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On Becket Avenue, in Canterbury Central & Westgate
What it's like at CT2 8JN: every home that has sold on Becket Avenue 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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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 Becket Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 12 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Becket AvenueSemi-detached | May 2008 | £158,500 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, Becket AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 2026 | £260,000 | 86 m² | £3,023/m² | 2 |
| 6, Becket AvenueSemi-detached · company-owned | Jan 2009 | £140,000 | 77 m² | £1,818/m² | 1 |
| 7, Becket AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2022 | £250,000 | 85 m² | £2,941/m² | 3 |
| 15, Becket AvenueSemi-detached · company-owned | Sept 2017 | £190,000 | 84 m² | £2,262/m² | 3 |
| 17, Becket AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2011 | £155,000 | 82 m² | £1,890/m² | 2 |
| 19, Becket AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2006 | £125,000 | 80 m² | £1,563/m² | 2 |
| 20, Becket AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 2025 | £270,000 | 117 m² | £2,308/m² | 1 |
| 22, Becket AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 2000 | £59,000 | 81 m² | £728/m² | 2 |
| 23, Becket AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2011 | £148,050 | 89 m² | £1,663/m² | 1 |
| 26, Becket AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 1996 | £41,000 | 81 m² | £506/m² | 1 |
| 28, Becket AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2025 | £245,000 | 82 m² | £2,988/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Canterbury West, about a 10-minute walk (1.0 km), with 2.7m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London St Pancras International.
The nearest bus stop is Fisher Road, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 649); 5 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 11 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
40% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is The Canterbury Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (750 m); 51% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is The Canterbury Academy, 600 m away; Attainment 8: 39 · 3.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Barton Court Grammar School (1.3 km) and Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School (2.3 km).
Few families with young children: only 12% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is St Dunstans Costcutter, 800 m away, with Chaucer Stores closer still (550 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is University Medical Centre (1.4 km), with Prx Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (950 m).
For a haircut, Raffles is 700 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Kent & Canterbury Hospital, 1.8 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).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 131 restaurants and cafés and 37 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
The Victoria Hotel is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and Eight Bells the nearest pub (550 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (16 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 297 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 77% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (CANTERBURY CITY (Canterbury Conservation Area) Reg 4.12.96, CANTERBURY ( WEST STATION ) (Canterbury Conservation Area) Registered 04.12.1996).
There are 624 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 42% flats and 5% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
20 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.
Canterbury constituency: Rosie Duffield MP (Independent), since June 2017. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 8,653 (18.3%), turnout 66%. Vote shares: Labour 41%, Conservative 23%, Reform UK 14%, Green Party 13%.
11 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 CT2 8JN →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
On this street: 0 of 11 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.7% | 1.5% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 1.1% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 72.4% | 89.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 1.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 26.0% | 7.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 1.4% | 0.2% | 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.
It's growing: about 234 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Dukes Meadow, 350 m away; for exercise, Ladies of Leisure (800 m).
A swim is a short trip away: West Beach, Whitstable, 9.3 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.5 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Southend is 42 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 89 km.
Many neighbours rent: 44% of households rent privately and 15% socially.
It's young: 37% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 44% of adults have a degree.
This is a student area: 27% of adults were full-time students at the 2021 census, so expect shared houses, busy term times and quiet summers.
The nearest university is Canterbury Christ Church University, 2.1 km away (TEF Silver).
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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Canterbury 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 12 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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