Parade Canterbury

34 addresses across 8 postcodes (CT1), about 80 m long, classed as a local access road. USRN 5600973.

  • Flood: 6 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 C; Band D in Canterbury costs £2,419 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Canterbury East, about 580 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Canterbury Three Cities Garden, is about 200 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 11 to 14 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 34 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Canterbury Health Centre, about 500 m (0.3 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,040 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 41% of households owned their home and 56% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1,580 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Canterbury in 2026-27: Band D £2,419 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,613£1,882£2,151£2,419£2,957£3,495£4,032£4,839

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (30% of about 1,720 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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, CANTERBURY CITY (Canterbury Conservation Area) Reg 4.12.96 (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 25.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Canterbury and surrounding area. Dated 25.02.2015 effective 25.02.2016, HIGH STREET 3 TO 7, PARADE, THE 11, PARADE, THE 5,6 (The Canterbury City Centre Conservation Area).
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 21 October 2026: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 14 August 2026: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 5 at medium risk and 11 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.

Groundwater flooding is possible in 8 of these postcodes: an address there is in a groundwater flood alert area.

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
CT1 2JLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible
CT1 2SGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 2 possible
CT1 2JSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 possible
CT1 2SHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 possible
CT1 2JHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 5 possible
CT1 2JTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible
CT1 2RYnot in 2 or 3 1 / 3 / 0 possible
CT1 2SQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 possible

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 34 addresses are between 11 m and 14 m above sea level (13 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
CT1 2JH100%0%0%0%
CT1 2JL100%0%0%0%
CT1 2JS100%0%0%0%
CT1 2JT100%0%0%0%
CT1 2RY94%0%0%0%
CT1 2SG100%0%0%0%
CT1 2SH100%0%0%0%
CT1 2SQ100%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 stationsCanterbury East 1.2 million journeys in 2024–25580 m (0.4 miles)
Canterbury West 2.7 million journeys in 2024–25740 m (0.5 miles)
Sturry 112,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Whitefriars Canterbury220 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Canterbury240 m
Car parks6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Whitefriars Car park220 m
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kingsmead Leisure Centre Car Park850 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN42.2 km (26 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN89.4 km (56 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 Canterbury Health Centre500 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Superdrug Pharmacy100 m
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Burgate Dental Practice180 m
HospitalKent & Canterbury Hospital1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationCanterbury Police Station390 m
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Canterbury City Centre NatWest20 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 garden13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Canterbury Three Cities Garden 330 m²200 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Dane John Gardens 2.4 ha280 m
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 110 m²360 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha630 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha690 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 13 parks and gardens, 9.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 1 and 2, High Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 40 m. 840 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 34 of them Grade I and 46 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
1 and 2, High StreetListed building, Grade II*40 m
Canterbury city wallsScheduled monument50 m east
Roman site, Butchery LaneScheduled monument50 m east
Remains of Roman Town HouseListed building, Grade I50 m east
1-8, MERCERY LANE (See details for further address information)Listed building, Grade II*60 m north
40, BurgateListed building, Grade II*60 m north-east
The GuildhallScheduled monument110 m north-west
Canterbury Cathedral, St. Augustine's Abbey and St. Martin's ChurchWorld Heritage Site390 m east
Dane John GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II400 m (0.2 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Solleys OrchardWood380 m north
Bingley IslandIsland760 m (0.5 miles) west
Realm WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Mill StreamLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Timpson WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Golden HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) 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)9.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)11.64015

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
55 to 5910
Under 553334

1 of the street's 34 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 Canterbury: see them on the Canterbury 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
St Peter's Methodist Primary SchoolPrimary4–11310 m No published inspection
St Thomas' Catholic Primary School, Canterbury Roman CatholicPrimary5–11520 m (0.3 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Johns Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–11600 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Barton Court Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18750 m (0.5 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wincheap Foundation Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Canterbury AcademySecondary11–191.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 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; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Barton Manor SchoolSecondary11–191.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
The Canterbury Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Pilgrims' Way Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Stephen's Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Stephen's Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
The Archbishop's School Church of EnglandSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Cornish Bakery CT1 2JLManufacturers/packers20 m5 Very good20 Apr 2026
Amorino CT1 2JLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good7 Sep 2026
MR SIMMS SWEETSHOP CT1 2SGRetailers - other30 m5 Very good3 Sep 2026
Pret A Manger CT1 2JLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good15 Dec 2025
OMAOMA CT1 2JJTakeaway/sandwich shop30 m5 Very good9 Jul 2026
Bird & Blend Tea Co CT1 2SGTakeaway/sandwich shop30 m5 Very good17 May 2024
Wilding Eatery CT1 2JJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good9 Sep 2026
The City Arms Inn CT1 2JRPub/bar/nightclub40 m4 Good24 Jun 2025
Fish Bros CT1 2JHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 mAwaiting inspection
Canterbury Tails Cat Cafe CT1 2JJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good21 Aug 2025
Buenos Aires Nights CT1 2JJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good28 Jul 2025
Cote Brasserie Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good29 Sep 2025
Lazix CT1 2JRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Sep 2025
Old Buttermarket CT1 2HWPub/bar/nightclub50 m5 Very good13 Nov 2025
The Shakespeare CT1 2JRPub/bar/nightclub50 m4 Good15 Jul 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.

1,580 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting425
Violence and sexual offences386
Anti-social behaviour376
Other theft83
Criminal damage and arson80
Public order76
Drugs53
Burglary21
Theft from the person21
Robbery21
Bicycle theft18
Possession of weapons8
Other crime7
Vehicle crime5

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shopping Area (401); On or near Butchery Lane (219); On or near Best Lane (152); On or near Burgate Lane (137); On or near St George'S Lane (106).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,040 residents in 564 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 age3340
Children under 156%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)41%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented54%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van19%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle30%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%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)56%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)85%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway improvement works, 29 October 2026 to 30 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 21 October 2026 to 23 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Chuck And Blade Burgers / Bare Bones (restaurant/cafe/canteen, CT1 2HX) now 3 Generally satisfactory, was 5 Very good (rated 28 September 2026) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The Corner House (restaurant/cafe/canteen, CT1 3HD) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Corner House Canterbury Ltd (restaurant/cafe/canteen, CT1 3HD) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 30 October 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

Mercery Lane · St Peter's Street · St Margarets Street · Butchery Lane · Rose Lane · Long Market · St Margarets Street · Iron Bar Lane · Guildhall Street · Burgate · Whitehorse Lane · Sun Street

All the streets in CT1 and across Canterbury.

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.