Fitzgilbert Road Colchester

32 addresses across 3 postcodes (CO2), about 150 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 8900695.

  • Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £430,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 7, E: 5).
  • 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 C; Band D in Colchester costs £2,283 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 56% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Colchester Town, about 2 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 850 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 36 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 32 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Creffield Medical Group, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 650 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 37% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 47 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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
20231£430,500£430,500£430,500
20211£490,000£490,000£490,000
20201£400,000£400,000£400,000
20172£367,500£310,000£425,000
20161£360,000£360,000£360,000
20152£362,498£299,995£425,000
20141£325,000£325,000£325,000
20122£297,500£235,000£360,000
20101£250,000£250,000£250,000
20091£235,000£235,000£235,000
20071£242,500£242,500£242,500
20061£175,000£175,000£175,000
Most recent sales (23)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Oct 20238 CO2 7XBDetached£430,500
24 Jan 20236 CO2 7XBSemi-detached£395,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Oct 202117 CO2 7XBSemi-detached£490,000
18 Aug 20204 CO2 7XBSemi-detached£400,000
29 Sep 201717 CO2 7XBSemi-detached£425,000
27 Jan 201718 CO2 7XBDetached£310,000
30 Sep 20168 CO2 7XBDetached£360,000
11 Dec 201513 CO2 7XBSemi-detached£425,000
29 Apr 20154 CO2 7XBSemi-detached£299,995
6 Aug 201413 CO2 7XBDetached£325,000
19 Oct 20124 CO2 7XBSemi-detached£235,000
9 Oct 201215 CO2 7XBSemi-detached£360,000New build.
12 Nov 201011 CO2 7XBSemi-detached£250,000
20 Mar 200917 CO2 7XBSemi-detached£235,000
28 Sep 200713 CO2 7XBDetached£242,500
10 Feb 20067 CO2 7XBSemi-detached£175,000
28 May 200417 CO2 7XBSemi-detached£150,000
20 Oct 200316 CO2 7XBSemi-detached£245,000
28 Nov 20012 CO2 7XBDetached£205,000
7 Sep 200111 CO2 7XBSemi-detached£133,000
15 Sep 19972 CO2 7XBDetached£85,000
28 Feb 19979 CO2 7XBSemi-detached£54,500
20 Sep 199611 CO2 7XBSemi-detached£65,000

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 June 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 97 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (9); House, detached (5); Flat (4). Built: 1930-1949 (9); 1967-1975 (3); 1900-1929 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Colchester in 2026-27: Band D £2,283 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,522£1,776£2,029£2,283£2,790£3,297£3,805£4,566

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (34% of about 1,660 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 2 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: 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 2 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
CO2 7XBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
CO2 7XEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CO2 7XDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 addresses are about 36 m above sea level.

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
CO2 7XB100%100%100%0%
CO2 7XD100%100%100%0%
CO2 7XE89%56%56%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 stationsColchester Town 1.0 million journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Colchester 3.6 million journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Hythe (Essex) 433,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Capel Road Colchester80 m
Bus or coach stationColchester North Park-and-Ride Mile End5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Ferry terminalEast Mersea Ferry Landing12.4 km (7.7 miles)
Car parksButt Road Car Park1.2 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN36.6 km (23 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN44.3 km (28 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Creffield Medical Group1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots720 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Colchester Dental Centre850 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalHertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust (Lexden Hospital)2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Police stationEssex Police1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machinesEast Of England Co-op Shrub End, Iceni Way920 m (0.6 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 gardenUnnamed 900 m²850 m (0.5 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 440 m²390 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.1 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha300 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Lexden Tumulus Iron Age barrow and associated cemetery area: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum of Camulodunum, a scheduled monument, 1 km (0.6 miles) north-west. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lexden Tumulus Iron Age barrow and associated cemetery area: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum of CamulodunumScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Lexden Dyke Middle: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum and Romano-British town of CamulodunumScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Heath Farm Dyke Middle (rear of Alan Way): part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum of CamulodunumScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Colchester Castle ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.3 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bluebottle GroveWood870 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Gathering GroundsWood2.2 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Bourne PondLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) east
Birch GroveWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) south
King's Ford GroveWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) south
Hythe MarshesWetland4.5 km (2.8 miles) 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)8.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

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
Under 553132

1 of the street's 32 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 Colchester: see them on the Colchester 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
Philip Morant School and CollegeSecondary11–18490 m (0.3 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hamilton Primary SchoolPrimary4–11660 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Benedict's Catholic College Roman CatholicSecondary11–16730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Colchester County High School for GirlsSecondary11–18730 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Prettygate Junior SchoolPrimary7–11760 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Prettygate Infant SchoolPrimary5–7760 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
King's Ford Infant School and NurseryPrimary2–7790 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Kings Ford AcademyPrimary7–11790 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Paxman AcademySecondary11–16950 m (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Colchester Royal Grammar School ChristianSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Exceptional; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Exceptional; Post-16 provision: Exceptional; Safeguarding standards: Met
Gosbecks Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Montgomery Primary School, ColchesterPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Budgens of Colchester CO2 7UURetailers - other150 m5 Very good5 Aug 2025
Colchester Indoor Bowls Club CO2 7XBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good27 Jul 2026
West End Bowls Club CO2 7XBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good16 Sep 2021
Redlands Cafe CO3 3UEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m5 Very good28 Jul 2025
Dinners Direct CO2 7HTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m5 Very good21 Aug 2026
St Botolophs Brewery CO2 7HSManufacturers/packers420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Oct 2024
Colchester United Community Foundation CO2 9BGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Ralph & Rita Martin CO2 7JWRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Colcheco CO2 7JWRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Feb 2025
Sunwheel Refills CO2 7JWRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 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.

47 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting23
Violence and sexual offences7
Vehicle crime5
Criminal damage and arson2
Other theft2
Other crime2
Public order2
Anti-social behaviour1
Burglary1
Bicycle theft1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Alport Avenue (35); On or near Eudo Road (8); On or near Capel Road (2); On or near Fitzgilbert Road (1); On or near Wavell Avenue (1).

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: 650 residents in 265 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 age4740
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented20%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van46%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%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)37%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 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.

  • CO2 7XB: 29 addresses
  • CO2 7XE: 2 addresses of 18 in the postcode
  • CO2 7XD: 1 address of 21 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Alport Avenue · Eudo Road · Wavell Avenue · Irvine Road · The Rayleighs · Maldon Road · Capel Road · Longedryve · Audley Road · Norman Way · Maldon Road · Gladwin Road

All the streets in CO2 and across Colchester.

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.