Brookside Harlow

51 addresses across 12 postcodes (CM19), about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 16500033.

  • Energy: 32 homes have an energy certificate (C: 28, D: 4).
  • Flood: 98 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 Harlow costs £2,299 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Roydon, about 3.2 km (2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Tithelands Park, is about 230 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 57 to 69 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 51 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Lister Medical Centre, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 2,330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 108 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 March 2021 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

32 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 48 m². Most common: Flat (32). Built: 1983-1990 (23); 1976-1982 (3); 1967-1975 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (23); rented (social) (9).

Council tax

What each band costs in Harlow in 2026-27: Band D £2,299 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,532£1,788£2,043£2,299£2,810£3,320£3,831£4,597

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (41% of about 1,710 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 3 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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): HMO - townwide.
  • 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 29 September 2026 to 30 September 2026: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, two-way signals, on the footway (minor works)
  • 1 September 2026: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)

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, 89 addresses are in areas at high risk, 9 at medium risk and 49 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
CM19 5NLnot in 2 or 3 8 / 0 / 9 unlikely
CM19 5PAnot in 2 or 3 18 / 2 / 2 unlikely
CM19 5NHnot in 2 or 3 6 / 1 / 7 unlikely
CM19 5NJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CM19 5NPnot in 2 or 3 3 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CM19 5NGnot in 2 or 3 9 / 0 / 9 unlikely
CM19 5NNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CM19 5NUnot in 2 or 3 10 / 0 / 2 unlikely
CM19 5NYnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 6 unlikely
CM19 5NZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
CM19 5PEnot in 2 or 3 7 / 4 / 2 unlikely
CM19 5PNnot in 2 or 3 27 / 2 / 10 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 51 addresses are between 57 m and 69 m above sea level (62 m on average); the ground rises about 13 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
CM19 5NG100%100%100%0%
CM19 5NH100%100%100%0%
CM19 5NJ100%100%100%0%
CM19 5NL100%100%100%0%
CM19 5NN100%100%100%0%
CM19 5NP100%0%0%0%
CM19 5NU100%100%100%0%
CM19 5NY100%100%100%0%
CM19 5NZ100%100%100%0%
CM19 5PA100%100%100%0%
CM19 5PE100%100%100%0%
CM19 5PN100%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 stationsRoydon 133,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Harlow Town 1.8 million journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Rye House 436,000 journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 16 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brookside Katherines100 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Harlow Town Centre2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Car parksNCP2.5 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging pointsSmart Charge Charging Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN18.4 km (11 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lister Medical Centre1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Medicare Pharmacy760 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Barbara Castle Health Centre810 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalThe Princess Alexandra Hospital2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationHarlow Police Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM2.2 km (1.3 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 Tithelands Park 5.1 ha230 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 13 ha650 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 570 m²190 m
Playing fieldRectory Field Playing Field 2.3 ha870 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Silvesters Allotments 8,720 m²410 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 23 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary the Virgin, a listed building (Grade I), 680 m (0.4 miles) north-east. 11 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 Mary the VirginListed building, Grade I680 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Cold War Heavy Anti-aircraft gun site, 330m and 220m north east of Halls Green FarmScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Passmores House moated site, immediately south of Todd BrookScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Upper WoodWood280 m west
Parndon WoodWood600 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Lower WoodWood680 m (0.4 miles) west
Willow LakeLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Rye HillHill2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Latton IslandIsland4.7 km (2.9 miles) north-east

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)9.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

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
65 to 6910
60 to 6410
55 to 5930
Under 554651

5 of the street's 51 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 Harlow: see them on the Harlow 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
Katherines Primary Academy and NurseryPrimary3–11320 m Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Water Lane Primary AcademyPrimary4–11770 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Jerounds Primary AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Milwards Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Luke's Catholic Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kingsmoor AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Hare Street Community Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Outstanding (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stewards Academy - Science Specialist, HarlowSecondary11–161.8 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St James Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
Ashlyns Organics Ltd At Katherines Primary Academy CM19 5NJSchool/college/university280 m5 Very good9 Oct 2026
Katherines Local Supermarket CM19 5NPRetailers - other310 m4 Good20 Sep 2024
Harlow Best Kebab CM19 5NPTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m5 Very good21 Jan 2025
Harlow Rock School CM19 5NPPub/bar/nightclub320 m5 Very good24 Jul 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.

108 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences54
Anti-social behaviour17
Criminal damage and arson10
Public order7
Drugs6
Vehicle crime5
Other theft5
Robbery2
Burglary1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Tithelands (38); On or near Red Willow (19); On or near Heighams (14); On or near Brookside (14); On or near Peacocks (12).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 8 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 2,331 residents in 1,014 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 age4340
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)66%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented22%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 to 8 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.

  • CM19 5NL: 33 addresses
  • CM19 5PA: 4 addresses of 90 in the postcode
  • CM19 5NH: 3 addresses of 108 in the postcode
  • CM19 5NJ: 2 addresses of 39 in the postcode
  • CM19 5NP: 2 addresses of 11 in the postcode
  • CM19 5NG: 1 address of 96 in the postcode
  • CM19 5NN: 1 address of 61 in the postcode
  • CM19 5NU: 1 address of 89 in the postcode
  • CM19 5NY: 1 address of 65 in the postcode
  • CM19 5NZ: 1 address of 59 in the postcode
  • CM19 5PE: 1 address of 91 in the postcode
  • CM19 5PN: 1 address of 95 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Seymours · Red Willow · Tithelands · Heighams · Heighams · Peacocks · Silvesters · Katherines Hatch · Bynghams · Sycamore Field · Broadley Road

All the streets in CM19 and across Harlow.

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.