Crown Meadow Braintree

50 addresses across 1 postcode (CM7), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 3900565.

  • Sales: 138 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £466,875 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 32 homes have an energy certificate (C: 13, D: 17, E: 2).
  • 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 D; Band D in Braintree costs £2,280 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Braintree Freeport, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 120 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 55 to 60 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 50 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Blyth's Meadow Surgery, about 1.7 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 39 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
20262£466,875£433,750£500,000
20252£307,500£300,000£315,000
20231£385,000£385,000£385,000
20214£351,000£245,000£420,000
20201£375,000£375,000£375,000
20174£328,500£270,000£417,500
20165£260,000£214,000£310,000
20152£295,000£275,000£315,000
20142£210,000£205,000£215,000
20122£265,500£252,500£278,500
20115£150,000£148,000£208,000
20104£192,250£177,000£207,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 138)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Jun 202612 CM7 9EXDetached£500,000
1 May 20262 CM7 9EXDetached£433,750
27 Nov 202544 CM7 9EXSemi-detached£300,000
28 Mar 202551 CM7 9EXTerraced£315,000
17 Oct 202330 CM7 9EXDetached£385,000
15 Dec 202149 CM7 9EXTerraced£245,000
30 Jun 20216 CM7 9EXSemi-detached£390,000
30 Jun 202143 CM7 9EXDetached£312,000
28 Jun 202116 CM7 9EXDetached£420,000
9 Oct 202022 CM7 9EXDetached£375,000
8 Sep 201751 CM7 9EXTerraced£270,000
11 Aug 20175 CM7 9EXDetached£386,000
16 Jun 201737 CM7 9EXDetached£417,500
27 Jan 201746 CM7 9EXTerraced£271,000
1 Dec 201610 CM7 9EXDetached£310,000
29 Jul 201639 CM7 9EXDetached£273,500
12 Feb 201644 CM7 9EXSemi-detached£227,500
12 Feb 201651 CM7 9EXTerraced£214,000
21 Jan 201643 CM7 9EXDetached£260,000
4 Aug 201515 CM7 9EXDetached£275,000
13 Jul 201533 CM7 9EXDetached£315,000
3 Feb 201425 CM7 9EXDetached£215,000
31 Jan 201446 CM7 9EXTerraced£205,000
25 May 201218 CM7 9EXDetached£252,500
30 Mar 201212 CM7 9EXDetached£278,500
14 Dec 20119 CM7 9EXDetached£200,000
14 Nov 201138 CM7 9EXDetached£208,000
24 Aug 201145 CM7 9EXTerraced£150,000
12 Aug 201149 CM7 9EXTerraced£148,000
4 Feb 201149 CM7 9EXTerraced£150,000
30 Nov 201039 CM7 9EXSemi-detached£177,000
29 Jan 201043 CM7 9EXDetached£202,500
15 Jan 201029 CM7 9EXDetached£207,000
8 Jan 20108 CM7 9EXSemi-detached£182,000
18 Dec 200933 CM7 9EXDetached£247,000
14 Aug 200940 CM7 9EXDetached£225,000
15 May 200925 CM7 9EXSemi-detached£185,000
30 Jan 20095 CM7 9EXDetached£205,000
15 Feb 200832 CM7 9EXSemi-detached£228,000
18 Jan 200838 CM7 9EXDetached£250,000
30 Nov 200736 CM7 9EXDetached£320,000
5 Sep 200751 CM7 9EXSemi-detached£186,500
30 Apr 200749 CM7 9EXTerraced£150,000
2 Mar 200729 CM7 9EXDetached£202,000
30 Nov 200613 CM7 9EXDetached£194,000
28 Jul 20062 CM7 9EXDetached£210,000
28 Jul 20066 CM7 9EXSemi-detached£204,995
5 May 200621 CM7 9EXDetached£184,995
17 Jun 200544 CM7 9EXSemi-detached£164,000
19 May 200539 CM7 9EXSemi-detached£186,000

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 April 2009 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 89 m². Most common: House, detached (23); House, semi-detached (6); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1996-2002 (16); 1991-1995 (10); 2003-2006 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (26); rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (21 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Braintree in 2026-27: Band D £2,280 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,520£1,774£2,027£2,280£2,787£3,294£3,801£4,561

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (28% of about 580 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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 5 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.

© 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 50 addresses are between 55 m and 60 m above sea level (58 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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
CM7 9EX100%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 stationsBraintree Freeport 142,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Braintree 631,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Cressing (Essex) 51,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kings Park School Braintree110 m
Bus or coach stationBus Interchange Braintree Town Centre2 km (1.2 miles)
Car parksBraintree Station Car Park1.9 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station2 km (1.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN23.8 km (15 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 surgeriesBlyth's Meadow Surgery1.7 km (1 mile)
PharmaciesMeadows Pharmacy1.7 km (1 mile)
NHS dentistsAlba Dental Care1.9 km (1.2 miles)
HospitalSt Michael's Hospital2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationBraintree Police Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM470 m (0.3 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,950 m²120 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 13 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 250 m²160 m
Playing fieldKing George's Field 4.1 ha930 m (0.6 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,510 m²470 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 16 hectares in all.

Landmarks

6 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
Templeborder WoodWood900 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Ley WoodWood910 m (0.6 miles) south
Strait's Mill Gravel PitLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Lyonshall WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Mill StreamLake or reservoir1.5 km (1 mile) north-east
Polly's HillHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-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)8.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

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
55 to 5930
Under 554750

3 of the street's 50 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 Braintree: see them on the Braintree 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
Lyons Hall SchoolPrimary4–11100 m Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Great Bradfords Junior SchoolPrimary7–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Great Bradfords Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Beckers Green Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Alec Hunter AcademySecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

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
Lyons Hall County Primary School CM7 9FHSchool/college/university70 m5 Very good22 Jun 2026
Peniel Oasis Children's Home CM7 9FXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 mExempt
Tesco CM77 8AARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets440 m (0.3 miles)4 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.

39 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences17
Anti-social behaviour7
Vehicle crime5
Public order3
Other theft3
Other crime2
Criminal damage and arson2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Dunoon Close (6); On or near Bridport Way (5); On or near Tideswell Close (5); On or near Stafford Crescent (4); On or near Harwell Close (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: 373 residents in 134 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 age3640
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work77%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)41%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away18%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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

Hatches Mews · Stafford Crescent · Dunoon Close · Parr Close · Farthing Close · Sovereign Close · Deerleap Way · Guinea Close · A131 · Linfold Close · Willingale Road · Bridport Way

All the streets in CM7 and across Braintree.

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.