Sinclair Close Colchester

13 addresses across 2 postcodes (CO4), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 8901662.

  • Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £415,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (D: 6).
  • 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 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, about 860 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, High Woods Country Park, is about 110 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 36 to 39 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 7 of its 13 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Turner Road Surgery, about 210 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 78% of households owned their home and 47% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 84 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
20211£415,000£415,000£415,000
20191£350,000£350,000£350,000
20151£385,000£385,000£385,000
20082£242,500£215,000£270,000
20071£208,000£208,000£208,000
20062£204,500£194,000£215,000
20014£161,000£25,000£190,000
19993£118,000£95,500£125,000
19968£109,995£89,995£180,000
Most recent sales (23)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 Jan 20216 CO4 5WDDetached£415,000
23 May 20199 CO4 5WDDetached£350,000
14 Dec 20153 CO4 5WDDetached£385,000
23 May 200815 CO4 5WDDetached£270,000
22 Apr 20081 CO4 5WDDetached£215,000
19 Jan 20072 CO4 5WDDetached£208,000
3 Nov 20067 CO4 5WDDetached£215,000
15 Jun 20067 CO4 5WDDetached£194,000
29 Nov 20019 CO4 5WDDetached£165,000
16 Oct 200115 CO4 5WDDetached£190,000
24 Aug 20011 CO4 5WDDetached£25,000
27 Apr 200113 CO4 5WDDetached£157,000
15 Oct 19992 CO4 5WDDetached£95,500
11 Jun 19999 CO4 5WDDetached£118,000
28 May 199915 CO4 5WDDetached£125,000
20 Dec 199611 CO4 5WDDetached£180,000New build.
20 Dec 19965 CO4 5WDDetached£124,995New build.
29 Nov 19968 CO4 5WDDetached£120,000New build.
29 Nov 19966 CO4 5WDDetached£105,800New build.
29 Nov 19962 CO4 5WDDetached£89,995New build.
25 Oct 19961 CO4 5WDDetached£109,995New build.
25 Oct 19964 CO4 5WDDetached£109,995New build.
22 Aug 19967 CO4 5WDDetached£89,995New build.

Energy performance certificates

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

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 104 m². Most common: House, detached (6). Built: 1996-2002 (5); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6).

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.

ABCDEFGH
£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 C (43% of about 720 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
CO4 5WDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CO4 5WEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© 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 13 addresses are between 36 m and 39 m above sea level (38 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
CO4 5WD100%100%100%0%
CO4 5WE100%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 3.6 million journeys in 2024–25860 m (0.5 miles)
Colchester Town 1.0 million journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Hythe (Essex) 433,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 27 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Turner Rise Colchester150 m
Bus or coach stationColchester North Park-and-Ride Mile End2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Ferry terminalEast Mersea Ferry Landing13.7 km (8.5 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Colchester Hospital Visitor Car Park720 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN39.9 km (25 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN46 km (29 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 Turner Road Surgery210 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Asda Pharmacy420 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Elmstead Day Unit630 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalOaks Hospital570 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationEssex Police1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest *Deposit & Withdrawal* Asda Colchester Cashzone410 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest High Woods Country Park 154 ha110 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 100 m²240 m
Playing fieldMill Road Recreation Ground 9,920 m²950 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.2 ha830 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 155 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Earthwork in Brinkley Grove, a scheduled monument, 1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Earthwork in Brinkley GroveScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Colchester Castle ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Town ditchScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Colchester Castle and the Temple of ClaudiusScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
High WoodsWood580 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Brinkley GroveWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Friar's GroveWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
East WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
America HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Bourne PondLake or reservoir3.2 km (2 miles) south

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)10.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

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
65 to 6910
60 to 6440
55 to 5920
Under 55613

7 of the street's 13 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 Colchester: see them on the Colchester 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
Queen Boudica Primary SchoolPrimary4–11310 m No published inspection
Myland Community Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Highwoods Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
North Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Helena SchoolSecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Gilberd SchoolSecondary11–161.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
The Trinity SchoolSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St James the Great Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Camulos AcademyPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Friars Grove Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Colchester Institute16 plus16–991.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Brinkley Grove Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection

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
Woodland View CO4 5JROther catering premises100 m5 Very good22 Jan 2025
High Woods Country Park CO4 5JRRetailers - other190 m5 Very good27 Jun 2025
Queen Boudica Primary School CO4 5XTSchool/college/university230 m5 Very good25 Mar 2025
Benny's Kitchen CO4 5XTTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m5 Very good17 Sep 2025
Nannas Day Nursery CO4 5XTSchool/college/university280 m5 Very good27 Aug 2026
Nannas Day Nursery (Villa 1) CO4 5JPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good11 Aug 2026
The Lakes Mental Health Centre CO4 5JRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Aug 2026
McDonald's CO4 5TUOther catering premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Jul 2026
B and M Retail Ltd CO4 5TURetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Apr 2025
Home Bargains CO4 5TURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Jul 2025
Pausa Cafe CO4 5TURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 May 2026
Iceland Foods Ltd CO4 5TURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Jul 2026
Costa Coffee CO4 5TURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Jul 2026
Subway CO4 5TUOther catering premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Mar 2025
Pizza Hut Restaurants Dine In CO4 5TURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 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.

84 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences45
Anti-social behaviour17
Public order8
Criminal damage and arson4
Vehicle crime3
Other theft2
Other crime2
Bicycle theft1
Theft from the person1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Mccluskeys Street (26); On or near Potter Mews (14); On or near Wryneck Close (12); On or near Coeur De Lion (7); On or near Jade Gardens (6).

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: 275 residents in 87 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 age4840
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)78%61%
Owned outright35%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)47%32%
Travel to work by car or van35%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)80%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)47%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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

Holden Road · Coeur De Lion · Stanford Road · Brickmakers Lane · Potter Mews · Fellowes Close · Mccluskeys Street · Cranborne Close · Jade Gardens · Wryneck Close · Broad Oak Lane · Riddles Drive

All the streets in CO4 and across Colchester.

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.