Beach Road Harwich, Tendring

28 addresses across 2 postcodes (CO12), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 39900126.

  • Sales: 29 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £317,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 5, E: 4, F: 2).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Tendring costs £2,270 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Dovercourt, about 870 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 70 m away, and Cliff Park (7.9 hectares) is about 120 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 7 to 17 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Fronks Rd Family Surgery, about 160 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 580 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 35 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20241£317,500£317,500£317,500
20212£315,000£255,000£375,000
20181£220,000£220,000£220,000
20171£195,000£195,000£195,000
20164£182,250£166,000£188,000
20153£160,000£145,000£212,000
20141£124,500£124,500£124,500
20111£185,000£185,000£185,000
20091£130,495£130,495£130,495
20071£70,000£70,000£70,000
20041£245,000£245,000£245,000
20031£152,000£152,000£152,000
Most recent sales (29)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Aug 202428 CO12 3RPTerraced£317,500
15 Feb 202122 CO12 3RPFlat or maisonette£375,000
1 Feb 20218 CO12 3RPSemi-detached£255,000
4 Apr 201916 - 18 CO12 3RPOther£1,535,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Aug 201816 - 18 CO12 3RPOther£1,526,944Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Jul 20189 CO12 3RPTerraced£220,000
12 Jan 20172 CO12 3RPFlat or maisonette£195,000Leasehold.
31 Mar 201626 CO12 3RPTerraced£177,500
30 Mar 201628 CO12 3RPTerraced£188,000
9 Feb 20164 CO12 3RPSemi-detached£187,000
29 Jan 20168 CO12 3RPSemi-detached£166,000
27 Nov 201512 CO12 3RPSemi-detached£160,000
16 Oct 201511 CO12 3RPTerraced£212,000
20 Apr 20154 CO12 3RPSemi-detached£145,000
2 Feb 201518 CO12 3RPDetached£268,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Apr 20146 CO12 3RPSemi-detached£124,500
9 Dec 20118 CO12 3RPSemi-detached£185,000
23 Oct 200928 CO12 3RPTerraced£130,495
11 Oct 20072 CO12 3RPFlat or maisonette£70,000Leasehold.
10 Sep 200422 CO12 3RPFlat or maisonette£245,000
12 Jun 200311 CO12 3RPSemi-detached£152,000
12 Nov 20028 CO12 3RPSemi-detached£135,000
11 Sep 200228 CO12 3RPTerraced£123,000
28 Jun 200214 CO12 3RPSemi-detached£129,000
28 Feb 20026 CO12 3RPSemi-detached£98,500
17 Nov 199922 CO12 3RPFlat or maisonette£132,499
31 Aug 199932 CO12 3RPTerraced£82,000
25 Jul 19979 CO12 3RPTerraced£49,500
24 Apr 199630 CO12 3RPTerraced£32,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 128 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (4); House, detached (3); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 1900-1929 (7); 1930-1949 (2); before 1900 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (2); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Tendring in 2026-27: Band D £2,270 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,513£1,765£2,017£2,270£2,774£3,278£3,783£4,539

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (49% of about 820 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 2.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 28 addresses are between 7 m and 17 m above sea level (14 m on average); the ground rises about 10 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CO12 3RP100%100%100%0%
CO12 3SR100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsDovercourt 168,000 journeys in 2024–25870 m (0.5 miles)
Harwich Town 112,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Harwich International 118,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Minesweepers Memorial Dovercourt190 m
Ferry terminalHarwich Harbour Ferry Landing2 km (1.2 miles)
Car parksDovercourt Station Car Park840 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mer830 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN56.8 km (35 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN71.8 km (45 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fronks Rd Family Surgery160 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy740 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dovercourt Dental Surgery340 m
HospitalHarwich & District Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationHarwich police Station1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machinesEast of England Co-op Fronks Road Cashzone1.2 km (0.8 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,060 m²70 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Cliff Park 7.9 ha120 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 770 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.4 ha810 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dunns Meadow Allotments 8,440 m²260 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 8.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Dovercourt lighthouses and causeway, a scheduled monument, 220 m south-east. 16 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Dovercourt lighthouses and causewayScheduled monument220 m south-east
Beacon Hill Fort: a late 19th and 20th century coastal artillery fortificationScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
The Harwich RedoubtScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bobbit's HoleLake or reservoir510 m (0.3 miles) north
Dovercourt BayBay560 m (0.3 miles) east
Beacon HillHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Beacon CliffCliff or slope1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
The GuardWetland1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Raycliff WoodWood2.5 km (1.6 miles) north-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)7.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.24015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
55 to 5910
Under 552628

2 of the street's 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Tendring: see them on the Tendring page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–11500 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
The Mayflower Primary SchoolPrimary4–11650 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Harwich and Dovercourt High SchoolSecondary11–16940 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Harwich Community Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Spring Meadow Primary School & NurseryPrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
All Saints' Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, DovercourtPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Lime Court Care Centre CO12 4DEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good23 Jan 2026
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School CO12 3SUSchool/college/university410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Oct 2026
DBAK LTD CO12 3PLPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Jan 2025
The Mayflower Primary School CO12 4AJSchool/college/university480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Oct 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

35 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences16
Vehicle crime4
Criminal damage and arson3
Anti-social behaviour3
Drugs3
Possession of weapons2
Other theft2
Public order2

Most of these are attached to: On or near First Avenue (12); On or near St George'S Avenue (8); On or near Beach Road (4); On or near Third Avenue (3); On or near Second Avenue (3).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 584 residents in 245 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4640
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright42%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented25%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)59%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

St George's Avenue · Lower Marine Parade · Elmhurst Road · Second Avenue · Fronk's Avenue · Third Avenue · First Avenue · Langley Close · St Michael's Road · Birch Avenue · Marine Parade · Lee Road

All the streets in CO12 and across Tendring.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.