Rooks View Keycol, Swale

39 addresses across 2 postcodes (ME9), about 380 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 39002109.

  • Sales: 73 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £650,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 28 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 26, D: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Swale costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Newington, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 54 to 62 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 39 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Meads Medical Practice, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away.
  • People: About 480 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 7 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
20261£650,000£650,000£650,000
20253£660,000£640,000£725,000
20232£613,500£600,000£627,000
20226£667,500£620,000£795,000
20214£652,500£590,000£675,000
20203£565,000£485,000£690,000
20182£503,750£457,500£550,000
20174£525,000£500,000£580,000
20162£532,500£515,000£550,000
20155£492,000£485,000£520,000
20141£462,500£462,500£462,500
20137£375,000£300,000£445,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 73)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Apr 20263 ME9 8GBDetached£650,000
30 Sep 202525 ME9 8GBDetached£640,000
15 Aug 202521 ME9 8GBDetached£660,000
28 Mar 202533 ME9 8GBDetached£725,000
24 Nov 202334 ME9 8GBDetached£627,000
22 Jun 202326 ME9 8GBDetached£600,000
13 Sep 202223 ME9 8GBDetached£665,000
9 Sep 202221 ME9 8GBDetached£620,000
30 Jun 20226 ME9 8GBDetached£670,000
17 Jun 20228 ME9 8GBDetached£795,000
17 Jun 202218 ME9 8GBDetached£725,000
10 Jun 202214 ME9 8GBDetached£665,000
29 Nov 202125 ME9 8GBDetached£675,000
29 Nov 20213 ME9 8GBDetached£640,000
24 Jun 202135 ME9 8GBDetached£665,000
12 Mar 202127 ME9 8GBDetached£590,000
5 Nov 202018 ME9 8GBDetached£690,000
15 May 202022 ME9 8GBDetached£565,000
27 Mar 20201 ME9 8GBDetached£485,000
28 Mar 201829 ME9 8GBDetached£457,500
22 Mar 201814 ME9 8GBDetached£550,000
16 Nov 201712 ME9 8GBDetached£515,000
13 Nov 201734 ME9 8GBDetached£535,000
2 Jun 201725 ME9 8GBDetached£580,000
3 Mar 201730 ME9 8GBDetached£500,000
19 Aug 201631 ME9 8GBDetached£515,000
20 Jun 201627 ME9 8GBDetached£550,000
20 Nov 201532 ME9 8GBDetached£520,000
13 Nov 201522 ME9 8GBDetached£485,000
18 Sep 201530 ME9 8GBDetached£492,000
3 Jul 20154 ME9 8GBDetached£485,000
5 Mar 201515 ME9 8GBDetached£505,000
21 Mar 201436 ME9 8GBDetached£462,500
2 Aug 201334 ME9 8GBDetached£375,000
23 Jul 201324 ME9 8GBDetached£392,500
23 May 20132 ME9 8GBDetached£445,000
26 Apr 201332 ME9 8GBDetached£420,000
26 Apr 20131 ME9 8GBDetached£335,000
2 Apr 201327 ME9 8GBDetached£330,000
14 Jan 201319 ME9 8GBDetached£300,000
18 Apr 201110 ME9 8GBDetached£457,500
25 Feb 201113 ME9 8GBDetached£450,000
4 Feb 20109 ME9 8GBDetached£393,500
28 Aug 200912 ME9 8GBDetached£388,500
11 Nov 200819 ME9 8GBDetached£550,000
15 Aug 200728 ME9 8GBDetached£250,000
19 Dec 20061 ME9 8GBDetached£395,000New build.
15 Dec 200626 ME9 8GBDetached£415,000New build.
9 Nov 20062 ME9 8GBDetached£425,000New build.
23 Aug 200621 ME9 8GBDetached£415,000New build.

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

28 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 187 m². Most common: House, detached (28). Built: 2003-2006 (26); 1996-2002 (1); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (23); rented (social) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Swale in 2026-27: Band D £2,406 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,604£1,871£2,138£2,406£2,940£3,475£4,009£4,811

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (33% of about 810 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: in a protected area: Keycol Hospital, Keycol Hill, Bobbing, Keycol Hospital, Keycol Hill, Bobbing.
  • Green belt: no.

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, 1 at medium risk and 0 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
ME9 8GBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
ME9 8DZnot 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 39 addresses are between 54 m and 62 m above sea level (60 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
ME9 8DZ100%0%0%0%
ME9 8GB100%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 stationsNewington 141,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Sittingbourne 2.3 million journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2 miles)
Kemsley 209,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rook Lane Keycol160 m
Car parksPremier Inn Sittingbourne Kent Car Park1.2 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station2 km (1.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN24.6 km (15 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW65.1 km (40 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 surgeriesThe Meads Medical Practice1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Newington Pharmacy1.5 km (0.9 miles)
NHS dentistsChopra Dental LTD2.7 km (1.7 miles)
HospitalSittingbourne Hospital3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Police stationKent County Constabulary3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machinesSittingbourne Service Station1 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 2.9 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 100 m²130 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.7 ha930 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,150 m²1.9 km (1.2 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Hook's Hole, a listed building (Grade II*), 750 m (0.5 miles) south. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hook's HoleListed building, Grade II*750 m (0.5 miles) south
OlstedeListed building, Grade II*770 m (0.5 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Keycol HillHill610 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Webbend Ditch PondLake or reservoir760 m (0.5 miles) east
Rook WoodWood860 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Stockbury ValleyValley4.1 km (2.5 miles) south-west
Twinney SaltingsWetland4.1 km (2.6 miles) north-west
Funton ReachTidal water4.5 km (2.8 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)9.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.94015

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 5950
Under 553439

5 of the street's 39 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 Swale: see them on the Swale 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
Borden Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Grove Park Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bobbing Village SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Newington Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Westlands SchoolSecondary11–181.7 km (1 mile) 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
Insight Specialist Behavioural Service Ltd ME9 8NEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises270 m5 Very good17 May 2021
Newington Court Care Home ME9 7LGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good17 Jul 2026
Hill Farm Residential Farm ME9 8LZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Dec 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.

7 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences4
Other theft2
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Rook Lane (6); On or near Robin Close (1).

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: 480 residents in 170 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 age4840
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)49%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.

  • ME9 8GB: 37 addresses of 38 in the postcode
  • ME9 8DZ: 2 addresses of 7 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Robin Close · Hill Farm View · Keycol Hill · Rook Lane

All the streets in ME9 and across Swale.

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.