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On Spenser Road, in Herne Bay Parade
What it's like at CT6 6AP: every home that has sold on Spenser 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Spenser Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 71 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 77, Spenser RoadDetached | Nov 2017 | £461,500 | 156 m² | £2,958/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 79, Spenser RoadDetached | Aug 2025 | £550,000 | 160 m² | £3,438/m² | 4 |
| 81, Spenser RoadDetached | May 2023 | £580,000 | 190 m² | £3,053/m² | 1 |
| 83, Spenser RoadSemi-detached | Mar 1995 | £63,000 | 110 m² | £573/m² | 1 |
| 85, Spenser RoadSemi-detached | Nov 1999 | £88,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 87, Spenser RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2022 | £285,000 | 62 m² | £4,597/m² | 6 |
| 89, Spenser RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2008 | £205,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 138, Spenser RoadDetached | Feb 2015 | £275,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 140, Spenser RoadDetached | Aug 2022 | £602,500 | 207 m² | £2,911/m² | 1 |
| 142, Spenser RoadSemi-detached | May 2014 | £225,000 | 122 m² | £1,844/m² | 1 |
| 144, Spenser RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2001 | £135,000 | 106 m² | £1,274/m² | 1 |
| 150, Spenser RoadDetached | Aug 2023 | £365,000 | 71 m² | £5,141/m² | 2 |
| The Old Surgery, 148, Spenser RoadDetached | Feb 2022 | £245,000 | 69 m² | £3,551/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Herne Bay, about a 10-minute walk (950 m), with 835k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Faversham.
The nearest bus stop is Spenser Road East, 50 m away, with a bus about every 15 minutes on weekdays (routes 600, 601, 912); 18 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 45 minutes away by public transport (22 by car).
The nearest primary school is Herne Bay Infant School, a few minutes' walk (350 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Herne Bay High School, 1.4 km away; Attainment 8: 36.8 · 2.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Barton Court Grammar School (10.8 km) and Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School (12 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 250 m away; Londis - Herne Bay (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is William Street Surgery (500 m), with Park Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (600 m).
For a haircut, Mac's Barbers is 600 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Kent & Canterbury Hospital, 12 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: 66 restaurants and cafés and 20 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Herne Bay Football Club is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and Masonic Temple the nearest pub (400 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (26 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 199 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 83% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (HERNE BAY).
There are 42 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (59%).
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 59% were built before 1919.
It's growing: about 128 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Memorial Park, 600 m away; for exercise, James Fitness (200 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Herne Bay Central, 800 m away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.1 µg/m³).
50 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sewer Vent Column | II | 150 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.
Herne Bay and Sandwich constituency: Sir Roger Gale MP (Conservative), since June 1983. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 2,499 (5.1%), turnout 63%. Vote shares: Conservative 35%, Labour 30%, Reform UK 22%, Green Party 7%.
34 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 CT6 6AP →
For holidays, London Southend is 37 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 84 km.
Many neighbours rent: 40% of households rent privately and 9% socially.
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: 1 of 51 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.6% | 1.5% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 1.1% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 77.3% | 89.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 1.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 21.7% | 7.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.4% | 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.
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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 71 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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