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On Wakeley Road, in Rainham North East
What it's like at ME8 8EP: every home that has sold on Wakeley 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.
1 home 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 Wakeley Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 133 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 46, Wakeley RoadTerraced | Nov 2017 | £245,000 | 88 m² | £2,784/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48, Wakeley RoadTerraced | Apr 2004 | £138,000 | 85 m² | £1,624/m² | 2 |
| 50, Wakeley RoadTerraced | May 2003 | £123,500 | 76 m² | £1,625/m² | 1 |
| 52, Wakeley RoadTerraced | Oct 2024 | £205,000 | 92 m² | £2,228/m² | 2 |
| 54, Wakeley RoadTerraced | Mar 2025 | £282,000 | 89 m² | £3,169/m² | 1 |
| 56, Wakeley RoadTerraced | May 2001 | £74,500 | 79 m² | £943/m² | 1 |
| 58, Wakeley RoadTerraced | Jun 2001 | £75,000 | 79 m² | £949/m² | 2 |
| 60, Wakeley RoadTerraced | Jun 2023 | £285,000 | 77 m² | £3,701/m² | 1 |
| 64, Wakeley RoadTerraced | May 2026 | £290,000 | 81 m² | £3,580/m² | 2 |
| 68, Wakeley RoadTerraced | Sept 2006 | £160,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 70, Wakeley RoadTerraced | Feb 2023 | £305,000 | 95 m² | £3,211/m² | 2 |
| 72, Wakeley RoadTerraced | Jul 2005 | £140,000 | 96 m² | £1,458/m² | 1 |
| 85, Wakeley RoadFlat | Jan 2020 | £121,000 | 41 m² | £2,951/m² | 2 |
| 87, Wakeley RoadFlat | Nov 1999 | £36,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 91a, Wakeley RoadFlat | Oct 2023 | £122,000 | 33 m² | £3,697/m² | 2 |
| 93, Wakeley RoadFlat | Feb 2005 | £82,500 | 37 m² | £2,230/m² | 1 |
| 74, Dunsmore Court, Wakeley RoadFlat | May 2023 | £190,000 | 56 m² | £3,393/m² | 2 |
| 76, Dunsmore Court, Wakeley RoadFlat | Mar 2000 | £47,000 | 59 m² | £797/m² | 2 |
| 78, Dunsmore Court, Wakeley RoadFlat | Sept 2015 | £117,000 | 49 m² | £2,388/m² | 1 |
| 80, Dunsmore Court, Wakeley RoadFlat | Jan 2021 | £154,995 | 58 m² | £2,672/m² | 5 |
| 82, Dunsmore Court, Wakeley RoadFlat | Dec 2014 | £122,000 | 60 m² | £2,033/m² | 6 |
| 84, Dunsmore Court, Wakeley RoadFlat | Feb 2022 | £155,000 | 59 m² | £2,627/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Rainham (Kent), about a 5-minute walk (550 m), with 1.7m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is Taswell Road, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 3A, 3C); 2 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 54 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Riverside Primary School, a few minutes' walk (100 m); 56% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Leigh Academy Rainham, 500 m away.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Rainham School for Girls (1.7 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Rainham Mark Grammar School (1.7 km) and Chatham Grammar (4.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-op, 2.4 km away, with Asda Service Station closer still (400 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Orchard Family Practice (650 m), with Mediclinic Pharmacy Rainham the closest pharmacy (750 m).
For a haircut, Hot Trends is 150 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Medway Maritime Hospital, 5.5 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 14 restaurants and cafés, 8 pubs and bars.
Mandarin House is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and Rainham Arms the nearest pub (200 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (10 of them).
Crime is around the national middle: about 76 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 18% flats and 11% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 541 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Cherry Tree Orchard, 750 m away; for exercise, The Muscle Hut (450 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Sheerness, 13 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.9 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Southend is 23 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 61 km.
30 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.
Gillingham and Rainham constituency: Naushabah Khan MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 3,972 (9.7%), turnout 56%. Vote shares: Labour 38%, Conservative 28%, Reform UK 21%, Green Party 6%.
27 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 ME8 8EP →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
Most households own their home, 23% 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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Medway 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 133 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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 103 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 11 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.5% | 0.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.7% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 92.3% | 91.7% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.6% | 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.
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