Hubert Road Colchester

27 addresses across 1 postcode (CO3), about 150 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 8900955.

  • Sales: 26 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £485,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Colchester cost £294,210 in August 2026 (-1.4% on a year); private rents averaged £1,200 a month.
  • Energy: 21 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 9, E: 2, G: 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.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A133, carries 34,156 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Colchester costs £2,283 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Colchester, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Lexden Springs Local Nature Reserve, is about 440 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 15 to 18 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 15 of its 27 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ambrose Avenue Group Practice, about 1.5 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 86% of households owned their home and 48% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 12 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20241£485,000£485,000£485,000
20232£347,500£325,000£370,000
20182£312,250£280,000£344,500
20162£404,000£390,000£418,000
20152£341,000£330,000£352,000
20143£232,225£230,000£412,000
20091£240,000£240,000£240,000
20081£180,000£180,000£180,000
20062£247,000£219,000£275,000
20052£396,250£387,500£405,000
20041£160,000£160,000£160,000
20031£188,000£188,000£188,000
All 26 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Sep 20162 CO3 3SASemi-detached£418,000
16 Oct 20152 CO3 3SASemi-detached£330,000
27 Jul 19982 CO3 3SASemi-detached£72,500
9 Oct 20233 CO3 3SASemi-detached£370,000
16 Feb 20184 CO3 3SASemi-detached£344,500
30 Jun 20084 CO3 3SASemi-detached£180,000
17 Oct 20145 CO3 3SASemi-detached£232,225
13 Aug 20147 CO3 3SASemi-detached£230,000
11 Dec 19957 CO3 3SASemi-detached£63,500
23 Apr 20048 CO3 3SASemi-detached£160,000
15 Apr 20099 CO3 3SASemi-detached£240,000
13 Aug 199910 CO3 3SASemi-detached£80,000
27 Sep 199610 CO3 3SASemi-detached£57,000
10 Jan 200311 CO3 3SASemi-detached£188,000
9 Mar 201812 CO3 3SASemi-detached£280,000
3 Nov 202316 CO3 3SASemi-detached£325,000
8 Jul 201620 CO3 3SASemi-detached£390,000
6 Mar 201520 CO3 3SASemi-detached£352,000
24 Oct 200620 CO3 3SASemi-detached£275,000
7 Aug 202421 CO3 3SASemi-detached£485,000
21 Jun 200621 CO3 3SASemi-detached£219,000
7 Jun 200221 CO3 3SASemi-detached£169,500
29 Mar 200121 CO3 3SASemi-detached£129,995
1 Jul 201422 CO3 3SADetached£412,000
30 Jun 200522 CO3 3SADetached£387,500
2 Sep 200524 CO3 3SADetached£405,000

House prices and rents in Colchester

A typical home in Colchester cost £294,210 in August 2026, 1.4% less than a year before. That is 7% more than five years earlier and 23% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£493,135
Semi-detached£326,614
Terraced£264,000
Flat or maisonette£161,277
Bought by a first-time buyer£247,168

Private renters in Colchester paid £1,200 a month on average in September 2026, 1.7% more than a year before. That is 32% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£821
Two bedrooms£1,066
Three bedrooms£1,306
Four or more bedrooms£1,801

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

21 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 111 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (17); House, detached (3); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1950-1966 (14); 1930-1949 (6); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (21 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 12,840 kWh of it on average in 2024, 5% more than the district's 12,233 kWh, and 4,074 kWh of electricity, 20% more than the district's 3,389 kWh. There are gas meters for about 92% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the 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 CO3.

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

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (23% of about 730 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: 1 protected tree on or by this street.
  • 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.

Energy projects nearby

3 energy projects near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Bellhouse Pit Landfill Scheme Landfill Gas 2.7 MW Operational Jan 1999 4.1 km (2.6 miles)
Bellhouse South Landfill Gas 3.9 MW Operational May 2004 4.4 km (2.7 miles)
Colchester STW Colchester 121032 Sewage Sludge Digestion 1.2 MW Operational Sep 2013 4.6 km (2.8 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

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

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

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: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre 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

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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 Tributary of the River Colne.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Colchester-Spring Lane Cso Anglian Water Tributary of the River Colne 0 0 470 m (0.3 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 here 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

The postcode is in a 1 km square 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 27 addresses are between 15 m and 18 m above sea level (17 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
CO3 3SA100%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 stationsColchester 3.6 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Colchester Town 1.0 million journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.5 miles)
Hythe (Essex) 433,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Glen Avenue Colchester400 m (0.2 miles)
Bus or coach stationColchester North Park-and-Ride Mile End4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Ferry terminalEast Mersea Ferry Landing13.9 km (8.6 miles)
Car parksSheepen Road Car Park1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN38 km (24 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN43.9 km (27 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 surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ambrose Avenue Group Practice Good Dec 20251.5 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy1.5 km (0.9 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Avenue (Dental Surgery)1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalHertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust (Lexden Hospital)1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Care homes6 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Woodlands Residential Home for Ladies Good Dec 2019550 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationEssex Police1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machinesBritannia Building Society1.7 km (1.1 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lexden Springs Local Nature Reserve 2.0 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Lexden Park 11 ha760 m (0.5 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 1,760 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.7 ha390 m
AllotmentsHighfield Drive Allotments 9,950 m²900 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Lexden Dyke at Spring Meadow: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum and Romano-British town of Camulodunum, a scheduled monument, 430 m (0.3 miles) south-west. 25 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lexden Dyke at Spring Meadow: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum and Romano-British town of CamulodunumScheduled monument430 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Lexden Tumulus Iron Age barrow and associated cemetery area: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum of CamulodunumScheduled monument840 m (0.5 miles) south
Sheepen Dyke and settlement site; part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum and Romano-British town of Camulodunum, including Civil War defences evident as cropmarks and Second World War pillboxScheduled monument860 m (0.5 miles) east
Colchester Castle ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bluebottle GroveWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Gathering GroundsWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Spring GroveWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
West House WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) north
Bourne PondLake or reservoir3.2 km (2 miles) south-east
America HillHill3.5 km (2.2 miles) north

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)9.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)12.44015

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 6920
60 to 6440
55 to 5990
Under 551227

15 of the street's 27 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Colchester: see them on the Colchester page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 6 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 Benedict's Catholic College Roman CatholicSecondary11–16910 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 58.4 (54.7 in 2025 and 53.5 in 2024); 75.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
Colchester County High School for GirlsSecondary11–18910 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 79.7 (80.6 in 2025 and 80.8 in 2024); 98.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade A-; 44% AAB or better; progress average
Colchester Institute16 plus16–991.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection None published
St Helena SchoolSecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 42.4 (46.0 in 2025 and 41.6 in 2024); 36% grade 5+ in English and maths
Colchester Royal Grammar School ChristianSecondary11–181.2 km (0.8 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 GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 80.9 (82.1 in 2025 and 83.4 in 2024); 98.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade A; 77.7% AAB or better; progress above average
Braiswick Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 66% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)
Philip Morant School and CollegeSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 45.6 (44.5 in 2025 and 45.6 in 2024); 48.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade D+; 0% AAB or better; progress average
Home Farm Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Exceptional; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 75% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 78% in 2024 and 77% in 2023)
North Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection 47% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 52% in 2024 and 54% in 2023)
The Sixth Form College Colchester16 plus16–991.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade C+; 8.3% AAB or better; progress below average
Hamilton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) 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 79% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 78% in 2023)
Lexden Primary School with Unit for Hearing Impaired PupilsPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 17% at the higher standard (2025; 66% in 2024 and 59% 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

9 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 900 m (0.6 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Lexden Lodge Kindergarten CO3 3QD Full day care 125 Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 900 m (0.6 miles)
School's Out Activities at Colchester County High School CO3 3US Out-of-school day care 60 Not inspected yet 910 m (0.6 miles)
School's Out Activities At Colchester Royal Grammar School CO3 3ND Out-of-school day care 98 Feb 2026: Expected standard in 3 areas, Needs attention in 1 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Sunhill Early Learning Colchester CO4 5QJ Full day care 87 Good (Dec 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Loft, Natalie Dawn CO4 5QJ Childminder without domestic premises 5 Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
H16 - Philip Morant CO3 4QS Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Christchurch Preschool CO3 3AT Sessional day care 33 Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Kip McGrath Colchester Central CO3 3HA Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Shalom Education Tuition Centre CO3 9DW Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.5 km (0.9 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 6 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
Croquet Club CO3 3RXOther catering premises220 m5 Very good10 Dec 2020

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.

12 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences5
Criminal damage and arson2
Vehicle crime2
Public order1
Other crime1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hubert Road (5); On or near Glen Avenue (4); On or near Elianore Road (2); On or near Fitzwilliam Road (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.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. Most were on roads with a 60 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202300
202410
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
9 May 2024 16:06 Slight 2 people Minor road, 60 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 A133 between A12 spur and Sheepen Rd, with 34,156 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 190 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A133 A12 spur to Sheepen Rd 34,156 estimated; counted 2023 2% +16% since 2015 190 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 Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 307 residents in 123 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 age4840
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)86%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)45%32%
Travel to work by car or van43%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away20%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)48%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, semi-detached (lodged 26 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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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.

  • CO3 3SA: 27 addresses of 30 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Glen Avenue · Fitzwilliam Road · Elianore Road · Bramley Close · Sanders Drive · Hurnard Drive · Acland Avenue · Round Close · Piper Road

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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.