Lea Road Thundersley, Castle Point

31 addresses across 2 postcodes (SS7), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 6300541.

  • Sales: 43 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £425,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 24 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, C: 3, D: 15, E: 4, F: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Castle Point costs £2,319 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Benfleet, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Thundersley Oaks Nature Park, is about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 32 to 34 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 31 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Dr Khan & Partners, about 920 m (0.6 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 94% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 9 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£425,000£425,000£425,000
20252£465,000£450,000£480,000
20241£355,000£355,000£355,000
20222£536,000£432,000£640,000
20212£405,000£390,000£420,000
20193£353,000£282,500£420,000
20183£340,000£280,000£435,000
20172£400,000£325,000£475,000
20162£305,000£300,000£310,000
20142£222,500£210,000£235,000
20132£319,998£264,995£375,000
20102£180,250£172,500£188,000
Most recent sales (43)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Jun 202626 SS7 5UUDetached£425,000
18 Nov 20254 SS7 5UUDetached£450,000
29 Aug 20252 SS7 5UUDetached£480,000
24 Jan 202419 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£355,000
6 Jul 202224 SS7 5UUDetached£432,000
23 Feb 202230 SS7 5UUDetached£640,000
28 Sep 202115 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£420,000
30 Jul 202115 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£385,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Feb 202126 SS7 5UUDetached£390,000
9 Aug 20199 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£282,500
15 Feb 201930 SS7 5UUDetached£420,000
11 Jan 201933 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£353,000
14 Dec 201832 SS7 5UUDetached£435,000
30 Nov 201831 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£340,000
7 Jun 201836 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£280,000
14 Jul 201716 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£325,000
26 Jan 20178 SS7 5UUDetached£475,000
30 Nov 201623 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£310,000
21 Apr 201629 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£300,000
30 Jun 201415 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£235,000
24 Feb 201417 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£210,000
11 Sep 20134 SS7 5UUDetached£264,995
22 Feb 20136 SS7 5UUDetached£375,000
22 Oct 201034 SS7 5UUTerraced£172,500
8 Apr 201017 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£188,000
26 Oct 200715 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£246,000
1 Oct 20072 SS7 5UUDetached£292,500
22 Sep 200615 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£223,500
28 Apr 20062 SS7 5UUDetached£222,500
25 May 200520 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£170,000
29 Nov 200418 SS7 5UUTerraced£232,000
26 Aug 200415 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£233,000
12 Mar 200433 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£194,950
12 Mar 200437 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£190,000
27 Sep 20022 SS7 5UUDetached£64,000
29 Aug 200211 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£157,000
12 Apr 200223 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£145,000
10 Oct 200115 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£96,200
15 Dec 200033 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£129,995
30 Jun 199936 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£53,000
17 Jul 199817 SS7 5UUSemi-detached£79,995
12 Dec 19976 SS7 5UUDetached£145,000
11 Aug 19972 SS7 5UUDetached£104,995

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from January 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

24 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 105 m². Most common: House, detached (9); House, semi-detached (7); Bungalow, semi-detached (6). Built: 1950-1966 (10); 1967-1975 (7); 1976-1982 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (18).

Council tax

What each band costs in Castle Point in 2026-27: Band D £2,319 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,546£1,803£2,061£2,319£2,834£3,349£3,864£4,637

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (34% of about 700 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 11 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
SS7 5UUnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 4 unlikely
SS7 5URnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 7 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 31 addresses are between 32 m and 34 m above sea level (33 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
SS7 5UR100%100%100%0%
SS7 5UU100%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 stationsBenfleet 2.4 million journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Pitsea 1.1 million journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Rayleigh 1.6 million journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 22 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Waverley Road South Benfleet250 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Basildon Town Centre6.8 km (4.2 miles)
Car parksSchool Lane Car Park2.2 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN9.5 km (5.9 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN42 km (26 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dr Khan & Partners920 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cross Chemist510 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery620 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalChartwell Private Hospital5.9 km (3.6 miles)
Police stationPitsea Police Station3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kent Hill Local Cashzone370 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or gardenThundersley Oaks Nature Park 1.6 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 930 m²350 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha350 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,110 m²350 m

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Coombe WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) east
Thundersley GlenValley1.6 km (1 mile) east
Benfleet MarshWetland1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
Round HillHill2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Hadleigh RayBeach3.9 km (2.4 miles) south-east
Canvey LakeLake or reservoir4.8 km (3 miles) south-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)11.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59300
Under 55283131

3 of the street's 31 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 Castle Point: see them on the Castle Point page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Harris Academy BenfleetSecondary11–19320 m No published inspection
Holy Family Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11410 m (0.3 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kents Hill Infant AcademyPrimary2–7470 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kents Hill Junior SchoolPrimary7–11470 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Jotmans Hall Primary SchoolPrimary5–11620 m (0.4 miles) Requires improvement (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woodham Ley Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Robert Drake Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Montgomerie Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Kingston Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
South Benfleet Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
USP College16 plus16–991.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Thundersley Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Tarpots (Harvester) SS7 5UWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good12 Dec 2024
Malaya SS7 5XRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good30 Jul 2025
Holy Family RC School SS7 5PXSchool/college/university340 m5 Very good3 Jul 2025
Kent's Hill Local SS7 5XTRetailers - other370 m2 Improvement necessary17 Oct 2024
Harris Academy Benfleet School SS7 5RNSchool/college/university390 mAwaiting inspection
Twentyfour7 Stop SS7 4BDTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good30 Jun 2025
KFC SS7 5SQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Mar 2025
B B Grout Ltd SS7 5SQRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Aug 2025
Tarpots News SS7 5SQRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Feb 2026
Domino's Pizza SS7 5SQTakeaway/sandwich shop410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Aug 2025
Aspera SS7 5SQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Jan 2025
Cosy Cafe And Creams SS7 5SQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Dec 2024
The Cod Father SS7 5SQTakeaway/sandwich shop410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Jul 2025
Cross Chemists SS7 5YHRetailers - other500 m (0.3 miles)Exempt

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.

9 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences3
Vehicle crime3
Criminal damage and arson1
Anti-social behaviour1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Southwold Crescent (3); On or near New Park Road (2); On or near Field View (2); On or near St Clement'S Close (2).

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: 356 residents in 137 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 age4540
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)94%61%
Owned outright49%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented4%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)59%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%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

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Stanway Road · Field View · New Park Road · Southwold Crescent · Wellingbury · Grangewood · Glenridding · St Clements Road · Northern Avenue · Lynn View Close · Bowers Road · St Clements Close

All the streets in SS7 and across Castle Point.

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.