Country England and Wales › Region South East › Council Maidstone › Neighbourhood Kingswood, Langley Heath & Chart Sutton › Postcode ME17 4RD What's changing near ME17 4RD Within 2 km, around Kingswood, Langley Heath & Chart Sutton in Maidstone. Building, planning, schools, transport, prices and crime.
335 new homes completed within 2 km, last 2 years
0 homes given permission on brownfield sites since 2021
+3.4% like-for-like prices in Kingswood, Langley Heath & Chart Sutton, 2024 → 2025 (council +1.9%)
+12% recorded crime, last 12 months vs the 12 before
On the map
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Nearby, most recent first New homes 5 new homes completed houses · Jun 2026 – Sep 2026
Sept 2026 New homes 10 new homes completed houses · Oct 2025 – Sep 2026
Sept 2026 New homes 9 new homes completed houses · Apr 2026 – Sep 2026
Sept 2026 New homes 15 new homes completed 1 flats, 14 houses · Aug 2026
Sept 2026 New homes 21 new homes completed houses · Aug 2025 – Sep 2026
Sept 2026 New homes 7 new homes completed houses · Jul 2026 – Aug 2026
Aug 2026 New homes 13 new homes completed houses · Jan 2026 – Jul 2026
Jul 2026 New homes 6 new homes completed houses · Mar 2025 – Jun 2026
Jun 2026 New homes 49 new homes completed 2 flats, 47 houses · Mar 2025 – Jun 2026
Jun 2026 New homes 23 new homes completed houses · Aug 2025 – Jun 2026
Jun 2026 New homes 7 new homes completed houses · Oct 2025 – May 2026
May 2026 New homes 8 new homes completed flats · Mar 2026
Mar 2026 7 homes extended 2021–2025, typically adding 27 m²
13 since energy certificates began (2008)
1 in ME17 4RD itself
Spotted when a home's energy certificate shows at least 15 m² (and 15%) more floor area than an earlier one. Only homes with two certificates show up, so the real number is higher. A busy street suggests extensions get permission here; check the council's planning register for the details.
Storm overflows within 2 km 1 storm overflows within 2 km
1 hours of spills in 2025 between them (typical neighbourhood: about 36)
1 spill events counted
Environment Agency event duration monitoring, 2025 annual return (OGL; © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026). Overflows release diluted sewage into rivers and the sea when sewers are overwhelmed, mostly after heavy rain.
Solar, wind and battery projects within 10 km 18 planned, approved or being built and 3 running (61 MW between them). Those within 5 km are on the map above.
Rooftop solar W M Morrisons Supermarkets - Solar panels Approved, not yet built · 360 kW
Apr 2022 Rooftop solar Maidstone Borough Council Depot, Bircholt Road - Solar Panels Approved, not yet built · 180 kW
May 2025 Solar farm East Hill Farm - Solar Panels Approved, not yet built
Sept 2023 Rooftop solar Sutton Road, Langley - Solar Panels Approved, not yet built · 830 kW
Apr 2025 Rooftop solar Coxheath County Primary School, Stockett Lane - Solar Panels Approved, not yet built · 170 kW
Dec 2025 Rooftop solar Ledian Farm, Upper Street - Solar Photovoltaic Panels Approved, not yet built · 190 kW
Feb 2024 Rooftop solar Berry Gardens, Redwall Lane - Solar Panels Approved, not yet built · 580 kW
Aug 2023 Solar farm Mid Kent College, Tonbridge Road - Air Source Heat Pumps & Solar Panels Approved, not yet built · 300 kW
Apr 2024 Rooftop solar Mid Kent College, Tonbridge Road - Solar Panels Planning application in · 350 kW
Jul 2023 Rooftop solar St Leonards Road - Solar Panels Approved, not yet built · 150 kW
Jun 2022 Road and street works within 1 km 3 permitted works running now or planned, 2 of them major.
Major, planned The Quarries, Boughton Monchelsea Highway repair and maintenance works · KENT COUNTY COUNCIL · Road closure
Dec 2026 to Dec 2026 Major The Quarries, Boughton Monchelsea Highway repair and maintenance works · KENT COUNTY COUNCIL · Road closure
Dec 2026 to Dec 2026 Immediate - urgent Boughton Lane, Maidstone Highway repair and maintenance works · KENT COUNTY COUNCIL · Some carriageway incursion
Sept 2026 to Oct 2026 DfT Street Manager permits (OGL), England. Dates are the planned ones; works often finish early or overrun.
Major infrastructure projects within 30 km Decided decided Jul 2019 Decided decided Feb 2021 Decided Tilbury2 Harbour Facilities · Site of the former Tilbury Power Station, approximately 1 km east of the existing Port of Tilbury decided Feb 2019 Decided decided Feb 2022 Decided decided Dec 2017 Decided Cleve Hill Solar Park Generating Stations · Land approximately 2 km northeast of Faversham and 5 km west of Whitstable on the North Kent Coast. decided May 2020 Planning Inspectorate list of nationally significant infrastructure projects (roads, railways, energy, water, waste), October 2026 (OGL). Each is placed at one point, usually the middle of the site; long schemes run well beyond it.
Transport schemes within 20 km None on our list yet. We're starting with recently opened and under-construction rail schemes.
Running nearest: Allington EFW (energy from waste, 6.4 km); Widehurst Farm (solar farm, 9.4 km); BIOSSENCE SOLAR PARK (solar farm, 10.0 km).
DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database, April to June 2026 (OGL). Projects of 150 kW and over; refused, withdrawn and abandoned ones are left out.