Maidstone

Council pages

Kent County Council runs highways, including gritting, so the gritting link goes to Kent.

• Emergency planning Emergency preparedness (maidstone.gov.uk)
• Gritting and winter roads Winter service on our roads (kent.gov.uk)
• Sandbags Flooding advice (maidstone.gov.uk)
• Where rest centres or emergency help are announced Same page as above.

Power cuts

Network operator (not your supplier):

• UK Power Networks (South East England)

Our log of the UK Power Networks live fault feed recorded 1 unplanned cut here from 1 November 2026, 14:53 GMT to 1 November 2026, 16:36 GMT.

Ofgem’s figures for the whole licence area, April 2024 to March 2025, counting cuts of 3 minutes or longer:

• South East England (UK Power Networks): 42.2 interruptions per 100 customers and 30.4 minutes without power per customer (2023/24: 49.5 and 36.5)

Great Britain as a whole: 39.7 and 35.1. These are area averages, not figures for Maidstone alone. About this dataset

Flooding

Environment Agency: 3 flood alert areas and 8 flood warning areas overlap Maidstone. Waters named: River Beult, River Medway, River Teise, Teise, Lesser Teise, River Beult and Lesser Teise.

Warning areas include: Headcorn; Little Venice Country Park and Marina; Paddock Wood and Laddingford; River Beult and Lesser Teise at Collier Street; River Beult from Bethersden and Pluckley to Stile Bridge; River Medway at Maidstone; River Medway between Yalding and Maidstone; River Medway, River Teise and River Beult at Yalding.

Flood warnings we have logged for these areas: 0 since 1 November 2026, 14:53 GMT.

Where the nearest A&E departments are

The nearest type 1 (major) A&E departments to the centre of each of the largest built-up areas, by straight-line distance (as the crow flies, not by road):

• Maidstone: Maidstone Hospital (2.6 km); Medway Maritime Hospital (12.3 km); Tunbridge Wells Hospital (20.1 km).
• Coxheath: Maidstone Hospital (4.9 km); Medway Maritime Hospital (16.2 km).
• Bearsted: Maidstone Hospital (6.3 km); Medway Maritime Hospital (12.5 km).

We have not found an open official list of urgent treatment centres and minor injury units for England, so they are not shown here. Find urgent and emergency care services (NHS website).

Never Caught Out is not affiliated with the NHS. For medical help that is not an emergency, contact NHS 111. About this dataset

Water supply

More than one company supplies parts of Maidstone:

• South East Water · Water latest
• Southern Water · Works or issues in my area

Water resource zones covering Maidstone: Maidstone (6) (South East Water, about 49% of the area); Ashford (8) (South East Water, about 27% of the area); Cranbrook (7) (South East Water, about 22% of the area); Kent Medway East (Southern Water, about 1% of the area). What a water resource zone is

Phone and broadband coverage

Ofcom’s predictions of normal coverage in Maidstone, January 2026. They are not live outages and not a guarantee for any address.

• Homes and businesses with 4G indoors from all four networks: 86%; from none: 0.6%.
• Outside homes and businesses, 4G from all four networks: 99%; from none: 0%.
• Land area with outdoor 4G from all four networks: 92%; from none: 0.5%.
• Premises that can get gigabit-capable broadband: 80%.
• Premises that cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up) from a fixed line or fixed wireless: 142 (0.2%).

Check an address on Ofcom’s coverage checker · Phones when the network is down: how to reach 999 · Your right to request decent broadband (Ofcom) · About this dataset

Coast

No open-sea coastline.

Local radio

BBC Radio Kent

Weather warnings

UK-wide Met Office warnings in our log: 0 since 1 November 2026, 14:53 GMT.

Emergency planning partnership

Kent Resilience Forum: its community risk register lists the emergencies planned for here.

Census 2021: planning prompts

• Households with no car or van: 14.6%
• Residents aged 65 or over: 19.1%
• Households of one person aged 66 or over: 11.9%

Largest built-up areas

• Maidstone
  • River Medway at Maidstone
  • River Medway between Yalding and Maidstone
• Coxheath
• Bearsted
• Lenham and Harrietsham

Neighbouring councils

Ashford, Medway, Swale, Tonbridge and Malling, Tunbridge Wells

Useful wherever you live

• Power cut: call 105 free. What to do in a power cut · Priority Services Register · Compensation calculator
• Check flooding by postcode and sign up for free warnings (GOV.UK)
• What to do in a flood
• Current Met Office warnings · What the colours mean
• Your water bill names your water company, or find it by postcode (Water UK).
• A battery or wind-up radio keeps working in a power cut.
• Census prompts: who would fetch food or medicines for you or a neighbour on icy or flooded roads, and who would you check on in a power cut? Ask your pharmacist about repeat prescriptions before bad weather.

Publishing check

Before a local page is shown to search engines it has to pass every rule below on 14 nights in a row. Until then it stays online for anyone who follows a link, but search engines are asked not to list it. Last run: 1 November 2026, 16:38 GMT. Result: Not yet.

Fields we have filled: Council name and ONS code, Resilience forum, Electricity network operator, Power cuts logged, Flood alert and warning areas, Flood warnings logged, Met Office warnings logged, Water company, Council emergency planning page, Gritting or winter service page, Sandbag page, Where rest centres are announced, Census 2021 planning figures, Local BBC radio, Coastal, Neighbouring councils. Not filled yet: Strategic roads and closures, Local note.