Bell Close Basildon

22 addresses across 2 postcodes (SS15), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2002737.

  • Sales: 36 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £237,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 14, D: 2).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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 C; Band D in Basildon costs £2,327 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 43% to 90% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Laindon, about 950 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 20 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 38 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 22 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Laindon Medical Group, about 580 m (0.4 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 500 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 63% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 78 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
20261£237,500£237,500£237,500
20223£225,000£225,000£395,000
20211£325,000£325,000£325,000
20191£227,000£227,000£227,000
20182£219,250£212,500£226,000
20171£340,000£340,000£340,000
20163£210,000£190,000£210,000
20151£189,995£189,995£189,995
20141£245,000£245,000£245,000
20091£220,000£220,000£220,000
20088£187,998£100,000£189,000
200712£227,500£187,000£275,000
Most recent sales (36)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Jul 202617 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£237,500Leasehold.
12 Aug 202211 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£225,000Leasehold.
21 Apr 202216 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£225,000Leasehold.
15 Mar 20225 SS15 5NGTerraced£395,000
5 Mar 20211 SS15 5NGTerraced£325,000
12 Jul 20198 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£227,000Leasehold.
20 Nov 201810 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£226,000Leasehold.
15 Jun 20188 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£212,500Leasehold.
6 Oct 20179 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£202,501Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Jul 20177 SS15 5NGDetached£340,000
12 Dec 201611 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£210,000Leasehold.
1 Sep 201617 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£210,000Leasehold.
8 Feb 201616 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£190,000Leasehold.
16 Dec 201514 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£189,995Leasehold.
23 May 20144 SS15 5NGTerraced£245,000
10 Aug 20097 SS15 5NGDetached£220,000
16 Sep 200815 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£169,495New build. Leasehold.
3 Sep 200822 SS15 5NGDetached£100,000New build.
30 May 200817 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£187,995New build. Leasehold.
28 Mar 200811 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£188,000New build. Leasehold.
26 Mar 200818 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£188,000New build. Leasehold.
29 Feb 200820 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£189,000New build. Leasehold.
29 Feb 200810 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£188,000New build. Leasehold.
29 Feb 20089 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£187,000New build. Leasehold.
21 Dec 200716 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£187,000New build. Leasehold.
21 Dec 20078 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£187,000New build. Leasehold.
29 Nov 200714 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£187,110New build. Leasehold.
15 Nov 200719 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£189,000New build. Leasehold.
7 Nov 200712 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£189,000New build. Leasehold.
4 Oct 20073 SS15 5NGTerraced£268,000New build.
29 Sep 20074 SS15 5NGTerraced£275,000New build.
18 Sep 20072 SS15 5NGTerraced£272,500New build.
14 Sep 20075 SS15 5NGTerraced£272,500New build.
13 Sep 20071 SS15 5NGTerraced£272,500New build.
13 Jul 20076 SS15 5NGFlat or maisonette£195,000New build. Leasehold.
12 Jul 20077 SS15 5NGDetached£260,000New build.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from November 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 62 m². Most common: Flat (13); House, mid-terrace (3); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 2007-2011 (8); 2003-2006 (4); 1996-2002 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Basildon in 2026-27: Band D £2,327 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,551£1,810£2,069£2,327£2,844£3,362£3,879£4,654

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (37% of about 760 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: none.
  • 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.

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 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 7 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
SS15 5NGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 3 unlikely
SS15 5NWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely

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 addresses are about 38 m above sea level.

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
SS15 5NG100%43%43%0%
SS15 5NW100%90%90%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 stationsLaindon 1.9 million journeys in 2024–25950 m (0.6 miles)
Basildon 2.6 million journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Pitsea 1.1 million journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 35 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Leinster Road Laindon310 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Basildon Town Centre2 km (1.2 miles)
Ferry terminalTilbury Ferry Terminal14.5 km (9 miles)
Car parksNational Car Parks1.7 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fastned Charging Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN18.2 km (11 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN37.1 km (23 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Laindon Medical Group580 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well570 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Laindon Health Centre Dental Practice580 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalBraintree Community Hospital2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationBasildon Police Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ravi's Basildon Cashzone730 m (0.5 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,110 m²20 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 1.2 ha790 m (0.5 miles)
Play area10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,590 m²270 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8.6 ha120 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,440 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 3.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Nicholas, a listed building (Grade I), 550 m (0.3 miles) north. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St NicholasListed building, Grade I550 m (0.3 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Long WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Marks Hill WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Poles WoodWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Westley HeightsHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Hall WoodWood2.5 km (1.6 miles) south
The DellValley2.7 km (1.7 miles) north

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)11.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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
55 to 5920
Under 552022

2 of the street's 22 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 Basildon: see them on the Basildon page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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
The James Hornsby SchoolSecondary11–16150 m Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Phoenix Primary SchoolPrimary3–11230 m No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Janet Duke Primary SchoolPrimary4–11420 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Millhouse Primary SchoolPrimary3–11770 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Laindon Park Primary School & NurseryPrimary3–11780 m (0.5 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Anne Line Catholic Junior School Roman CatholicPrimary7–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Anne Line Catholic Infant School Roman CatholicPrimary2–71.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Merrylands Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Lee Chapel Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Noak Bridge Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Lincewood Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Ghyllgrove Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
Impact Food Group @ The James Hornsby School SS15 5NXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good29 Jan 2026
Phoenix Primary School SS15 5NQSchool/college/university230 m5 Very good11 Sep 2025
Bluehouse Farm Community Ctr. SS15 5UHOther catering premises310 mExempt
Busy Bees Preschool SS15 5UHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 mAwaiting inspection
Trinity Food & Wine SS15 5LNRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Sep 2025
Pabulum Ltd SS15 5LSSchool/college/university470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Apr 2026
kidbusterz janet duke wraparound care SS15 5LSOther catering premises470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good25 Aug 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.

78 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences40
Anti-social behaviour16
Public order5
Criminal damage and arson4
Drugs3
Other theft3
Vehicle crime3
Other crime2
Possession of weapons1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Temple Close (27); On or near Frobisher Close (17); On or near Deacon Drive (12); On or near Font Close (6); On or near Palmer Close (5).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 497 residents in 199 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 age3440
Children under 1526%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)63%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownership12%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work72%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van41%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram11%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)52%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away21%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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

The Nave · The Nave · Abbey Path · Palmer Close · Leinster Road · Frobisher Close · Font Close · Temple Close · Deacon Drive · Altar Place · Trinity Close · Little Totham Path

All the streets in SS15 and across Basildon.

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.