Manor Street Braintree

227 addresses across 18 postcodes (CM7), about 720 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 3901239.

  • Sales: 200 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £253,000 across 5 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Braintree cost £330,089 in August 2026 (+1.6% on a year); private rents averaged £1,223 a month.
  • Energy: 117 homes have an energy certificate (B: 28, C: 27, D: 41, E: 19, F: 1, G: 1).
  • Flood: 6 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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.
  • Landfill: 4 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Rose Hill, is 40 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 8 times (9 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 2 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Braintree Road, Cressing - Battery Storage, is 680 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the B1256, carries 8,532 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Braintree costs £2,280 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Braintree, about 310 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 230 m away, and Marshalls Park (12 hectares) is about 640 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 58 to 66 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 77 of its 229 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Mount Chambers Medical Practice, about 250 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 2,020 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 41% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 387 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 14 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 4 of them fatal or serious; 7 involved a pedestrian.

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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
20255£253,000£227,500£375,000
20243£270,000£96,000£285,000
20232£275,000£255,000£295,000
202210£210,000£72,000£275,000
20215£270,000£245,000£330,000
20202£227,500£210,000£245,000
20186£215,750£159,000£375,000
20175£212,500£140,000£260,000
20163£190,000£42,500£225,000
20155£185,000£145,000£282,000
20143£220,000£148,000£290,000
20134£132,500£105,000£169,000
All 200 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
2 Nov 20165 CM7 3HWOther£290,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Nov 2000HYDE FIELD HOUSE, 8 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£111,000
16 Apr 1998HYDE FIELD HOUSE, 8 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£74,000
28 Apr 20069 CM7 3HWSemi-detached£249,500
22 Mar 20049 CM7 3HWSemi-detached£200,000
7 Feb 19979 CM7 3HWSemi-detached£64,500
16 Mar 200513 CM7 3HWTerraced£200,000
28 Feb 199713 CM7 3HWTerraced£46,500
17 Jun 200516 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£140,000
25 Apr 200517 - 19 CM7 3HWTerraced£200,000
8 Jul 200217 - 19 CM7 3HWTerraced£145,000
4 Dec 200118 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£91,500
31 Jul 199718 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£49,500
13 Jul 201721 CM7 3HPTerraced£182,000
5 Oct 200622 - 24 CM7 3HPDetached£290,000
12 May 202523 CM7 3HPTerraced£227,500
18 May 201523 CM7 3HPTerraced£162,500
19 Sep 200523 CM7 3HPTerraced£134,500
19 Apr 200223 CM7 3HPTerraced£80,000
29 Nov 200123 CM7 3HPTerraced£67,000
10 Dec 199923 CM7 3HPTerraced£56,000
1 Jul 200427 CM7 3HPTerraced£129,000
25 Oct 199927 CM7 3HPTerraced£46,000
15 Nov 200428 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£173,000
7 Feb 200328 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£130,000
3 Nov 200829 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£125,000
14 May 200132 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£85,000
22 Aug 201632B CM7 3HPFlat or maisonette£42,500Leasehold.
4 May 200132B CM7 3HPFlat or maisonette£20,500Leasehold.
21 Jul 202133 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£330,000
16 Jun 200433 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£145,000
30 Oct 200233 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£95,000
12 Oct 201234 CM7 3HPTerraced£92,000
2 Dec 202235 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£226,000
4 Jul 200335 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£150,250
30 Sep 200235 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£110,000
17 May 201736 CM7 3HPTerraced£212,500
22 Dec 201436 CM7 3HPTerraced£148,000
10 Nov 200036 CM7 3HPTerraced£69,000
12 Sep 199736 CM7 3HPTerraced£42,000
11 Dec 201537 CM7 3HPTerraced£145,000
30 Jun 200437 CM7 3HPTerraced£119,000
8 Aug 201938 CM7 3HPTerraced£185,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Jul 200838 CM7 3HPTerraced£147,500
2 Apr 200338 CM7 3HPTerraced£80,000
18 Apr 199638 CM7 3HPTerraced£26,000
8 Jan 201639 CM7 3HPTerraced£225,000
30 Mar 201240 CM7 3HPTerraced£110,000
28 Oct 200241 CM7 3HPTerraced£114,000
8 Oct 199941 CM7 3HPTerraced£71,500
26 Oct 201643 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£229,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Jan 202544 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£253,000
5 Aug 201544 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£145,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Jun 200144 CM7 3HPTerraced£80,000
21 Jun 201945 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£265,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Sep 199745 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£52,000
30 May 199745 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£25,000
7 Sep 200746 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£140,000
25 Jul 202247 CM7 3HPTerraced£210,000
9 Nov 200747 CM7 3HPTerraced£144,000
31 May 200247 CM7 3HPTerraced£89,000
18 Jan 201948 CM7 3HPTerraced£190,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Jul 200848 CM7 3HPTerraced£150,000
30 Sep 200548 CM7 3HPTerraced£130,000
27 Nov 199648 CM7 3HPTerraced£27,000
24 Jul 200249 CM7 3HPTerraced£92,000
26 Jan 199649 CM7 3HPTerraced£32,500
26 Jan 202450 CM7 3HPTerraced£285,000
24 Sep 202050 CM7 3HPTerraced£245,000
28 Feb 202050 CM7 3HPTerraced£270,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 May 201350 CM7 3HPTerraced£169,000
10 Aug 200750 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£181,500
7 Feb 200350 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£127,500
27 Aug 199850 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£53,500
4 Apr 200851 CM7 3HPTerraced£145,000
7 Jun 200451 CM7 3HPTerraced£122,000
22 Jan 199951 CM7 3HPTerraced£49,995
31 Mar 199953 CM7 3HPTerraced£48,745
17 Apr 201554 CM7 3HPTerraced£282,000
25 Feb 200554 CM7 3HPTerraced£183,000
18 Dec 200354 CM7 3HPTerraced£155,000
19 Mar 200354 CM7 3HPTerraced£160,000
6 Jul 201755 CM7 3HPTerraced£140,000
6 Jul 200455 CM7 3HPTerraced£139,000
24 May 200255 CM7 3HPTerraced£88,000
31 Mar 199555 CM7 3HPTerraced£36,000
30 Sep 202156 CM7 3HPTerraced£220,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Jan 200356 CM7 3HPTerraced£114,000
23 Feb 201857 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£208,500
30 Mar 200457 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£125,000
27 May 200257 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£87,000
4 May 199957 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£51,000
23 Apr 199757 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£45,000
28 Oct 202258 CM7 3HPTerraced£225,000
28 Jun 202259 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£210,000
5 Mar 199859 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£45,000New build.
1 Jun 201260 CM7 3HPTerraced£110,000
11 Sep 201562 CM7 3HPTerraced£140,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Nov 200663 CM7 3HPTerraced£156,000
25 Aug 200063 CM7 3HPTerraced£86,750
1 Apr 199963 CM7 3HPTerraced£42,000
20 Sep 199663 CM7 3HPTerraced£30,000
12 Dec 200566 CM7 3HPTerraced£124,000
12 Sep 202569 CM7 3HPTerraced£280,000
29 Oct 202169 CM7 3HPTerraced£270,000
14 Oct 201670 CM7 3HPTerraced£120,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Aug 201971 CM7 3HPOther£325,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Dec 200672 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£176,000
19 Nov 200472 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£164,995
5 Oct 2023KEEPERS COTTAGE, 72 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£255,000
30 Mar 2023KEEPERS COTTAGE, 72 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£197,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Dec 2014KEEPERS COTTAGE, 72 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£220,000
20 Oct 202173 CM7 3HPTerraced£290,000
10 Oct 202274 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£241,000
14 Dec 200774 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£164,000
29 Jun 200574 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£140,000
10 Jun 200274 CM7 3HPSemi-detached£96,000
11 Mar 201576 CM7 3HPOther£276,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Oct 200876 CM7 3HPTerraced£140,000
11 Mar 201578 CM7 3HPOther£276,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Nov 201080 CM7 3HRTerraced£117,000
11 Apr 201880A CM7 3HRFlat or maisonette£159,000Leasehold.
19 Apr 201380A CM7 3HRFlat or maisonette£105,000Leasehold.
30 Apr 201380B CM7 3HRFlat or maisonette£115,000Leasehold.
30 Aug 202482 CM7 3HROther£10,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 May 201584 CM7 3HRTerraced£260,000
15 Aug 199784 CM7 3HRTerraced£40,000
31 Oct 202486 CM7 3HROther£195,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Jul 200586 CM7 3HRDetached£215,000
30 Nov 200092 CM7 3HSSemi-detached£82,000
27 Oct 199792 CM7 3HSSemi-detached£60,000
22 Feb 199692 CM7 3HSSemi-detached£15,000
2 Mar 202094 CM7 3HSSemi-detached£210,000
5 Jan 200794 CM7 3HSSemi-detached£159,995
27 Aug 199894 CM7 3HSSemi-detached£55,000
2 Jun 201796 CM7 3HSTerraced£250,500
8 Nov 201298 CM7 3HSTerraced£147,000
26 Aug 200598 CM7 3HSTerraced£150,000
16 Jun 200398 CM7 3HSTerraced£135,000
29 Jun 200198 CM7 3HSTerraced£86,950New build.
2 Apr 2025100 CM7 3HSTerraced£245,000
14 Nov 2018100 CM7 3HSTerraced£223,000
19 Jan 2016100 CM7 3HSTerraced£190,000
29 Jun 2001100 CM7 3HSTerraced£87,000New build.
26 Aug 1998101 CM7 3HRTerraced£50,000
25 Oct 2024102 CM7 3HSTerraced£270,000
31 Aug 2007102 CM7 3HSTerraced£155,000
28 Feb 2007102 CM7 3HSTerraced£148,000
30 Jan 2004102 CM7 3HSTerraced£130,000
29 Jun 2001102 CM7 3HSTerraced£86,950New build.
13 Jun 2005104 CM7 3HSTerraced£143,000
14 Mar 2003104 CM7 3HSTerraced£129,995
23 Aug 2001104 CM7 3HSTerraced£95,000New build.
29 Sep 2021106 CM7 3HSTerraced£245,000
23 Aug 2001106 CM7 3HSTerraced£85,000New build.
22 Nov 2013108 CM7 3HSTerraced£150,000
31 Aug 2001108 CM7 3HSTerraced£93,000New build.
28 Jul 2006110 CM7 3HSTerraced£149,000
3 May 2002110 CM7 3HSTerraced£102,500
24 Aug 2001110 CM7 3HSTerraced£93,000New build.
18 Apr 2008112 CM7 3HSTerraced£158,000
24 Aug 2001112 CM7 3HSTerraced£90,000New build.
31 May 1996116 CM7 3HSDetached£66,500
18 Aug 2025118 CM7 3HSDetached£375,000
17 Jul 2017118 CM7 3HSDetached£260,000
15 Apr 2014120 CM7 3HSDetached£290,000
11 May 2007120 CM7 3HSDetached£269,000
9 Sep 2004120 CM7 3HSDetached£245,000
14 Mar 2003120 CM7 3HSDetached£140,000
23 Jul 2018122 CM7 3HSDetached£375,000
2 Feb 1999122 CM7 3HSDetached£79,000
2 Nov 2018124 CM7 3HSTerraced£205,000
28 May 2004124 CM7 3HSTerraced£131,000
20 Apr 2023126 CM7 3HSTerraced£295,000
17 Sep 2021126 CM7 3HSTerraced£268,000
20 Jul 2018126 CM7 3HSTerraced£235,000
21 Dec 2015126 CM7 3HSTerraced£185,000
23 Sep 2004126 CM7 3HSTerraced£149,500
23 Jul 1999126 CM7 3HSTerraced£52,500
14 Nov 1997126 CM7 3HSTerraced£39,000
25 Feb 2022128 CM7 3HSTerraced£275,000
16 May 1997128 CM7 3HSTerraced£20,000
17 Mar 1997128 CM7 3HSTerraced£16,000
28 Jul 2006130 CM7 3HSFlat or maisonette£127,000Leasehold.
2 Apr 2002130 CM7 3HSFlat or maisonette£85,000New build. Leasehold.
22 Jul 2004132 CM7 3HSFlat or maisonette£119,995Leasehold.
28 Mar 2002132 CM7 3HSFlat or maisonette£85,000New build. Leasehold.
22 Nov 2002134 CM7 3HSFlat or maisonette£98,000Leasehold.
26 Apr 2002134 CM7 3HSFlat or maisonette£87,500New build. Leasehold.
5 Aug 2022136 CM7 3HSFlat or maisonette£170,000Leasehold.
17 May 2002136 CM7 3HSFlat or maisonette£86,000New build. Leasehold.
5 Mar 20181, CRAIG HOUSE CM7 3HTOther£31,870Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 May 2025HUWS GRAY BUILDBASE CM7 3HSOther£2,000,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Oct 2025JOHN PEASE MOTOR GROUP CM7 3BHOther£3,000,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 May 20223, SAUNDERS HOUSE CM7 3BDFlat or maisonette£90,000New build. Leasehold.
22 Apr 20229, SAUNDERS HOUSE CM7 3BDFlat or maisonette£72,000New build. Leasehold.
4 Jan 202417, SAUNDERS HOUSE CM7 3BDFlat or maisonette£96,000Leasehold.
30 May 202520, SAUNDERS HOUSE CM7 3BDOther£95,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 May 202221, SAUNDERS HOUSE CM7 3BDFlat or maisonette£76,500New build. Leasehold.
29 Mar 2021UNIT 3, SAUNDERS HOUSE CM7 3BDOther£4,690,516Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

House prices and rents in Braintree

A typical home in Braintree cost £330,089 in August 2026, 1.6% more than a year before. That is 12% more than five years earlier and 25% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£566,447
Semi-detached£342,100
Terraced£275,503
Flat or maisonette£157,615
Bought by a first-time buyer£266,204

Private renters in Braintree paid £1,223 a month on average in September 2026, 2.5% more than a year before. That is 34% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£857
Two bedrooms£1,108
Three bedrooms£1,366
Four or more bedrooms£1,987

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 September 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

117 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 61 m². Most common: Flat (49); House, mid-terrace (32); House, end-terrace (17). Built: 1900-1929 (28); 2022 (24); before 1900 (23). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (39); rented (private) (27); rented (social) (9).

Each home's certificates and sales (117 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 9,904 kWh of it on average in 2024, 7% less than the district's 10,667 kWh, and 3,386 kWh of electricity, 8% less than the district's 3,683 kWh. There are gas meters for about 61% of the homes.

3 of its postcodes have no gas meters recorded among 10 or more homes: often flats heated by electricity, or homes off the gas grid.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
CM7 3HP55 10 Economy 71,824 kWh 558,751 kWh
CM7 3BD211,267 kWh none recorded
CM7 3HS242,401 kWh 209,445 kWh
CM7 3HR94,531 kWh 618,520 kWh
CM7 3HE61,638 kWh 53,031 kWh
CM7 3BE111,410 kWh 123,646 kWh
CM7 3BU435,701 kWh none recorded
CM7 3BW282,180 kWh 267,777 kWh
CM7 3HD10975 kWh 114,455 kWh
CM7 3JG15 10 Economy 74,184 kWh none recorded
CM7 3JJ142,935 kWh 811,855 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 CM7.

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 Braintree in 2026-27: Band D £2,280 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,520£1,774£2,027£2,280£2,787£3,294£3,801£4,561

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (51% of about 1,810 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, Braintree Town Centre and Bradford Street (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 2.
  • 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

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 2 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Braintree Road, Cressing - Battery Storage Braintree 22/02180/FUL Battery storage 57 MW Being built Jan 2025 680 m (0.4 miles)
Chelmsford City Racecourse - Pyrolysis Plant Chelmsford ESS/61/21/CHL Energy from waste (incinerator) Permission granted, not yet built Sep 2021 4.9 km (3 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 21 September 2026 to 23 September 2026: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 16 August 2026: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, temp obstruction 15 minute delay, on the carriageway (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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 14 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
CM7 3HPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CM7 3BDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CM7 3HWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 5 unlikely
CM7 3HSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CM7 3HRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CM7 3HTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CM7 3HEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CM7 3BAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CM7 3BEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CM7 3BHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CM7 3BUnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CM7 3BWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
CM7 3HDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CM7 3JGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CM7 3JJnot in 2 or 3 1 / 4 / 1 unlikely
CM7 3QSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
CM7 3YGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CM7 3YLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

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

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

4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 8 times, for 9 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Brain, River Brain Nt, The River Brain.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Rose Hill Anglian Water River Brain 0 0 240 m
Braintree Water Recycling Centre Anglian Water River Brain Nt 1 1 250 m
Braintree Water Recycling Centre Anglian Water River Brain Nt 7 8 350 m
Notley Road Cso Anglian Water The River Brain 0 0 350 m

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

4 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 40 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Rose Hill Rose Hill, Braintree 1966 to 1974 Industrial 40 m
Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, Braintree, Essex 1955 to 1994 Inert, industrial 220 m
Notley Road Notley Road, Braintree until 1963 Commercial, household 260 m
Chapel Hill Braintree, Essex from 1957 Industrial 280 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

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 229 addresses are between 58 m and 66 m above sea level (63 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
CM7 3BA100%100%100%0%
CM7 3BD100%96%96%0%
CM7 3BE100%100%100%0%
CM7 3BH100%100%100%0%
CM7 3BU100%100%100%0%
CM7 3BW100%100%100%0%
CM7 3HD100%100%100%0%
CM7 3HE100%0%0%0%
CM7 3HP100%100%100%0%
CM7 3HR100%100%100%0%
CM7 3HS100%100%100%0%
CM7 3HT100%100%100%0%
CM7 3HW100%100%100%0%
CM7 3JG100%100%100%0%
CM7 3JJ100%97%97%0%
CM7 3QS100%100%100%0%
CM7 3YG100%100%100%0%
CM7 3YL100%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 stationsBraintree 631,000 journeys in 2024–25310 m
Braintree Freeport 142,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cressing (Essex) 51,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 47 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Clinic Braintree Town Centre30 m
Bus or coach stationBus Interchange Braintree Town Centre100 m
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest National Car Parks270 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station310 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN22.1 km (14 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mount Chambers Medical Practice Good Aug 2026250 m
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Christchurch Pharmacy250 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Oakmoor Dental Practice220 m
HospitalSt Michael's Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Care homes6 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Braintree Nursing Home Good Aug 2024300 m
Police stationBraintree Police Station180 m
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine Great Square Halifax310 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.4 ha230 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Marshalls Park 12 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 710 m²270 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.9 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Station Field Allotment Site 6,310 m²350 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 18 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Town Hall Including Screens and Public Lavatories Adjoining North East and South, a listed building (Grade II*), 190 m west. 121 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 11 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Town Hall Including Screens and Public Lavatories Adjoining North East and SouthListed building, Grade II*190 m west
The Constitutional Club and ShopsListed building, Grade II*270 m west
The Old Manor HouseListed building, Grade II*340 m west
Swan InnListed building, Grade II*340 m west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Darby's HoleLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) north
Strait's Mill Gravel PitLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) north
Ley WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Polly's HillHill1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Panfield WoodWood2 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Templeborder WoodWood2.2 km (1.3 miles) east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

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 6960
60 to 6450
55 to 59660
Under 55152229

77 of the street's 229 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 Braintree: see them on the Braintree page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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 Francis Catholic Primary School, BraintreePrimary4–11760 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 83% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 17% at the higher standard (2025; 89% in 2024 and 59% in 2023)
Great Bradfords Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 69% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)
Great Bradfords Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection None published
John Bunyan Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 55% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 1% at the higher standard (2025; 48% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)
St Michael's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement 52% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
John Ray Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)
John Ray Infant SchoolPrimary2–71.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection None published
Tabor AcademySecondary11–181.4 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 38.5 (38.5 in 2025 and 39.8 in 2024); 31.6% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 10% AAB or better; progress average
Notley High School and Sixth FormSecondary11–191.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 46.1 (44.9 in 2025 and 44.1 in 2024); 48.6% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 8% AAB or better; progress average
Alec Hunter AcademySecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 47.1 (45.7 in 2025 and 45.8 in 2024); 49.8% grade 5+ in English and maths
Lyons Hall SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 18% at the higher standard (2025; 75% in 2024 and 72% in 2023)
Beckers Green Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 72% 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

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.1 km (0.7 miles); the nearest is 170 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Little Me Preschool Braintree CM7 3JD Full day care 50 Not inspected yet 170 m
Step Start Nurseries Braintree CM7 9RW Full day care 75 Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 410 m (0.3 miles)
Yumbo Daycare CM7 9AE Full day care 24 Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 430 m (0.3 miles)
Kidorable Pre School And Childcare Services CM7 9BG Full day care 54 Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 430 m (0.3 miles)
Christ Church Pre School Nursery CM7 2LD Sessional day care 35 Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 660 m (0.4 miles)
Spring - Carousel CM7 3QZ Full day care 49 Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 820 m (0.5 miles)
Charlies House Childminding and Nursery CM7 9EH Full day care 42 Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
CMXSC @ Great Bradfords Junior School CM7 9LW Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Spring - Seesaw CM7 5UL Full day care 61 Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Alec Hunter Pre School CM7 3DU Sessional day care 30 Nov 2025: Expected standard in 4 areas, Needs attention in 2 1.1 km (0.7 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 4 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
Manor Plaice/ Braintree Kebab House/ Sam's Fish Bar CM7 3HPTakeaway/sandwich shop10 m2 Improvement necessary15 Dec 2025
Elim Church CM7 3HTOther catering premises50 m5 Very good19 Mar 2026
Travelodge Hotels Ltd (Braintree) CM7 3HNHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house110 m5 Very good29 Dec 2025
Best Kebab House CM7 3HWTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good1 Apr 2026
Hong Kong Chef CM7 3HWTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good17 Nov 2025
Balti Night CM7 3HWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m3 Generally satisfactory15 Jan 2026
Subway CM7 3HWTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good19 Nov 2025
Something Scrummy CM7 3HWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good13 Jul 2026
Braintree Museum CM7 3HWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good31 Jul 2024
Pizza GoGo CM7 3HWTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good9 Oct 2024
Victoria Square Convenience CM7 3BDRetailers - other130 m5 Very good24 Apr 2025
Hoviwa CM7 3HRTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good18 Mar 2025
Tamim's CM7 3HRTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good2 Oct 2024
Eastern Aroma CM7 3JDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m4 Good22 Nov 2023
Majestic Wine CM7 3JDRetailers - other170 m5 Very good22 Jan 2019

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.

387 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences169
Anti-social behaviour47
Shoplifting39
Public order37
Drugs23
Criminal damage and arson20
Other theft19
Burglary7
Vehicle crime7
Theft from the person6
Robbery4
Other crime4
Possession of weapons3
Bicycle theft2

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Avenue (82); On or near School Walk (72); On or near Parking Area (63); On or near Market Place (56); On or near Fairfield Road (53).

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.

14 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 4 serious and 10 slight, in which 5 people were seriously hurt. 7 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 2 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 21% happened in the dark, and 29% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202141
202222
202320
202421
202540
The most recent 10 of 14
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
14 Nov 2025 16:25 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
20 Jul 2025 13:55 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
2 Feb 2025 03:27 Slight 2 people B1256, 30 mph Dark, street lights off, frost or ice
18 Jan 2025 13:55 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist B1256, 30 mph Daylight
18 Nov 2024 12:30 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
18 May 2024 19:21 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist B1256, 30 mph Daylight
19 Sep 2023 14:35 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
15 Aug 2023 10:27 Slight 3 people: 3 pedestrians, 1 child B1256, 30 mph Daylight
4 Apr 2022 10:36 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
11 Feb 2022 20:15 Serious 2 people B1256, 30 mph Dark, street lights on

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 B1256, with 8,532 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 440 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
B1256 Not recorded 8,532 counted 2025 0% 440 m (0.3 miles)

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 7 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 2,020 residents in 954 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 age3540
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)41%61%
Owned outright21%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented51%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work69%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)53%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 qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)84%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 to 5 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Sainsbury's (retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets, CM7 1XH) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 23 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Cafe CM7 (restaurant/cafe/canteen, CM7 1LY) now 5 Very good, was 3 Generally satisfactory (rated 19 October 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.

  • CM7 3HP: 81 addresses of 88 in the postcode
  • CM7 3BD: 32 addresses of 33 in the postcode
  • CM7 3HW: 30 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • CM7 3HS: 28 addresses of 31 in the postcode
  • CM7 3HR: 22 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • CM7 3HT: 16 addresses of 17 in the postcode
  • CM7 3HE: 7 addresses
  • CM7 3BA: 1 address of 4 in the postcode
  • CM7 3BE: 1 address of 22 in the postcode
  • CM7 3BH: 1 address of 4 in the postcode
  • CM7 3BU: 1 address of 44 in the postcode
  • CM7 3BW: 1 address of 32 in the postcode
  • CM7 3HD: 1 address of 14 in the postcode
  • CM7 3JG: 1 address of 18 in the postcode
  • CM7 3JJ: 1 address of 52 in the postcode
  • CM7 3QS: 1 address of 34 in the postcode
  • CM7 3YG: 1 address of 4 in the postcode
  • CM7 3YL: 1 address of 4 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Woodfield Road · Victoria Street · Regiment Mews · Jacquard Way · Mount Road · The Avenue · Croft Close · South Street · Groomside · Damask Mews · Railway Street · Fairfield Road

All the streets in CM7 and across Braintree.

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.