Kit's Coty

15°COvercast

• Today: 23° / 13° · 12% rain
• Tomorrow: 21° / 16° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:26Sunset 19:21

12h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

27US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Chatham Roadside, United Kingdom

21 reported · July 2026

• Anti-social behaviour12
• Violence & sexual offences4
• Other theft3
• Public order2

3 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Aylesford North & North Downs · Kent

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

239 reported road collisions (2024)

69 killed or seriously injured · 314 casualties · 18.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

126 food businesses within 2 miles

• 103 rated 4–5 ★ (91 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: New Hythe (3.5 km)
• 5 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£405,932 average▲ 2.6% YoY

Across Tonbridge and Malling · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,484 average monthly rent▲ 3.3% YoY

• 1 bed £1,029
• 2 bed £1,329
• 3 bed £1,620

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

12.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 12.0 times median annual pay (11.8× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 157.9p · Esso (6.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 188.9p · Morrisons (7.8 km)

25 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

51 charging locations within ~8 km

• 20 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: SHELL RECHARGE BLUEBELL HILL (497) (0.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools5
• Sports pitches3
• Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

132,201 residents in Tonbridge and Malling · 551/km²

• Under 16: 20%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 236 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,472 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (28% of 57,230)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

69 schools · 25,026 pupils

45 primary · 11 secondary · 13 other

Ofsted: 25 of 29 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (86%)

59inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Tonbridge and Malling

1,672 CQC-registered services

• Care homes501
• GP practices221
• Dentists362
• Homecare agencies415
• Hospitals & hospices47

CQC ratings: 87% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 25 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Kent

• Not in the Green Belt
• 12 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

164 applications decided

97.6% granted · 160 granted, 4 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Tristan Osborne

Labour

Chatham and Aylesford

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative (minority)

• Lab 2
• Con 21
• LD 11
• Grn 8
• Oth 2

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools1
• GPs & clinics2
• Parks & greens8
• Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,895 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£821 median full-time weekly pay

2.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£30,480 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

50% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 56,525 certificates

8.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

57% low-carbon electricity

Imports 39% · Wind 30% · Solar 23% · Gas 4%

37 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.4 yrs women · 81.8 yrs men

72% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Chatham and Aylesford:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership429 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s395 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test380 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases361 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office331 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Kit's Coty · 0.2 km

  Kit's Coty is a small village on the slopes of Blue Bell Hill between Maidstone and Rochester in the English county of Kent. The population of the village is included in the civil parish of Aylesford.

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  Kit's Coty House · 0.3 km

  Kit's Coty House or Kit's Coty is a chambered long barrow near the village of Aylesford in the southeastern English county of Kent. Constructed circa 4000 BCE, during the Early Neolithic period of British prehistory,…

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  Medway Megaliths · 0.6 km

  The Medway Megaliths, sometimes termed the Kentish Megaliths, are a group of Early Neolithic chambered long barrows and other megalithic monuments located in the lower valley of the River Medway in Kent, South-East En…

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  Lower Bell · 0.6 km

  The Lower Bell is a pub and hotel on the A229 Blue Bell Hill, between Chatham and Maidstone in Kent. It is located at the edge of the North Downs where the A229 meets the Pilgrims' Way.

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  Battle of Aylesford · 0.7 km

  The Battle of Aylesford or Epsford was fought between Britons and Anglo-Saxons recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Historia Brittonum. Both sources concur that it involved the Anglo-Saxon leaders Hengist and…

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  Coffin Stone · 0.7 km

  The Coffin Stone, also known as the Coffin and the Table Stone, is a large sarsen stone at the foot of Blue Bell Hill near Aylesford in the south-eastern English county of Kent. Now lying horizontally, the stone proba…

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