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On Rough Common Road, in Blean Forest, Chartham Hatch & University
What it's like at CT2 9DA: every home that has sold on Rough Common Road 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.
6 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 3 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Rough Common Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 97 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 79, Rough Common RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2022 | £475,000 | 123 m² | £3,862/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 79a, Rough Common RoadDetached | Dec 2017 | £345,000 | 103 m² | £3,350/m² | 2 |
| 81, Rough Common RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2004 | £224,395 | – | – | 1 |
| 83 - 85, Rough Common RoadFlat | Oct 1996 | £37,000 | 38 m² | £974/m² | 1 |
| 83a, Rough Common RoadFlat | Oct 2019 | £99,375 | 43 m² | £2,311/m² | 1 |
| 85, Rough Common RoadFlat | Oct 2019 | £121,875 | 40 m² | £3,047/m² | 1 |
| 85a, Rough Common RoadFlat | Aug 2019 | £147,000 | 35 m² | £4,200/m² | 1 |
| 87, Rough Common RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2021 | £375,000 | 101 m² | £3,713/m² | 3 |
| 89, Rough Common RoadTerraced | Dec 2003 | £198,500 | 138 m² | £1,438/m² | 1 |
| 97, Rough Common RoadSemi-detached | May 2013 | £202,500 | 48 m² | £4,219/m² | 1 |
| 99, Rough Common RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2024 | £375,000 | 75 m² | £5,000/m² | 3 |
| 105, Rough Common RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2015 | £226,000 | 64 m² | £3,531/m² | 2 |
| 107, Rough Common RoadDetached | Jun 2020 | £441,000 | 124 m² | £3,556/m² | 2 |
| 117, Rough Common RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2004 | £197,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 121, Rough Common RoadDetached | Sept 2018 | £370,000 | 89 m² | £4,157/m² | 2 |
| 123, Rough Common RoadDetached | Oct 2019 | £300,000 | 106 m² | £2,830/m² | 1 |
The nearest station is Canterbury West, a short drive or bike ride (2.0 km), with 2.7m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London St Pancras International.
The nearest bus stop is Churchwood Close, 50 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 905, 903, 906, 913); 2 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.
The nearest primary school is Blean Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (950 m); 80% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is The Canterbury Academy, 1.7 km away; Attainment 8: 39 · 3.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Barton Court Grammar School (3.4 km) and Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys (4.3 km).
Few families with young children: only 10% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is St Dunstans Costcutter, 1.9 km away, with Rough Common Post Office closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is University Medical Centre (1.2 km), with Giles Lane Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.2 km).
For a haircut, Raffles is 1.8 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Kent & Canterbury Hospital, 3.9 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: 10 restaurants and cafés, 5 pubs and bars.
UoK- Dolche Vita is the closest café or restaurant (1.4 km), and The Hare At Blean the nearest pub (1.3 km).
It's a low-crime area: about 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 66 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 44% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Neal's Place Meadow, 650 m away; for exercise, University of Kent Sports Centre (1.4 km).
A swim is a short trip away: West Beach, Whitstable, 7.3 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Southend is 40 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 87 km.
11 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%.
1 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 9DA →
On this street: 0 of 76 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 4 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 2.4% | 1.5% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.0% | 1.1% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 92.4% | 89.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 2.7% | 1.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.8% | 7.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 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.
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 49% of households own their home outright.
It's young: 49% of residents are aged 15–29.
This is a student area: 50% 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, 3.1 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.
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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 97 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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