6 addresses across 2 postcodes (CM8), about 40 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 3903368.
Sales: 5 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £473,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (B: 5).
Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; 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 Witham, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden, Witham Town Park, is about 90 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 19 to 20 m above sea level.
Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Fern House Surgery, about 200 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 220 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 61% of households owned their home and 13% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 44 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)
5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 113 m².
Most common: House, detached (5). Built: 2021 (5).
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.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
£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 B (34% of about 960 homes).
A20%
B34%
C24%
D6%
E8%
F6%
G1%
Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount.
Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.
Planning and heritage
Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Green belt: no.
Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)
Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.
Roadworks
No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.
Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.
Flood risk
The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this street's postcodes yet.
Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street 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.
The street's 6 addresses are between 19 m and 20 m above sea level (19 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)
Postcode
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)
Gigabit
Below 10 Mbit/s
CM8 1ZT
100%
100%
100%
0%
CM8 1ZW
100%
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.
Nearest
Distance
Railway stations
Witham 1.9 million journeys in 2024–25
1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Hatfield Peverel 362,000 journeys in 2024–25
3.7 km (2.3 miles)
White Notley 7,660 journeys in 2024–25
5.6 km (3.5 miles)
Bus stops
11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 27 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mill Lane Witham
230 m
Bus or coach station
Beaulieu Park Railway Station
9.4 km (5.9 miles)
Car parks
1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parking space on Carraways, CM8
620 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points
5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station
480 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights
London Southend Airport SEN
25.4 km (16 miles)
Nearest large airport
London Stansted Airport STN
29.6 km (18 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.
Nearest
Distance
GP surgeries
4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fern House Surgery
200 m
Pharmacies
4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Borno Chemists Limited
240 m
NHS dentists
9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery
210 m
Hospital
St Peters Hospital
7.7 km (4.8 miles)
Police station
Essex Police Workshop
7.6 km (4.7 miles)
Cash machines
1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Witham Laurence Avenue Cashzone
320 m
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.
Nearest
Distance
Park or garden
4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Witham Town Park 1.6 ha
90 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)
Unnamed19 ha
180 m
Play area
2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed1,070 m²
120 m
Playing field
2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sauls Bridge Sports Ground 1.4 ha
160 m
Allotments
Unnamed1.4 ha
1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 23 hectares in all.
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is 129, Newland Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 220 m north-west. 67 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 9 of them Grade II*.
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)
Pollutant
Here
UK limit
WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
11.5
40
10
Fine particles (PM2.5)
7.4
20
5
Particles (PM10)
13.6
40
15
All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.
Road and rail noise
Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).
Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
Level
Road traffic
Railways
Under 55
6
6
None of the street's 6 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.
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), 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.
School
Phase
Ages
Distance
Inspection
Lift Maltings
Secondary
11–16
450 m (0.3 miles)
Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Howbridge Infant School
Primary
5–7
560 m (0.3 miles)
Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Howbridge Church of England Junior School
Primary
7–11
580 m (0.4 miles)
Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Family Catholic Primary School Roman Catholic
Primary
5–11
720 m (0.4 miles)
Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chipping Hill Primary School
Primary
5–11
1.2 km (0.8 miles)
No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Witham Oaks Academy
Primary
7–11
1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Acorn Infant Academy
Primary
3–7
1.5 km (0.9 miles)
No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Templars Academy
Primary
2–11
2 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.
Business
Type
Distance
Rating
Rated
Caterplus @ Anchor - Helen Court CM8 1FX
Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises
210 m
5 Very good
7 Oct 2025
The Swan CM8 1BE
Pub/bar/nightclub
210 m
5 Very good
28 Aug 2024
UK Fish Bar CM8 1BE
Takeaway/sandwich shop
210 m
5 Very good
22 Jan 2025
Thai Cottage CM8 1BE
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
210 m
5 Very good
8 Oct 2024
The Witham House CM8 1BE
Takeaway/sandwich shop
210 m
4 Good
18 Feb 2026
Bubblescape CM8 1BE
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
210 m
5 Very good
6 Feb 2024
Park View CM8 1AY
Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises
230 m
5 Very good
4 Aug 2026
Crafty Bear Kitchen CM8 1BA
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
230 m
5 Very good
22 Oct 2025
Witham Hockey Club CM8 1HN
Pub/bar/nightclub
250 m
5 Very good
25 Feb 2026
Witham Cricket Club CM8 1HN
Pub/bar/nightclub
250 m
5 Very good
14 Apr 2025
Ifraaz CM8 1BA
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
250 m
5 Very good
23 Apr 2026
Astare Restaurant CM8 1AA
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
290 m
5 Very good
2 Jun 2026
Shampers Wine And Cheese CM8 1AA
Pub/bar/nightclub
290 m
5 Very good
15 Jul 2026
Witham Nursery CM8 1HN
School/college/university
300 m
5 Very good
11 Feb 2026
Park Stores CM8 1HN
Retailers - other
300 m
1 Major improvement necessary
17 Sep 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.
44 recorded crimes by category
Category
Crimes
Violence and sexual offences
22
Drugs
6
Anti-social behaviour
5
Other theft
5
Other crime
2
Criminal damage and arson
1
Public order
1
Burglary
1
Vehicle crime
1
Most of these are attached to: On or near B1389 (30); On or near Newland Place (7); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (6); On or near Luard Way (1).
People and work
Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 224 residents in 111 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 street
England
Median age
76
40
Children under 15
9%
17%
Aged 65 and over
66%
18%
Homes
Around this street
England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)
61%
61%
Owned outright
55%
33%
Shared ownership
2%
1%
Social rented
16%
17%
Private rented
21%
21%
Work and commuting
Around this street
England
Adults (16 and over) in work
20%
57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)
11%
6%
Retired (of adults)
69%
22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)
4%
4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)
20%
32%
Travel to work by car or van
65%
48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram
5%
4%
By any public transport, including bus
8%
8%
On foot or by bicycle
3%
10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)
47%
65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away
16%
8%
Education and languages
Around this street
England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)
13%
34%
No qualifications
50%
18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification
4%
5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)
96%
91%
Cannot speak English well or at all
3%
2%
Deprivation
The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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
Food hygiene ratings Hayley Wright (other catering premises, CM8 1HN) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
Food hygiene ratings Costa Coffee (restaurant/cafe/canteen, CM8 2YT) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 20 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
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.
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.