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On The Mead, in Larkfield & New Hythe
What it's like at ME19 5QZ: every home that has sold on The Mead 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 The Mead; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 14 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, The MeadDetached | Mar 2021 | £455,000 | 105 m² | £4,333/m² | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, The MeadSemi-detached | Jan 1996 | £67,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 4, The MeadSemi-detached | Jul 1997 | £110,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 5, The MeadDetached | Nov 2021 | £470,000 | 100 m² | £4,700/m² | 3 |
| 6, The MeadDetached | Aug 2019 | £425,000 | 108 m² | £3,935/m² | 1 |
| 7, The MeadDetached | Sept 2025 | £455,000 | 109 m² | £4,174/m² | 2 |
| 8, The MeadDetached | Nov 2024 | £620,000 | 138 m² | £4,493/m² | 4 |
| 9, The MeadSemi-detached | Jan 2015 | £292,500 | 98 m² | £2,985/m² | 2 |
| 10, The MeadDetached | Nov 2021 | £475,000 | 92 m² | £5,163/m² | 5 |
| 12, The MeadDetached | Oct 2006 | £295,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 13, The MeadDetached | Mar 2015 | £300,000 | 88 m² | £3,409/m² | 4 |
| 14, The MeadTerraced | Mar 2006 | £219,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 15, The MeadTerraced | Jan 2015 | £272,500 | 67 m² | £4,067/m² | 2 |
| 16, The MeadSemi-detached | Mar 2006 | £290,000 | – | – | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is West Malling, a short drive or bike ride (1.4 km), with 897k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Bridge.
The nearest bus stop is Baywell, 150 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes W3, 4); 9 departures an hour from the 9 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 45 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Leybourne, St Peter and St Paul Church of England Primary Academy, a few minutes' walk (150 m); 81% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Valley Invicta Primary School At Aylesford (2 km).
The nearest secondary is The Malling School, 1.6 km away; Attainment 8: 41 · 4.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Oakwood Park Grammar School (5.7 km) and Maidstone Grammar School for Girls (5.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 1.0 km away, with Leybourne Convenience Store closer still (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Avicenna Medical Centre (150 m), with Paydens Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.1 km).
For a haircut, One to One is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Maidstone Hospital, 4.7 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 73% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 70% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 8 restaurants and cafés, 6 pubs and bars.
Little Market Coffee House is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and Leybourne Cricket Club the nearest pub (150 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 67 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 9% flats and 22% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
The nearest park is Larkfield Park, 950 m away; for exercise, Larkfield Leisure Centre (1.3 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 11.1 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Southend is 35 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 46 km.
Most households own their home, 10% rent privately.
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.
14 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.
Maidstone and Malling constituency: Helen Grant MP (Conservative), since May 2010. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 1,674 (3.6%), turnout 61%. Vote shares: Conservative 31%, Labour 27%, Reform UK 20%, Liberal Democrat 14%.
20 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 ME19 5QZ →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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Nearest: Minster Leas · about 31 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 9 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 | 1.2% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.9% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 97.6% | 89.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 3.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.0% | 5.0% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 1.2% | 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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Tonbridge and Malling 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 14 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.