70 Chichester Close, Rainham, Gillingham, ME8 8BZ

70 Chichester Close is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Rainham, Gillingham, Gillingham (ME8 8BZ). It has a recorded floor area of 93 m² (around 1001 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (January 2015) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since December 2014. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from January 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 93 m² it's 24% larger than the typical home in the postcode (75 m² median across 13 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2003–2015, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £369,000 sits 53.8% above the 2015 sale of £240,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£240/sq ft) was about 96.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2010. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last changed hands 11 years ago, in October 2015.