Botanical Way St Osyth, Tendring

66 addresses across 2 postcodes (CO16), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 39900194.

  • Sales: 22 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £224,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 53 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 21, D: 23, E: 7).
  • 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 C; Band D in Tendring costs £2,270 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Clacton-on-Sea, about 5.2 km (3.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Martin's Farm Country Park, is about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 20 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ranworth Partnership Surgery (Clacton), about 3.6 km (2.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 250 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 16% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 45 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
20231£224,500£224,500£224,500
20221£257,000£257,000£257,000
20201£215,000£215,000£215,000
20173£230,000£205,000£269,000
20151£145,000£145,000£145,000
20141£70,000£70,000£70,000
20111£154,000£154,000£154,000
20071£179,000£179,000£179,000
20061£153,000£153,000£153,000
20052£147,500£140,000£155,000
20031£131,000£131,000£131,000
20021£84,950£84,950£84,950
Most recent sales (22)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 Nov 202323 CO16 8RFSemi-detached£190,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Oct 202324 CO16 8RFSemi-detached£224,500
22 Sep 202323 CO16 8RFSemi-detached£178,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Apr 202228 CO16 8RFSemi-detached£257,000
6 Nov 202036 CO16 8RFDetached£215,000
6 Oct 201721 CO16 8RFDetached£269,000
6 Oct 201730 CO16 8RFDetached£205,000
17 Mar 201744 CO16 8RFSemi-detached£230,000
4 Sep 201532 CO16 8RFSemi-detached£145,000
23 Jan 201423 CO16 8RFSemi-detached£70,000
20 Jun 201134 CO16 8RFDetached£154,000
14 Sep 200723 CO16 8RFSemi-detached£179,000
6 Sep 200630 CO16 8RFDetached£153,000
21 Oct 200542 CO16 8RFSemi-detached£155,000
23 Sep 200540 CO16 8RFSemi-detached£140,000
21 Nov 200322 CO16 8RFSemi-detached£131,000
11 Feb 200242 CO16 8RFSemi-detached£84,950
15 Mar 200034 CO16 8RFDetached£66,000
28 Jan 200023 CO16 8RFSemi-detached£60,000
21 Jan 200022 CO16 8RFSemi-detached£58,000
28 Nov 199624 CO16 8RFSemi-detached£46,000
30 Aug 199624 CO16 8RFSemi-detached£40,500

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 July 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

53 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 48 m². Most common: Flat (26); Bungalow, semi-detached (14); Bungalow, mid-terrace (7). Built: 1991-1995 (26); 1983-1990 (13); 1967-1975 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (36); rented (private) (8).

Each home's certificates and sales (29 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 C (37% of about 830 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: 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.

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 17 August 2026 to 20 August 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 39 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
CO16 8TEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 33 unlikely
CO16 8RFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 6 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 20 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
CO16 8RF100%100%100%0%
CO16 8TE100%0%0%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 stationsClacton-on-Sea 837,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.3 miles)
Great Bentley 105,000 journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Weeley 42,000 journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wellwick House St Osyth180 m
Ferry terminalBrightlingsea Ferry Landing3.8 km (2.4 miles)
EV charging pointsRoam Charging Station3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN37.2 km (23 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN58.9 km (37 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 surgeriesRanworth Partnership Surgery (Clacton)3.6 km (2.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots390 m
NHS dentistsBrightling Sea Dental Practice3.6 km (2.2 miles)
HospitalClacton Hospital5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Police stationEssex Police5 km (3.1 miles)
Cash machinesPayzone3.2 km (2 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 gardenMartin's Farm Country Park 37 ha1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 980 m²660 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.7 ha630 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,080 m²740 m (0.5 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is St Osyth's Priory ruined east ranges of the Darcy House including the Tower and Chapel, a listed building (Grade I), 420 m (0.3 miles) south-west. 56 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
St Osyth's Priory ruined east ranges of the Darcy House including the Tower and ChapelListed building, Grade I420 m (0.3 miles) south-west
St Osyth's Priory: The Abbot's Lodging and South Wing, the Darcy Clock Tower and C18 House (formerly listed as the Convalescent Home).Listed building, Grade I440 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Remains of St Osyth's Priory including the ruinous sections of a mid-C16 mansionScheduled monument470 m (0.3 miles) south-west
St Osyth's Priory boundary wallsListed building, Grade II*500 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Little Priory the Old HouseListed building, Grade II*500 m (0.3 miles) south
St Osyth's PrioryRegistered park or garden, Grade II600 m (0.4 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Engine PondLake or reservoir640 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Kitchen PondLake or reservoir870 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Breeches PondLake or reservoir880 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Nun's WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Eastmarsh PointWetland1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Pincushion IslandIsland2.5 km (1.6 miles) 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)6.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)11.34015

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
Under 556666

None of the street's 66 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Osyth Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–11510 m (0.3 miles) Good (May 2023, 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
Wellwick House CO16 8HBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m4 Good22 Apr 2026
Happy House CO16 8HATakeaway/sandwich shop260 m3 Generally satisfactory11 Aug 2026
The Kings Arms CO16 8HARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m4 Good30 Jul 2025
Mr Enzo Fish and Chip CO16 8PGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m1 Major improvement necessary23 Jul 2026
THE CROSSROADS SANDWICH BAR CO16 8PARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good4 Oct 2025
Filthy & Loaded CO16 8PATakeaway/sandwich shop380 mAwaiting inspection
The Dukes Bistro CO16 8PARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m4 Good16 Jul 2025
St Osyth Fruit & Veg CO16 8PARetailers - other390 m5 Very good10 Aug 2026
Nisa Local CO16 8PARetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory10 Aug 2026
Premier Stores/Nikki's Kitchen CO16 8RNFarmers/growers450 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory17 Jun 2026
St Osyth Butchers Limited CO16 8RNRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Jun 2026
St Osyth Social Club CO16 8NUPub/bar/nightclub470 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

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.

45 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences20
Vehicle crime6
Other theft5
Other crime4
Anti-social behaviour3
Public order2
Criminal damage and arson2
Drugs2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Castle Way (12); On or near Broadstrood (7); On or near Colchester Road (4); On or near Kincaid Road (4); On or near Botanical Way (3).

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: 247 residents in 125 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 age5940
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over41%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright56%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work41%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)43%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away16%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)16%34%
No qualifications32%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%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

Withrick Walk · Newton Gardens · Broadstrood · Deeping Walk · Golding Way · Newton Way · Castle Way · Maypole Drive · Stanmore Way · South Close · Tunstall Close · Kincaid Road

All the streets in CO16 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.