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On Cygnet Road, in Lordswood
What it's like at ME5 8SB: every home that has sold on Cygnet 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Cygnet Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 19 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Cygnet RoadTerraced | Jul 2009 | £129,000 | 89 m² | £1,449/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Cygnet RoadTerraced | Mar 2006 | £140,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 8, Cygnet RoadTerraced | Dec 2018 | £195,000 | 86 m² | £2,267/m² | 1 |
| 10, Cygnet RoadTerraced | Feb 2018 | £215,000 | 84 m² | £2,560/m² | 1 |
| 12, Cygnet RoadTerraced | Aug 2002 | £99,000 | 86 m² | £1,151/m² | 2 |
| 14, Cygnet RoadTerraced | Jun 2013 | £140,000 | 101 m² | £1,386/m² | 2 |
| 18, Cygnet RoadTerraced | Jan 2020 | £229,000 | 81 m² | £2,827/m² | 2 |
| 26, Cygnet RoadTerraced | Dec 2021 | £248,000 | 116 m² | £2,138/m² | 5 |
| 28, Cygnet RoadTerraced | Aug 2009 | £125,000 | 91 m² | £1,374/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Chatham, a drive away (5.3 km), with 2.4m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is The Kestrel Shopping Centre, 200 m away, with a bus about every 7 minutes on weekdays (routes 166, 167, 667, 658); 37 departures an hour from the 7 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 (17 by car).
Central London is 50 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Swingate Primary School, a few minutes' walk (250 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Greenacre School, 2.1 km away; Attainment 8: 29.8 · 0.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Rainham School for Girls (4.6 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Holcombe Grammar School (3.6 km) and Chatham Grammar (4.1 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-Op, 1.2 km away, with Tesco Express closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Reach Healthcare (1.3 km), with Lordswood Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (150 m).
For a haircut, The Salon is 1.2 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Medway Maritime Hospital, 4.8 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 2 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Lordswood Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and Lordswood Sports & Social Club the nearest pub (750 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 65 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 11% flats and 14% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Princes Avenue Recreation Ground, 1.4 km away; for exercise, Lordswood Leisure Centre (700 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 11.1 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Southend is 28 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 54 km.
Most households own their home, 15% rent privately.
15 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.
Chatham and Aylesford constituency: Tristan Osborne MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 1,998 (4.9%), turnout 54%. Vote shares: Labour 34%, Conservative 29%, Reform UK 25%, Green Party 6%.
8 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 ME5 8SB →
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.
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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 19 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
On this street: 0 of 17 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 | 1.0% | 0.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 95.7% | 91.7% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.0% | 6.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 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.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.