283 addresses across 4 postcodes (CM19), about 710 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 16500230.
Sales: 147 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £332,500 across 2 sales.
Energy: 119 homes have an energy certificate (C: 84, D: 34, E: 1).
Flood: 27 addresses on its postcodes are 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 Harlow costs £2,299 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Harlow Town, about 4 km (2.5 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 130 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 66 to 75 m above sea level.
Noise: 16 of its 283 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Lister Medical Centre, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
People: About 610 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 38% of households owned their home and 18% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 129 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)
Year
Sales
Median price
Lowest
Highest
2026
2
£332,500
£330,000
£335,000
2025
4
£327,500
£155,000
£335,000
2024
4
£191,500
£145,000
£330,000
2023
6
£271,500
£160,000
£375,000
2021
5
£275,000
£152,500
£309,500
2020
3
£191,500
£185,000
£279,000
2019
4
£267,500
£135,000
£291,000
2018
1
£155,000
£155,000
£155,000
2017
4
£162,000
£145,000
£270,000
2016
4
£211,500
£147,000
£263,500
2015
2
£117,000
£116,500
£117,500
2014
1
£238,000
£238,000
£238,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 147)
Date
Address
Type
Price
Notes
5 Aug 2026
43 CM19 5SA
Terraced
£330,000
15 May 2026
31 CM19 5SA
Flat or maisonette
£165,000
Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
119 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 58 m².
Most common: Flat (72); House, mid-terrace (37); House, end-terrace (10). Built: 1976-1982 (51); 1950-1966 (36); 1967-1975 (25). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (46); rented (social) (46); rented (private) (22).
What each band costs in Harlow in 2026-27: Band D £2,299 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
£1,532
£1,788
£2,043
£2,299
£2,810
£3,320
£3,831
£4,597
Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (61% of about 1,200 homes).
A8%
B27%
C61%
D2%
E2%
G1%
H0%
Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount.
Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.
Planning and heritage
Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): HMO - townwide.
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)
Sumners Hatch: up to 19 homes, not permissioned (270 m)
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
Planned, as of 31 October 2026
11 November 2026 to 13 November 2026: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)
Finished in the last three months
3 August 2026 to 5 August 2026: BT, Utility asset works, 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
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 21 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 51 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.
Postcode
Planning zone
Addresses at high / medium / low risk
Groundwater
CM19 5SA
not in 2 or 3
2 / 0 / 1
unlikely
CM19 5SB
not in 2 or 3
10 / 5 / 3
unlikely
CM19 5SD
not in 2 or 3
0 / 0 / 19
unlikely
CM19 5RP
not in 2 or 3
9 / 1 / 28
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.
The street's 283 addresses are between 66 m and 75 m above sea level (70 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)
Postcode
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)
Gigabit
Below 10 Mbit/s
CM19 5RP
100%
100%
100%
0%
CM19 5SA
100%
100%
100%
0%
CM19 5SB
100%
100%
100%
0%
CM19 5SD
100%
100%
100%
0%
Getting around
Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.
Nearest
Distance
Railway stations
Harlow Town 1.8 million journeys in 2024–25
4 km (2.5 miles)
Roydon 133,000 journeys in 2024–25
4.1 km (2.6 miles)
Rye House 436,000 journeys in 2024–25
5.4 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops
4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hull Grove Sumners
160 m
Bus or coach station
Bus Station Harlow Town Centre
2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Car parks
NCP
2.9 km (1.8 miles)
EV charging points
Smart Charge Charging Station
3.2 km (2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights
London Stansted Airport STN
18.8 km (12 miles)
Local services
Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.
Nearest
Distance
GP surgeries
1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lister Medical Centre
1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies
2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Medicare Pharmacy
290 m
NHS dentists
3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Barbara Castle Health Centre
210 m
Hospital
The Princess Alexandra Hospital
2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Police station
Harlow Police Station
2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machines
Spar Cashzone
1.9 km (1.2 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.
Nearest
Distance
Park or garden
4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed13 ha
130 m
Play area
4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed3,000 m²
150 m
Playing field
3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed2.3 ha
330 m
Allotments
Water Lane Allotment Site 1 5,250 m²
1 km (0.6 miles)
Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 23 hectares in all.
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Kingsmoor House, a listed building (Grade II*), 560 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 12 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.
Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.
Air quality
Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.
Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
Pollutant
Here
UK limit
WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
9.0
40
10
Fine particles (PM2.5)
7.3
20
5
Particles (PM10)
12.1
40
15
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)
Level
Road traffic
Railways
55 to 59
16
0
Under 55
267
283
16 of the street's 283 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 Harlow: see them on the Harlow page.
Nearest schools
Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.
School
Phase
Ages
Distance
Inspection
Water Lane Primary Academy
Primary
4–11
330 m
No published inspection
Milwards Primary School and Nursery
Primary
3–11
540 m (0.3 miles)
Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kingsmoor Academy
Primary
3–11
790 m (0.5 miles)
No published inspection
Jerounds Primary Academy
Primary
3–11
1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Katherines Primary Academy and Nursery
Primary
3–11
1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St James Church of England Primary School
Primary
3–11
1.2 km (0.8 miles)
No published inspection
Stewards Academy - Science Specialist, Harlow
Secondary
11–16
1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Luke's Catholic Academy Roman Catholic
Primary
3–11
1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Longwood Primary Academy
Primary
3–11
1.6 km (1 mile)
No published inspection
Abbotsweld Primary Academy
Primary
5–11
1.9 km (1.2 miles)
No published inspection
Food hygiene ratings nearby
Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.
Business
Type
Distance
Rating
Rated
Water Lane Primary Academy CM19 5RD
School/college/university
290 m
3 Generally satisfactory
24 Apr 2026
Medicare Chemist Ltd CM19 5RD
Retailers - other
290 m
Exempt
SK News CM19 5RD
Retailers - other
290 m
3 Generally satisfactory
16 May 2025
Sun Kwong Fish Bar CM19 5RD
Takeaway/sandwich shop
290 m
5 Very good
22 Nov 2024
The Herald Public House CM19 5RD
Pub/bar/nightclub
290 m
5 Very good
11 Feb 2022
Sunflower Day Nursery & Kids Club CM19 5RD
Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises
290 m
5 Very good
19 Oct 2021
Sumners Farm Close CM19 5SL
Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises
300 m
5 Very good
20 Mar 2026
Shaftesbury Keefields CM19 5SW
Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises
380 m
5 Very good
30 Oct 2025
Crime within 250 m
Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.
129 recorded crimes by category
Category
Crimes
Violence and sexual offences
57
Anti-social behaviour
34
Other theft
9
Public order
8
Criminal damage and arson
4
Drugs
4
Vehicle crime
4
Other crime
4
Burglary
2
Robbery
1
Theft from the person
1
Possession of weapons
1
Most of these are attached to: On or near Mallows Green (64); On or near Taylifers (47); On or near Hull Grove (18).
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: 613 residents in 258 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.
Who lives here
Around this street
England
Median age
38
40
Children under 15
21%
17%
Aged 65 and over
16%
18%
Homes
Around this street
England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)
38%
61%
Owned outright
15%
33%
Shared ownership
under 1%
1%
Social rented
47%
17%
Private rented
15%
21%
Work and commuting
Around this street
England
Adults (16 and over) in work
53%
57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)
8%
6%
Retired (of adults)
18%
22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)
7%
4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)
14%
32%
Travel to work by car or van
66%
48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram
3%
4%
By any public transport, including bus
7%
8%
On foot or by bicycle
8%
10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)
64%
65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away
8%
8%
Education and languages
Around this street
England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)
18%
34%
No qualifications
27%
18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification
6%
5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)
88%
91%
Cannot speak English well or at all
2%
2%
Deprivation
The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 4 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.
Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.
What has changed
Roadworks Street works permit: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 11 November 2026 to 13 November 2026 (give and take) found 3 November 2026
Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.
Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.
How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.