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On The Droveway, in Kingsdown & St Margaret's-at-Cliffe
What it's like at CT15 6DH: every home that has sold on The Droveway since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on The Droveway; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 84 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, The DrovewayOther | Jul 2025 | £2,000 | 92 m² | £22/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, The DrovewayOther | Feb 2021 | £10,000 | 90 m² | £111/m² | 1 |
| 4, The DrovewaySemi-detached | May 2019 | £375,000 | 97 m² | £3,866/m² | 1 |
| 5, The DrovewayTerraced | Oct 2025 | £200,000 | 78 m² | £2,564/m² | 2 |
| Beach House, 4b, The DrovewaySemi-detached | Nov 2021 | £355,000 | 162 m² | £2,191/m² | 1 |
| Beau House, 4c, The DrovewayOther | Nov 2021 | £355,000 | 162 m² | £2,191/m² | 1 |
| Hilltop View, 4a, The DrovewayTerraced | Oct 2025 | £206,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Invicta, The DrovewayDetached | Aug 2013 | £240,000 | 91 m² | £2,637/m² | 1 |
| Nimrod, 15, The DrovewayDetached | Mar 2021 | £460,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Sycamores, 11, The DrovewayDetached | Apr 2026 | £735,000 | 178 m² | £4,129/m² | 4 |
| Tucktaway, 7, The DrovewayDetached | Oct 2015 | £400,000 | 107 m² | £3,738/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Martin Mill, a drive away (3.0 km), with 68k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London St Pancras International.
The nearest bus stop is Bay Hill, 50 m away, with a bus about every 40 minutes on weekdays (routes 93, 80A, 82A, 80B).
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 77 minutes away by public transport (40 by car).
The nearest primary school is St Margaret's-at-Cliffe Primary School, a few minutes' walk (50 m); 52% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Kingsdown and Ringwould Church of England Primary School (1.5 km).
The nearest secondary is Duke of York's Royal Military School, 3.8 km away; Attainment 8: 55 · 12.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Dover Grammar School for Girls (7 km) and Dover Grammar School for Boys (8.2 km).
Few families with young children: only 11% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Marks And Spencer Dover Simply Food, 5.1 km away, with The Village Shop closer still (550 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is St James' Surgery (5.0 km), with Superdrug the closest pharmacy (5.3 km).
For a haircut, SunShine Co. is 5.2 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, 22 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 51% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 55% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 16 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 13 restaurants and cafés, 11 pubs and bars.
The Bay Bistro is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and The Coastguard Inn the nearest pub (400 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 45 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 73 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 57% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
Bungalow country: 30% of homes are bungalows.
It's growing: about 173 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Connaught Park, 5.0 km away; for exercise, Anytime Fitness (5.3 km).
The beach is on your doorstep: St Margaret`s Bay, 2.9 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.2 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
12 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Coastguard Cottages | II | 160 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Dover and Deal constituency: Mike Tapp MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 7,585 (15.9%), turnout 63%. Vote shares: Labour 40%, Reform UK 24%, Conservative 22%, Green Party 7%.
5 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near CT15 6DH →
For holidays, London Southend is 65 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 109 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 59% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 39% are 65 or over.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
Nearest: Faversham Swimming Pools · about 34 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 3 of 59 homes with certificates have solar panels, 3 a heat pump, and 3 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 2.2% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.0% | 1.0% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 83.6% | 89.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 8.6% | 3.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.2% | 5.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 0.8% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Dover since 2011.
police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 84 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.