Seaside Avenue Minster, Swale

60 addresses across 5 postcodes (ME12), about 500 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 39001095.

  • Sales: 54 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £410,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 31 homes have an energy certificate (A: 2, B: 1, C: 8, D: 14, E: 4, F: 1, G: 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 D; Band D in Swale costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 89% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Sheerness-On-Sea, about 3.6 km (2.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, The Glen, is about 270 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 12 to 39 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 60 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Sheerness Health Centre, about 2.8 km (1.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,640 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 86% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 46 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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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£410,000£410,000£410,000
20243£325,000£277,500£472,500
20236£387,500£322,000£630,000
20221£605,000£605,000£605,000
20201£305,000£305,000£305,000
20191£250,000£250,000£250,000
20163£220,000£215,000£405,000
20151£191,000£191,000£191,000
20142£175,500£126,000£225,000
20134£228,500£170,000£360,000
20121£270,000£270,000£270,000
20101£199,000£199,000£199,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 54)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Jan 2026IMPERO ME12 2NADetached£410,000
6 Sep 202420 ME12 2NADetached£472,500
3 May 20248 ME12 2NASemi-detached£325,000
20 Feb 202415 ME12 2NATerraced£277,500
22 Nov 202341A ME12 2NNDetached£630,000
30 Aug 202322 ME12 2NADetached£540,000
29 Jun 202312 ME12 2NASemi-detached£355,000
19 May 202364 ME12 2NJDetached£375,000
24 Feb 2023IMPERO ME12 2NADetached£322,000
13 Jan 202338 ME12 2NNDetached£400,000
19 Dec 202245 ME12 2NNDetached£605,000
9 Mar 202043 ME12 2NNDetached£305,000
9 Apr 201919 ME12 2NATerraced£250,000
20 Feb 201828 ME12 2NAOther£185,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Dec 201641A ME12 2NNDetached£405,000
18 Jul 20168 ME12 2NASemi-detached£220,000
11 Jan 201633 ME12 2NASemi-detached£215,000
3 Dec 201512 ME12 2NASemi-detached£191,000
29 Aug 20148 ME12 2NASemi-detached£126,000
15 Aug 20142 ME12 2NADetached£225,000New build.
4 Nov 201335 ME12 2NASemi-detached£170,000
29 Aug 20136 ME12 2NADetached£360,000
17 Jul 201316 ME12 2NADetached£207,000
11 Jul 201358 ME12 2NJDetached£250,000
13 Jun 201240 ME12 2NNDetached£270,000
27 Oct 2010LA ROCQUE, 4 ME12 2NADetached£199,000
16 Feb 200935 ME12 2NASemi-detached£174,995
29 Aug 200717 ME12 2NATerraced£175,000
1 Aug 200731 ME12 2NADetached£188,000
24 May 20049 ME12 2NADetached£199,995
27 Nov 200337 ME12 2NADetached£215,000
29 Aug 20033 ME12 2NADetached£260,000
31 Jul 200317 ME12 2NASemi-detached£137,500
30 Jun 200313 ME12 2NATerraced£107,000
19 Mar 200331 ME12 2NADetached£167,000
14 Mar 200321 ME12 2NASemi-detached£139,000
28 Nov 200212 ME12 2NASemi-detached£116,000
27 Sep 200217 ME12 2NASemi-detached£105,000
30 Aug 200233 ME12 2NASemi-detached£115,000
22 Aug 200241 ME12 2NNDetached£235,000
26 Jul 200231 ME12 2NADetached£130,000
25 Oct 200129 ME12 2NADetached£153,000
29 Jun 200160 ME12 2NJDetached£192,000
5 Feb 200135 ME12 2NASemi-detached£85,000
21 Jul 200062 ME12 2NJDetached£124,000
22 Nov 199920 ME12 2NADetached£130,000
26 Jul 199927 ME12 2NADetached£78,500
18 Dec 199862 ME12 2NJDetached£95,000
10 Nov 199860 ME12 2NJDetached£150,000
9 Oct 199825 ME12 2NADetached£73,500

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 January 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

31 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 115 m². Most common: House, detached (16); Bungalow, detached (8); House, semi-detached (3). Built: 1967-1975 (7); 1976-1982 (5); 1950-1966 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (27); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (31 addresses)

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (36% of about 1,400 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.

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

  • 23 September 2026 to 25 September 2026: SOUTHERN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 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
ME12 2NAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME12 2NJnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME12 2NNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME12 2LHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME12 2LQnot 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 60 addresses are between 12 m and 39 m above sea level (24 m on average); the ground rises about 27 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
ME12 2LH100%100%100%0%
ME12 2LQ100%100%100%0%
ME12 2NA100%100%100%0%
ME12 2NJ100%89%89%0%
ME12 2NN100%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 stationsSheerness-On-Sea 439,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Queenborough 196,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.5 miles)
Swale 7,300 journeys in 2024–255.9 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Seaside Avenue Minster130 m
Car parksShinglebank Marine Parade Car Park1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN17.7 km (11 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN64.4 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 surgeriesSheerness Health Centre2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Minster Pharmacy1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Broadway (Dental Surgery)730 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalSheppey Community Hospital1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationSheerness Police Station3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Minster, Minster on Sea Cashzone710 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Glen 9.0 ha270 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,770 m²320 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,940 m²570 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.6 ha2.4 km (1.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 9.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Abbey Gatehouse, a listed building (Grade I), 770 m (0.5 miles) south-east. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Abbey GatehouseListed building, Grade I770 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Nunnery at Minster AbbeyScheduled monument800 m (0.5 miles) south-east
The Abbey Church of St Mary and St SexburgaListed building, Grade I800 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Breakneck HillHill470 m (0.3 miles) south
Minster BeachBeach830 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Round HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Barton's PointWetland1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Rape HillHill1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-west
The MoatLake or reservoir3.7 km (2.3 miles) north-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)8.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)10.64015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 5910
Under 555860

2 of the street's 60 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), 4 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
Minster in Sheppey Primary SchoolPrimary4–11640 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Georges CofE (Aided) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thistle Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Leigh Academy MinsterSecondary11–181.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Halfway Houses Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Beach Bar And Restaurant ME12 2NJHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house320 m4 Good30 Oct 2025
The Little Oyster Cafe ME12 2NJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good16 Jul 2025
Island Sands Residential Care Home ME12 2NJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good10 Jul 2026
Ayyappa Minimart ME12 2LLRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good12 Jun 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.

46 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour26
Violence and sexual offences8
Other theft5
Vehicle crime4
Criminal damage and arson1
Other crime1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Glenview Close (17); On or near Seaside Avenue (6); On or near Scarborough Drive (6); On or near Wards Hill Road (5); On or near Howard Close (5).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,639 residents in 650 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 age5240
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over30%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)86%61%
Owned outright53%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van69%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)56%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 6 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.

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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

Augustine Road · Rodmer Close · Augustine Road · Glenview Close · Augustine Road · Alston Close · Scarborough Drive · Howard Close · Minster Drive · Southsea Avenue · The Glen · Glendale Road

All the streets in ME12 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.