Thrale Way Gillingham, Medway

39 addresses across 2 postcodes (ME8), about 270 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32101941.

  • Sales: 40 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £267,000 across 1 sale.
  • 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: 19 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 10, 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.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Landfill: 3 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Lyall Way, is 140 m away.
  • Radon: Up to 3 to 5% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the M2, carries 73,571 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • 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 2.5 km (1.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Rainham Park, is about 350 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 99 to 106 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 8 of its 39 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Long Catlis Road Surgery, about 540 m (0.3 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 92% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 30 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House sales on this street

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

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£267,000£267,000£267,000
20241£258,000£258,000£258,000
20232£364,500£304,000£425,000
20191£420,000£420,000£420,000
20153£288,500£275,000£331,000
20141£318,000£318,000£318,000
20132£177,500£150,000£205,000
20101£220,000£220,000£220,000
20091£187,500£187,500£187,500
20083£260,000£194,000£270,000
20073£166,000£165,000£225,000
20061£157,500£157,500£157,500
All 40 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Jun 20131 ME8 9LXTerraced£150,000
23 May 19973 ME8 9LXTerraced£49,000
1 Oct 20247 ME8 9LXTerraced£258,000
21 Oct 19967 ME8 9LXTerraced£45,000
9 Jan 20259 ME8 9LXSemi-detached£267,000
30 Nov 20079 ME8 9LXSemi-detached£166,000
23 Dec 201510 ME8 9LXSemi-detached£275,000
5 May 201010 ME8 9LXSemi-detached£220,000
14 Oct 200210 ME8 9LXSemi-detached£189,000
9 Mar 200511 ME8 9LXTerraced£147,995
23 Oct 199811 ME8 9LXTerraced£56,995
7 Jul 200613 ME8 9LXTerraced£157,500
26 Jan 200113 ME8 9LXTerraced£76,500
3 Mar 199513 ME8 9LXTerraced£47,000
27 Sep 201314 ME8 9LXSemi-detached£205,000
22 May 199814 ME8 9LXSemi-detached£79,000
12 May 202319 ME8 9LXSemi-detached£304,000
22 Jun 200719 ME8 9LXSemi-detached£165,000
7 Oct 200419 ME8 9LXSemi-detached£146,500
9 May 199720 ME8 9LXDetached£86,000
7 Nov 201421 ME8 9LXDetached£318,000
20 Feb 199521 ME8 9LXSemi-detached£98,000
22 Aug 200823 ME8 9LXDetached£270,000
16 Mar 200123 ME8 9LXDetached£157,000
27 Jun 200825 ME8 9LXDetached£260,000
23 Oct 199825 ME8 9LXDetached£132,995
9 Mar 200726 ME8 9LXSemi-detached£225,000
15 Nov 201927 ME8 9LXDetached£420,000
28 Jun 202328 ME8 9LXDetached£425,000
10 May 200228 ME8 9LXDetached£156,000
24 Mar 199728 ME8 9LXDetached£79,000
19 Aug 201529 ME8 9LXDetached£288,500
23 Jun 200030 ME8 9LXDetached£117,000
14 Aug 201533 ME8 9LXDetached£331,000
27 Jun 199733 ME8 9LXDetached£97,000
5 Aug 200934 ME8 9LXSemi-detached£187,500
26 Sep 200834 ME8 9LXDetached£194,000
19 Jul 200236 ME8 9LXDetached£158,000
14 Apr 200037 ME8 9LXDetached£133,000
27 Aug 200238 ME8 9LXDetached£163,000

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

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 84 m². Most common: House, detached (9); House, semi-detached (4); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 1983-1990 (9); 1967-1975 (6); 1976-1982 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (19 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 11,098 kWh of it on average in 2024, about the same as the district, and 3,082 kWh of electricity, 5% less than the district's 3,233 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
ME8 9LX382,676 kWh 3810,460 kWh
ME8 9LU422,839 kWh 4311,438 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is ME8.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (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 C (33% of about 610 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

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

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

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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 3 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 9LXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME8 9LUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 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

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 3 to 5%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

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

3 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 140 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Lyall Way Gillingham, Kent Not recorded Inert 140 m
Sandringham Road Gillingham, Kent Not recorded Inert 170 m
Dolphin Drive Park Wood, Medway, Kent Not recorded Not recorded 230 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 39 addresses are between 99 m and 106 m above sea level (102 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)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
ME8 9LU100%100%100%0%
ME8 9LX100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsRainham (Kent) 1.7 million journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.6 miles)
Newington 141,000 journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Gillingham (Kent) 2.5 million journeys in 2024–255.9 km (3.6 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Thrale Way Parkwood100 m
Bus or coach stationChatham Railway Station6.8 km (4.2 miles)
Car parksHempstead Valley Purple Car Park1.8 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gridserve Charging Station580 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN26 km (16 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW59.1 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Long Catlis Road Surgery Requires improvement Jul 2023540 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fenns Chemist590 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Parkwood Health Centre540 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSpire Alexandra Hospital Requires improvement Sep 20175.5 km (3.4 miles)
Care homes5 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 579 Maidstone Road Good May 2018930 m (0.6 miles)
Police stationKent undercover police.6.2 km (3.9 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Moto - Medway East Amenity, Rainham Cashzone650 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 Rainham Park 2.7 ha350 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 400 m²320 m
Playing fieldKings Frith Playing Fields 7.3 ha1.3 km (0.8 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 920 m²2.2 km (1.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 3.7 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
Park WoodsWood410 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Ryetop WoodWood480 m (0.3 miles) south
Foxburrow WoodWood600 m (0.4 miles) north
Stoners Rough WoodWood690 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Purple HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Spekes BottomValley2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-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)10.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)13.44015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 5970
Under 553139

8 of the street's 39 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), 6 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Parkwood Primary SchoolPrimary4–11460 m (0.3 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11500 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection 70% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 15% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 81% in 2023)
Deanwood Primary SchoolPrimary2–11640 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 28% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
Fairview Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 69% in 2024 and 68% in 2023)
Miers Court Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 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 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 48% in 2024 and 59% in 2023)
St Margaret's Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
St Margaret's Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection None published
Hempstead Junior SchoolPrimary7–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

6 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 530 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Parkwood Pre-School ME8 9LP Sessional day care 51 Outstanding (Oct 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 530 m (0.3 miles)
Parkwood Christian Fellowship Preschool ME8 9PN Full day care 43 Outstanding (Nov 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 570 m (0.4 miles)
Parkwood 'Poppets' Playgroup ME8 9PN Full day care 25 Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 570 m (0.4 miles)
ID PE & Sport's Fairview Holiday Course Centre ME8 0NU Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Fairview Fledglings ME8 0NU Full day care 30 Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Rainbow Pre-School and Out of School Club ME8 8JR Full day care 30 Good (Jan 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 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 6 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
Family Kebab Fish & Chips/Next Level Pizza ME8 9UHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Oct 2026
Peverel Green Supermarket ME8 9UHRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good25 Jun 2026
Spice Fusion ME8 9LHOther catering premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Dec 2025
Parkwood Community Association ME8 9PNPub/bar/nightclub470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 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.

30 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences17
Criminal damage and arson3
Other theft3
Vehicle crime3
Anti-social behaviour2
Other crime1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Style Close (17); On or near Lyall Way (4); On or near Ferrier Close (2); On or near Gregory Close (2); On or near Stirling Close (1).

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.

5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 4 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian. 40% happened in the dark, and 20% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202200
202300
202431
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
22 Jan 2025 22:10 Slight 3 people Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
11 Dec 2024 17:29 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
17 Sep 2024 09:57 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
3 May 2024 17:25 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
5 Oct 2021 16:47 Slight 1 person 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 M2 between 4 and LA Boundary, with 73,571 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 440 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
M2 4 to LA Boundary 73,571 counted 2025 9% +10% since 2015 440 m (0.3 miles)

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 Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 288 residents in 115 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 age4540
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)92%61%
Owned outright44%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%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)23%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification11%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

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

What has changed

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, mid-terrace (lodged 30 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Family Kebab Fish & Chips/Next Level Pizza (restaurant/cafe/canteen, ME8 9UH) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 20 October 2026) found 30 October 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.

Nearby streets

Style Close · Gregory Close · Middleton Close · Ferrier Close · Stirling Close · Cragie Walk · Lyall Way · Bond Road · Tyler Drive · Sinclair Close · Harcourt Gardens · Old Castle Walk

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.