Unity Court Sheerness, Swale

1 address across 1 postcode (ME12), about 40 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 39010359.

  • Sales: 6 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £185,000 across 1 sale.
  • 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 A; Band D in Swale costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Sheerness-On-Sea, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 930 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 3 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Sheerness Health Centre, about 510 m (0.3 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 440 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 35% of households owned their home and 14% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 347 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

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

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20211£185,000£185,000£185,000
20171£120,000£120,000£120,000
20072£55,000£55,000£55,000
20061£60,000£60,000£60,000
Most recent sales (6)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Sep 202110 ME12 2PNDetached£185,000
19 Feb 20213 ME12 2PNDetached£158,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Nov 20174 ME12 2PNTerraced£120,000Leasehold.
20 Apr 20078 ME12 2PNFlat or maisonette£55,000Leasehold.
26 Jan 20074 ME12 2PNTerraced£55,000New build. Leasehold.
21 Dec 20067 ME12 2PNDetached£60,000New build. Leasehold.

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Swale in 2026-27: Band D £2,406 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,604£1,871£2,138£2,406£2,940£3,475£4,009£4,811

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (67% of about 820 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.

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: of the 12 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 12 very low.

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: the postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

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 address is about 3 m above sea level.

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. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

No Ofcom coverage figures for these postcodes.

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 stationsSheerness-On-Sea 439,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Queenborough 196,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Swale 7,300 journeys in 2024–255.7 km (3.6 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest EKC Sheppey Secondary Sheerness220 m
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Beachfields Car Park780 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN15.8 km (9.8 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN62.1 km (39 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sheerness Health Centre510 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Paydens Pharmacy510 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sheerness Health Centre510 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSheppey Community Hospital2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationSheerness Police Station1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest *Deposit & Withdrawal* The Cooperative Food Sheerness Cashzone730 m (0.5 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 gardenUnnamed 7,580 m²930 m (0.6 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 590 m²270 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.4 ha550 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha230 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Queenborough Lines, a scheduled monument, 810 m (0.5 miles) south-west. 18 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Queenborough LinesScheduled monument810 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Sheerness defencesScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Sheerness Defences: C19 gun emplacements and magazines and early-C20 gun towers, fire-control building and pillbox on the Centre BastionScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cheyney RockWetland500 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Jacob's BankWetland1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Sheerness BeachBeach1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Sheppey Court MarshesWetland1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-west
The MoatLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Doos HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-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)9.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)10.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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
Under 5511

None of the street's 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Swale: see them on the Swale 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
Richmond Primary SchoolPrimary2–11150 m Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
EKC Sheppey SecondarySecondary11–16200 m No published inspection
Rose Street Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Edward's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
West Minster Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (1 mile) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Halfway Houses Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Family Fish Bar And Kebab House ME12 2QATakeaway/sandwich shop50 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Aug 2026
Unique Price ME12 2QARetailers - other50 m4 Good18 Dec 2018
Miramar Chinese Foods ME12 2QGTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m2 Improvement necessary9 May 2025
Nourish Catering At Richmond Academy ME12 2ETSchool/college/university160 m5 Very good12 Nov 2025
Heights Of Alma ME12 2AXPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good30 Jun 2026
Cheema Brothers ME12 2AXRetailers - other180 m5 Very good19 Jun 2024
Cain' S Family Amusements ME12 2AWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good18 Feb 2014
Neptune House ME12 2AWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good4 Nov 2025
EKC Sheppey Secondary School ME12 2BESchool/college/university390 m4 Good2 Jun 2026
OTAS Supported Living Limited ME12 2QYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good8 Mar 2022
Broadway Mini Mart ME12 1TSRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Dec 2021
Austin's News 4 U ME12 2AGRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good16 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.

347 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences149
Anti-social behaviour98
Criminal damage and arson31
Other theft16
Public order14
Drugs12
Other crime10
Vehicle crime6
Burglary5
Bicycle theft3
Possession of weapons2
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Richmond Street (100); On or near Alma Street (78); On or near Clyde Street (63); On or near Nursery Close (28); On or near James Street (24).

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: 436 residents in 134 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 age2640
Children under 1537%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)35%61%
Owned outright17%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented58%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work45%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)12%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)11%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)14%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram6%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)49%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away20%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)14%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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

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.

  • ME12 2PN: 1 address of 13 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Jefferson Road · Coronation Road · Unity Street · James Street · Clyde Street · Alma Street · Nursery Close · Alma Street Passage · Richmond Street · Alexandra Road · St Helen's Road · Wellesley Road

All the streets in ME12 and across Swale.

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.