Walsham Road Chatham, Tonbridge and Malling

63 addresses across 1 postcode (ME5), about 270 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40601187.

  • Sales: 87 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £267,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 35 homes have an energy certificate (C: 19, D: 13, 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 C; Band D in Tonbridge and Malling costs £2,472 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is New Hythe, about 4.9 km (3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 520 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 176 to 180 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 45 of its 63 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Reach Healthcare, about 830 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 88% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 38 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
20242£267,500£255,000£280,000
20231£460,000£460,000£460,000
20223£395,000£375,000£425,000
20213£370,000£330,000£383,000
20207£300,000£250,000£420,000
20191£397,500£397,500£397,500
20184£293,750£246,000£405,000
20172£285,500£285,000£286,000
20161£315,000£315,000£315,000
20153£249,995£182,500£250,000
20148£199,000£170,000£290,000
20131£170,000£170,000£170,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 87)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Mar 202435 ME5 9HXTerraced£255,000
8 Feb 202444 ME5 9HXTerraced£280,000
3 Apr 202312 ME5 9HXSemi-detached£460,000
30 Sep 202238 ME5 9HXSemi-detached£395,000
10 Jun 20226 ME5 9HXTerraced£425,000
20 Apr 202213 ME5 9HXTerraced£375,000
21 Dec 202123 ME5 9HXSemi-detached£370,000
13 Sep 20219 ME5 9HXTerraced£383,000
21 Jun 202120 ME5 9HXTerraced£330,000
16 Oct 20208 ME5 9HXSemi-detached£270,000
5 Oct 202038 ME5 9HXSemi-detached£305,000
25 Sep 202010 ME5 9HXTerraced£420,000
18 Sep 202047 ME5 9HXTerraced£337,000
21 Aug 202023 ME5 9HXSemi-detached£300,000
24 Jul 202021 ME5 9HXSemi-detached£276,000
6 Jul 202048 ME5 9HXTerraced£250,000
24 May 201946 ME5 9HXTerraced£397,500
5 Dec 201836 ME5 9HXDetached£405,000
18 Jul 201830 ME5 9HXSemi-detached£307,500
9 Feb 201824 ME5 9HXSemi-detached£280,000
12 Jan 201833 ME5 9HXTerraced£246,000
19 Oct 201754 ME5 9HXTerraced£286,000
24 Mar 201745 ME5 9HXTerraced£285,000
20 Dec 20162 ME5 9HXDetached£315,000
18 Sep 201518 ME5 9HXTerraced£250,000
6 Feb 201548 ME5 9HXTerraced£182,500
28 Jan 201550 ME5 9HXDetached£249,995
16 Dec 201447 ME5 9HXTerraced£191,000
27 Aug 201424 ME5 9HXSemi-detached£209,900
22 Aug 201433 ME5 9HXTerraced£190,000
2 May 20149 ME5 9HXTerraced£242,500
21 Mar 201410 ME5 9HXTerraced£290,000
28 Feb 201447 ME5 9HXTerraced£170,000
21 Feb 201431 ME5 9HXSemi-detached£207,000
21 Feb 201421 ME5 9HXSemi-detached£173,000
28 Aug 201349 ME5 9HXTerraced£170,000
14 Dec 201236 ME5 9HXDetached£300,000
20 Jan 201250 ME5 9HXTerraced£200,000
19 Sep 201130 ME5 9HXSemi-detached£195,000
12 Mar 20105 ME5 9HXDetached£250,000
9 Oct 200917 ME5 9HXTerraced£245,000
10 Sep 200948 ME5 9HXTerraced£127,500
1 May 20099 ME5 9HXTerraced£197,000
21 Aug 200818 ME5 9HXTerraced£215,000
31 Oct 200723 ME5 9HXSemi-detached£219,000
12 Jul 200720 ME5 9HXTerraced£195,000
14 May 20075 ME5 9HXDetached£260,000
7 Feb 200746 ME5 9HXTerraced£239,000
12 Oct 200633 ME5 9HXTerraced£155,000
14 Aug 200642 ME5 9HXSemi-detached£193,500

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 May 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 77 m². Most common: House, detached (15); House, semi-detached (9); House, end-terrace (8). Built: 1976-1982 (19); 1983-1990 (10); 1967-1975 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (29); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (23 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Tonbridge and Malling in 2026-27: Band D £2,472 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,648£1,923£2,197£2,472£3,021£3,570£4,120£4,944

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (42% of about 570 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 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

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 63 addresses are between 176 m and 180 m above sea level (179 m on average).

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

Broadband

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

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
ME5 9HX100%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 stationsNew Hythe 184,000 journeys in 2024–254.9 km (3 miles)
Snodland 276,000 journeys in 2024–254.9 km (3 miles)
Aylesford 185,000 journeys in 2024–254.9 km (3.1 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Oaks Dene Walderslade150 m
Bus or coach stationChatham Railway Station5.5 km (3.4 miles)
EV charging pointsbp Pulse1.7 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN29.3 km (18 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW53.2 km (33 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 Healthcare830 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fenns Chemist1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kent Smile Studio1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalSpire Alexandra Hospital660 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationKent undercover police.4.1 km (2.5 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Walderslade, Walderslade Cashzone1.1 km (0.7 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 16 ha520 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 210 m²310 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tunbury Recreation Ground 1.1 ha240 m
AllotmentsHatton Road Allotment 3,080 m²2 km (1.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 18 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Kit's Coty House Long Barrow, a scheduled monument, 1.7 km (1 mile) south-west.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Kit's Coty House Long BarrowScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) south-west
White Horse Stone, AylesfordScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Impton WoodWood190 m south-west
Coal BottomValley570 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Middle HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Burham MarshesWetland4.2 km (2.6 miles) west
Horsehoe ReachTidal water4.3 km (2.7 miles) west
Brookland LakeLake or reservoir4.6 km (2.9 miles) west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)11.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.8205
Particles (PM10)13.54015

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 64130
55 to 59320
Under 551863

45 of the street's 63 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 Tonbridge and Malling: see them on the Tonbridge and Malling 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
Tunbury Primary SchoolPrimary4–11350 m Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Walderslade Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Lordswood SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 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
Oaklands SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Swingate Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
St Benedict's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
Smilers Pre-School ME5 9HPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good25 Sep 2026
Catkins Pre-School ME5 9HPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
Junior Adventures Group ME5 9HYSchool/college/university430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good12 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.

38 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour19
Violence and sexual offences11
Drugs3
Other theft2
Vehicle crime2
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Catkin Close (23); On or near Tavistock Close (5); On or near Oaks Dene (3); On or near Woodbury Road (2); On or near Sarsen Heights (2).

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: 305 residents in 119 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 age3840
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)88%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work70%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)41%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycleunder 1%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%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

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 9HX: 63 addresses of 65 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Falkland Place · Woodbury Road · Walderslade Woods · Tavistock Close · Sarsen Heights · Tunbury Avenue · Oaks Dene · Sheraton Court · Chippendale Close · Catkin Close · Hepplewhite Mews · Fostington Way

All the streets in ME5 and across Tonbridge and Malling.

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.