Phoenix Road Chatham, Medway

68 addresses across 7 postcodes (ME5), about 630 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 32101482.

  • Sales: 64 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £220,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 42 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, C: 22, D: 18, 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 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 5.4 km (3.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Opal Green, is about 410 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 137 to 156 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 12 of its 68 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Reach Healthcare, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 56 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
20253£220,000£210,000£275,000
20231£285,000£285,000£285,000
20213£272,500£220,000£317,000
20201£210,000£210,000£210,000
20193£212,000£209,400£226,000
20183£215,000£205,000£217,500
20173£230,000£191,500£235,000
20162£198,250£195,000£201,500
20152£155,000£155,000£155,000
20141£150,000£150,000£150,000
20121£150,000£150,000£150,000
20112£127,500£125,000£130,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 64)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Mar 202610 ME5 8RUTerraced£235,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 May 202538 ME5 8TBTerraced£210,000
15 May 202542 ME5 8TASemi-detached£275,000
10 Jan 20252 ME5 8RUTerraced£220,000
20 Dec 202359 ME5 8SYTerraced£285,000
8 Oct 202147 ME5 8SYSemi-detached£272,500
14 May 202131 ME5 8SYDetached£317,000
19 Mar 20214 ME5 8RUTerraced£220,000
31 Jan 202013 ME5 8SUTerraced£210,000
29 Nov 201946 ME5 8TATerraced£209,400
24 May 201923 ME5 8STTerraced£212,000
18 Feb 201956 ME5 8TATerraced£226,000
10 Dec 201857 ME5 8SYTerraced£217,500
25 Oct 201865 ME5 8SYSemi-detached£205,000
12 Oct 201811 ME5 8SUTerraced£215,000
24 Aug 20175 ME5 8SUTerraced£191,500
24 Jul 201763 ME5 8SYTerraced£235,000
14 Jul 201752 ME5 8TATerraced£230,000
14 Apr 201660 ME5 8TATerraced£201,500
8 Jan 201612 ME5 8RUTerraced£195,000
13 Nov 201528 ME5 8TBTerraced£190,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 May 201523 ME5 8STTerraced£155,000
5 Jan 201511 ME5 8SUTerraced£155,000
27 Jun 201417 ME5 8SUTerraced£150,000
27 Sep 201230 ME5 8TBTerraced£150,000
29 Nov 201118 ME5 8RUTerraced£125,000
15 Nov 20114 ME5 8RUTerraced£130,000
5 Jul 201039 ME5 8SYTerraced£130,950
3 Aug 200918 ME5 8RUTerraced£130,000
3 Dec 200763 ME5 8SYTerraced£169,000
5 Jul 200725 ME5 8STTerraced£144,000
20 Dec 200612 ME5 8RUSemi-detached£128,000
25 Aug 200612 ME5 8RUSemi-detached£120,000
27 Jul 200652 ME5 8TATerraced£140,000
24 Jul 200631 ME5 8SYDetached£170,000
26 Jun 200622 ME5 8TBTerraced£154,995
9 Nov 200511 ME5 8SUTerraced£135,000
1 Jun 200539 ME5 8SYTerraced£100,000
12 Aug 200440 ME5 8TBTerraced£145,000
22 Sep 20034 ME5 8RUTerraced£105,000
18 Jun 200330 ME5 8TBTerraced£132,950
9 May 20038 ME5 8RUTerraced£105,000
12 Dec 200252 ME5 8TATerraced£99,950
2 Sep 200241 ME5 8SYDetached£95,000
28 Jun 200219 ME5 8SUTerraced£45,000Leasehold.
15 Mar 200215 ME5 8SUTerraced£95,000
14 Sep 200126 ME5 8TBTerraced£79,995
6 Jul 200110 ME5 8RUTerraced£65,000
30 Apr 200155 ME5 8SYTerraced£65,000
21 Dec 200013 ME5 8SUTerraced£68,000

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 June 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

42 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (19); House, end-terrace (18); House, semi-detached (4). Built: 1967-1975 (23); 1950-1966 (10); 1976-1982 (8). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (26); rented (social) (7); rented (private) (6).

Each home's certificates and sales (24 addresses)

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (44% of about 1,340 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: 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.

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 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 4 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
ME5 8SYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
ME5 8TAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME5 8RUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME5 8SUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
ME5 8TBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME5 8STnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME5 8TGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely

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

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

Height above sea level

The street's 68 addresses are between 137 m and 156 m above sea level (147 m on average); the ground rises about 19 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 8RU100%100%100%0%
ME5 8ST100%100%100%0%
ME5 8SU100%100%100%0%
ME5 8SY100%100%100%0%
ME5 8TA100%100%100%0%
ME5 8TB100%100%100%0%
ME5 8TG100%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 2024–255.4 km (3.4 miles)
Gillingham (Kent) 2.5 million journeys in 2024–256 km (3.7 miles)
Aylesford 185,000 journeys in 2024–256.2 km (3.9 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lordswood Close100 m
Bus or coach stationChatham Railway Station5.4 km (3.4 miles)
Car parksHempstead Valley Purple Car Park2.7 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station2.3 km (1.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN28.5 km (18 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW54.6 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Reach Healthcare1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lordswood Pharmacy350 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lordswood Healthy Living Centre430 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSpire Alexandra Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationKent undercover police.4.1 km (2.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone360 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Opal Green 400 m²410 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Mead Green 3,230 m²770 m (0.5 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 760 m²470 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.0 ha940 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsHatton Road Allotment 3,080 m²830 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 0.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hall WoodWood490 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Round WoodWood550 m (0.3 miles) south
Tunbury WoodWood600 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Coal BottomValley920 m (0.6 miles) west
East HillHill2.9 km (1.8 miles) north
Oak Springs LakeLake or reservoir4.9 km (3.1 miles) south

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)10.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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 59120
Under 555668

12 of the street's 68 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), 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
Swingate Primary SchoolPrimary3–11390 m No published inspection
St Benedict's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11540 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Lordswood SchoolPrimary3–11870 m (0.5 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
Tunbury Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Walderslade Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 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 SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Pilscare ME5 8RUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 mExempt
Farmhouse Pizza ME5 8THOther catering premises340 m5 Very good22 Sep 2026
Tesco Express ME5 8THRetailers - other350 m4 Good25 Jun 2025
Premier Store ME5 8THRetailers - other360 m5 Very good27 Feb 2026
Lordswood Chinese Takeaway ME5 8THTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m4 Good26 Feb 2026
Lordswood Cafe ME5 8THRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Jun 2026
Spice Village ME5 8THOther catering premises380 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Mar 2026
Lordswood Kebab ME5 8THTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m5 Very good12 Mar 2025
Independent Catering Management ME5 8TJSchool/college/university430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Jul 2025
GROWERS DIRECT LIMITED ME5 8UDRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Aug 2026
The Kent Autistic Trust ME5 8TJOther catering premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Mar 2023
Lordswood Under Fives Playgroup ME5 8PGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Mar 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.

56 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences26
Anti-social behaviour10
Criminal damage and arson7
Other theft6
Vehicle crime3
Other crime2
Burglary1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cygnet Road (14); On or near Bulldog Road (12); On or near Rover Road (9); On or near Hamwick Green (7); On or near Tuscan Drive (5).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,336 residents in 505 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 age3740
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%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)17%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 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

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

Rover Road · Hamwick Green · Tuscan Drive · Renown Road · Achilles Road · Bower Green · Cygnet Road · Lords Wood Close · Bulldog Road · Croft Close · Bartlett Close · Albion Road

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.