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Get started16 Round Wood Close is a five-bedroom detached house in Walderslade, Chatham, Chatham (ME5 9UL). It has a recorded floor area of 138 m² (around 1485 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (August 2019) shows a D (score 65), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 79). Other recorded features include a conservatory and a basement.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 6.6% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£347/sq ft) was about 68% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 138 m² it's 28.7% larger than the typical home in the postcode (107 m² median across 12 EPCs). Sold March 2021 for £515,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
Planning history at 16 Round Wood Close is exclusively tree-management applications — typical for a property with mature trees on or near the plot.
Tree Preservation Order to crown lift up to 5m above tree base to 1No Oak; reduce canopy by 25% to previous prune points; reduce height to 5m to 1No Leylandii; re comprise Hornbeam group; coppice 1No Hornbeam; coppice 1No Oak, heavily suppressed by adjacent Oak; crown lift up to 6m above tree base of 1No Oak and thin canopy by 10% focusing on dead wood and conflicting branches; crown lift up to 6m above tree base of 1No Sweet Chestnut and thin canopy by 10% focusing on dead wood and conflicting branches.
16 Round Wood Close has more than quadrupled in price since its earliest registered sale in 1997.
£517,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 6.6% per year over 24 years.
£515,000
Growth on file: 6.6% per year over 24 years.
On habitable rooms, 16 Round Wood Close stands well clear of the street.
Price per m²
£3,732
Street avg £3,397
Floor Area
138 m²
Street avg 115 m²
Habitable Rooms
8 rooms
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Galena Close — bus stop.

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
53.0dB

An application for consent to crown reduce one Oak tree by 30%, lift lower canopy to gutter level and prune back from both properties to allow 2m clearance; tree being subject to Tree Preservation Order No. 1 of 1969.
1 more application for this property
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1 March 2021Most recent
£515,000
+278.7%over 21 years17 August 1999
£136,000
+19.4%over 2 years23 May 1997
£113,950
Median price across the last 5 sales in ME5 9UL: £441,000 (2024–2019).
Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
5.3 t/year
Street avg 4.3 t/year
ME5 9PQ
Closest school
0.7 km
Tunbury Primary School. 12 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
43.8dB
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