstone Community Hospital2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationSwanley Police Station4.6 km (2.9 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Hawley Road, Wilmington Cashzone1.4 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.

NearestDistance
Park or gardenCentral Park 13 ha1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 90 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest King George's Field 9,130 m²500 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha120 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Columbarium at Hawley Manor Dovecote to South West of Hawley Manor, a listed building (Grade II*), 470 m (0.3 miles) north. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Columbarium at Hawley Manor Dovecote to South West of Hawley ManorListed building, Grade II*470 m (0.3 miles) north
Dovecote at Hawley ManorScheduled monument470 m (0.3 miles) north
A preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers, known as St John's Jerusalem, and an associated fishpond at Sutton-at-HoneScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
A major Roman villa, an Anglo-Saxon settlement and prehistoric remains 600m SSE of Darenth Court FarmScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The AldersWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Brooklands LakeLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) north
Swanley BottomValley1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Great MountHill2.8 km (1.8 miles) west
Dartford Fresh MarshesWetland3.8 km (2.4 miles) north
Crayford CreekTidal water4.4 km (2.7 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)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)13.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.1205
Particles (PM10)14.94015

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 59110
Under 55213

11 of the street's 13 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 Dartford: see them on the Dartford 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
Sutton-At-Hone Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Oakfield Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Sir Geoffrey Leigh AcademySecondary11–191.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
North Kent College16 plus16–991.9 km (1.2 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
Hawley Garden Centre & Nursery Ltd DA2 7RBRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Peter Pan Pre- School DA2 7RBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 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.

38 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences17
Anti-social behaviour5
Other theft5
Drugs3
Public order2
Burglary2
Possession of weapons1
Criminal damage and arson1
Theft from the person1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cross Road (19); On or near Mill Road (7); On or near Alfred Road (5); On or near Harold Road (2); On or near Ash Road (2).

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: 340 residents in 130 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 age4240
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)89%61%
Owned outright44%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle1%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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.

  • DA2 7RU: 11 addresses of 12 in the postcode
  • DA2 7RT: 1 address of 39 in the postcode
  • DA2 7SB: 1 address of 29 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Bott Road · Ash Road · Cross Road · Harold Road · Alfred Road · Saxon Road · Mill Road · Burnt House Lane · Ethelbert Road · Shirehall Road

All the streets in DA2 and across Dartford.

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.