Sultan Road Chatham, Medway

49 addresses across 3 postcodes (ME5), about 300 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32101843.

  • Sales: 108 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £90,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 35 homes have an energy certificate (C: 23, D: 9, E: 3).
  • 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 B; Band D in Medway costs £2,329 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chatham, about 5.4 km (3.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Opal Green, is about 550 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 135 to 150 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 49 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Reach Healthcare, about 1.5 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 580 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 61% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 145 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£90,000£90,000£90,000
20246£85,000£78,000£105,000
20232£81,000£75,000£87,000
20225£85,050£82,500£205,000
20211£82,500£82,500£82,500
20203£80,000£72,000£86,000
20194£79,000£76,300£135,000
20185£77,000£75,000£212,000
20174£73,450£71,050£77,000
20152£84,550£61,600£107,500
20146£59,000£57,000£84,286
20132£58,875£53,000£64,750
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 108)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Apr 202649 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£90,000Leasehold.
25 Jun 20243 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£78,000Leasehold.
10 May 202439 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£90,000Leasehold.
27 Mar 20241 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£105,000Leasehold.
14 Mar 202445 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£80,000Leasehold.
7 Mar 20247 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£85,000Leasehold.
5 Feb 202423 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£85,000Leasehold.
1 Sep 20235 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£75,000Leasehold.
28 Apr 202319 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£87,000Leasehold.
9 Dec 202243 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£85,050Leasehold.
21 Oct 20229 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£82,500Leasehold.
29 Apr 202253 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£85,050Leasehold.
28 Mar 202214 ME5 8TJTerraced£205,000
1 Feb 20222, SULTAN MEWS ME5 8BBFlat or maisonette£120,000Leasehold.
1 Jun 202119 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£82,500Leasehold.
17 Dec 202047 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£86,000Leasehold.
24 Jul 202045 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£80,000Leasehold.
17 Jul 20202A, SULTAN MEWS ME5 8BBFlat or maisonette£190,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Apr 202037 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£72,000Leasehold.
25 Oct 201921 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£80,500Leasehold.
8 Aug 201961 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£77,500Leasehold.
1 Apr 201917 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£76,300Leasehold.
25 Mar 20194A, SULTAN MEWS ME5 8BBFlat or maisonette£135,000Leasehold.
20 Nov 201827 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£77,700Leasehold.
30 Jul 201812 ME5 8TJTerraced£212,000
19 Jun 201839 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£77,000Leasehold.
7 Feb 201849 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£75,000Leasehold.
17 Jan 201857 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£75,000Leasehold.
19 Dec 201733 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£72,000Leasehold.
9 Nov 20177 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£77,000Leasehold.
11 Aug 201717 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£74,900Leasehold.
24 Mar 201755 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£71,050Leasehold.
16 Nov 20154, SULTAN MEWS ME5 8BBFlat or maisonette£107,500Leasehold.
19 Jun 201563 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£61,600Leasehold.
5 Nov 201447 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£58,100Leasehold.
31 Oct 201427 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£59,500Leasehold.
6 Oct 201445 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£84,286Leasehold.
19 Mar 201453 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£63,000Leasehold.
14 Mar 201421 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£58,500Leasehold.
30 Jan 201423 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£57,000Leasehold.
30 Aug 20137 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£64,750Leasehold.
28 Jun 201361 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£53,000Leasehold.
12 Oct 201231 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£61,500Leasehold.
2 Jul 201229 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£56,000Leasehold.
6 Jan 20127 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£63,000Leasehold.
23 Jun 201157 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£61,950Leasehold.
5 May 201131 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£60,000Leasehold.
12 Apr 201117 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£61,000Leasehold.
10 Sep 201012 ME5 8TJTerraced£125,000
19 Apr 20109 ME5 8TJFlat or maisonette£63,000Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from January 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

35 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 45 m². Most common: Flat (24); Maisonette, mid-terrace (7); Maisonette, end-terrace (1). Built: 1983-1990 (31); 1991-1995 (3); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (22); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (25 addresses)

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (48% of about 1,340 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

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

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

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.

© 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 49 addresses are between 135 m and 150 m above sea level (141 m on average); the ground rises about 15 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 8BB100%100%100%0%
ME5 8TJ100%95%95%0%
ME5 8XZ100%0%0%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 2024–255.4 km (3.4 miles)
Rainham (Kent) 1.7 million journeys in 2024–255.8 km (3.6 miles)
Gillingham (Kent) 2.5 million journeys in 2024–255.9 km (3.6 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 22 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Kestrel Shopping Centre Lordswood140 m
Bus or coach stationChatham Railway Station5.4 km (3.4 miles)
Car parksHempstead Valley Purple Car Park2.3 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN28.3 km (18 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW55 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 Healthcare1.5 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lordswood Pharmacy110 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lordswood Healthy Living Centre20 m
HospitalSpire Alexandra Hospital1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationKent undercover police.4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone110 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 (0.5 miles); nearest Opal Green 400 m²550 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Mead Green 3,230 m²720 m (0.4 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 760 m²340 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha760 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hatton Road Allotment 3,080 m²710 m (0.4 miles)

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

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hall WoodWood300 m north
Lords WoodWood490 m (0.3 miles) east
Sindal's ShawWood520 m (0.3 miles) east
Coal BottomValley1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
East HillHill2.7 km (1.7 miles) north
Oak Springs LakeLake or reservoir5 km (3.1 miles) south

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)11.24010
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 5960
Under 554349

6 of the street's 49 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), 3 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
Swingate Primary SchoolPrimary3–11150 m No published inspection
St Benedict's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11370 m No published inspection
Lordswood SchoolPrimary3–11940 m (0.6 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
Walderslade Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Tunbury Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Independent Catering Management ME5 8TJSchool/college/university20 m5 Very good14 Jul 2025
The Kent Autistic Trust ME5 8TJOther catering premises40 m5 Very good10 Mar 2023
Farmhouse Pizza ME5 8THOther catering premises110 m5 Very good22 Sep 2026
Premier Store ME5 8THRetailers - other110 m5 Very good27 Feb 2026
Lordswood Chinese Takeaway ME5 8THTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m4 Good26 Feb 2026
Lordswood Cafe ME5 8THRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Jun 2026
Spice Village ME5 8THOther catering premises120 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Mar 2026
Lordswood Kebab ME5 8THTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good12 Mar 2025
Tesco Express ME5 8THRetailers - other130 m4 Good25 Jun 2025
Lordswood Under Fives Playgroup ME5 8PGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good18 Mar 2026
Pilscare ME5 8RUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)Exempt
Caterlink Ltd & St Benedicts Primary School ME5 8PUSchool/college/university420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 May 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.

145 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour73
Violence and sexual offences31
Criminal damage and arson13
Shoplifting10
Vehicle crime7
Other theft5
Public order3
Possession of weapons2
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (35); On or near Kestrel Road (34); On or near Japonica Close (18); On or near Albemarle Road (13); On or near Shamley Road (11).

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: 583 residents in 247 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 age4040
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)61%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownership8%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van71%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 6 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

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

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

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 8TJ: 41 addresses of 44 in the postcode
  • ME5 8BB: 7 addresses
  • ME5 8XZ: 1 address of 14 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Japonica Close · Huntersfield Close · Turnstone Road · Whimbrel Walk · Newton Close · Plover Close · Avocet Walk · Dotterel Close · Sandpiper Road · Kestrel Road · Brindle Way · Fellowship Walk

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.