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On Eastern Esplanade, in Cliftonville West
What it's like at CT9 2JP: every home that has sold on Eastern Esplanade 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.
4 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 Eastern Esplanade; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
3 of the 115 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| Flat 1, 77, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Apr 2016 | £135,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 2, 77, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Jul 2020 | £210,000 | 79 m² | £2,658/m² | 1 |
| Flat 2, 78, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Nov 1999 | £34,500 | 81 m² | £426/m² | 3 |
| Flat 4, 78, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Nov 2017 | £150,000 | 53 m² | £2,830/m² | 4 |
| Flat 3, 78, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Jan 2025 | £185,000 | 74 m² | £2,500/m² | 3 |
| Flat 1a, 78, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Aug 2017 | £61,750 | 31 m² | £1,992/m² | 2 |
| Flat 1, 78, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Sept 2024 | £198,000 | 55 m² | £3,600/m² | 1 |
| Flat 4, 79, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | May 2011 | £95,000 | 46 m² | £2,065/m² | 4 |
| Flat 2, 79, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Mar 2025 | £305,000 | 76 m² | £4,013/m² | 4 |
| Flat 3, 79, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | May 2002 | £27,500 | 28 m² | £982/m² | 1 |
| Flat 5, 79, Eastern EsplanadeOther | Jul 2020 | £123,000 | 48 m² | £2,563/m² | 4 |
| Flat 1, 79, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | May 2021 | £205,000 | 74 m² | £2,770/m² | 2 |
| Flat 2, 80, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Mar 2003 | £78,000 | 78 m² | £1,000/m² | 2 |
| Flat 3, 80, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | May 2025 | £299,000 | 140 m² | £2,136/m² | 3 |
| Flat 1, 80, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Nov 2025 | £116,000 | 78 m² | £1,487/m² | 4 |
| Flat 10, 81 - 83, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Dec 2014 | £124,995 | 83 m² | £1,506/m² | 2 |
| Flat 7, 81 - 83, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Sept 2005 | £140,000 | 73 m² | £1,918/m² | 2 |
| Flat 5, 81 - 83, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Nov 2003 | £140,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 8, 81 - 83, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Aug 2023 | £247,000 | 80 m² | £3,088/m² | 2 |
| Flat 11, 81 - 83, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Feb 2016 | £115,000 | 40 m² | £2,875/m² | 2 |
| Flat 6, 81 - 83, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Sept 2019 | £260,000 | 78 m² | £3,333/m² | 2 |
| Flat 12, 81 - 83, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Oct 2002 | £59,995 | 50 m² | £1,200/m² | 1 |
| Flat 9, 81 - 83, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Apr 2017 | £169,995 | 80 m² | £2,125/m² | 1 |
| Flat 4, 85, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Jul 2015 | £129,995 | 72 m² | £1,805/m² | 2 |
| Flat 2, 85, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Jul 2005 | £130,000 | 70 m² | £1,857/m² | 2 |
| Flat 3, 85, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Apr 2026 | £193,500 | 69 m² | £2,804/m² | 2 |
| Flat 1, 85, Eastern EsplanadeFlat | Aug 2006 | £150,000 | 76 m² | £1,974/m² | 1 |
| Former Club Premises, Newgate GapOther | Mar 2017 | £99,000 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Margate, a short drive or bike ride (2.2 km), with 1.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London St Pancras International.
The nearest bus stop is Darwin Court, 200 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 022).
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 56 minutes away by public transport (40 by car).
49% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Cliftonville Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (700 m); 44% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Hartsdown Academy, 2.7 km away; Attainment 8: 32.1 · 2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Dane Court Grammar School (3.6 km) and Chatham & Clarendon Grammar School (6.1 km).
It's a family area: 20% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Margate Food Centre, 650 m away, with International Food Centre closer still (400 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Bethesda Medical Centre (800 m), with Woolls Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Professional Haircare is 400 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, 1.2 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: 90 restaurants and cafés and 24 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Cliftonville Outdoor Bowls Club is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and The Albion Rooms the nearest pub (350 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (27 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 215 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 72% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Margate, Margate Conservation Area).
There are 154 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (77%).
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 70% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is The Oval Gardens, 400 m away; for exercise, Urban Fitness (500 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Margate Fulsam Rock, 600 m away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
45 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.
East Thanet constituency: Ms Polly Billington MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 6,971 (16.3%), turnout 57%. Vote shares: Labour 40%, Conservative 24%, Reform UK 20%, Green Party 11%.
56 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 CT9 2JP →
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.1 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Southend is 52 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 97 km.
Many neighbours rent: 57% of households rent privately and 13% 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.
Nearest: Faversham Swimming Pools · about 35 min
Nearest: Crabble Athletic Ground · about 37 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: 0 of 82 homes with certificates have solar panels, 2 a heat pump, and 29 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.4% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 70.8% | 88.7% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.4% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 28.8% | 10.0% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.4% | 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 115 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.