Mill Close Rochester, Medway

23 addresses across 2 postcodes (ME2), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32101309.

  • Sales: 24 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £370,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 13, E: 1).
  • 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 C; 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 Strood (Kent), about 740 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Broom Hill Park, is about 620 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 50 to 60 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 23 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Apex Medical Centre, about 670 m (0.4 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 88% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 76 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£370,000£370,000£370,000
20231£420,000£420,000£420,000
20221£400,000£400,000£400,000
20212£295,000£280,000£310,000
20181£241,000£241,000£241,000
20171£279,000£279,000£279,000
20141£447,000£447,000£447,000
20133£195,000£151,250£287,000
20121£150,000£150,000£150,000
20101£210,000£210,000£210,000
20091£182,000£182,000£182,000
20072£242,000£207,000£277,000
Most recent sales (24)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 Feb 20254 ME2 3DATerraced£370,000
20 Feb 202315 ME2 3DADetached£420,000
19 Aug 20229 ME2 3DASemi-detached£400,000
12 Mar 20217 ME2 3DASemi-detached£280,000
8 Mar 202114 ME2 3DASemi-detached£310,000
18 Jun 20183 ME2 3DATerraced£241,000
30 Nov 20178 ME2 3DATerraced£279,000
29 Sep 201422 ME2 3DADetached£447,000
27 Sep 20139 ME2 3DASemi-detached£195,000
22 Feb 20138 ME2 3DATerraced£151,250
29 Jan 201316 ME2 3DASemi-detached£287,000
14 May 201210 ME2 3DATerraced£150,000
6 Dec 20104 ME2 3DATerraced£210,000
10 Dec 20097 ME2 3DASemi-detached£182,000
20 Dec 20079 ME2 3DASemi-detached£207,000
9 Mar 200716 ME2 3DASemi-detached£277,000
29 Sep 200322 ME2 3DADetached£328,000
22 Aug 20035 ME2 3DASemi-detached£139,655
26 Mar 20039 ME2 3DASemi-detached£138,000
22 May 200217 ME2 3DASemi-detached£100,000
29 Aug 20017 ME2 3DASemi-detached£108,000
8 Oct 199916 ME2 3DASemi-detached£89,500
17 Sep 19992 ME2 3DATerraced£79,000
9 Mar 199822 ME2 3DADetached£175,000

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

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 90 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (4); House, mid-terrace (4); House, semi-detached (3). Built: 1950-1966 (9); 1930-1949 (4); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12).

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 C (42% of about 650 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): Strood North & Frindsbury.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 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 on this street 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 23 addresses are between 50 m and 60 m above sea level (55 m on average); the ground rises about 11 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
ME2 3BT100%100%100%0%
ME2 3DA100%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 stationsStrood (Kent) 1.2 million journeys in 2024–25740 m (0.5 miles)
Rochester 2.1 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Chatham 2.4 million journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 37 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Clarendon Drive Frindsbury190 m
Bus or coach stationWaterfront Bus Station Chatham2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Ferry terminalTown Pier Gravesend10 km (6.2 miles)
Car parksRochester Riverside Multi-Storey Car Park1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Commercial Road Car Park900 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN23.1 km (14 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW55.4 km (34 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apex Medical Centre670 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gl Strood LTD310 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gm Dental And Implant Centre890 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalMedway Maritime Hospital4.1 km (2.5 miles)
Police stationMedway Police Station3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM940 m (0.6 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Broom Hill Park 4.7 ha620 m (0.4 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,240 m²180 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,530 m²160 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cromer Road Yoke Close Allotment 4,520 m²310 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 5.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Mary, a listed building (Grade II*), 540 m (0.3 miles) south. 26 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*540 m (0.3 miles) south
Parish Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*680 m (0.4 miles) east
Barn 30 Yards South West of the Manor HouseListed building, Grade I920 m (0.6 miles) east
Bridge ChapelScheduled monument1.4 km (0.8 miles) south
Rochester CastleScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Temple Manor, StroodScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south
The Officers' Terrace, the Historic Dockyard, ChathamRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.4 km (1.5 miles) east
Jewish Burial Ground, Chatham Memorial SynagogueRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Broom HillHill890 m (0.6 miles) west
Bridge ReachTidal water1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Gashouse PointWetland1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Limehouse ReachTidal water1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Gundulph PoolLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Ordnance PlantationWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east

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)11.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)13.04015

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 552223

1 of the street's 23 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), 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11260 m Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hilltop Primary SchoolPrimary3–11380 m No published inspection
Temple Mill Primary SchoolPrimary3–11420 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
All Faiths Children's AcademyPrimary3–11590 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gordons Children's Academy, JuniorPrimary7–11760 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gordons Children's Academy, InfantPrimary5–7760 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Maritime AcademySecondary11–19770 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Nicholas CEVC Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11890 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Wainscott Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rochester Riverside Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Elaine Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Sep 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Shaws Wood Care Home ME2 3BUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises80 m5 Very good7 Apr 2026
Coco Basil ME2 3XAOther catering premises90 m5 Very good19 Jun 2026
Millstream House ME2 3BTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m5 Very good10 Oct 2025
Kingsdown House ME2 3DEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m4 Good20 May 2025
Grafton Lodge Residential Home ME2 3DEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good11 Nov 2025
Lizbis Care Home ME2 3DBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m5 Very good2 Jun 2025
Unique News And Food ME2 4RARetailers - other240 m5 Very good19 Jun 2026
ME2 Local Food And Wine ME2 4RARetailers - other250 m5 Very good12 May 2024
Rainbow Day Nursery ME2 4JAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m5 Very good22 Aug 2025
The Ship ME2 4RAPub/bar/nightclub270 m5 Very good17 Sep 2026
Frindsbury Grills & Pizza ME2 4HYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m4 Good5 Feb 2026
New Shad ME2 4HYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good7 Jun 2024
Denis Hills Quality Butcher ME2 4HYRetailers - other320 m3 Generally satisfactory4 Dec 2025
Frindsbury Grill ME2 4JBTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m5 Very good6 Mar 2025
Kadesh ME2 4TDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good21 Jun 2024

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.

76 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences31
Criminal damage and arson12
Anti-social behaviour10
Other theft8
Burglary5
Vehicle crime4
Public order4
Robbery1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bill Street Road (18); On or near Mill Road (8); On or near Goddington Road (6); On or near Yalding Close (6); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (5).

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: 360 residents in 113 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 age4940
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)88%61%
Owned outright38%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)11%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)52%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

Nearby streets

Everest Lane · Mill Road · Ravenswood Avenue · Lyle Close · Yalding Close · Prospect Avenue · Windmill Close · Windmill Street · Millpond Close · West Street · Hancock Close · Cooling Road

All the streets in ME2 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.