Gordon Road Harwich, Tendring

57 addresses across 3 postcodes (CO12), about 520 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 39900744.

  • Sales: 60 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £385,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Tendring cost £260,636 in August 2026 (-1.2% on a year); private rents averaged £1,058 a month.
  • Energy: 33 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 10, D: 15, E: 6, F: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 0 times (0 hours) in 2025.
  • Coastal erosion: The nearest projected coastal erosion zone is 30 m from its postcodes.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the B1414, carries 1,940 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Tendring costs £2,270 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Dovercourt, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 370 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 4 to 12 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 57 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Mayflower Medical Centre, about 530 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 570 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 26 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious.

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House 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
20261£385,000£385,000£385,000
20251£410,000£410,000£410,000
20243£410,000£229,900£437,500
20222£373,000£316,000£430,000
20213£300,000£270,000£350,000
20201£260,000£260,000£260,000
20192£321,500£248,000£395,000
20182£283,000£240,000£326,000
20171£227,500£227,500£227,500
20151£245,000£245,000£245,000
20148£200,250£160,000£230,000
20132£240,000£195,000£285,000
All 60 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 May 20211 CO12 3TJDetached£350,000
13 May 20222 CO12 3TJDetached£316,000
22 Jun 20073 CO12 3TJDetached£196,000
24 May 20074 CO12 3TJDetached£222,000
26 Feb 20136 CO12 3TLDetached£285,000
18 Aug 19996 CO12 3TLDetached£125,000
22 Nov 20197 CO12 3TLDetached£395,000
21 Dec 20057 CO12 3TLDetached£220,000
28 Jun 20188 CO12 3TLDetached£300,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Aug 19979 CO12 3TLDetached£91,750
20 Nov 199512 CO12 3TLDetached£59,500
2 Dec 202413 CO12 3TLDetached£410,000
20 Jan 201413 CO12 3TLDetached£190,500
25 Jun 201414 CO12 3TLDetached£217,000
1 Apr 201014 CO12 3TLDetached£195,000
30 Mar 201615 CO12 3TLDetached£250,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Dec 201116 CO12 3TLDetached£205,000
15 Jul 202217 CO12 3TLDetached£430,000
8 Dec 200517 CO12 3TLDetached£185,000
27 Sep 201318 CO12 3TLDetached£195,000
2 May 200118 CO12 3TLDetached£92,000
20 Jan 200020 CO12 3TLDetached£120,000
29 Jun 200721 CO12 3TLDetached£270,000
19 Dec 202422 CO12 3TLSemi-detached£437,500
12 May 201722 CO12 3TLSemi-detached£227,500
28 Nov 200823 CO12 3TLDetached£240,000
26 Jun 199823 CO12 3TLDetached£96,500New build.
7 Nov 202424 CO12 3TLSemi-detached£229,900
11 Apr 200125 CO12 3TLDetached£130,000
9 Apr 202126 CO12 3TNDetached£270,000
25 Nov 202527 CO12 3TLDetached£410,000
25 Feb 202628 CO12 3TNDetached£385,000
3 Nov 201129 CO12 3TLDetached£210,000
13 Mar 200930 CO12 3TNDetached£199,995
3 Jan 201432 CO12 3TNDetached£165,000
20 Jan 200633 CO12 3TLDetached£250,000
10 Sep 201034 CO12 3TNDetached£150,123
19 May 200634 CO12 3TNDetached£240,000
6 Jul 201835 CO12 3TLDetached£326,000
16 Jun 201435 CO12 3TLDetached£230,000New build.
14 May 200235A CO12 3TLDetached£165,000
30 Apr 202136 CO12 3TNDetached£300,000
12 Sep 201939 CO12 3TLSemi-detached£248,000
17 Mar 200443 CO12 3TLSemi-detached£185,000
27 Sep 200043 CO12 3TLSemi-detached£115,000
13 Jun 201451 CO12 3TNSemi-detached£160,000
1 Jul 201553 CO12 3TNDetached£245,000
13 Mar 201453 CO12 3TNDetached£162,500
31 May 201855 CO12 3TNSemi-detached£240,000
16 Jul 201459 CO12 3TNDetached£230,000
26 Apr 200459 CO12 3TNSemi-detached£172,500
15 Mar 200461 CO12 3TNSemi-detached£136,850
11 Jan 200263 CO12 3TNSemi-detached£67,500
11 Dec 200165B CO12 3TNDetached£80,000
13 Mar 202067 CO12 3TNSemi-detached£260,000
3 Oct 201467 CO12 3TNSemi-detached£210,000
7 Oct 200367 CO12 3TNSemi-detached£149,000
9 Dec 201169 CO12 3TNSemi-detached£203,000
11 Dec 200169 CO12 3TNSemi-detached£115,000
22 Mar 199669 CO12 3TNSemi-detached£59,999

House prices and rents in Tendring

A typical home in Tendring cost £260,636 in August 2026, 1.2% less than a year before. That is 6% more than five years earlier and 31% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£367,926
Semi-detached£255,436
Terraced£203,459
Flat or maisonette£132,634
Bought by a first-time buyer£222,460

Private renters in Tendring paid £1,058 a month on average in September 2026, 3.7% more than a year before. That is 35% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£761
Two bedrooms£979
Three bedrooms£1,192
Four or more bedrooms£1,593

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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

33 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 107 m². Most common: House, detached (16); Bungalow, detached (7); Bungalow, semi-detached (7). Built: 1967-1975 (21); 1950-1966 (9); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (23).

Each home's certificates and sales (33 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 13,722 kWh of it on average in 2024, 39% more than the district's 9,888 kWh, and 3,286 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 98% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
CO12 3TL303,355 kWh 3013,085 kWh
CO12 3TN191,991 kWh 1810,085 kWh
CO12 3TJ51,908 kWh 514,701 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is CO12.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Tendring in 2026-27: Band D £2,270 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,513£1,765£2,017£2,270£2,774£3,278£3,783£4,539

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (35% of about 840 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: 1.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 17 October 2026 to 20 October 2026: AFFINITY WATER - EAST, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 5 October 2026 to 7 October 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 7 September 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 10 August 2026: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)
  • 7 August 2026 to 10 August 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the verge (immediate - urgent works)
  • 5 August 2026 to 6 August 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 19 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 8 very low.

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.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

The nearest projected erosion zone is 30 m from the street's postcodes (by 2105, if defences are not maintained or built).

ProjectionPolicy for the frontageErosionDistance
By 2055, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Essex and South Suffolk none (the line is held)360 m
By 2105, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Essex and South Suffolk none (the line is held)360 m
By 2105, if defences are not maintained or builtNo intervention Essex and South Suffolk up to 330 m30 m

Each shoreline management plan sets a policy for each stretch of coast: hold the line (keep defences where they are), managed realignment (let the shore move back in a controlled way), advance the line, or no active intervention. Erosion is the distance the shore may move back, counted from today, for the higher central climate change allowance. The maps are guidance from national modelling, not a survey of any one home; the council's coastal team can say more.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 0 times, for under an hour in all, in 2025. They discharge into Trib South Hall Creek.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Dovercourt Low Road Pumping Station Anglian Water Trib South Hall Creek 0 0 880 m (0.5 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 57 addresses are between 4 m and 12 m above sea level (8 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
CO12 3TJ100%0%0%0%
CO12 3TL97%32%32%0%
CO12 3TN100%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 stationsDovercourt 168,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Harwich International 118,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Harwich Town 112,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 37 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Gordon Road Upper Dovercourt150 m
Ferry terminalHarwich International Ferry Terminal Harwich International Port2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Car parksDovercourt Station Car Park1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station810 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN56.2 km (35 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN71.1 km (44 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mayflower Medical Centre530 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Borno Pharmacy530 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dovercourt Dental Surgery410 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalHarwich & District Hospital530 m (0.3 miles)
Care homes6 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lime Court Care Home Good Dec 2018550 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationHarwich police Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest East of England Co-op Fronks Road Cashzone700 m (0.4 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,590 m²370 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 2.1 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 390 m²440 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8.2 ha350 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Boatswain's Call Allotments 1.2 ha330 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 4.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Dovercourt lighthouses and causeway, a scheduled monument, 820 m (0.5 miles) east. 34 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Dovercourt lighthouses and causewayScheduled monument820 m (0.5 miles) east
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*840 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Beacon Hill Fort: a late 19th and 20th century coastal artillery fortificationScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bobbit's HoleLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Dovercourt BayBay1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Beacon HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Beacon CliffCliff or slope1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Raycliff WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
The GuardWetland2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-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)8.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

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
60 to 6410
Under 555657

1 of the street's 57 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 Tendring: see them on the Tendring page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–11230 m No published inspection 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
Harwich and Dovercourt High SchoolSecondary11–16230 m Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 34.1 (37.6 in 2025 and 39.3 in 2024); 23.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade D; progress well below average
All Saints' Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, DovercourtPrimary4–11710 m (0.4 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 38% in 2023)
Spring Meadow Primary School & NurseryPrimary2–11790 m (0.5 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
The Mayflower Primary SchoolPrimary4–11910 m (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 48% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 62% in 2023)
Chase Lane Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 64% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 65% in 2023)
Harwich Community Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 31% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 30% in 2024 and 30% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

2 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 570 m (0.4 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
The Lighthouse Holiday Club CO12 3ST Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 570 m (0.4 miles)
Harwich Centre Pre-School CO12 4AJ Sessional day care 50 Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 730 m (0.5 miles)

Ofsted also registers 665 childminders and 193 home childcarers (nannies) in Essex. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 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
Rainbow Cafe / Takeaway CO12 3TARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good30 Aug 2025
Harwich School The Lighthouse Canteen CO12 3TGSchool/college/university230 m5 Very good26 Sep 2024
MR CHIPS CO12 3TATakeaway/sandwich shop280 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Jan 2026
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School CO12 3SUSchool/college/university320 m5 Very good14 Oct 2026
The Waterfront CO12 3STRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory24 Sep 2026
The Lighthouse Sports and Social CO12 3STPub/bar/nightclub440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Jun 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.

26 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences15
Anti-social behaviour6
Criminal damage and arson2
Bicycle theft1
Other theft1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hall Lane (21); On or near Queen'S Road (3); On or near Gordon Road (1); On or near Richmond Crescent (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 0 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202111
202200
202311
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
27 Jun 2023 14:17 Serious 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
27 Aug 2021 09:00 Serious 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the B1414, with 1,940 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 220 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
B1414 Not recorded 1,940 counted 2025 0% 220 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 574 residents in 245 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 age5440
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over37%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright61%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)42%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)49%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: AFFINITY WATER - EAST: Utility repair and maintenance works, 17 October 2026 to 21 October 2026 (give and take) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Utility repair and maintenance works, 5 October 2026 to 7 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The Waterfront (restaurant/cafe/canteen, CO12 3ST) now 3 Generally satisfactory, was 4 Good (rated 24 September 2026) found 30 October 2026

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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

Richmond Crescent · Gordon Way · Orchard Close · Queen's Road · Hall Lane · Lower Marine Parade · Fronk's Road · Fronks Gardens · Kreswell Grove · Manor Lane · Elizabeth Road · West End Lane

All the streets in CO12 and across Tendring.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.