The Platters Gillingham, Medway

64 addresses across 1 postcode (ME8), about 550 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 32101911.

Sales: 57 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £550,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 33 homes have an energy certificate (C: 10, D: 21, E: 2).
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 Rainham (Kent), about 1.7 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 120 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 84 to 91 m above sea level.
Noise: 1 of its 64 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Maidstone Rd Rainham Surgery, about 790 m (0.5 miles) away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 94% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 12 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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2026	1	£550,000	£550,000	£550,000
2025	1	£585,000	£585,000	£585,000
2024	2	£570,000	£565,000	£575,000
2023	2	£576,000	£575,000	£577,000
2021	1	£435,000	£435,000	£435,000
2020	4	£472,500	£390,000	£495,000
2019	1	£242,500	£242,500	£242,500
2018	1	£452,000	£452,000	£452,000
2017	3	£440,000	£385,000	£450,000
2015	2	£360,000	£350,000	£370,000
2014	2	£293,000	£250,000	£336,000
2013	1	£300,000	£300,000	£300,000

Most recent sales (latest 50 of 57)
Date	Address	Type	Price
23 Mar 2026	40 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£550,000
11 Sep 2025	80 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£585,000
28 Nov 2024	26 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£575,000
21 May 2024	15 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£565,000
24 Oct 2023	88 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£575,000
27 Jul 2023	7 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£577,000
17 Mar 2021	86 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£435,000
13 Nov 2020	37 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£495,000
12 Nov 2020	40 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£450,000
11 Sep 2020	58 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£390,000
23 Mar 2020	33 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£495,000
2 Aug 2019	94 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£242,500
17 Aug 2018	54 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£452,000
16 Nov 2017	98 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£440,000
29 Sep 2017	9 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£385,000
31 Aug 2017	15 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£450,000
10 Jul 2015	37 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£370,000
9 Jan 2015	14 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£350,000
25 Feb 2014	28 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£250,000
10 Jan 2014	26 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£336,000
25 Nov 2013	23 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£300,000
30 Nov 2012	74 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£267,500
26 Oct 2012	96 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£317,000
10 Sep 2012	24 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£260,000
3 Apr 2012	15 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£327,000
26 Mar 2012	19 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£295,000
20 Jan 2012	12 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£315,000
6 Sep 2011	46 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£250,000
24 Jun 2011	16 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£325,000
14 Jan 2011	31 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£280,000
29 Mar 2010	90 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£295,000
13 Jul 2007	41 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£350,000
25 May 2007	37 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£305,000
12 Sep 2006	33 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£280,000
12 Jun 2006	14 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£270,000
19 Jan 2006	12 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£285,000
15 Sep 2005	74 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£265,000
8 Aug 2005	26 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£313,500
18 Feb 2005	60 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£270,000
17 Nov 2004	16 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£299,995
27 Jul 2004	22 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£259,995
28 Nov 2003	54 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£250,000
11 Aug 2003	38 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£265,000
30 Aug 2002	25 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£210,000
21 Feb 2002	46 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£184,000
6 Nov 2001	66 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£198,000
17 Dec 1999	88 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£172,000
11 Sep 1998	46 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£129,000
31 Jul 1998	72 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£110,000
17 Jul 1998	23 ME8 0DJ	Detached	£127,500

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 December 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

C10

D21

33 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 111 m². Most common: House, detached (33). Built: 1983-1990 (27); 1976-1982 (3); 1991-1995 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (23).

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.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£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).

A5%

B23%

C33%

D20%

E13%

F7%

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.

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

Finished in the last three months

20 October 2026: CITYFIBRE METRO NETWORKS LTD, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (minor works)
16 October 2026 to 19 October 2026: SOUTHERN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
14 October 2026: CITYFIBRE METRO NETWORKS LTD, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
22 August 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the verge (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

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 64 addresses are between 84 m and 91 m above sea level (87 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
ME8 0DJ	100%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Rainham (Kent) 1.7 million journeys in 2024–25	1.7 km (1 mile)
	Gillingham (Kent) 2.5 million journeys in 2024–25	4 km (2.5 miles)
	Chatham 2.4 million journeys in 2024–25	5.3 km (3.3 miles)
Bus stops	4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Edwin Road middle Rainham	330 m
Bus or coach station	Chatham Railway Station	5.2 km (3.3 miles)
Car parks	Hempstead Valley Purple Car Park	2.1 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points	Station Road	1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	London Southend Airport SEN	24.5 km (15 miles)
Nearest large airport	London Gatwick Airport LGW	59 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. 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Maidstone Rd Rainham Surgery	790 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies	4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy	930 m (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists	11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Toothcare Dental	800 m (0.5 miles)
Hospital	Medway Maritime Hospital	4 km (2.5 miles)
Police station	Kent undercover police.	5 km (3.1 miles)
Cash machines	Tesco Bank ATM	1.3 km (0.8 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha	120 m
Play area	3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 340 m²	170 m
Playing field	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ryetop Playing Field 1.2 ha	700 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments	Seaview Road Allotment 530 m²	860 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 1.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
East Hoath Wood	Wood	640 m (0.4 miles) south-west
West Hoath Wood	Wood	890 m (0.6 miles) west
Spekes Bottom	Valley	1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
East Hill	Hill	3 km (1.8 miles) west
Horrid Hill	Headland	3.4 km (2.1 miles) north
Cinque Port Marshes	Wetland	3.7 km (2.3 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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	10.7	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	7.5	20	5
Particles (PM10)	11.6	40	15

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
55 to 59	1	0
Under 55	63	64

1 of the street's 64 addresses is 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
Rainham School for Girls	Secondary	11–18	310 m	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 Howard School	Secondary	11–18	440 m (0.3 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
St Margaret's Church of England Junior School	Primary	7–11	1 km (0.6 miles)	No published inspection
St Margaret's Infant School	Primary	3–7	1 km (0.6 miles)	No published inspection
St Thomas of Canterbury RC Primary School Roman Catholic	Primary	3–11	1.2 km (0.8 miles)	No published inspection
Rainham Mark Grammar School	Secondary	11–18	1.3 km (0.8 miles)	Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Miers Court Primary School	Primary	4–11	1.3 km (0.8 miles)	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
Fairview Community Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.3 km (0.8 miles)	No published inspection
Thames View Primary School	Primary	3–11	1.4 km (0.9 miles)	Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Twydall Primary School and Nursery	Primary	3–11	1.4 km (0.9 miles)	Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Parkwood Primary School	Primary	4–11	1.4 km (0.9 miles)	Requires improvement (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hempstead Infant School	Primary	4–7	1.8 km (1.1 miles)	No published inspection

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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
Platters Farm Lodge ME8 0EQ	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	250 m	5 Very good	18 Jun 2026
Rainham School For Girls Netball Centre ME8 0BX	School/college/university	410 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	12 Nov 2025
Impact Food Group ME8 0BX	School/college/university	410 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	12 Nov 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.

12 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	7
Anti-social behaviour	2
Criminal damage and arson	1
Burglary	1
Other theft	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Goldings (5); On or near Highfield Close (4); On or near The Platters (3).

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: 295 residents in 122 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 street	England
Median age	53	40
Children under 15	12%	17%
Aged 65 and over	34%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	94%	61%
Owned outright	61%	33%
Shared ownership	0%	1%
Social rented	0%	17%
Private rented	6%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	54%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	4%	6%
Retired (of adults)	35%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	4%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	34%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	51%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	6%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	6%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	7%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	64%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	11%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	29%	34%
No qualifications	13%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	6%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	99%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	0%	2%

Deprivation

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

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

What has changed

Roadworks Street works permit: SOUTHERN WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 16 October 2026 to 20 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
Roadworks Street works permit: CITYFIBRE METRO NETWORKS LTD: Utility repair and maintenance works, 20 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
Roadworks Street works permit: CITYFIBRE METRO NETWORKS LTD: Utility repair and maintenance works, 14 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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 0DJ: 64 addresses of 66 in the postcode

Nearby streets

The Goldings · Marshall Road · Highfield Close · Highfield Road · Lyndhurst Avenue · Bendon Way · Camellia Close · Brockenhurst Close · Cheriton Road · Stratford Avenue · Edwin Road · The Mailyns

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 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.