Slade Close Chatham, Medway

48 addresses across 1 postcode (ME5), about 260 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32101739.

  • Sales: 60 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £287,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 33 homes have an energy certificate (C: 15, D: 16, E: 1, F: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Medway costs £2,329 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chatham, about 5 km (3.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 260 m away, and Mead Green (0.3 hectares) is about 600 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 143 to 148 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 13 of its 48 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Reach Healthcare, about 820 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 79% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 47 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
20252£287,500£285,000£290,000
20243£315,000£260,000£480,000
20221£310,000£310,000£310,000
20213£260,000£240,000£325,000
20193£231,000£190,000£240,000
20181£235,000£235,000£235,000
20171£235,000£235,000£235,000
20165£203,000£176,000£325,000
20152£165,500£161,000£170,000
20132£191,250£152,500£230,000
20114£132,500£116,000£185,000
20093£100,000£20,000£144,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 60)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Oct 202532 ME5 8RDTerraced£290,000
24 Jan 202526 ME5 8RDTerraced£285,000
25 Sep 202444 ME5 8RDTerraced£315,000
16 Jul 202416 ME5 8RDTerraced£480,000
12 Jul 202443 ME5 8RDTerraced£260,000
4 Aug 202212 ME5 8RDTerraced£310,000
17 Dec 202141 ME5 8RDTerraced£240,000
24 Sep 202136 ME5 8RDTerraced£260,000
19 Mar 20218 ME5 8RDTerraced£325,000
4 Oct 201926 ME5 8RDTerraced£240,000
9 Aug 201924 ME5 8RDTerraced£231,000
19 Jul 201929 ME5 8RDTerraced£190,000
18 May 201850 ME5 8RDTerraced£235,000
3 Oct 201744 ME5 8RDTerraced£235,000
16 Dec 201621 ME5 8RDTerraced£203,000
29 Jul 201626 ME5 8RDTerraced£210,000
1 Jul 20161 ME5 8RDTerraced£325,000
20 Jun 201643 ME5 8RDTerraced£176,000
29 Apr 201650 ME5 8RDTerraced£197,000
1 Oct 201541 ME5 8RDTerraced£170,000
12 Feb 201539 ME5 8RDTerraced£161,000
14 Mar 201413 ME5 8RDTerraced£147,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Nov 201324 ME5 8RDTerraced£152,500
27 Sep 201316 ME5 8RDTerraced£230,000
22 Sep 201141 ME5 8RDTerraced£116,000
16 Sep 201122 ME5 8RDTerraced£137,000
22 Aug 201139 ME5 8RDTerraced£128,000
27 Jun 20114 ME5 8RDSemi-detached£185,000
14 Jul 200917 ME5 8RDTerraced£100,000
10 Jul 200950 ME5 8RDTerraced£144,000
29 Jan 200922 ME5 8RDTerraced£20,000
11 Apr 200848 ME5 8RDTerraced£135,000
20 Mar 200813 ME5 8RDTerraced£125,000
3 Dec 200730 ME5 8RDTerraced£150,000
19 Oct 200724 ME5 8RDSemi-detached£148,000
14 Sep 200726 ME5 8RDTerraced£150,000
13 Jun 200744 ME5 8RDTerraced£148,000
1 Jun 200742 ME5 8RDTerraced£138,000
1 Jun 200725 ME5 8RDTerraced£85,000
25 Oct 200636 ME5 8RDTerraced£137,500
1 Jul 20042 ME5 8RDDetached£235,000
1 Jul 20041 ME5 8RDDetached£205,000
1 Jul 200413 ME5 8RDTerraced£130,000
1 Nov 200226 ME5 8RDTerraced£94,000
2 Aug 200243 ME5 8RDTerraced£63,000
8 Mar 200244 ME5 8RDTerraced£82,000
25 Oct 200141 ME5 8RDTerraced£69,500
13 Oct 200044 ME5 8RDTerraced£65,000
14 Sep 200013 ME5 8RDTerraced£63,000
27 Apr 200038 ME5 8RDTerraced£67,000

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

33 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 88 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (17); House, end-terrace (13); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1967-1975 (24); 1950-1966 (7); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (18); rented (social) (6); rented (private) (4).

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 (48% of about 650 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: 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

Started, not reported finished by 30 September 2026

  • 14 September 2026 to 1 October 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS SOUTH EASTERN, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

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 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 48 addresses are between 143 m and 148 m above sea level (146 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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
ME5 8RD100%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 stationsChatham 2.4 million journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Gillingham (Kent) 2.5 million journeys in 2024–255.7 km (3.6 miles)
Snodland 276,000 journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Redwood Close Walderslade70 m
Bus or coach stationChatham Railway Station5.1 km (3.1 miles)
Car parksHempstead Valley Purple Car Park2.8 km (1.8 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station2 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN28.3 km (18 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW54.5 km (34 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 Reach Healthcare820 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lordswood Pharmacy610 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lordswood Healthy Living Centre730 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalSpire Alexandra Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationKent undercover police.3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone610 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 Unnamed 2,120 m²260 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Mead Green 3,230 m²600 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 220 m²250 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.0 ha870 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hatton Road Allotment 3,080 m²720 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 0.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Dargets WoodWood470 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Hall WoodWood590 m (0.4 miles) east
Tunbury WoodWood620 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Coal BottomValley730 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Ballen's RoughWood770 m (0.5 miles) north-east
East HillHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) north

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)10.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 59130
Under 553548

13 of the street's 48 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 Medway: see them on the Medway 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
Lordswood SchoolPrimary3–11580 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Benedict's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11590 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Swingate Primary SchoolPrimary3–11740 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Walderslade Primary SchoolPrimary4–11910 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Tunbury Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Oaklands SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Maundene SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Greenacre SchoolSecondary11–181.7 km (1.1 miles) Inadequate (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Walderslade SchoolSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) Inadequate (Feb 2023, 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
Enchanting Cupcakes By Melody ME5 9JLOther catering premises290 m5 Very good24 Jul 2024
Teeny Feet Day Nursery ME5 8BPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good2 Dec 2025
Pilscare ME5 8RUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 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.

47 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences25
Other theft7
Other crime6
Vehicle crime3
Criminal damage and arson2
Public order1
Burglary1
Possession of weapons1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Slade Close (13); On or near Bulldog Road (12); On or near Lords Wood Close (6); On or near Albion Road (6); On or near Swingate Close (4).

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: 317 residents in 112 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 age3740
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)79%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)47%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away22%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.

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.

  • ME5 8RD: 48 addresses of 50 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lords Wood Lane · Redwood Close · Swingate Close · Lords Wood Close · Bulldog Road · Kellaway Road · Lords Wood Close · Duchess of Kent Drive · Albion Road · Opal Green · Trelawn Crescent · Moonstone Drive

All the streets in ME5 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 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.