Nash Close Colchester

10 addresses across 2 postcodes (CO3), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 8901284.

  • Sales: 10 recorded sales since 1995; in 2020 the median was £300,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Colchester cost £294,210 in August 2026 (-1.4% on a year); private rents averaged £1,200 a month.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, D: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Colchester costs £2,283 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Colchester Town, about 2.6 km (1.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Lexden Park, is about 500 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 38 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 10 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ambrose Avenue Group Practice, about 380 m away.
  • People: About 560 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 85% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 105 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious.

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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
20201£300,000£300,000£300,000
20191£265,000£265,000£265,000
20151£245,000£245,000£245,000
20131£215,000£215,000£215,000
20081£212,000£212,000£212,000
20072£202,000£172,000£232,000
20051£165,000£165,000£165,000
20031£181,250£181,250£181,250
All 10 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 Jul 20081 CO3 4QHSemi-detached£212,000
8 Mar 20132 CO3 4QHSemi-detached£215,000
6 Jul 20072 CO3 4QHSemi-detached£172,000
19 Oct 20053 CO3 4QHSemi-detached£165,000
11 May 20075 CO3 4QHSemi-detached£232,000
27 Nov 20035 CO3 4QHSemi-detached£181,250
28 Aug 20197 CO3 4QHSemi-detached£265,000
26 Mar 20157 CO3 4QHSemi-detached£245,000
6 Nov 20209 CO3 4QHDetached£300,000
15 Feb 20179 CO3 4QHOther£140,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

House prices and rents in Colchester

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

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

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

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

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from January 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 86 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (3); House, detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (3); 2017 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 11,157 kWh of it on average in 2024, 9% less than the district's 12,233 kWh, and 3,499 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
CO3 4QH91,513 kWh 99,720 kWh
CO3 4QG32 7 Economy 72,877 kWh 3211,602 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 CO3.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

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

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (43% of about 750 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

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

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

Energy projects nearby

3 energy projects near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Bellhouse South Landfill Gas 3.9 MW Operational May 2004 3.2 km (2 miles)
Bellhouse Pit Landfill Scheme Landfill Gas 2.7 MW Operational Jan 1999 3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Colchester STW Colchester 121032 Sewage Sludge Digestion 1.2 MW Operational Sep 2013 4.5 km (2.8 miles)

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

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 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
CO3 4QHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
CO3 4QGnot 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

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 38 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CO3 4QG100%100%100%0%
CO3 4QH100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsColchester Town 1.0 million journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Colchester 3.6 million journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Hythe (Essex) 433,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Handy Fisher Court Colchester150 m
Bus or coach stationColchester North Park-and-Ride Mile End5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Ferry terminalEast Mersea Ferry Landing13.1 km (8.1 miles)
Car parksButt Road Car Park1.8 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station2 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN36.6 km (23 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN43.6 km (27 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ambrose Avenue Group Practice Good Dec 2025380 m
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Prettygate Pharmacy230 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery270 m
HospitalHertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust (Lexden Hospital)1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Care homes9 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Essex Care Consortium - Plume Avenue Good Oct 2019460 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationEssex Police1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machinesAsda Colchester - Shrub End Road Pfs1 km (0.6 miles)

Parks and green space

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

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lexden Park 11 ha500 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 520 m²690 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha710 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha390 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Lexden Tumulus Iron Age barrow and associated cemetery area: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum of Camulodunum, a scheduled monument, 570 m (0.4 miles) north. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lexden Tumulus Iron Age barrow and associated cemetery area: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum of CamulodunumScheduled monument570 m (0.4 miles) north
Lexden Dyke Middle: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum and Romano-British town of CamulodunumScheduled monument580 m (0.4 miles) north
Heath Farm Dyke Middle (rear of Alan Way): part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum of CamulodunumScheduled monument770 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Colchester Castle ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bluebottle GroveWood300 m north
Gathering GroundsWood1.5 km (1 mile) north-west
Birch GroveWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Spring GroveWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) north
Bourne PondLake or reservoir3 km (1.9 miles) east
America HillHill4.9 km (3.1 miles) north

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)11.54015

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
55 to 5910
Under 55910

1 of the street's 10 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

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

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 6 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Philip Morant School and CollegeSecondary11–18270 m Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 45.6 (44.5 in 2025 and 45.6 in 2024); 48.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade D+; 0% AAB or better; progress average
Prettygate Junior SchoolPrimary7–11300 m No published inspection 77% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 63% in 2023)
Prettygate Infant SchoolPrimary5–7300 m Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
St Benedict's Catholic College Roman CatholicSecondary11–16670 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 58.4 (54.7 in 2025 and 53.5 in 2024); 75.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
Colchester County High School for GirlsSecondary11–18670 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 79.7 (80.6 in 2025 and 80.8 in 2024); 98.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade A-; 44% AAB or better; progress average
Paxman AcademySecondary11–16930 m (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 42.4 (41.3 in 2025 and 43.4 in 2024); 36.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
Gosbecks Primary SchoolPrimary5–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 46% in 2024 and 70% in 2023)
Home Farm Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Exceptional; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 75% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 78% in 2024 and 77% in 2023)
St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Colchester Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding 74% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 19% at the higher standard (2025; 76% in 2024 and 65% in 2023)
King's Ford Infant School and NurseryPrimary2–71.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good None published
Kings Ford AcademyPrimary7–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 29% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 52% in 2024 and 44% in 2023)
Hamilton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 79% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 78% in 2023)

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 1.4 km (0.9 miles); the nearest is 230 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
H16 - Philip Morant CO3 4QS Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 230 m
Plume Avenue Nursery CO3 4PQ Full day care 60 Good (Mar 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 380 m
Holly Corner Kindergarten CO3 4RX Full day care 37 Good (May 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 490 m (0.3 miles)
School's Out Activities at Colchester County High School CO3 3US Out-of-school day care 60 Not inspected yet 670 m (0.4 miles)
Second Steps Day Nursery (Colchester) Limited CO3 4RG Full day care 69 Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 720 m (0.4 miles)
Centre Preschool (Colchester) CIO CO3 9EF Sessional day care 50 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
CMXSC @ Gosbecks Primary School CO2 9DG Out-of-school day care 36 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
Lexden Lodge Kindergarten CO3 3QD Full day care 125 Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Christchurch Preschool CO3 3AT Sessional day care 33 Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
School's Out Activities At Colchester Royal Grammar School CO3 3ND Out-of-school day care 98 Feb 2026: Expected standard in 3 areas, Needs attention in 1 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 665 childminders and 193 home childcarers (nannies) in Essex. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 6 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Coffeehog CO3 4QJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good25 Nov 2025
PRETTYGATE CONVEINIENCE STORE CO3 4QJRetailers - other150 mAwaiting inspection
Crazy Chef CO3 4NNTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m5 Very good30 Jun 2026
East of England Co-op CO3 4NWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets200 m4 Good31 Jan 2025
Prettygate Junior School CO3 4PHSchool/college/university200 m5 Very good29 Sep 2026
The Philip Morant School CO3 4QSSchool/college/university250 m5 Very good7 Sep 2026
The Prettygate CO3 4NWPub/bar/nightclub260 m5 Very good5 Dec 2025
All Care Plus Ltd CO3 4NWRetailers - other260 mExempt
Grunts CO3 4NXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good11 Aug 2026
United Reformed Church CO3 4PQOther catering premises400 m (0.2 miles)Exempt
Plume Avenue Nursery CO3 4PQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)Exempt
Essex Care Consortium CO3 4PGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Aug 2026

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.

105 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences35
Shoplifting26
Anti-social behaviour10
Public order10
Vehicle crime5
Criminal damage and arson5
Other theft4
Other crime3
Theft from the person2
Burglary2
Possession of weapons1
Bicycle theft1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (40); On or near Nash Close (22); On or near Parking Area (13); On or near The Commons (7); On or near Gainsborough Road (7).

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.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 1 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a motorcyclist. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202311
202410
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
2 May 2024 17:30 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
25 Sep 2023 10:17 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

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 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 561 residents in 237 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 age5140
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over32%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)85%61%
Owned outright59%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)38%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)73%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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

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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.

Nearby streets

Munnings Road · Van Dyck Road · Cotman Road · Crome Close · Handy Fisher Court · Holman Crescent · The Commons · Gainsborough Road · Rembrandt Way · Laxton Court · Prettygate Road · Reynolds Avenue

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What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.