Cunningham Close Shoeburyness, Southend-on-Sea

109 addresses across 2 postcodes (SS3), about 240 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 37100359.

  • Sales: 61 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £265,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 87 homes have an energy certificate (B: 8, C: 42, D: 36, E: 1).
  • Flood: 2 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 B; Band D in Southend-on-Sea costs £2,265 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Shoeburyness, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Friars Park, is about 250 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 6 to 8 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 109 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Dr Kumar & Ptnr - Shoebury Hc, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 640 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 36% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 172 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
20252£265,000£265,000£265,000
20241£150,000£150,000£150,000
20232£284,750£281,500£288,000
20223£271,000£150,000£285,000
20182£170,000£125,000£215,000
20174£172,000£118,000£259,995
20141£99,000£99,000£99,000
20131£138,500£138,500£138,500
20106£114,500£80,000£151,000
20082£121,250£120,000£122,500
20073£89,995£86,000£140,000
20063£139,000£135,500£145,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 61)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Feb 202641 SS3 9YRTerraced£260,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Mar 202530 SS3 9YPTerraced£265,000
17 Feb 202540 SS3 9YPTerraced£265,000
27 Sep 202485 SS3 9YRFlat or maisonette£150,000Leasehold.
17 Aug 202365 SS3 9YRTerraced£281,500
13 Feb 202354 SS3 9YPTerraced£288,000
21 Dec 2022100 SS3 9YPFlat or maisonette£150,000Leasehold.
3 Aug 202229 SS3 9YRTerraced£285,000
29 Apr 202222 SS3 9YPTerraced£271,000
28 Sep 202129 SS3 9YRTerraced£183,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Aug 201885 SS3 9YRFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
10 Jan 201854 SS3 9YPTerraced£215,000
20 Oct 201797 SS3 9YRFlat or maisonette£119,000Leasehold.
7 Sep 201760 SS3 9YPTerraced£259,995
18 Apr 201717 SS3 9YRTerraced£181,950Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Mar 201750 SS3 9YPTerraced£225,000
17 Feb 2017100 SS3 9YPFlat or maisonette£118,000Leasehold.
26 Sep 2014100 SS3 9YPFlat or maisonette£99,000Leasehold.
25 Oct 201365 SS3 9YRTerraced£138,500
21 Dec 201051 SS3 9YRTerraced£132,000
18 Aug 201051 SS3 9YRTerraced£90,000
13 Aug 2010103 SS3 9YRFlat or maisonette£80,000Leasehold.
2 Aug 20102 SS3 9YPTerraced£135,000
14 May 201067 SS3 9YRTerraced£151,000
11 Feb 20102 SS3 9YPTerraced£97,000
21 Apr 200850 SS3 9YPTerraced£122,500
13 Feb 200854 SS3 9YPTerraced£120,000
26 Oct 200718 SS3 9YPTerraced£140,000
30 Aug 2007100 SS3 9YPFlat or maisonette£89,995Leasehold.
12 Jul 200788 SS3 9YPFlat or maisonette£86,000Leasehold.
20 Nov 200640 SS3 9YPTerraced£145,000
14 Nov 200646 SS3 9YPTerraced£139,000
7 Apr 200630 SS3 9YPTerraced£135,500
24 Nov 200567 SS3 9YRTerraced£115,000
22 Nov 20057 SS3 9YRTerraced£131,000
4 Nov 200517 SS3 9YRTerraced£135,000
6 Jan 200467 SS3 9YRTerraced£110,000
20 Nov 200356 SS3 9YPTerraced£126,000
22 Sep 200359 SS3 9YRSemi-detached£51,000
7 Apr 2003103 SS3 9YRFlat or maisonette£19,500Leasehold.
31 Jul 200218 SS3 9YPTerraced£84,000
19 Nov 200156 SS3 9YPTerraced£81,000
10 Aug 200036 SS3 9YPTerraced£47,500
20 Jun 200033 SS3 9YRTerraced£59,000
3 May 200067 SS3 9YRTerraced£60,000
31 Mar 200096 SS3 9YPFlat or maisonette£30,000Leasehold.
21 Jan 200041 SS3 9YRTerraced£32,250
3 Dec 199989 SS3 9YRFlat or maisonette£25,000Leasehold.
29 Oct 199939 SS3 9YRTerraced£48,500
14 Apr 199950 SS3 9YPTerraced£42,000

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 December 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

87 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 83 m². Most common: Flat (29); House, mid-terrace (26); House, end-terrace (24). Built: 1967-1975 (54); 1950-1966 (22); 1976-1982 (6). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (47); owner-occupied (17); rented (private) (8).

Council tax

What each band costs in Southend-on-Sea in 2026-27: Band D £2,265 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,510£1,762£2,013£2,265£2,769£3,272£3,775£4,530

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (37% of about 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 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 26 October 2026 to 28 October 2026: ESSEX AND SUFFOLK WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 40 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
SS3 9YRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 15 unlikely
SS3 9YPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 25 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 6 m and 8 m above sea level (7 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
SS3 9YP100%100%100%0%
SS3 9YR100%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 stationsShoeburyness 541,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Thorpe Bay 668,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Southend East 1.3 million journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cunningham Close North Shoebury50 m
Ferry terminalWallasea Island Ferry Landing Canewdon9.3 km (5.7 miles)
Car parksThorpe Esplanade Car Park2.2 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging pointsSeaway Car Park GeniePoint5.1 km (3.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN7.5 km (4.7 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN54.3 km (34 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dr Kumar & Ptnr - Shoebury Hc1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Asda Pharmacy640 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Drewsteignton (Dental Surgery)800 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalSpire Wellesley Hospital4.6 km (2.9 miles)
Police stationSouthend Police Station5.6 km (3.5 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Great Wakering1.2 km (0.8 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 Friars Park 8.1 ha250 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,030 m²290 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shoeburyness Park 4.6 ha500 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Growing Together Allotments 4,470 m²530 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 17 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary the Virgin, a listed building (Grade II*), 660 m (0.4 miles) west. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Mary the VirginListed building, Grade II*660 m (0.4 miles) west
Defended prehistoric settlement at Shoeburyness, known as the Danish CampScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
East BeachBeach1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Pig's BayBay1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Shoebury NessWetland2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Shoebury Common BeachBeach2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-west
Weir PondLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.2 miles) north
Muckinghall WoodWood3.8 km (2.4 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)8.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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
55 to 59100
Under 55108109109

1 of the street's 109 addresses is 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 Southend-on-Sea: see them on the Southend-on-Sea 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
Friars Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–11350 m No published inspection
St George's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11420 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hinguar Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Shoeburyness High SchoolSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Richmond Avenue Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Thorpedene Primary School & NurseryPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Bournes Green Infant SchoolPrimary2–71.6 km (1 mile) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Great Wakering Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Bournes Green Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2023, 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
Kingspiper Club Community SS3 9YBOther catering premises100 m4 Good27 Apr 2015
Fire & Flame SS3 9UUTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m5 Very good26 Sep 2024
Morrisons Daily SS3 9UURetailers - other260 m5 Very good25 Oct 2024
Golden Friars SS3 9UURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Apr 2026
Friars Centre Playgroup SS3 9UTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good13 Aug 2026
Pabulum Limited - Friars Primary School SS3 9XXSchool/college/university350 m5 Very good31 Mar 2025
Parsons Barn SS3 8UTPub/bar/nightclub450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Oct 2023

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.

172 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences90
Anti-social behaviour33
Criminal damage and arson12
Other theft11
Burglary7
Vehicle crime6
Public order5
Drugs3
Other crime3
Possession of weapons2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Fraser Close (41); On or near Falcon Way (27); On or near Cunningham Close (24); On or near Carmania Close (15); On or near Parking Area (14).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 636 residents in 261 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 age3840
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)36%61%
Owned outright17%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented51%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)12%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)17%34%
No qualifications33%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%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 1 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

Fraser Close · Bowbank Close · Falcon Way · Osprey Close · Exeter Close · Kingfisher Close · Eagle Way · Watkins Way · Linnet Close · Peregrine Close · Carmania Close · Harrier Close

All the streets in SS3 and across Southend-on-Sea.

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.