Britten Close Basildon

24 addresses across 1 postcode (SS16), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2002387.

  • Sales: 45 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £613,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (C: 12, D: 3, E: 1).
  • 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 E; Band D in Basildon costs £2,327 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Laindon, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Great Berry Open Space, is about 240 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 51 to 53 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 24 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Dr Salako And Partners, about 250 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 29 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£613,000£613,000£613,000
20252£447,500£355,000£540,000
20221£325,000£325,000£325,000
20212£332,500£275,000£390,000
20201£300,000£300,000£300,000
20192£490,000£420,000£560,000
20181£375,000£375,000£375,000
20151£395,000£395,000£395,000
20142£304,998£270,000£339,995
20111£215,000£215,000£215,000
20091£240,000£240,000£240,000
20081£233,000£233,000£233,000
Most recent sales (45)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Aug 202616 SS16 6TBDetached£613,000
5 Dec 202521 SS16 6TBTerraced£355,000
23 May 202514 SS16 6TBDetached£540,000
25 Aug 202223 SS16 6TBTerraced£325,000
6 Apr 20218 SS16 6TBSemi-detached£390,000
9 Mar 202125 SS16 6TBTerraced£275,000
14 Aug 202031 SS16 6TBTerraced£300,000
7 Nov 20192 SS16 6TBDetached£560,000
18 Jan 201919 SS16 6TBDetached£420,000
25 Sep 201811 SS16 6TBDetached£475,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Aug 20185 SS16 6TBDetached£375,000
7 Apr 201516 SS16 6TBDetached£395,000
30 Jun 201410 SS16 6TBSemi-detached£270,000
14 Apr 201414 SS16 6TBDetached£339,995
7 Jan 20118 SS16 6TBSemi-detached£215,000
30 Apr 200919 SS16 6TBDetached£240,000
23 Jun 20085 SS16 6TBDetached£233,000
12 Oct 200731 SS16 6TBTerraced£195,000
9 Oct 200619 SS16 6TBDetached£245,000
30 Sep 200421 SS16 6TBTerraced£168,000
8 Apr 20045 SS16 6TBDetached£197,000
26 Sep 200327 SS16 6TBTerraced£140,000
25 Jul 20034 SS16 6TBDetached£226,500
17 Oct 200210 SS16 6TBSemi-detached£179,995
30 Jan 200225 SS16 6TBTerraced£103,500
19 May 20005 SS16 6TBDetached£114,000
28 Jan 20006 SS16 6TBDetached£182,000New build.
16 Dec 199927 SS16 6TBTerraced£83,000
16 Aug 19998 SS16 6TBSemi-detached£99,995
30 Jul 19992 SS16 6TBDetached£198,000New build.
18 Mar 199929 SS16 6TBTerraced£79,000New build.
15 Mar 19994 SS16 6TBDetached£134,000New build.
26 Feb 199916 SS16 6TBDetached£183,000
29 Jan 199917 SS16 6TBDetached£170,000New build.
29 Jan 199925 SS16 6TBTerraced£83,000New build.
19 Jan 199927 SS16 6TBTerraced£83,000New build.
15 Jan 199919 SS16 6TBDetached£121,000New build.
4 Jan 199921 SS16 6TBTerraced£77,000New build.
18 Dec 199814 SS16 6TBDetached£137,000New build.
11 Dec 199823 SS16 6TBTerraced£79,000New build.
30 Nov 199831 SS16 6TBTerraced£77,000New build.
6 Aug 19988 SS16 6TBSemi-detached£97,500New build.
29 Jul 199810 SS16 6TBSemi-detached£99,000New build.
18 Nov 199711 SS16 6TBDetached£90,000New build.
30 Apr 19963 SS16 6TBDetached£83,800

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 83 m². Most common: House, detached (8); House, semi-detached (4); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1996-2002 (12); 1991-1995 (3); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (4).

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 E (36% of about 550 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.

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, 0 at medium risk and 2 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 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 24 addresses are between 51 m and 53 m above sea level (52 m on average).

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
SS16 6TB100%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 stationsLaindon 1.9 million journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Basildon 2.6 million journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2.1 miles)
West Horndon 412,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kenton Way Great Berry110 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Basildon Town Centre3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Ferry terminalTilbury Ferry Terminal13.4 km (8.3 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station2 km (1.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN19.7 km (12 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN37.2 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dr Salako And Partners250 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Great Berry Pharmacy250 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 17 Denehurst Gardens700 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalBraintree Community Hospital3.2 km (2 miles)
Police stationBasildon Police Station3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machinesFord - Dunton TC, Laindon Cashzone1.5 km (0.9 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 Great Berry Open Space 4.8 ha240 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 70 m²320 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,350 m²470 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,440 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 8.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Marks Hill WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Hall WoodWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Long WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Langdon HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
The DellValley3.5 km (2.2 miles) north
Old Hall PondLake or reservoir4.7 km (2.9 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)11.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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 5940
Under 552024

4 of the street's 24 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
Great Berry Primary SchoolPrimary4–11510 m (0.3 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Merrylands Primary SchoolPrimary2–11510 m (0.3 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
Lincewood Primary AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
The Phoenix Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) 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
The James Hornsby SchoolSecondary11–161.7 km (1.1 miles) 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
Millhouse Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 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
Janet Duke Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 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

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
Great Berry Pharmacy SS16 6SARetailers - other240 mExempt
Great Berry Off Licence SS16 6SARetailers - other240 mExempt
Great Berry Mini Mart SS16 6SARetailers - other240 m3 Generally satisfactory24 Oct 2025
Delhi Akash SS15 6LFTakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory9 Dec 2025
Great Berry Residents Club SS16 6SAPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Jun 2022
Mediclean Ltd @ Forest Glade SS16 6SGOther catering premises470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Sep 2026
Butterflies Club CIC SS15 6LFOther catering premises490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Jan 2025
Ho Ho Chinese Takeaway SS15 6LFTakeaway/sandwich shop490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Feb 2025
Laindon Supermarket SS15 6LFRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)4 Good4 Jul 2024

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.

29 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences25
Robbery1
Criminal damage and arson1
Public order1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Britten Close (18); On or near Holly Grove (5); On or near Russetts (3); On or near Osterley Drive (1); On or near Mahonia Drive (1).

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: 256 residents in 106 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 age3740
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright19%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work76%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)6%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)43%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle0%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)59%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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.

  • SS16 6TB: 24 addresses of 25 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Savoy Close · Gilbert Drive · Carte Place · Nightingales · Sullivan Way · Maple Tree Lane · Kenton Way · Russetts · Holly Grove · Kenton Way · Chorley Close · Bowfell Drive

All the streets in SS16 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.