Meadow Side Chelmsford

5 addresses across 2 postcodes (CM1), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 6601147.

  • Energy: 2 homes have an energy certificate (E: 1, G: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Chelmsford costs £2,300 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chelmsford, about 420 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 570 m (0.4 miles) away, and Central Park (13 hectares) is about 580 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 34 to 35 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 5 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Rivermead Gate Med.ctr., about 310 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 36% of households owned their home and 44% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 64 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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

2 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 175 m². Most common: House, detached (2). Built: before 1900 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (1 address)

Council tax

What each band costs in Chelmsford in 2026-27: Band D £2,300 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,533£1,789£2,045£2,300£2,811£3,322£3,834£4,600

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (44% of about 900 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 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

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

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

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

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

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 5 addresses are between 34 m and 35 m above sea level (34 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
CM1 1QF100%100%100%0%
CM1 1RQ100%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 stationsChelmsford 7.0 million journeys in 2024–25420 m (0.3 miles)
Hatfield Peverel 362,000 journeys in 2024–259.6 km (6 miles)
Ingatestone 779,000 journeys in 2024–2510 km (6.2 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 43 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest King Edward VI School Chelmsford140 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Chelmsford City Centre420 m (0.3 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chelmsford Mill Yard Station Car Park330 m
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station280 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN22.8 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. 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 Rivermead Gate Med.ctr.310 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rivermead Pharmacy310 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Goodleigh Dental Practice320 m
HospitalChelmsford & Essex Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationChelmsford Police Station540 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest MFG - Admiral Cashzone210 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 11 ha570 m (0.4 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Central Park 13 ha580 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 550 m²570 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.3 ha920 m (0.6 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,460 m²730 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 25 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin, a listed building (Grade I), 610 m (0.4 miles) south-east. 66 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cathedral Church of St Mary the VirginListed building, Grade I610 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Shire HallListed building, Grade II*680 m (0.4 miles) south-east
26, High StreetListed building, Grade II*880 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Moulsham BridgeScheduled monument1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Meehan Woods SouthWood820 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Meehan Woods NorthWood1.5 km (1 mile) north
Newland's SpringWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
College WoodWood2 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Daffy WoodWood2.2 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Wear PondLake or reservoir3 km (1.9 miles) south-west

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)12.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)12.44015

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 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
75 dB or more10
65 to 6910
55 to 5910
Under 5525

3 of the street's 5 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 Chelmsford: see them on the Chelmsford 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
King Edward VI Grammar School, ChelmsfordSecondary11–18280 m Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Exceptional; Safeguarding standards: Met
Chelmsford County High School for GirlsSecondary11–18370 m Outstanding (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Maltese Road Primary SchoolPrimary4–11400 m (0.2 miles) No published inspection
The Cathedral Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, ChelmsfordPrimary4–11670 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Kings Road Primary SchoolPrimary4–11740 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Pius X Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Our Lady Immaculate Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Trinity Road Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St John Payne Catholic School, Chelmsford Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Tanglewood Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Westlands Community Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Parkwood AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Requires improvement (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Chelmsford Boys And Girls Club CM1 1RQOther catering premises20 m5 Very good14 Feb 2025
Sanctus CM1 1SWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good7 May 2025
The Ship CM1 1SWPub/bar/nightclub260 m5 Very good10 Nov 2025
Royal Steamer CM1 1QJPub/bar/nightclub270 m5 Very good7 Jun 2024
Geek Retreat CM1 1AQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good30 Jul 2025
King Edward VI Grammar School CM1 3SXSchool/college/university280 m5 Very good23 Apr 2025
MFG Londis Admiral CM1 1RYRetailers - other280 m5 Very good5 Feb 2025
Chinese Medical Centre CM1 1QSRetailers - other310 mExempt
Nostalgia TCG CM1 1SYRetailers - other320 mExempt
Lantern House CM1 1SYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good28 Mar 2025
Ideas Hub Chelmsford CM1 1SYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 mAwaiting inspection
Coop CM1 1DLRetailers - other330 m5 Very good24 Aug 2026
QTea CM1 1QSTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m4 Good23 Sep 2026
Subway CM1 1SHTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m5 Very good4 Feb 2026
Wok Inn CM1 1SHTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m5 Very good15 Sep 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.

64 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences23
Drugs15
Anti-social behaviour8
Other theft8
Criminal damage and arson5
Bicycle theft2
Public order1
Burglary1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bishop Road (14); On or near Glebe Road (10); On or near Marconi Road (8); On or near Westfield Avenue (7); On or near Parking Area (7).

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: 326 residents in 169 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 age3440
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)36%61%
Owned outright12%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented22%17%
Private rented42%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work71%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)8%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)39%32%
Travel to work by car or van27%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus11%8%
On foot or by bicycle22%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)44%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)80%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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

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

Rectory Lane · Lombardy Place · Victoria Crescent · Elms Drive · Glebe Road · Henry Road · Glebe Road · Broomfield Road · Steamer Terrace · Westfield Avenue · Townfield Street · Glebe Road

All the streets in CM1 and across Chelmsford.

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.