Monarch Close Chatham, Medway

47 addresses across 1 postcode (ME5), about 190 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32101329.

  • Sales: 96 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £290,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 33 homes have an energy certificate (C: 23, D: 8, E: 2).
  • 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 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 Chatham, about 3 km (1.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 810 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 79 to 91 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 47 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Churchill Clinic, about 640 m (0.4 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 67% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 129 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£290,000£290,000£290,000
20251£200,000£200,000£200,000
20242£285,500£251,000£320,000
20234£277,500£195,000£286,500
20211£225,000£225,000£225,000
20204£229,000£160,500£285,000
20191£165,000£165,000£165,000
20181£220,000£220,000£220,000
20172£216,500£215,000£218,000
20162£210,000£195,000£225,000
20154£160,000£140,000£175,000
20145£168,000£128,000£195,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 96)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Mar 20261 ME5 7PDSemi-detached£290,000
3 Mar 202536 ME5 7PDTerraced£200,000
16 Aug 202417 ME5 7PDSemi-detached£320,000
16 Jul 202411 ME5 7PDTerraced£251,000
12 Oct 202329 ME5 7PDTerraced£195,000
6 Jul 202334 ME5 7PDSemi-detached£270,000
29 Jun 202342 ME5 7PDTerraced£286,500
3 Apr 202335 ME5 7PDSemi-detached£285,000
22 Aug 202222 ME5 7PDOther£302,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jul 202135 ME5 7PDSemi-detached£225,000
30 Nov 202019 ME5 7PDTerraced£228,000
29 Sep 202036 ME5 7PDTerraced£160,500
8 Sep 202017 ME5 7PDSemi-detached£285,000
1 May 202042 ME5 7PDTerraced£230,000
27 Sep 201928 ME5 7PDTerraced£165,000
29 Mar 201835 ME5 7PDSemi-detached£220,000
7 Sep 201734 ME5 7PDSemi-detached£215,000
16 Jun 201731 ME5 7PDTerraced£218,000
21 Dec 201641 ME5 7PDTerraced£195,000
1 Jun 201614 ME5 7PDSemi-detached£225,000
2 Oct 201532 ME5 7PDTerraced£140,000
31 Jul 20151 ME5 7PDSemi-detached£175,000
5 Jun 201546 ME5 7PDTerraced£165,000
16 Jan 201530 ME5 7PDTerraced£155,000
21 Nov 201444 ME5 7PDTerraced£128,000
10 Nov 201416 ME5 7PDSemi-detached£195,000
10 Nov 201447 ME5 7PDTerraced£168,000
16 Apr 201412 ME5 7PDSemi-detached£173,000
4 Apr 201441 ME5 7PDTerraced£149,995
23 Dec 201311 ME5 7PDTerraced£136,500
15 Mar 201322 ME5 7PDTerraced£131,000
6 Jan 201245 ME5 7PDTerraced£105,000
17 Mar 201127 ME5 7PDTerraced£121,750
20 Dec 201034 ME5 7PDSemi-detached£131,000
26 Aug 200935 ME5 7PDSemi-detached£139,995
21 Nov 200830 ME5 7PDTerraced£132,000
27 Aug 200814 ME5 7PDSemi-detached£165,000
27 Jun 20084 ME5 7PDTerraced£140,000
30 May 200844 ME5 7PDTerraced£124,000
30 Apr 20088 ME5 7PDTerraced£122,500
14 Dec 200720 ME5 7PDTerraced£144,000
2 Aug 20074 ME5 7PDTerraced£137,000
15 Dec 200619 ME5 7PDTerraced£164,995
27 Jul 200626 ME5 7PDSemi-detached£162,000
19 Jul 200630 ME5 7PDTerraced£133,000
26 Oct 200547 ME5 7PDTerraced£130,000
22 Aug 20052 ME5 7PDTerraced£134,000
17 Jun 200538 ME5 7PDSemi-detached£129,000
28 Jan 200534 ME5 7PDSemi-detached£128,000
6 Aug 200417 ME5 7PDSemi-detached£156,000

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 September 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

33 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 57 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (16); House, mid-terrace (14); House, semi-detached (3). Built: 1983-1990 (29); 1976-1982 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (19); rented (private) (5); rented (social) (2).

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 (66% of about 680 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 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 47 addresses are between 79 m and 91 m above sea level (84 m on average); the ground rises about 13 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
ME5 7PD100%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 stationsChatham 2.4 million journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Gillingham (Kent) 2.5 million journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.3 miles)
Rochester 2.1 million journeys in 2024–254.3 km (2.7 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 39 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mermaid Close Princes Park120 m
Bus or coach stationChatham Railway Station3 km (1.9 miles)
Car parksOld Road Car Park3 km (1.8 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station80 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN26.5 km (16 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW55.2 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Churchill Clinic640 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Morrisons Pharmacy140 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Medway Dental Care1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalMedway Maritime Hospital2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationKent undercover police.1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM630 m (0.4 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 930 m²810 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 980 m²550 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,110 m²350 m
AllotmentsStreet End Road Allotment 2.0 ha1.6 km (1 mile)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Fort Luton, a scheduled monument, 1.3 km (0.8 miles) north. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fort LutonScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Fort HorsteadScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Whites WoodWood820 m (0.5 miles) east
Snodhurst BottomValley1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
East HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Couvre Port ReservoirLake or reservoir3.7 km (2.3 miles) north
Chatham NessHeadland3.9 km (2.4 miles) north
Borstal MarshWetland4.2 km (2.6 miles) north-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)11.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

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 5940
Under 554347

4 of the street's 47 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 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
Maundene SchoolPrimary4–11350 m Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Greenacre SchoolSecondary11–18680 m (0.4 miles) Inadequate (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Walderslade SchoolSecondary11–18720 m (0.4 miles) Inadequate (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wayfield Primary SchoolPrimary2–11740 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Urgent improvement; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Urgent improvement; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Kingfisher Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11770 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary4–11860 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Oaklands SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Walderslade Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
New Horizons Children's AcademyPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Lordswood SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Horsted Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Holcombe Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection

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
Morrisons Daily Walderslade ME5 7QBRetailers - other120 m5 Very good11 Jul 2024
Princes Park Pub ME5 7PQPub/bar/nightclub120 m4 Good16 Dec 2025
Walderslade Greggs ME5 7PQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good23 Oct 2025
Newstrack ME5 7PQRetailers - other140 m5 Very good5 Aug 2025
The Curry Kitchen ME5 7PQTakeaway/sandwich shop150 m5 Very good7 May 2026
Waffle Madness ME5 7LQOther catering premises210 m5 Very good4 Nov 2025
Chartwells @ Maundene Primary School ME5 7QBSchool/college/university350 m5 Very good10 Dec 2025
Swallow Risers ME5 7QBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m5 Very good27 Jun 2025
Junior Adventures Group ME5 7QBSchool/college/university350 m5 Very good10 Sep 2024
Chartwells @ Bradfields Academy ME5 0LBSchool/college/university480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Jul 2025
Food2Eat ME5 0LBOther catering premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Apr 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.

129 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences36
Anti-social behaviour26
Shoplifting20
Other theft12
Public order9
Criminal damage and arson7
Vehicle crime5
Drugs5
Burglary3
Robbery3
Theft from the person2
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Emily Road (63); On or near Mermaid Close (16); On or near Dove Close (15); On or near Illustrious Close (14); On or near Henley Close (6).

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: 303 residents in 134 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 age3440
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)67%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented28%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work73%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van69%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band D, house, mid-terrace (lodged 14 October 2026) found 2 November 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

Raleigh Close · Mermaid Close · Illustrious Close · Dove Close · Princes Avenue · Henley Close · Clover Bank View · Ramillies Close · Emily Road · Resolution Close · Charlotte Close · Wren Way

All the streets in ME5 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.