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In Great Chart, Bethersden & Woodchurch. What's changing around Padwell Lane
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| The Chapel, Padwell LaneTN23 3AU | 23 Dec 2025 | £305,000 | Detached |
|---|---|---|---|
| Braeside, Padwell LaneTN23 3AU | 15 Aug 2025 | £405,000 | Detached |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Ashford International, a drive away (3.2 km), with 3.8m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London St Pancras International.
The nearest bus stop is Church, 200 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 2); 5 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 77 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Great Chart Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (750 m); 77% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Chilmington Green School, 1.5 km away.
Grammar schools are within reach: Highworth Grammar School (6.1 km) and The Norton Knatchbull School (7.2 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-Op Food, 1.6 km away, with Morrisons Daily closer still (650 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Singleton Medical Centre & Dental Surgery (650 m), with Singleton Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (600 m).
For a haircut, Tip Top Hair Design is 650 m away.
The nearest full A&E is William Harvey Hospital, 8.7 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 4 restaurants and cafés, 7 pubs and bars.
Thai Basil is the closest café or restaurant (650 m), and The Swan and Dog the nearest pub (300 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 50 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 279 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 47% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1983-1992.
It's growing: about 528 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Repton Park Walk, 2.1 km away; for exercise, Courtside Sports Facility (2.1 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.1 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, London Southend is 51 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 68 km.
Most households own their home, 16% 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.
16 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.
Checked at TN23 3AU; a long street can cross an Article 4 boundary, so check the exact postcode.
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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.
No crimes recorded "on or near" Padwell Lane in the last 12 months.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.2% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.7% | 1.8% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 67.8% | 79.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 20.8% | 9.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 7.8% | 7.1% | 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.
HMO planning rules: unknown here. Ashford has not published HMO Article 4 areas to the national planning data platform, so we cannot tell whether HMOs need planning permission here. Ask the council's planning team. About HMOs
Local Housing Allowance, Ashford rental area, 2026-27, a month: Shared room £393 · 1 bed £750 · 2 beds £850 · 3 beds £1,098 · 4 beds £1,440. The most a tenant on Universal Credit or Housing Benefit gets towards rent here, set at the cheapest 30% of local rents in 2023 and frozen since April 2024.
Gross LHA yields at this neighbourhood's 2025 prices: 1-bed rate vs flats 3.05% · 2-bed vs terraced houses 3.52% · 3-bed vs semis 3.61%.
None of the 126 injury collisions in Great Chart, Bethersden & Woodchurch over the same years were on Padwell Lane.
Police-reported collisions where someone was hurt (DfT STATS19), on the nearest named road within 30 m. A main road through the area naturally collects more than a side street.
Historic England National Heritage List (within 50 m of the road for the count); Open Plaques.