Sand End Whitstable, Canterbury

16 addresses across 2 postcodes (CT5), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5605281.

  • Sales: 37 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £525,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 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 Canterbury costs £2,419 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Whitstable, about 2 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 80 m away, and Duncan Down (16 hectares) is about 580 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 53 to 57 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 16 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Whitstable Medical Practice, about 340 m away.
  • People: About 440 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 89 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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£525,000£525,000£525,000
20221£412,500£412,500£412,500
20182£332,250£314,500£350,000
20171£389,995£389,995£389,995
20163£396,000£312,500£445,000
20151£385,000£385,000£385,000
20131£210,000£210,000£210,000
20121£224,995£224,995£224,995
20073£250,000£212,450£322,500
20061£195,000£195,000£195,000
20051£202,500£202,500£202,500
20042£267,500£250,000£285,000
Most recent sales (37)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
8 May 20262 CT5 4THDetached£525,000
28 Oct 202210 CT5 4THDetached£412,500
21 Nov 201813 CT5 4THSemi-detached£314,500
12 Jan 201810 CT5 4THDetached£350,000
11 Aug 20177 CT5 4THDetached£389,995
14 Dec 20168 CT5 4THDetached£445,000
14 Dec 201613 CT5 4THSemi-detached£312,500
22 Aug 20163 CT5 4THDetached£396,000
14 Dec 20151 CT5 4THDetached£385,000
23 Apr 201310 CT5 4THDetached£210,000
27 Jan 201212 CT5 4THSemi-detached£224,995
28 Sep 20074 CT5 4THDetached£250,000
19 Jun 200714 CT5 4THSemi-detached£212,450
9 Feb 20072 CT5 4THDetached£322,500
20 Oct 200611 CT5 4THSemi-detached£195,000
12 Dec 200510 CT5 4THDetached£202,500
8 Dec 20041 CT5 4THDetached£250,000
23 Nov 20045 CT5 4THDetached£285,000
28 Oct 20033 CT5 4THDetached£238,500
17 Apr 200313 CT5 4THSemi-detached£148,500
5 Jul 200212 CT5 4THSemi-detached£132,950
5 Nov 20017 CT5 4THDetached£149,000
6 Oct 20006 CT5 4THDetached£143,000New build.
25 Jul 200012 CT5 4THSemi-detached£111,000New build.
10 Jul 200014 CT5 4THSemi-detached£113,995New build.
16 Jun 20007 CT5 4THDetached£132,000New build.
2 Jun 200013 CT5 4THSemi-detached£105,000New build.
24 May 200015 CT5 4THDetached£118,995New build.
28 Apr 20005 CT5 4THDetached£178,000New build.
28 Apr 20009 CT5 4THDetached£164,000New build.
28 Apr 20003 CT5 4THDetached£160,000New build.
28 Apr 200011 CT5 4THSemi-detached£103,500New build.
27 Apr 20008 CT5 4THDetached£179,995
25 Apr 20004 CT5 4THDetached£131,500New build.
20 Apr 200010 CT5 4THDetached£116,995New build.
17 Mar 20002 CT5 4THDetached£175,000New build.
17 Mar 20001 CT5 4THDetached£159,000New 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 June 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 103 m². Most common: House, detached (7); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1996-2002 (6); 2003-2006 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7).

Council tax

What each band costs in Canterbury in 2026-27: Band D £2,419 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,613£1,882£2,151£2,419£2,957£3,495£4,032£4,839

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (38% of about 650 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

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 16 addresses are between 53 m and 57 m above sea level (56 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
CT5 4TH100%100%100%0%
CT5 4TY100%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 stationsWhitstable 877,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.3 miles)
Chestfield and Swalecliffe 108,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.5 miles)
Herne Bay 835,000 journeys in 2024–257.5 km (4.7 miles)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Estuary View Medical Centre Whitstable200 m
Bus or coach stationKeynes College University of Kent6.5 km (4 miles)
Car parksMiddle Wall Car Park1.7 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN33.7 km (21 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN81 km (50 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whitstable Medical Practice340 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tyrrell & Jones Seasalter1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whitstable Dental Centre1.5 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalWhitstable & Tankerton Hospital3.1 km (2 miles)
Police stationKent Police8.3 km (5.1 miles)
Cash machinesMfg - Crusader Filling Station860 m (0.5 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 9,950 m²80 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Duncan Down 16 ha580 m (0.4 miles)
Play area10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 140 m²70 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.3 ha550 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 7,850 m²920 m (0.6 miles)

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

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Canterbury Cathedral, St. Augustine's Abbey and St. Martin's Church, a World Heritage Site, 8.7 km (5.4 miles) south-east. 11 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Canterbury Cathedral, St. Augustine's Abbey and St. Martin's ChurchWorld Heritage Site8.7 km (5.4 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The OaksWood600 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Willow WoodWood750 m (0.5 miles) south
Fox's Cross BottomValley1.7 km (1 mile) south-west
The PaddockWetland2.7 km (1.7 miles) north
Whitstable BayBay2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-west
Clay HillHill3.5 km (2.2 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)8.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

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 551116

5 of the street's 16 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 Canterbury: see them on the Canterbury 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
Joy Lane Primary Foundation SchoolPrimary1–11690 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Whitstable Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Alphege Church of England Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whitstable and Seasalter Endowed Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
The Whitstable SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 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
Friends Cafe CT5 3SERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good25 Apr 2024
Marks & Spencer Simply Foods CT5 3SDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets240 m5 Very good24 Aug 2023
Home Bargains CT5 3SDRetailers - other240 m5 Very good17 Apr 2024
Aldi CT5 3SDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets240 m5 Very good24 Jan 2025
Busy Bees At Whitstable CT5 3FEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 mAwaiting inspection

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.

89 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting48
Violence and sexual offences13
Anti-social behaviour11
Vehicle crime5
Other theft5
Burglary2
Other crime2
Drugs1
Criminal damage and arson1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Prospect Way (52); On or near Harty Ferry View (15); On or near Swallow Avenue (5); On or near Sherwood Drive (5); On or near The Briars (2).

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: 440 residents in 173 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 age5040
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away19%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • CT5 4TH: 15 addresses of 17 in the postcode
  • CT5 4TY: 1 address of 22 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Warden Point Way · Pollard Place · Sheppey View · Sunset Close · Leysdown View · Harty Ferry View · Sherwood Drive · The Oaze · Columbine Close · Emelina Way · Swallow Avenue · The Heights

All the streets in CT5 and across Canterbury.

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.