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On Castle Road, in Whitstable Central & Tankerton
What it's like at CT5 2EA: every home that has sold on Castle 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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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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Castle Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 75 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 37, Castle RoadSemi-detached | May 2009 | £350,000 | – | – | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39, Castle RoadSemi-detached | Jul 1997 | £93,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 41, Castle RoadDetached | Sept 2000 | £210,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 54, Castle RoadSemi-detached | Jun 1995 | £69,000 | 109 m² | £633/m² | 1 |
| 60, Castle RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2010 | £414,200 | 156 m² | £2,655/m² | 1 |
| 62, Castle RoadDetached | Feb 2025 | £723,000 | 140 m² | £5,164/m² | 2 |
| 66, Castle RoadDetached | Nov 2015 | £475,000 | 119 m² | £3,992/m² | 2 |
| 68, Castle RoadDetached | Sept 2025 | £555,000 | 128 m² | £4,336/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Whitstable, a few minutes' walk (400 m), with 877k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London St Pancras International.
The nearest bus stop is Railway Station, 250 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 5, 5A, 914, 916); 2 departures an hour from the 2 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 42 minutes away by public transport (19 by car).
The nearest primary school is St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Whitstable, a few minutes' walk (250 m); 68% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Whitstable and Seasalter Endowed Church of England Junior School (0.8 km).
The nearest secondary is The Whitstable School, 900 m away; Attainment 8: 39.3 · 2.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Barton Court Grammar School (9.7 km) and Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School (10.7 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 700 m away, with The Chocolate Box closer still (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Whitstable Health Centre (650 m), with Tankerton Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (600 m).
For a haircut, Hair 108 is 550 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Kent & Canterbury Hospital, 11 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: 19 restaurants and cafés, 5 pubs and bars.
The Whitstable Play Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (500 m), and The Monument the nearest pub (400 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 73 per 1,000 residents a year.
There are 13 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 17% flats and 31% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
It's growing: about 285 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Kingsdown Park Gardens, 500 m away; for exercise, Fighting Lions (650 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Tankerton, 1.2 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.5 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Southend is 34 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 81 km.
40 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%.
36 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 CT5 2EA →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 43% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 26% 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.
On this street: 0 of 52 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 3 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 2.0% | 1.5% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.0% | 1.1% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 95.6% | 89.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 1.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.1% | 7.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 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.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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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 75 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.