Raphael Road Gravesend, Gravesham

29 addresses across 4 postcodes (DA12), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 15700226.

  • Energy: 22 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 9, E: 4).
  • 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 C; Band D in Gravesham costs £2,408 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 97% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Gravesend, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Waterton Park, is about 260 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 4 to 12 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 29 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Rochester Road Surgery, about 430 m (0.3 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 870 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 56% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 142 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.

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

22 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 85 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (16); House, end-terrace (4); House, detached (2). Built: 1900-1929 (10); before 1900 (7); 1930-1949 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15); rented (private) (6).

Each home's certificates and sales (14 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Gravesham in 2026-27: Band D £2,408 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,605£1,873£2,141£2,408£2,943£3,479£4,014£4,816

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (44% of about 1,840 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 7 August 2026: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)

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 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 14 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 2 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: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
DA12 2QJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
DA12 2QZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DA12 2QYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DA12 2JLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 29 addresses are between 4 m and 12 m above sea level (8 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
DA12 2JL100%97%97%0%
DA12 2QJ100%100%100%0%
DA12 2QY100%100%100%0%
DA12 2QZ100%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 stationsGravesend 2.9 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Tilbury Town 1.1 million journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Northfleet 258,000 journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Milton Ale Shades Denton50 m
Bus or coach stationNorthfleet - Coopers Arms4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Ferry terminalTown Pier Gravesend1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Car parksWalsingham House Bays 1-4 Car Park2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging points9 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station910 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY24.3 km (15 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN50.8 km (32 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rochester Road Surgery430 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lion Pharmacy880 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gravesend Dental Clinic1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalGravesham Community Hospital1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationMetropolitan Police Specialist Training Centre1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machinesATM1.1 km (0.7 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 Waterton Park 8,640 m²260 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Gordon Pleasure Gardens 2.7 ha730 m (0.5 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 340 m²290 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,300 m²450 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.0 ha530 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 5.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Peter and St Paul, a listed building (Grade II*), 170 m west. 18 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Peter and St PaulListed building, Grade II*170 m west
New Tavern FortListed building, Grade II*890 m (0.6 miles) north-west
New Tavern Fort, Gravesend, including Milton ChantryScheduled monument910 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Milton ChantryListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Gravesend blockhouseScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Tilbury FortScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Gravesend CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Westcourt MarshesWetland1 km (0.6 miles) east
Windmill HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Great Clane Lane MarshesWetland1.6 km (1 mile) east
Gravesend ReachTidal water1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Claylane WoodWood3.3 km (2.1 miles) south
New Fish PondLake or reservoir4.1 km (2.5 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)12.94010
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
60 to 6410
55 to 5940
Under 552429

5 of the street's 29 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 Gravesham: see them on the Gravesham 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
St John's Catholic Primary School, Gravesend Roman CatholicPrimary3–11250 m No published inspection
Gravesend Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18340 m No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St John's Catholic Comprehensive Roman CatholicSecondary11–18540 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Chantry Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11720 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Mar 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11910 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Westcourt Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Wrotham Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Whitehill Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Requires improvement (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Tymberwood AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Thamesview SchoolSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mayfield Grammar School, GravesendSecondary11–182 km (1.2 miles) Outstanding (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Milton Express DA12 2JLRetailers - other70 m5 Very good20 Sep 2024
Denton Grocers DA12 2JLRetailers - other70 m5 Very good11 Apr 2025
Milton Ale Shades DA12 2JLPub/bar/nightclub70 m5 Very good13 Feb 2026
Denton Fryer's DA12 2JLTakeaway/sandwich shop70 m5 Very good5 Nov 2025
New Life Takeaway DA12 2QRTakeaway/sandwich shop80 m5 Very good3 Mar 2025
CO-OP DA12 2JLRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets130 m5 Very good17 Feb 2025
Milton Social Club DA12 2PWPub/bar/nightclub170 m5 Very good16 Nov 2025
T(n)S Catering @ Moove Lubricants DA12 2QXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good6 Jan 2025
Nail Perfection Ltd DA12 2PARetailers - other310 mAwaiting inspection
Gravesend Grammar School For Boys DA12 2PRSchool/college/university340 m5 Very good1 Oct 2025
St Johns RC Primary School DA12 2SYSchool/college/university380 m5 Very good14 Feb 2025
Kids Inc Nurseries DA12 2HUSchool/college/university400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good7 May 2025
Premier CJC Convenience Store DA12 2RXRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Feb 2025
Punjabi Bagicha Restaurant, Catering & Events DA12 2RSPub/bar/nightclub420 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory1 May 2026
Usta Pizza Charcoal Grill DA12 2HUTakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Jan 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.

142 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences49
Shoplifting19
Anti-social behaviour17
Criminal damage and arson13
Other theft11
Vehicle crime7
Public order6
Other crime6
Possession of weapons4
Burglary4
Robbery3
Drugs3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (29); On or near Alexandra Road (20); On or near Havengore Avenue (18); On or near Denton Street (9); On or near Empress Road (9).

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: 872 residents in 284 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 1528%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)56%61%
Owned outright19%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented32%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus13%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away16%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)26%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)74%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 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

Range Road · Milton Road · Empress Road · Alexandra Road · Elliott Street · Prince of Wales Close · Artemis Close · Lower Range Road · Waterton Avenue · Raphael Road · Gunfleet Close · The Poplars

All the streets in DA12 and across Gravesham.

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.