Shenley Road Dartford

63 addresses across 3 postcodes (DA1), about 300 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 10500606.

  • Sales: 78 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £350,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Dartford cost £342,167 in August 2026 (-4.9% on a year); private rents averaged £1,580 a month.
  • Energy: 49 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 28, E: 10, F: 2).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Radon: An estimated 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 2 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Darenth Road - Battery Energy Storage System, is 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A296, carries 33,472 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • 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 1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Hesketh Park, is about 80 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 32 to 38 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 21 of its 63 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Dr Cj Shimmins & Partners, about 380 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 690 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 64% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 102 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 18 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious; 2 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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
20251£350,000£350,000£350,000
20231£350,000£350,000£350,000
20223£356,000£355,000£418,000
20212£402,500£310,000£495,000
20202£357,500£355,000£360,000
20191£305,000£305,000£305,000
20182£294,000£288,000£300,000
20172£303,500£265,000£342,000
20163£305,500£300,000£332,000
20152£286,000£275,000£297,000
20143£230,000£213,000£250,000
20132£191,000£190,000£192,000
All 78 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Oct 20181 DA1 1YFOther£281,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Nov 20172 DA1 1YESemi-detached£265,000
20 Feb 19982 DA1 1YESemi-detached£69,060
14 Sep 20063 DA1 1YFTerraced£177,500
15 Sep 20043 DA1 1YFTerraced£32,387
25 Nov 19984 DA1 1YETerraced£57,500
21 Jul 20175 DA1 1YFTerraced£342,000
4 Dec 20155 DA1 1YFTerraced£297,000
23 Nov 20125 DA1 1YFTerraced£177,500
12 Apr 20227 DA1 1YFTerraced£356,000
14 Oct 20167 DA1 1YFTerraced£305,500
22 May 20087 DA1 1YFTerraced£205,000
25 May 20077 DA1 1YFTerraced£179,995
21 Jul 20007 DA1 1YFTerraced£85,000
25 Nov 20219 DA1 1YFSemi-detached£310,000
20 Mar 201910 DA1 1YETerraced£305,000
17 Dec 200910 DA1 1YETerraced£169,995
14 Dec 200110 DA1 1YETerraced£108,000
30 Mar 199910 DA1 1YETerraced£68,500
30 Nov 201811 DA1 1YFSemi-detached£300,000
7 Nov 201412 DA1 1YETerraced£230,000
11 Aug 199812 DA1 1YETerraced£66,995
8 Feb 201314 DA1 1YESemi-detached£192,000
24 Apr 200214 DA1 1YESemi-detached£115,000
26 Feb 201015 DA1 1YFSemi-detached£124,995
16 Dec 202216 DA1 1YESemi-detached£418,000
18 Jan 201616 DA1 1YESemi-detached£300,000
9 Dec 200416 DA1 1YETerraced£160,000
16 Aug 199616 DA1 1YETerraced£52,000
23 Aug 200719 DA1 1YFTerraced£186,500
7 May 202420 DA1 1YEDetached£480,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Jun 202120 DA1 1YEDetached£495,000
14 Aug 202521 DA1 1YFTerraced£350,000
22 Oct 201421 DA1 1YFTerraced£213,000
5 Feb 200721 DA1 1YFTerraced£125,000
9 May 200522 DA1 1YESemi-detached£187,500
30 Oct 199822 DA1 1YESemi-detached£67,000
12 Sep 200223 DA1 1YFTerraced£117,000
18 Dec 201524 DA1 1YESemi-detached£275,000
9 Jan 200625 DA1 1YFTerraced£156,000
8 Feb 201326 DA1 1YESemi-detached£190,000
4 Feb 202227 DA1 1YFSemi-detached£325,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Apr 201827 DA1 1YFSemi-detached£294,200Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Dec 199827 DA1 1YFSemi-detached£65,000
12 May 199527 DA1 1YFSemi-detached£56,000
9 Nov 199928 DA1 1YESemi-detached£89,995
17 Aug 200432 DA1 1YESemi-detached£249,950
28 May 199932 DA1 1YESemi-detached£94,250
16 Aug 200133 DA1 1YFTerraced£81,000
17 Mar 202035 DA1 1YFTerraced£355,000
7 Dec 200735 DA1 1YFTerraced£180,000
14 Dec 201236 DA1 1YEDetached£250,000
7 Sep 200736 DA1 1YEDetached£249,950
17 Mar 2020GLENHAVEN, 36A DA1 1YESemi-detached£360,000
18 Mar 200438A DA1 1YEDetached£225,000
19 Oct 201639 DA1 1YFTerraced£332,000
26 Mar 201439 DA1 1YFTerraced£250,000
20 May 202440 DA1 1YETerraced£406,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Jun 202241 DA1 1YFTerraced£355,000
22 Sep 202347 DA1 1YFTerraced£362,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Dec 202247 DA1 1YFTerraced£335,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Nov 201147 DA1 1YFTerraced£197,000
28 Feb 200347 DA1 1YFTerraced£137,500
3 Aug 201848 DA1 1YESemi-detached£288,000
6 Jul 202349 DA1 1YFTerraced£350,000
27 Jan 202349 DA1 1YFTerraced£312,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Mar 200850 DA1 1YESemi-detached£199,995New build.
22 Feb 200751 DA1 1YFSemi-detached£174,500
5 Mar 200451 DA1 1YFSemi-detached£153,000
19 Jul 200251 DA1 1YFSemi-detached£131,000
11 Sep 202053 DA1 1YFTerraced£285,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Aug 199853 DA1 1YFTerraced£72,000
17 Feb 199755 DA1 1YFTerraced£56,500
26 May 200663 DA1 1YFTerraced£77,500Leasehold.
18 Mar 199663 DA1 1YFTerraced£54,000
8 Jul 202469 DA1 1YFOther£472,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Jun 202269 DA1 1YFOther£172,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Feb 202269 DA1 1YFOther£300,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

House prices and rents in Dartford

A typical home in Dartford cost £342,167 in August 2026, 4.9% less than a year before. That is 7% more than five years earlier and 17% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£686,978
Semi-detached£419,890
Terraced£337,535
Flat or maisonette£203,885
Bought by a first-time buyer£297,477

Private renters in Dartford paid £1,580 a month on average in September 2026, 3.2% more than a year before. That is 36% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£1,095
Two bedrooms£1,424
Three bedrooms£1,716
Four or more bedrooms£2,377

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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

49 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (17); House, semi-detached (13); House, end-terrace (10). Built: 1900-1929 (22); 1930-1949 (11); before 1900 (8). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (37); rented (private) (9); rented (social) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (49 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 13,279 kWh of it on average in 2024, 29% more than the district's 10,325 kWh, and 3,136 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
DA1 1YF312,845 kWh 3212,231 kWh
DA1 1YE253,176 kWh 2811,968 kWh
DA1 1YD502,033 kWh 4910,873 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is DA1.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (64% of about 1,480 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): 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.

Energy projects nearby

3 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 2 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Darenth Road - Battery Energy Storage System Dartford 25/00368/FUL Battery storage 99.9 MW Permission granted, not yet built Oct 2025 1 km (0.6 miles)
Longreach STW - extension Dartford DA/12/1170 Sewage Sludge Digestion 1.1 MW Operational Jul 2014 2.6 km (1.6 miles)
St Margaret's Farm - Green Waste Composting Facility Dartford KCC/DA/0253/2019 Biomass Being built 4 km (2.5 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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

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
DA1 1YFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
DA1 1YEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DA1 1YDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 15 November 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 15 November 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 63 addresses are between 32 m and 38 m above sea level (34 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
DA1 1YD100%100%100%0%
DA1 1YE100%100%100%0%
DA1 1YF100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 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 2024–251 km (0.7 miles)
Stone Crossing 319,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Greenhithe for Bluewater 857,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 40 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Park Road Dartford70 m
Bus or coach stationStone Crossing - Horns Cross2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Ferry terminalTilbury Ferry Terminal9.4 km (5.8 miles)
Car parksApcoa1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station790 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY14.1 km (8.8 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW43.8 km (27 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dr Cj Shimmins & Partners Good Aug 2019380 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Brent Pharmacy80 m
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Smiledartford Dental Practice80 m
HospitalPhysio Livingstone Community Hospital370 m
Care homes5 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Priory Mews Care Home Requires improvement Dec 20231.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationMetropolitan Police6 km (3.7 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Colney Road350 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 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 Hesketh Park 4.4 ha80 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 770 m²200 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.7 ha280 m
AllotmentsKirby Road Allotments 1.7 ha1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 5.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of the Holy Trinity, a listed building (Grade I), 830 m (0.5 miles) west. 21 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of the Holy TrinityListed building, Grade I830 m (0.5 miles) west
45, High StreetListed building, Grade II*920 m (0.6 miles) west
Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Darenth ParkScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) south-east
Dovecote at Hawley ManorScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Brooklands LakeLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Dartford Fresh MarshesWetland1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Brickhill WoodWood2.5 km (1.6 miles) west
Crayford CreekTidal water2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-west
The DellHollow3.4 km (2.1 miles) north-west
Great MountHill4.2 km (2.6 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)17.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.8205
Particles (PM10)15.34015

All three are within the UK legal limits; all three 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
70 to 7410
55 to 59200
Under 554263

21 of the street's 63 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), 15 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Leigh Academy DartfordPrimary3–11270 m 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 94% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 26% at the higher standard (2025; 97% in 2024 and 85% in 2023)
The Gateway Primary AcademyPrimary4–11650 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 83% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 30% at the higher standard (2025; 87% in 2024 and 80% in 2023)
Sir Geoffrey Leigh AcademySecondary11–19730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 46.5 (42.9 in 2025 and 44.5 in 2024); 46.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; progress below average
The Brent Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 63% in 2023)
St Anselm's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good 79% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 17% at the higher standard (2025; 73% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Temple Hill Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 1% at the higher standard (2025; 54% in 2024 and 52% in 2023)
Stone Lodge SchoolSecondary11–191.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 39.5 (37.6 in 2025 and 44.9 in 2024); 26% grade 5+ in English and maths
Fleetdown Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 64% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 74% in 2024 and 68% in 2023)
River Mill Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 83% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 27% at the higher standard (2025)
Westgate Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 90% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 87% in 2024 and 87% in 2023)
Oakfield Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.7 km (1.1 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 70% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 16% at the higher standard (2025; 74% in 2024 and 68% in 2023)
Our Lady's Catholic Primary School, Dartford Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) 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 85% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 24% at the higher standard (2025; 88% in 2024 and 80% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1 km (0.6 miles); the nearest is 120 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
The Brent Pre School DA1 1XF Sessional day care 40 Not inspected yet 120 m
St Andrews Playgroup DA1 1RF Sessional day care 30 Good (Sep 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 300 m
Little Gem's Childcare DA1 1QT Full day care 20 Apr 2026: Urgent improvement in 6 areas 330 m
The Winning Child Nursery DA2 6DA Full day care 70 Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 430 m (0.3 miles)
Kip McGrath Dartford DA1 1LU Full day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 540 m (0.3 miles)
Star Day Nursery DA1 1RX Full day care 68 Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 700 m (0.4 miles)
Mega Camps Dartford DA1 1QE Out-of-school day care 90 Not inspected yet 730 m (0.5 miles)
West Hill Life Ltd DA1 1DE Full day care 25 Good (Jun 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 900 m (0.6 miles)
Progressive Sports @ St Anselm's DA1 5EA Out-of-school day care 15 Not inspected yet 920 m (0.6 miles)
KatieB Kids DA2 6FF Full day care 79 Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)

Ofsted also registers 757 childminders and 217 home childcarers (nannies) in Kent. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 15 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
Favour Foods DA1 1YDRetailers - other70 mAwaiting inspection
Nisa Local DA1 1YDRetailers - other70 m3 Generally satisfactory7 Jul 2025
The Brent Pharmacy DA1 1YDRetailers - other80 mExempt
Family Fried Chicken And Ribs DA1 1YDTakeaway/sandwich shop80 m5 Very good6 May 2026
Vincents Fish And Chips DA1 1XFTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m2 Improvement necessary24 Feb 2026
Nisa DA1 1XZRetailers - other160 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Mar 2026
Dartford Mini Market DA1 1XERetailers - other180 m4 Good24 Oct 2025
Sally Sue's DA1 1XERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good24 Aug 2026
Colney Butchers DA1 1TGRetailers - other250 m5 Very good19 Jun 2025
Village Store DA1 1UHRetailers - other260 m4 Good17 Jun 2026
The Co-operative DA1 1UHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets300 m4 Good14 Oct 2025
China Express Chinese Takeaway DA1 1UHTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m4 Good24 Jul 2025
The Redeemed Christian Church Of God - Inspiration House DA1 1XFOther catering premises300 mAwaiting inspection
St Andrews Play Group DA1 1RFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good27 Jan 2025
Lovely Chinese Food Takeaway DA1 1YHTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m4 Good2 Apr 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.

102 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences47
Anti-social behaviour15
Vehicle crime9
Criminal damage and arson9
Other theft8
Drugs4
Other crime3
Robbery2
Public order2
Burglary2
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Rochester Road (24); On or near Howard Road (17); On or near The Brent (15); On or near Barham Road (14); On or near Shenley Road (10).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

18 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 16 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 2 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 7 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 28% happened in the dark, and 33% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202140
202200
202340
202430
202572
The most recent 10 of 18
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
18 Dec 2025 16:05 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A226, 30 mph Daylight
5 Oct 2025 13:10 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A226, 30 mph Daylight
30 Aug 2025 12:00 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
3 Jul 2025 18:00 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
24 May 2025 23:50 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A226, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
20 May 2025 17:50 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A226, 30 mph Daylight
11 Apr 2025 23:15 Serious 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
26 Sep 2024 08:40 Slight 1 person A226, 30 mph Daylight
22 May 2024 15:15 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child A296, 30 mph Wet road
15 Apr 2024 17:50 Slight 1 person A226, 20 mph Wet road

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A296 between A296 and A282(T), with 33,472 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 490 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A296 A226 to A225 8,227 estimated; counted 2019 4% -6% since 2015 180 m
A226 Home Gardens to A296 17,156 counted 2025 2% +9% since 2015 230 m
A225 A225 Lowfield St to A296 20,992 estimated; counted 2023 2% +1% since 2015 430 m (0.3 miles)
A296 A296 to A282(T) 33,472 counted 2025 3% +11% since 2015 490 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 685 residents in 260 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 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented24%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van45%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram9%4%
By any public transport, including bus13%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)82%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 5 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

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

What has changed

  • Flood risk Flood risk figures for DA1 1YD changed: 0 addresses at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low (was 0, 0, 1) found 15 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Favour Foods (retailers - other, DA1 1YD) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 13 November 2026

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Postcodes on this street

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

  • DA1 1YF: 34 addresses of 35 in the postcode
  • DA1 1YE: 28 addresses of 29 in the postcode
  • DA1 1YD: 1 address of 73 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Rochester Road · Bedford Road · Barham Road · Brandon Road · Marriott Road · The Brent · Ivy Close · Carleton Road · Howard Road · Carlisle Road · Waldeck Road · Sussex Road

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.