Plumtrees Maidstone

19 addresses across 2 postcodes (ME16), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 24201217.

  • Sales: 27 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £456,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 5, 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 D; Band D in Maidstone costs £2,503 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is East Farleigh, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 74 to 81 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 19 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Blackthorn, about 550 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 630 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 75 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£456,000£415,000£470,000
20201£380,000£380,000£380,000
20191£336,000£336,000£336,000
20181£407,000£407,000£407,000
20171£360,000£360,000£360,000
20161£310,000£310,000£310,000
20151£300,000£300,000£300,000
20141£282,500£282,500£282,500
20131£250,000£250,000£250,000
20112£247,250£247,000£247,500
20101£249,900£249,900£249,900
20091£220,000£220,000£220,000
Most recent sales (27)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Oct 202511 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£415,000
3 Mar 20253 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£456,000
15 Jan 202515 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£470,000
27 Feb 20209 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£380,000
4 Jan 201911 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£336,000
8 Feb 20185 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£407,000
8 Dec 201718 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£360,000
4 Jul 201614 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£310,000
28 Aug 201511 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£300,000
4 Apr 201413 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£282,500
17 Oct 201320 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£250,000
28 Sep 201115 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£247,500
1 Apr 201113 ME16 9JHDetached£247,000
15 Apr 201020 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£249,900
29 Jul 20096 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£220,000
10 May 200718 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£257,500
17 Oct 20064 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£245,000
28 Jun 200513 ME16 9JHDetached£243,000
9 Jul 200411 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£205,000
12 Jul 20023 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£156,000
11 Jul 200218 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£172,000
13 Nov 200116 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£167,000
30 Jun 199913 ME16 9JHDetached£116,000
1 Mar 199911 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£91,000
21 Aug 199814 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£111,000
22 Dec 19979 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£90,000
10 Mar 199510 ME16 9JHSemi-detached£62,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 93 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (12). Built: 1950-1966 (8); 1930-1949 (2); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Maidstone in 2026-27: Band D £2,503 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,668£1,946£2,225£2,503£3,059£3,615£4,171£5,005

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (54% of about 630 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.

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

  • 15/502970: up to 57 homes, permissioned (430 m (0.3 miles))
  • 13/1709: up to 14 homes, not permissioned (680 m (0.4 miles))

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

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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
ME16 9JHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME16 9JJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 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 19 addresses are between 74 m and 81 m above sea level (79 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
ME16 9JH100%100%100%0%
ME16 9JJ100%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 stationsEast Farleigh 39,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Barming 237,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.3 miles)
Maidstone West 561,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 32 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Long Rede Lane Barming Heath130 m
Bus or coach stationEast Farleigh - Bull Inn1.7 km (1 mile)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parking space on Tarragon Road, ME16550 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging pointsPoGo Charge2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN37 km (23 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW48.3 km (30 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 Blackthorn550 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Barming Pharmacy510 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Barming Dental Care690 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalGstt @ Maidstone Hospital850 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationKent Police Tactical Operations2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machinesKent Broadway News Ltd1 km (0.6 miles)

Parks and green space

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

NearestDistance
Park or gardenUnnamed 1.8 ha1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,040 m²240 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha150 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,020 m²220 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Barming Place, a listed building (Grade II*), 270 m south-west. 19 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Barming PlaceListed building, Grade II*270 m south-west
East Farleigh Bridge, over the MedwayScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fullingpits WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north
West WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Mill PondLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Loose ValleyValley3.1 km (1.9 miles) south-east
Barn HillHill3.9 km (2.4 miles) south
Upper CutTidal water4.4 km (2.7 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)8.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)11.24015

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 551819

1 of the street's 19 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 Maidstone: see them on the Maidstone 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
Barming Primary SchoolPrimary2–11440 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Jubilee Primary SchoolPrimary2–11690 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
West Borough Primary SchoolPrimary3–11880 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Francis' Catholic Primary School, Maidstone Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oakwood Park Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Simon Stock Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Augustine Academy Church of EnglandSecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Nisa ME16 9JNRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets190 m5 Very good5 Mar 2018
Duke Of Edinburgh ME16 9LQPub/bar/nightclub220 mAwaiting inspection
Sainsbury's ME16 9LNRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets330 m5 Very good17 Apr 2019
Melad Tandoori ME16 9LWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good12 Jun 2025
Barming Pre-School ME16 9DYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Sep 2020
Nourish Contract Catering At Barming Primary School Catering ME16 9DYSchool/college/university430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Oct 2026
Barming Primary School Breakfast Club ME16 9DYSchool/college/university430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Sep 2025
Albright Childrens Home ME16 9NRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Jul 2025

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.

75 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences43
Criminal damage and arson11
Anti-social behaviour9
Other theft5
Drugs3
Burglary2
Other crime1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Silverdale (23); On or near Woodleas (10); On or near Nicholas Close (8); On or near Mill Walk (6); On or near St Davids Gate (6).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 629 residents in 251 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 age4540
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%61%
Owned outright46%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%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 9 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

Silverdale · Chervilles · Beverley Road · St Davids Gate · Woodleas · The Dunnings · Hurst Way · Halfpenny Close · Long Rede Lane · Northfields · Mill Walk · Heath Grove

All the streets in ME16 and across Maidstone.

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.