Pumpmakers Way Gillingham, Medway

11 addresses across 2 postcodes (ME4), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32103159.

  • Sales: 10 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £450,000 across 5 sales.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (B: 10).
  • 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 Medway costs £2,329 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Gillingham (Kent), about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 300 m away, and Lower Lines Park (5.6 hectares) is about 530 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 5 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Maritime Health Partnership, about 700 m (0.4 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 410 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 41% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 61 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
20235£450,000£439,000£470,000
20225£460,000£450,000£475,000
Most recent sales (10)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Dec 20233 ME4 4FWTerraced£439,000New build.
7 Sep 20236 ME4 4FWTerraced£450,000New build.
31 Aug 20234 ME4 4FWTerraced£450,000New build.
30 Jun 20238 ME4 4FWTerraced£450,000New build.
31 Mar 20232 ME4 4FWTerraced£470,000New build.
19 Dec 20227 ME4 4FWTerraced£450,000New build.
26 Aug 20221 ME4 4FWTerraced£470,000New build.
5 Aug 20225 ME4 4FWTerraced£460,000New build.
30 Jun 202210 ME4 4FWTerraced£475,000New build.
27 May 20229 ME4 4FWTerraced£458,000New build.

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 April 2022 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 127 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (6); House, end-terrace (4). Built: 2018 (10).

Council tax

What each band costs in Medway in 2026-27: Band D £2,329 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,552£1,811£2,070£2,329£2,846£3,363£3,881£4,657

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (37% of about 1,890 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)

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 17 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 39 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 39 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
ME4 4FWzone 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
ME4 4FYzone 3 0 / 0 / 13 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 addresses are about 5 m above sea level.

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
ME4 4FW100%100%100%0%
ME4 4FY100%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 stationsGillingham (Kent) 2.5 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Chatham 2.4 million journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Rochester 2.1 million journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ship and Trades Chatham Maritime220 m
Bus or coach stationWaterfront Bus Station Chatham2 km (1.3 miles)
Ferry terminalTown Pier Gravesend12.9 km (8 miles)
Car parksOld Road Car Park2.5 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Allego Charging Station250 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN21.7 km (13 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN57.9 km (36 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 Maritime Health Partnership700 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Island Pharmacy650 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chatham Dental Centre1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalMedway Maritime Hospital2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationMedway Police Station700 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machinesBest ONE Brompton, Brompton Cashzone1.2 km (0.8 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.7 ha300 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Lower Lines Park 5.6 ha530 m (0.3 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 960 m²70 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 5,150 m²920 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsBlack Lion Mill Road Allotment 3,450 m²900 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 17 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Number 8 Machine Shop, a listed building (Grade II*), 280 m north-west. 56 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade I and 13 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Number 8 Machine ShopListed building, Grade II*280 m north-west
BoilershopListed building, Grade II*390 m west
Chatham Dockyard, the Lower Boat StoreScheduled monument610 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Lower Boat StoreListed building, Grade II*610 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Chatham Dockyard, the Mast PondScheduled monument690 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Chatham Dockyard, the Expense Account Department, Wages DivisionScheduled monument720 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Number 7 Slip Cover and Machine Shop Number 3Listed building, Grade I860 m (0.5 miles) south-west
The Officers' Terrace, the Historic Dockyard, ChathamRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Jewish Burial Ground, Chatham Memorial SynagogueRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
St Mary's IslandIsland520 m (0.3 miles) north
Mast PondLake or reservoir680 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Finsborough NessWetland920 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Cockham WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Tower HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Snodhurst BottomValley4.5 km (2.8 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)13.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)12.34015

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
Under 551111

None of the street's 11 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Medway: see them on the Medway page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Waterfront UTCSecondary14–19680 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
MidKent College16 plus16–99790 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Mary's Island Church of England (Aided) Primary SchoolPrimary3–11800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Burnt Oak Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oasis Academy Skinner StreetPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Saxon Way Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
St Mary's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brompton-Westbrook Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Brunch Bar ME4 4FYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good3 Jun 2026
The Deep End ME4 4AGOther catering premises280 m5 Very good19 Nov 2025
Baxterstorey @ University Of Greenwich ME4 4UFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good6 Feb 2025
Co-Op ME4 3ERRetailers - other320 m4 Good8 Jul 2025
The Ship \& Trades ME4 3ERPub/bar/nightclub330 m5 Very good21 Oct 2025
Ship And Trades Fish Bar ME4 3ERTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good14 Oct 2025
Ernestos ME4 3EDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m4 Good13 Aug 2025
The Range ME4 3EDRetailers - other390 m5 Very good23 Oct 2023
Holland & Barrett ME4 3EDRetailers - other390 m5 Very good12 Jun 2025
Marks & Spencer ME4 3EDRetailers - other390 mExempt
Card Factory ME4 3EDRetailers - other390 mExempt
Ru Cafe Limited ME4 3EDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good28 Jul 2026
Pad Thai Live ME4 3EDOther catering premises390 m5 Very good13 Nov 2025
Bubbleo Tree ME4 3EDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good25 Nov 2025
Food Shed Food Hut ME4 3EDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good10 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.

61 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences22
Drugs13
Other theft7
Criminal damage and arson7
Anti-social behaviour5
Vehicle crime3
Possession of weapons2
Bicycle theft1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Wheelwrights Way (22); On or near Barrack Road (16); On or near Starboard Crescent (10); On or near Quayside (7); On or near Further/Higher Educational Building (4).

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: 411 residents in 115 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 age2440
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and overunder 1%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)41%61%
Owned outright3%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented53%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)19%6%
Retired (of adults)1%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram9%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)48%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away23%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)39%34%
No qualifications3%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)78%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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

Wheelwrights Way · Portside View · Bricklayers Way · Quarterdeck Walk · Starboard Crescent · Pier Road · Wheelwrights Way · Maritime Way · Central Avenue · Maritime Way · Maritime Way · Restharrow Way

All the streets in ME4 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.