North Lane Folkestone

13 addresses across 2 postcodes (CT20), about 40 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 34500796.

  • Sales: 5 recorded sales since 1995; in 2020 the median was £280,088 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 3, E: 1, G: 1).
  • Flood: 14 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Folkestone and Hythe costs £2,539 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Folkestone West, about 1.4 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Sandgate Community Garden, is about 550 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 8 to 14 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 13 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Sandgate Road, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 180 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 46% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 63 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
20201£280,088£280,088£280,088
20162£183,750£165,000£202,500
Most recent sales (5)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Oct 20251 CT20 3ASOther£280,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Nov 20202, UNDERCLIFF COTTAGES CT20 3ASTerraced£280,088
13 Nov 20181 CT20 3ASOther£200,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Oct 20163, UNDERCLIFF COTTAGES CT20 3ASTerraced£202,500
24 Jun 20162, UNDERCLIFF COTTAGES CT20 3ASTerraced£165,000

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

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 69 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (3); House, end-terrace (2); House, semi-detached (1). Built: before 1900 (4); 2012 onwards (1); Pre-1900 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Folkestone and Hythe in 2026-27: Band D £2,539 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,693£1,975£2,257£2,539£3,103£3,667£4,231£5,078

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (30% of about 960 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, Sandgate High Street (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 2.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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, 12 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 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: of the 6 homes the Environment Agency counts, 4 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 1 low and 0 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CT20 3ASnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CT20 3BXzone 3 11 / 2 / 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 8 m and 14 m above sea level (12 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
CT20 3AS100%100%100%0%
CT20 3BX100%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 stationsFolkestone West 970,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.8 miles)
Folkestone Central 817,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Sandling 75,000 journeys in 2024–255.8 km (3.6 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Crescent Sandgate20 m
Ferry terminalFolkestone Eurotunnel Terminal3.1 km (2 miles)
Car parksApcoa1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points12 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Castle Road Car Park200 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN63.6 km (40 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW93.5 km (58 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 Sandgate Road1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Folkestone Pharmacy1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Neka Wellbeing Sandgate100 m
HospitalRoyal Victoria Hospital (Folkestone)2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationFolkestone Police Station1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Village Shop, Sandgate Cashzone20 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sandgate Community Garden 660 m²550 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Lower Leas Coastal Park 18 ha790 m (0.5 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 780 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sandgate Recreation Ground 1.6 ha320 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,180 m²1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 18 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Martello tower no 6, Sandgate, Folkestone, a scheduled monument, 240 m north-west. 89 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Martello tower no 6, Sandgate, FolkestoneScheduled monument240 m north-west
Sandgate CastleScheduled monument290 m east
Sandgate CastleListed building, Grade I290 m east
Martello tower no 5 at Folkestone School for GirlsScheduled monument500 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Wells HouseListed building, Grade II*550 m (0.3 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sandgate beachBeach680 m (0.4 miles) west
Radnor CliffCliff or slope1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
West CliffCliff or slope2 km (1.2 miles) east
Fishing PondLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Casebourne WoodWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Cherry Garden HillHill2.8 km (1.8 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)6.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)9.94015

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)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
70 to 7410
60 to 6410
55 to 5930
Under 55813

5 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 Folkestone and Hythe: see them on the Folkestone and Hythe 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
The Folkestone School for GirlsSecondary11–18550 m (0.3 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sandgate Primary SchoolPrimary4–11820 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
All Soul's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Harvey Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Morehall Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Seabrook Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cheriton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Turner Free SchoolSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Folkestone, St Martin's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding

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
Mr Whippets Cafe CT20 3BXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen10 m5 Very good5 Mar 2026
Sandgate Members Club CT20 3ARPub/bar/nightclub10 m5 Very good5 Dec 2025
The Village Shop CT20 3BXRetailers - other10 m5 Very good11 Aug 2025
Orchard Lane Coffee House CT20 3BXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m5 Very good2 Sep 2026
The Famous Ship Inn CT20 3AHPub/bar/nightclub50 m5 Very good3 Jul 2024
Loaf CT20 3AHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good26 Nov 2025
Sandgate Deli CT20 3BYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good14 Oct 2026
Green Spice Tandoori CT20 3AHOther catering premises70 m5 Very good31 May 2024
The Boat House Kiosk CT20 3ALMobile caterer70 m5 Very good3 May 2018
Roka Pizza CT20 3BYTakeaway/sandwich shop80 m5 Very good25 Oct 2024
The Dog House CT20 3BYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good14 Jan 2024
The Fat Raj CT20 3BYTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m3 Generally satisfactory26 Nov 2025
The Providence Inn CT20 3AHPub/bar/nightclub100 m5 Very good17 Jan 2024
Noi's Thai Provi Takeaway CT20 3AHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good25 Mar 2026
Docker Taproom CT20 3BYPub/bar/nightclub100 m5 Very good2 Oct 2023

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.

63 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences25
Anti-social behaviour24
Other theft4
Criminal damage and arson4
Drugs3
Public order1
Burglary1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Crescent (15); On or near Granville Place (12); On or near Parking Area (7); On or near Granville Parade West (6); On or near Gough Road (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: 181 residents in 121 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 age6140
Children under 157%17%
Aged 65 and over41%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)46%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented47%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work45%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)44%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away21%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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.

  • CT20 3AS: 12 addresses of 13 in the postcode
  • CT20 3BX: 1 address of 22 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Granville Parade West · Sea Walk · The Parade · Parade Road · Gough Road · Granville Parade · The Crescent · Granville Road East · Undercliff · Bybrook Field · Sandgate High Street · Sandgate Esplanade

All the streets in CT20 and across Folkestone and Hythe.

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.