Sturry Way Gillingham, Medway

48 addresses across 5 postcodes (ME8), about 280 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32101839.

  • Sales: 42 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £273,750 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Medway cost £297,757 in August 2026 (+0.5% on a year); private rents averaged £1,235 a month.
  • Energy: 33 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, D: 24, E: 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.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, London Road Roundabout, is 370 m away.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Phinia, Courteney Road - Solar Panels, is 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A2, carries 23,229 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; 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 Rainham (Kent), about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 550 m (0.3 miles) away, and Vinall Park (2.4 hectares) is about 740 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 53 to 57 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 48 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Waltham Road Medical Centre, about 220 m away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 500 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 37% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 56 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20262£273,750£260,000£287,500
20251£300,000£300,000£300,000
20241£315,000£315,000£315,000
20232£355,000£350,000£360,000
20221£291,000£291,000£291,000
20202£237,500£225,000£250,000
20192£281,000£245,000£317,000
20172£210,500£195,000£226,000
20162£188,000£180,000£196,000
20144£152,500£125,000£177,000
20131£150,000£150,000£150,000
20121£139,000£139,000£139,000
Most recent sales (42)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Jun 20269 ME8 6XBSemi-detached£287,500
1 Apr 202645 ME8 6URTerraced£260,000
14 Nov 202511 ME8 6XBSemi-detached£300,000
15 Feb 202410 ME8 6XBSemi-detached£315,000
24 Aug 202339 ME8 6URSemi-detached£350,000
20 Feb 20234 ME8 6XBSemi-detached£360,000
31 Mar 202253 ME8 6URTerraced£291,000
17 Mar 202047 ME8 6URTerraced£250,000
7 Feb 20202 ME8 6XBSemi-detached£225,000
25 Oct 201929 ME8 6XBTerraced£245,000
15 Jul 201943 ME8 6URTerraced£317,000
20 Nov 201737 ME8 6URTerraced£195,000
23 Jun 201749 ME8 6URTerraced£226,000
8 Apr 201631 ME8 6URTerraced£196,000
29 Feb 20162 ME8 6XBSemi-detached£180,000
18 Sep 20158 ME8 6XBSemi-detached£215,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Sep 201410 ME8 6XBSemi-detached£175,000
30 May 201455 ME8 6URTerraced£130,000
10 Apr 201439 ME8 6URSemi-detached£177,000
31 Jan 201411 ME8 6XBSemi-detached£125,000
25 Oct 20133 ME8 6XBSemi-detached£150,000
28 Sep 201215 ME8 6XBSemi-detached£139,000
26 Jun 200923 ME8 6XBTerraced£110,250
21 Oct 20082 ME8 6XBSemi-detached£128,000
14 Apr 200847 ME8 6URTerraced£166,000
14 Mar 200831 ME8 6URTerraced£138,000
6 Jul 20079 ME8 6XBSemi-detached£127,200
18 Sep 200639 ME8 6URSemi-detached£165,000
15 Aug 200647 ME8 6URTerraced£154,000
28 Feb 200543 ME8 6URTerraced£129,995
14 Dec 200447 ME8 6URTerraced£147,500
17 Aug 20041 ME8 6XBTerraced£140,000
18 Dec 20038 ME8 6XBSemi-detached£137,000
16 May 20036 ME8 6XBSemi-detached£128,000
25 Apr 20033 ME8 6XBSemi-detached£123,000
31 Aug 200151 ME8 6URTerraced£68,250
31 Aug 200155 ME8 6URTerraced£66,995
6 Jul 20011 ME8 6XBTerraced£74,950
28 Nov 199713 ME8 6XBSemi-detached£46,000
5 Jul 19961 ME8 6XBTerraced£49,950
21 Jul 199555 ME8 6URTerraced£43,500
3 Jan 199533 ME8 6URTerraced£44,250

House prices and rents in Medway

A typical home in Medway cost £297,757 in August 2026, 0.5% more than a year before. That is 13% more than five years earlier and 31% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£530,444
Semi-detached£352,795
Terraced£276,029
Flat or maisonette£168,915
Bought by a first-time buyer£270,313

Private renters in Medway paid £1,235 a month on average in September 2026, 1.6% more than a year before. That is 36% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£897
Two bedrooms£1,140
Three bedrooms£1,340
Four or more bedrooms£1,827

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 July 2012 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 72 m². Most common: Flat (10); House, semi-detached (9); House, end-terrace (8). Built: 1950-1966 (22); 1967-1975 (8); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (19); rented (social) (11); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (33 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

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Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics (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 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 A (38% of about 770 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

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

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Phinia, Courteney Road - Solar Panels Medway MC/23/2763 Solar farm 1.8 MW Permission granted, not yet built Mar 2024 1.3 km (0.8 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 12 October 2026 to 14 October 2026: SOUTHERN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
ME8 6XBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME8 6URnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME8 6UYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME8 6UTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME8 6UXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 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.

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

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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

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 370 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
London Road Roundabout London Road Roundabout, Gillingham, Kent Not recorded Inert, special (hazardous) 370 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

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 48 addresses are between 53 m and 57 m above sea level (55 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
ME8 6UR100%100%100%0%
ME8 6UT100%100%100%0%
ME8 6UX100%100%100%0%
ME8 6UY100%100%100%0%
ME8 6XB100%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 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Gillingham (Kent) 2.5 million journeys in 2024–253 km (1.8 miles)
Chatham 2.4 million journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bodiam Close Twydall130 m
Bus or coach stationWaterfront Bus Station Chatham4.5 km (2.8 miles)
EV charging pointsStation Road2 km (1.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN23.3 km (14 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW59.3 km (37 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. 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Waltham Road Medical Centre Requires improvement Oct 2022220 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest J Spensley360 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mjs Patel & Associates350 m
HospitalMedway Maritime Hospital Requires improvement Nov 20253.2 km (2 miles)
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 36a Birling Avenue Good Feb 20181 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationMedway Police Station3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Twydall Green, Rainham Medway300 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,790 m²550 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Vinall Park 2.4 ha740 m (0.5 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Woodchurch Crescent Play Area 1,240 m²130 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.6 ha460 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Thornham Road Allotment 4,390 m²630 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 2.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bloors Lane Community WoodlandWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) east
Mill HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) north
Spekes BottomValley1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Horrid HillHeadland2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Cinque Port MarshesWetland2.3 km (1.5 miles) north
Couvre Port ReservoirLake or reservoir4.1 km (2.5 miles) 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)11.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

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 5920
Under 554648

2 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), 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
Twydall Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–11190 m Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas of Canterbury RC Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11320 m No published inspection
Rainham Mark Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18650 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Featherby Junior SchoolPrimary7–11830 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Featherby Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7900 m (0.6 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Thames View Primary SchoolPrimary3–11920 m (0.6 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Howard SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Rainham School for GirlsSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) 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
The Academy of WoodlandsPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) 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
St Margaret's Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
St Margaret's Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
The Robert Napier SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Requires improvement

Nurseries and childcare

7 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 310 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
MFSE ME8 6JH Out-of-school day care 20 Not inspected yet 310 m
Sunshine Thames View Pre-School and Out of School Club ME8 7DX Full day care 50 Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 860 m (0.5 miles)
Conexus Tuition Broadway Class ME8 6BA Full day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
Scallywags (Medway) Limited ME8 7RJ Full day care 104 Outstanding (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Busy Bees Day Nursery at Gillingham ME8 6AD Full day care 112 Good (Feb 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
1st Friends day nursery and creche Ltd ME8 6BY Full day care 24 Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
The Gillingham Nursery ME8 0RR Full day care 67 Good (Aug 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.8 miles)

Ofsted also registers 172 childminders and 53 home childcarers (nannies) in Medway. 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 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
Rainham Christian Fellowship Baptist Church ME8 6XEOther catering premises130 m5 Very good5 Feb 2024
TPA Supported Living Ltd ME8 6XEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises140 m5 Very good14 Nov 2024
Independent Catering Management @Twydall Primary School ME8 6JSSchool/college/university150 m5 Very good20 Nov 2024
Cafe2U Rochester ME8 6XQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good18 Feb 2026
Willobeans Espresso Bar ME8 6UDMobile caterer260 mAwaiting inspection
Gillingham Labour Club ME8 6JUPub/bar/nightclub280 m5 Very good15 Mar 2024
Twydall Tandoori ME8 6XJOther catering premises290 m5 Very good7 Oct 2026
Papa Johns ME8 6XJTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m5 Very good13 Nov 2025
Twydall Store ME8 6XJRetailers - other300 m5 Very good12 Feb 2026
Co-Op Food ME8 6XJRetailers - other320 m4 Good17 Dec 2025
Caterlink @ St Thomas Of ME8 6JHSchool/college/university320 mAwaiting inspection
Uncle Bobs Chicken N Wings ME8 6XJTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good27 Feb 2025
Spar / Subway ME8 6XJRetailers - other330 m5 Very good20 Oct 2025
Babos Kebab \& Fish Ltd ME8 6XJTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m4 Good12 Feb 2026
Costa ME8 6NQOther catering premises340 m5 Very good16 Jun 2026

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.

56 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour13
Violence and sexual offences13
Criminal damage and arson9
Other crime5
Vehicle crime4
Drugs4
Burglary4
Other theft3
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bodiam Close (16); On or near Lyminge Close (7); On or near Milsted Road (6); On or near Blean Road (4); On or near Woodchurch Crescent (4).

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.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. 1 involved a cyclist. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202310
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
10 Jun 2023 17:51 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

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 A2 between A278 Hoath Way and B2004, with 23,229 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 300 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A2 A278 Hoath Way to B2004 23,229 estimated; counted 2024 1% 0% since 2015 300 m

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: 503 residents in 252 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 over31%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)37%61%
Owned outright17%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented52%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)35%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%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)19%34%
No qualifications33%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: SOUTHERN WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 12 October 2026 to 14 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 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 September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • ME8 6XB: 20 addresses of 21 in the postcode
  • ME8 6UR: 13 addresses
  • ME8 6UY: 13 addresses of 14 in the postcode
  • ME8 6UT: 1 address of 13 in the postcode
  • ME8 6UX: 1 address of 9 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lyminge Close · Woodchurch Crescent · Wright Close · Bodiam Close · Preston Way · Wright Close · Begonia Avenue · Elham Close · Petham Green · Crundale Road · Waltham Road · Romany Road

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; 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.