Watersend Dover

22 addresses across 2 postcodes (CT16), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 11301341.

  • Energy: 7 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 1, D: 4).
  • 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 Dover costs £2,462 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Kearsney (Kent), about 600 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Kearsney Park, is about 630 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 35 to 40 m above sea level.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Lydden Surgery, about 2.1 km away.
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 88% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 18 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

7 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 168 m². Most common: House, detached (5); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1983-1990 (4); 2021 (2); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Dover in 2026-27: Band D £2,462 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,641£1,915£2,188£2,462£3,009£3,556£4,103£4,923

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (45% of about 1,110 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.

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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 30 September 2026 to 2 October 2026: BT, New service connection, give and take, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)
  • 2 October 2026 to 6 October 2026: BT, Utility asset works, give and take, on the carriageway, verge (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 7 August 2026: AFFINITY WATER - SOUTH EAST, Permanent reinstatement, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

Groundwater flooding is possible in 2 of these postcodes: an address there is in a groundwater flood alert area.

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
CT16 3PAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible
CT16 3HWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible

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.

Height above sea level

The street's 22 addresses are between 35 m and 40 m above sea level (37 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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
CT16 3HW100%100%100%0%
CT16 3PA100%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 stationsKearsney (Kent) 48,000 journeys in 2024–25600 m
Dover Priory 1.0 million journeys in 2024–254.1 km
Shepherds Well 70,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m, 19 within 800 m; nearest Templeside Temple Ewell190 m
Ferry terminalDover Eastern Docks Ferry Terminal5.2 km
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km; nearest Lewisham Road1.2 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN61.2 km
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW101.6 km

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 surgeriesLydden Surgery2.1 km
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest River Pharmacy1.1 km
NHS dentistsDover Priory Dental Practice4.2 km
HospitalBuckland Community Hospital Cdc3.0 km
Police stationPolice4.1 km
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food River, River Cashzone1.1 km

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; nearest Kearsney Park 13 ha630 m
Play area3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,040 m²290 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest King George's Field 6,570 m²340 m
Allotments1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha110 m

Within 800 m: 2 parks and gardens, 18 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Peter and St Paul, a listed building (Grade II*), 220 m south-east. 11 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Peter and St PaulListed building, Grade II*220 m south-east
Kearsney CourtRegistered park or garden, Grade II610 m south
Bowl barrow 200m south west of Little WatersendScheduled monument1.2 km west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Mill RaceLake or reservoir190 m south-east
Palmtree Hill PlantationWood540 m south
Kearsney PondLake or reservoir550 m south-east
Scotland CommonWood600 m south-west
Ghost HillHill770 m south-west
Whitfield ValleyValley1.1 km east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)6.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)10.24015

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).

Noise figures are still being loaded.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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
Temple Ewell Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11120 m Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
River Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Whitfield Aspen SchoolPrimary4–112.0 km No overall grade (Jan 2025, 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 1 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Fox Inn CT16 3DUPub/bar/nightclub220 m4 Good20 Mar 2026
Temple Ewell Tiddlers CT16 3DTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good10 Feb 2026
Caterlink Ltd at Temple Ewell CofE Primary School CT16 3DTSchool/college/university280 m5 Very good7 Mar 2024
DSC Breakfast Club CT16 3DTSchool/college/university280 mAwaiting inspection
Ivybank CT16 3DBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises500 m5 Very good15 Aug 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.

18 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences11
Anti-social behaviour3
Other theft1
Burglary1
Criminal damage and arson1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Mill Street (7); On or near Church Hill (3); On or near Riverside (2); On or near Brookside (2); On or near George And Dragon Place (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: 358 residents in 165 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 age5240
Children under 158%17%
Aged 65 and over30%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)88%61%
Owned outright48%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)57%65%
Work 30 km or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.

  • CT16 3PA: 21 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • CT16 3HW: 1 address of 19 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Riverside · Brookside · Templar Road · Church Hill · London Road · Mill Street · High Street · Downhill Close

All the streets in CT16 and across Dover.

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.