Sinclair Close Gillingham, Medway

23 addresses across 2 postcodes (ME8), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32101732.

32 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £350,000 across 1 sale. 14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 9). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Medway costs £2,329 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Rainham (Kent), about 2.3 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden, Rainham Park, is about 330 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 88 to 94 m above sea level. 18 of its 23 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Long Catlis Road Surgery, about 460 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km. About 580 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 16 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
20251£350,000£350,000£350,000
20231£288,000£288,000£288,000
20221£370,000£370,000£370,000
20201£360,000£360,000£360,000
20191£283,000£283,000£283,000
20161£242,000£242,000£242,000
20151£206,000£206,000£206,000
20141£322,000£322,000£322,000
20131£227,000£227,000£227,000
20122£212,000£206,000£218,000
20101£199,000£199,000£199,000
20075£233,000£184,000£280,000
Most recent sales (32)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Mar 202510 ME8 9JQTerraced£350,000
2 Oct 20238 ME8 9JQDetached£288,000
11 Mar 202230 ME8 9JQSemi-detached£370,000
28 Aug 202024 ME8 9JQSemi-detached£360,000
7 Jun 201920 ME8 9JQTerraced£283,000
27 Jan 201610 ME8 9JQTerraced£242,000
1 Apr 20151 ME8 9JQTerraced£206,000
20 Jun 20142 ME8 9JQDetached£322,000
13 Dec 201328 ME8 9JQSemi-detached£227,000
23 Nov 201226 ME8 9JQSemi-detached£206,000
4 May 201224 ME8 9JQSemi-detached£218,000
29 Jan 201030 ME8 9JQSemi-detached£199,000
16 Nov 200730 ME8 9JQDetached£235,000
31 Oct 200710 ME8 9JQSemi-detached£196,000
23 Oct 20073 ME8 9JQTerraced£184,000
12 Oct 200722 ME8 9JQSemi-detached£233,000
2 Feb 20072 ME8 9JQTerraced£280,000
27 Feb 200416 ME8 9JQTerraced£145,000
1 Jul 20039 ME8 9JQTerraced£142,000
14 Dec 200016 ME8 9JQTerraced£88,500
28 Jul 200022 ME8 9JQSemi-detached£123,500
27 Jul 200016 ME8 9JQTerraced£40,000
12 Jan 200010 ME8 9JQSemi-detached£92,500
31 Mar 19991 ME8 9JQTerraced£74,950
26 Feb 19998 ME8 9JQDetached£78,000
29 May 199814 ME8 9JQTerraced£69,995
27 Apr 199830 ME8 9JQDetached£86,000
2 Feb 19986 ME8 9JQTerraced£75,000
3 Nov 19975 ME8 9JQTerraced£68,000
7 Aug 19973 ME8 9JQTerraced£64,950
30 Jun 199722 ME8 9JQSemi-detached£84,000
1 Mar 199611 ME8 9JQDetached£63,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from January 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 80 m². Most common: House, detached (6); House, end-terrace (4); House, mid-terrace (4). Built: 1983-1990 (10); 1976-1982 (3); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Medway in 2026-27: Band D £2,329 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,552£1,811£2,070£2,329£2,846£3,363£3,881£4,657

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (33% of about 610 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: in a protected area: G5-1969.
  • Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

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.

Height above sea level

The street's 23 addresses are between 88 m and 94 m above sea level (92 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
ME8 9JG100%100%100%0%
ME8 9JQ100%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 stationsRainham (Kent) 1.7 million journeys in 2024–252.3 km
Newington 141,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km
Gillingham (Kent) 2.5 million journeys in 2024–255.7 km
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m, 24 within 800 m; nearest Maryland Court Meresborough70 m
Bus or coach stationChatham Railway Station6.7 km
Car parksHempstead Valley Purple Car Park1.9 km
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km; nearest Gridserve Charging Station660 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN25.7 km
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW59.2 km

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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Long Catlis Road Surgery460 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Fenns Chemist510 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Parkwood Health Centre460 m
HospitalMedway Maritime Hospital5.6 km
Police stationKent undercover police.6.2 km
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m; nearest Payzone520 m

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; nearest Rainham Park 2.7 ha330 m
Play area2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2,290 m²390 m
Playing fieldRyetop Playing Field 1.2 ha1.2 km
AllotmentsUnnamed 920 m²2.4 km

Within 800 m: 3 parks and gardens, 3.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

3 listed buildings are within 1.0 km.

Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Park WoodsWood350 m west
Foxburrow WoodWood410 m north
Purple HillHill1.7 km south
Spekes BottomValley2.6 km north-west
Horrid HillHeadland4.8 km north
Horsham MarshWetland4.9 km north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)9.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 59180
Under 55523

18 of the street's 23 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Parkwood Primary SchoolPrimary4–11290 m Requires improvement (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11710 m No published inspection
Deanwood Primary SchoolPrimary2–11790 m No published inspection
Fairview Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.0 km No published inspection
Miers Court Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected 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 Margaret's Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.7 km No published inspection
St Margaret's Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.7 km No published inspection
Rainham School for GirlsSecondary11–181.9 km Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Spice Fusion ME8 9LHOther catering premises340 m5 Very good4 Dec 2025
Parkwood Primary School ME8 9LPSchool/college/university350 m4 Good19 Sep 2025
Parkwood Community Association ME8 9PNPub/bar/nightclub380 m5 Very good11 Jun 2026
Pattersons Fish And Chips ME8 9PNTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m5 Very good1 Dec 2025
Meat In Place ME8 9PNRetailers - other490 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Jun 2026
Parkwood Chinese Takeaway ME8 9PNOther catering premises490 m5 Very good23 Sep 2026
Boyce's Bakery ME8 9PNOther catering premises490 m5 Very good4 Oct 2024
Fenns Chemist ME8 9PWRetailers - other490 mExempt

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.

16 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences5
Other theft4
Other crime2
Vehicle crime2
Theft from the person1
Anti-social behaviour1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Wyvill Close (5); On or near Parker Close (3); On or near Ferrier Close (2); On or near Barlow Close (2); On or near Gregory Close (2).

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: 575 residents in 249 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 age4340
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright38%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)69%65%
Work 30 km or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.

  • ME8 9JQ: 22 addresses of 25 in the postcode
  • ME8 9JG: 1 address of 15 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Cragie Walk · Goldsmith Road · Bond Road · Ferrier Close · Maryland Court · Dolphin Drive · Barlow Close · Wyvill Close · Gregory Close · Goodall Close · Bayswater Drive · Thrale Way

All the streets in ME8 and across Medway.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.