Pleshey Close Wickford, Basildon

21 addresses across 1 postcode (SS12), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2001010.

  • Sales: 41 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £315,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 6).
  • Flood: 3 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Basildon costs £2,327 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wickford, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 710 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 24 to 25 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 21 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Robert Frew Medical Centre, about 520 m (0.3 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 500 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 78% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 22 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

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

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£315,000£315,000£315,000
20252£361,000£262,000£460,000
20241£402,500£402,500£402,500
20231£290,000£290,000£290,000
20213£295,000£220,000£488,000
20201£210,000£210,000£210,000
20191£417,500£417,500£417,500
20181£330,500£330,500£330,500
20161£205,000£205,000£205,000
20131£270,000£270,000£270,000
20121£145,000£145,000£145,000
20112£173,000£173,000£173,000
Most recent sales (41)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 May 20269 SS12 9RHTerraced£315,000
26 Sep 202516 SS12 9RHTerraced£262,000
1 Aug 202520 SS12 9RHDetached£460,000
15 Nov 20241 SS12 9RHSemi-detached£402,500
1 Sep 20238 SS12 9RHTerraced£290,000
30 Jun 202120 SS12 9RHDetached£488,000
29 Jun 20219 SS12 9RHTerraced£295,000
23 Apr 20216 SS12 9RHSemi-detached£220,000
14 Feb 202018 SS12 9RHTerraced£210,000
1 Feb 201920 SS12 9RHDetached£417,500
27 Jun 20181 SS12 9RHSemi-detached£330,500
24 Jun 201616 SS12 9RHTerraced£205,000
28 Mar 20134 SS12 9RHDetached£270,000
3 Dec 20126 SS12 9RHSemi-detached£145,000
19 Apr 201112 SS12 9RHSemi-detached£173,000
31 Mar 20119 SS12 9RHTerraced£173,000
27 Mar 20094 SS12 9RHDetached£235,000
29 Feb 20089 SS12 9RHTerraced£180,000
4 Jan 200817 SS12 9RHTerraced£169,995
12 Dec 200712 SS12 9RHSemi-detached£192,000
8 Jun 200711 SS12 9RHTerraced£173,000
14 Nov 200516 SS12 9RHTerraced£148,000
24 Aug 200412 SS12 9RHSemi-detached£156,000
28 Nov 20034 SS12 9RHDetached£243,000
28 Nov 20033 SS12 9RHSemi-detached£196,000
18 Jul 20038 SS12 9RHTerraced£139,995
21 Jun 20027 SS12 9RHTerraced£109,000
15 Mar 200217 SS12 9RHTerraced£87,500
3 Dec 20014 SS12 9RHDetached£183,000
28 Jun 20013 SS12 9RHSemi-detached£140,000
24 Nov 200012 SS12 9RHSemi-detached£87,500
24 Nov 20008 SS12 9RHTerraced£78,000
15 Oct 199916 SS12 9RHTerraced£67,000
9 Jul 19997 SS12 9RHTerraced£60,000
23 Apr 19998 SS12 9RHTerraced£60,000
26 Feb 19993 SS12 9RHSemi-detached£85,000
18 Dec 199811 SS12 9RHTerraced£59,995
25 Sep 199820 SS12 9RHDetached£110,000
6 Jul 19981 SS12 9RHSemi-detached£83,000
15 Nov 199616 SS12 9RHTerraced£53,000
4 Oct 19952 SS12 9RHTerraced£69,000

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 August 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 62 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (4); House, detached (2); Bungalow, semi-detached (2). Built: 1991-1995 (7); 1983-1990 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Basildon in 2026-27: Band D £2,327 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,551£1,810£2,069£2,327£2,844£3,362£3,879£4,654

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (39% 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 30 September 2026.

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

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 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 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 21 addresses are between 24 m and 25 m above sea level (25 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
SS12 9RH100%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 stationsWickford 1.8 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Battlesbridge 23,000 journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Rayleigh 1.6 million journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Broad Oaks Wickford90 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Basildon Town Centre6.6 km (4.1 miles)
Car parksWickford Station Car Park1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN11.8 km (7.4 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN37.2 km (23 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 Robert Frew Medical Centre520 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots520 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wickford Dental Health Centre1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalRunwell Hospital3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Police stationEssex Police1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM530 m (0.3 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha710 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 640 m²500 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.1 ha920 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.6 ha1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

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

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Shotgate ThicketsWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
DoeshillHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) west
Noke WoodWood2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Moorgarden WoodWood3.2 km (2 miles) north
Nevendon BushesWood3.4 km (2.1 miles) south-west
Pat's RillTidal water4.1 km (2.5 miles) north-east

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)11.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

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

Road, rail and aircraft noise

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

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59440
Under 55171721

4 of the street's 21 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 4 from railways, 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 Basildon: see them on the Basildon page.

Nearest schools

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

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Oakfield Primary SchoolPrimary4–11610 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Abacus Primary SchoolPrimary4–11680 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
North Crescent Primary SchoolPrimary2–11850 m (0.5 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Wickford Church of England SchoolPrimary2–7910 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Beauchamps High SchoolSecondary11–181 km (0.6 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
Hilltop Infant SchoolPrimary2–71.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Hilltop Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 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: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Wickford Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Harris Academy WickfordSecondary11–181.7 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Grange Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Runwell Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

Food hygiene ratings nearby

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

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Barbell Brew SS11 8BHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good27 May 2026
Marie's at Wernick & Sons SS11 8BLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good5 Jun 2025
Seymour House Nursery School SS12 9QLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good28 May 2026
Mimi’s SS11 8DDTakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Mar 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.

22 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences10
Anti-social behaviour5
Vehicle crime4
Criminal damage and arson1
Public order1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hedingham Drive (5); On or near Halstead Close (4); On or near Pleshey Close (3); On or near Spellbrook Close (3); On or near Broxted Drive (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 502 residents in 217 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 age4240
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)78%61%
Owned outright35%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram8%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)46%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away20%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%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

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

Taveners Green Close · Foxhatch · Spellbrook Close · Broxted Drive · Beazley End · Thorpe Close · Alresford Green · Bannister Green · Broxted End · Hedingham Drive · Broad Oaks · Halstead Close

All the streets in SS12 and across Basildon.

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.