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On Charles Drive, in Cuxton & Halling
What it's like at ME2 1DP: every home that has sold on Charles Drive 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.
4 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Charles Drive; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 100 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Charles DriveSemi-detached | Jan 2021 | £425,000 | 104 m² | £4,087/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Charles DriveTerraced | Jun 2021 | £435,000 | 116 m² | £3,750/m² | 2 |
| 4, Charles DriveTerraced | Oct 2023 | £377,500 | 81 m² | £4,660/m² | 2 |
| 6, Charles DriveSemi-detached | Aug 2019 | £325,000 | 88 m² | £3,693/m² | 1 |
| 7, Charles DriveSemi-detached | Jan 2018 | £292,500 | 130 m² | £2,250/m² | 3 |
| 8, Charles DriveSemi-detached | Aug 2006 | £165,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 10, Charles DriveSemi-detached | Sept 1999 | £81,500 | 86 m² | £948/m² | 1 |
| 11, Charles DriveSemi-detached | Apr 1999 | £79,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 14, Charles DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2023 | £340,000 | 87 m² | £3,908/m² | 1 |
| 16, Charles DriveSemi-detached | Aug 2025 | £280,000 | 89 m² | £3,146/m² | 1 |
| 18, Charles DriveTerraced | Oct 2009 | £163,500 | 117 m² | £1,397/m² | 1 |
| 19, Charles DriveSemi-detached | Dec 2018 | £249,000 | 71 m² | £3,507/m² | 1 |
| 20, Charles DriveSemi-detached | Jun 2021 | £300,000 | 88 m² | £3,409/m² | 3 |
| 21, Charles DriveSemi-detached | Jul 2013 | £174,000 | 100 m² | £1,740/m² | 4 |
| 22, Charles DriveSemi-detached | Mar 2023 | £340,000 | 108 m² | £3,148/m² | 1 |
| 23, Charles DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2023 | £305,000 | 74 m² | £4,122/m² | 4 |
| 24, Charles DriveSemi-detached | Jan 2025 | £350,000 | 85 m² | £4,118/m² | 2 |
| 26, Charles DriveSemi-detached | Sept 2013 | £207,000 | 115 m² | £1,800/m² | 1 |
| 28, Charles DriveSemi-detached | Jun 2024 | £372,500 | 121 m² | £3,079/m² | 1 |
| 30, Charles DriveSemi-detached | Mar 2021 | £315,000 | 90 m² | £3,500/m² | 1 |
| 31, Charles DriveSemi-detached | Aug 2024 | £290,000 | 74 m² | £3,919/m² | 3 |
| 33, Charles DriveSemi-detached | Jul 2024 | £295,000 | 71 m² | £4,155/m² | 4 |
| 35, Charles DriveSemi-detached | Nov 2000 | £79,000 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Cuxton, a few minutes' walk (400 m), with 61k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Strood (Kent).
The nearest bus stop is Sundridge Hill Bottom, 100 m away, with a bus about every 50 minutes on weekdays (routes 151, 652, 149, 673); 10 departures an hour from the 11 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 43 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 10% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Cuxton Community Junior School, a few minutes' walk (450 m); 72% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Leigh Academy Strood, 2.3 km away; Attainment 8: 41.2 · 2.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School (3.8 km) and The Rochester Grammar School (4 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Express, 2.1 km away, with Co-Op closer still (550 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Cuxton Medical Centre (550 m), with Hobbs Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.4 km).
For a haircut, Topiarys is 450 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Medway Maritime Hospital, 7.0 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 69% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 58% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 15 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 7 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Nuffield Health Gym And Nuffy Bear Nursery is the closest café or restaurant (1.2 km), and The White Hart the nearest pub (400 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 50 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 16 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 7% flats and 26% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Cuxton Recreation grounds, 700 m away; for exercise, Virgin Active (1.7 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.0 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Southend is 29 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 49 km.
Most households own their home, 9% 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.
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.
Rochester and Strood constituency: Lauren Edwards MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 2,930 (6.9%), turnout 57%. Vote shares: Labour 36%, Conservative 29%, Reform UK 23%, Green Party 6%.
3 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 ME2 1DP →
On this street: 3 of 74 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 2 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.3% | 0.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 97.2% | 91.7% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.6% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.4% | 6.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.8% | 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 100 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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