Common Lane Thundersley, Castle Point

109 addresses across 9 postcodes (SS7), about 620 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 6300207.

  • Sales: 133 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £185,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 63 homes have an energy certificate (C: 20, D: 29, E: 12, F: 2).
  • Flood: 7 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 Castle Point costs £2,319 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rayleigh, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 260 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 73 to 82 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 109 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Grace House Surgery, about 600 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,640 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 42 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
20253£185,000£182,500£362,500
20241£365,000£365,000£365,000
20234£356,000£325,000£475,000
20223£180,000£170,000£350,000
20214£339,000£305,000£410,000
20203£315,000£258,000£475,000
20198£286,250£150,000£450,000
20182£300,000£300,000£300,000
20174£321,750£154,000£370,000
20167£255,000£138,000£345,000
20156£249,000£219,995£325,000
20148£249,998£114,000£310,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 133)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Oct 202533 SS7 3TBFlat or maisonette£185,000Leasehold.
15 Aug 202527 SS7 3TBDetached£362,500
7 Feb 202537 SS7 3TBFlat or maisonette£182,500Leasehold.
18 Jun 2024117 SS7 3RYDetached£365,000
9 Nov 2023104 SS7 3RYSemi-detached£325,000
28 Apr 202392 SS7 3SLSemi-detached£365,000
17 Mar 2023100 SS7 3RYSemi-detached£347,000
3 Feb 202329 SS7 3TBDetached£475,000
9 Nov 202241 SS7 3TBFlat or maisonette£170,000Leasehold.
27 May 202249A SS7 3TBFlat or maisonette£180,000Leasehold.
8 Apr 202258 SS7 3TDSemi-detached£350,000
28 May 202142 SS7 3TDSemi-detached£340,000
30 Apr 202120 SS7 3TDDetached£338,000
5 Feb 202193 SS7 3SLSemi-detached£410,000
15 Jan 2021105 SS7 3RYSemi-detached£305,000
18 Sep 202048 SS7 3TDDetached£475,000
1 May 202092 SS7 3SLSemi-detached£258,000
14 Feb 202087 SS7 3SLSemi-detached£315,000
14 Oct 201933 SS7 3TBFlat or maisonette£150,000Leasehold.
10 Oct 20199 SS7 3TBSemi-detached£275,000
27 Sep 2019113 SS7 3RYDetached£395,000
18 Sep 201926 SS7 3TDSemi-detached£270,000
12 Sep 2019103 SS7 3RYSemi-detached£275,000
2 Aug 201923 SS7 3TBDetached£380,000
15 Mar 201952 SS7 3TDDetached£450,000
14 Feb 2019125 SS7 3RYSemi-detached£297,500
14 Dec 201858 SS7 3TDSemi-detached£300,000
27 Apr 201883 SS7 3SLSemi-detached£300,000
24 Aug 201756 SS7 3TDSemi-detached£293,000
19 May 201749A SS7 3TBFlat or maisonette£154,000Leasehold.
15 Mar 201748 SS7 3TDDetached£370,000
13 Jan 201714 SS7 3TDDetached£350,500
7 Oct 201695 SS7 3SLSemi-detached£270,000
30 Sep 201690 SS7 3SLSemi-detached£240,000
26 Sep 201673 SS7 3SLDetached£328,000
18 Aug 201637 SS7 3TBFlat or maisonette£152,500Leasehold.
31 Mar 201641 SS7 3TBFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Mar 201649A SS7 3TBFlat or maisonette£138,000Leasehold.
12 Feb 201670 SS7 3SLSemi-detached£255,000
15 Jan 201634 SS7 3TDDetached£345,000
11 Dec 201556 SS7 3TDSemi-detached£263,000
18 Sep 201593 SS7 3SLSemi-detached£325,000
7 Sep 201582 SS7 3SLSemi-detached£300,000
27 Mar 2015121 SS7 3RYSemi-detached£235,000
30 Jan 201570 SS7 3SLSemi-detached£219,995
23 Jan 201518 SS7 3TDSemi-detached£230,000
17 Dec 201468 SS7 3SLSemi-detached£279,995
14 Oct 201411 SS7 3TBSemi-detached£249,995
24 Sep 201452 SS7 3TDDetached£310,000
1 Aug 201437 SS7 3TBFlat or maisonette£114,000Leasehold.

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

63 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 59 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (22); Flat (18); House, semi-detached (11). Built: 1950-1966 (40); 1967-1975 (11); 1930-1949 (7). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (39); rented (social) (13); rented (private) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Castle Point in 2026-27: Band D £2,319 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,546£1,803£2,061£2,319£2,834£3,349£3,864£4,637

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (39% of about 2,010 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): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 2 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: yes, Castle Point.

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, 7 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 19 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
SS7 3TBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 10 unlikely
SS7 3SLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SS7 3RYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SS7 3TDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SS7 3NAnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SS7 3RUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
SS7 3RZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
SS7 3SFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SS7 3SSnot in 2 or 3 5 / 0 / 2 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 109 addresses are between 73 m and 82 m above sea level (78 m on average); the ground rises about 9 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
SS7 3NA100%100%100%0%
SS7 3RU100%100%100%0%
SS7 3RY100%100%100%0%
SS7 3RZ100%100%100%0%
SS7 3SF100%100%100%0%
SS7 3SL100%100%100%0%
SS7 3SS100%100%100%0%
SS7 3TB100%100%100%0%
SS7 3TD100%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 stationsRayleigh 1.6 million journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Benfleet 2.4 million journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.3 miles)
Leigh-On-Sea 1.7 million journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 16 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Woodmans Arms Thundersley330 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Basildon Town Centre9.1 km (5.6 miles)
Car parksRayleigh Station Car Park2.1 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge880 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN7.2 km (4.4 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN42.7 km (27 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 Grace House Surgery600 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rishi Pharmacy Limited650 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Practice1.5 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalChartwell Private Hospital4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Police stationRayleigh Police Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machinesMFG - Autohalt Cashzone860 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 14 ha260 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 910 m²160 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha120 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,900 m²1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 16 hectares in all.

Landmarks

4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Great CommonWood440 m (0.3 miles) north
Thundersley GlenValley1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Adders HillHill2.5 km (1.5 miles) south
Oakwood ReservoirLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.8 miles) east
Benfleet MarshWetland3.4 km (2.1 miles) south-west
Hadleigh RayBeach3.8 km (2.4 miles) south

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)11.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

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, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
65 to 69100
60 to 64100
55 to 59300
Under 55104109109

5 of the street's 109 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 Castle Point: see them on the Castle Point 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
Thundersley Primary SchoolPrimary4–11650 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The DeanesSecondary11–16730 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
USP College16 plus16–991.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Kingston Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Robert Drake Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Westwood AcademyPrimary2–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
The King John SchoolSecondary11–181.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Rayleigh Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
TRSC Cafe SS7 3RYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good14 Mar 2026
Ocean Fish Bar & Chinese Takeaway SS7 3UWTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m5 Very good21 Feb 2025
Cedar Hall Day School SS7 3UQSchool/college/university320 m5 Very good4 Jun 2024
363 Food And Wine SS7 3SSRetailers - other350 m5 Very good23 Jun 2025

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.

42 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences23
Anti-social behaviour8
Public order4
Vehicle crime3
Burglary2
Criminal damage and arson1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Common Lane (19); On or near Deerhurst Close (7); On or near Keysland (4); On or near Triton Way (3); On or near Woodlow (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 6 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,642 residents in 735 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 age5240
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over30%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%61%
Owned outright53%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)32%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%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 away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 6 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.

  • SS7 3TB: 34 addresses of 36 in the postcode
  • SS7 3SL: 30 addresses of 31 in the postcode
  • SS7 3RY: 21 addresses of 22 in the postcode
  • SS7 3TD: 19 addresses
  • SS7 3NA: 1 address of 5 in the postcode
  • SS7 3RU: 1 address of 40 in the postcode
  • SS7 3RZ: 1 address of 22 in the postcode
  • SS7 3SF: 1 address of 21 in the postcode
  • SS7 3SS: 1 address of 15 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Farm Way · Lewes Way · Bracken Way · Sandown Road · Newton Park Road · Deerhurst · Goodwood Close · Woodlow · Keysland · Stockwood · Triton Way · Meadow Close

All the streets in SS7 and across Castle Point.

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.