Sanctuary Close Dartford

14 addresses across 2 postcodes (DA1), about 40 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 10500589.

  • Sales: 13 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £320,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 7 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 2, 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 C; Band D in Dartford costs £2,375 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Dartford, about 760 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 150 m away, and Central Park (13 hectares) is about 770 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 29 to 30 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 14 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Wellcome Practice, about 110 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 750 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 37% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 113 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
20231£320,000£320,000£320,000
20211£405,000£405,000£405,000
20181£303,303£303,303£303,303
20121£173,000£173,000£173,000
20081£208,000£208,000£208,000
20071£166,000£166,000£166,000
20021£134,000£134,000£134,000
20011£105,000£105,000£105,000
19994£65,000£57,500£113,000
Most recent sales (13)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Feb 20264 DA1 2JATerraced£350,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 May 20233 DA1 2JATerraced£320,000
20 Oct 20217 DA1 2JASemi-detached£405,000
26 Oct 20184 DA1 2JATerraced£303,303
14 Dec 20123 DA1 2JATerraced£173,000
22 Jan 20081 DA1 2JATerraced£208,000
2 Feb 20072 DA1 2JATerraced£166,000
15 Nov 20024 DA1 2JATerraced£134,000
5 Oct 20013 DA1 2JATerraced£105,000
19 Nov 19993 DA1 2JATerraced£64,500
29 Oct 19997 DA1 2JASemi-detached£113,000
18 Aug 19991 DA1 2JATerraced£65,500
7 May 19996 DA1 2JATerraced£57,500Leasehold.

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 November 2017 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

7 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 59 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (4); House, end-terrace (2); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1967-1975 (5); 1976-1982 (1); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (2 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Dartford in 2026-27: Band D £2,375 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,583£1,847£2,111£2,375£2,903£3,431£3,959£4,750

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (38% of about 870 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): HMO Article 4(1) Direction North Order 2025.
  • 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 14 addresses are between 29 m and 30 m above sea level (30 m on average).

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
DA1 2HH100%100%100%0%
DA1 2JA100%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 stationsDartford 4.8 million journeys in 2024–25760 m (0.5 miles)
Crayford 1.1 million journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Slade Green 1.1 million journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 42 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest West Hill Dartford60 m
Bus or coach stationStone Crossing - Horns Cross3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Ferry terminalBarking Riverside Pier Creekmouth10 km (6.2 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Apcoa600 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station480 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY12.5 km (7.8 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW43 km (27 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 The Wellcome Practice110 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest West Hill Pharmacy100 m
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery100 m
HospitalPhysio Livingstone Community Hospital1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationMetropolitan Police4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM610 m (0.4 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 2,640 m²150 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Central Park 13 ha770 m (0.5 miles)
Play area9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 550 m²180 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,560 m²650 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Marcet Road Allotments 3,260 m²420 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 19 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Priory Farmhouse Containing the Remains of Dartford Priory Gatehouse, a listed building (Grade II*), 400 m (0.2 miles) north-east. 41 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Priory Farmhouse Containing the Remains of Dartford Priory GatehouseListed building, Grade II*400 m (0.2 miles) north-east
The Royal Victoria and Bull InnListed building, Grade II*640 m (0.4 miles) east
45, High StreetListed building, Grade II*780 m (0.5 miles) east
Church of the Holy TrinityListed building, Grade I870 m (0.5 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Dartford Fresh MarshesWetland1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Brooklands LakeLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Crayford CreekTidal water1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Brickhill WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
The DellHollow1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Great MountHill3.5 km (2.2 miles) south-west

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)14.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.2205
Particles (PM10)13.24015

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 6430
55 to 5930
Under 55814

6 of the street's 14 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 Dartford: see them on the Dartford 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
Our Lady's Catholic Primary School, Dartford Roman CatholicPrimary4–1170 m No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Dartford Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18250 m Outstanding (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Westgate Primary SchoolPrimary4–11410 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
West Hill Primary AcademyPrimary5–11440 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; 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
Dartford Grammar School for GirlsSecondary11–18460 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Exceptional; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Exceptional; Safeguarding standards: Met
Dartford Science & Technology CollegeSecondary11–18620 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Apr 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
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School, DartfordPrimary4–11690 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
River Mill Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oakfield Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jul 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
Wentworth Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Leigh Academy DartfordPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
North Kent College16 plus16–991.6 km (1 mile) 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
Dartford Masonic Club Bar DA1 2HJPub/bar/nightclub80 m5 Very good21 May 2025
The Rose And Crown DA1 2HJPub/bar/nightclub80 m4 Good15 Apr 2024
Redfern Catering Ltd @ Dartford Masonic Hall DA1 2HJOther catering premises80 m4 Good22 May 2026
Oddfellows Arms DA1 2EUPub/bar/nightclub100 m5 Very good24 Sep 2024
West Hill Pharmacy DA1 2EURetailers - other100 mExempt
Premier DA1 2EFRetailers - other100 m5 Very good23 Aug 2023
Cafe Nirvana DA1 2EFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m4 Good12 May 2026
West Hill Care Home DA1 2GAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m5 Very good19 May 2026
The Chapel Nursery DA1 2GAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good29 Jul 2026
Eurest C/o Royal Mail DA1 1AAOther catering premises200 m4 Good13 Aug 2025
Seventh-Day Adventist Church Blessed Hope Dartford Food Bank DA1 2ESRetailers - other260 mAwaiting inspection
Egg Free Cake Box, Dartford Ltd Other catering premises260 m5 Very good16 Apr 2024
Dartford Working Men's Club & Institute DA1 2AUPub/bar/nightclub340 m5 Very good11 Mar 2026
Dartford Working Mens Club DA1 2AUPub/bar/nightclub340 m5 Very good9 Jul 2024
Piccola Cafeteria And Pizza DA1 2JHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m4 Good18 Mar 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.

113 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences62
Other theft12
Anti-social behaviour10
Vehicle crime8
Criminal damage and arson6
Public order5
Drugs3
Theft from the person2
Burglary2
Robbery1
Shoplifting1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near West Hill Rise (19); On or near The Homestead (16); On or near West Hill (16); On or near Critchley Avenue (15); On or near Twisleton Court (12).

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: 752 residents in 300 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 age3940
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van46%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)60%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)37%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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

Crawford Avenue · Constance Grove · Gibbons Lane · Gibbons Lane · Critchley Avenue · West Hill · The Homestead · Twisleton Court · Lodge Avenue · West Hill Rise · King Edward Avenue · Priory Hill

All the streets in DA1 and across Dartford.

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.