Spring Close Colchester

21 addresses across 1 postcode (CO4), about 190 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 8902109.

Sales: 41 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £650,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, D: 3, E: 2).
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 B; 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 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden, High Woods Country Park, is about 60 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 38 to 40 m above sea level.
Noise: 1 of its 21 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Highwoods Surgery, about 620 m (0.4 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 89% of households owned their home and 53% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 122 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2025	1	£650,000	£650,000	£650,000
2023	1	£875,000	£875,000	£875,000
2021	1	£636,000	£636,000	£636,000
2020	3	£600,000	£590,000	£685,000
2018	1	£550,000	£550,000	£550,000
2014	1	£500,000	£500,000	£500,000
2013	1	£435,000	£435,000	£435,000
2009	2	£436,500	£383,000	£490,000
2007	1	£470,000	£470,000	£470,000
2006	3	£430,000	£410,000	£435,000
2005	1	£410,000	£410,000	£410,000
2003	4	£294,750	£245,000	£360,000

Most recent sales (41)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
18 Mar 2025	5 CO4 9TN	Detached	£650,000
10 Mar 2023	9 CO4 9TN	Detached	£875,000
29 Jun 2021	15 CO4 9TN	Detached	£636,000
18 Dec 2020	6 CO4 9TN	Detached	£685,000
5 Jun 2020	11 CO4 9TN	Detached	£600,000
23 Jan 2020	10 CO4 9TN	Detached	£590,000
10 May 2018	7 CO4 9TN	Detached	£550,000
17 Jun 2014	3 CO4 9TN	Detached	£500,000
14 Nov 2013	4 CO4 9TN	Detached	£435,000
14 Oct 2009	17 CO4 9TN	Detached	£383,000
24 Aug 2009	7 CO4 9TN	Detached	£490,000
12 Oct 2007	16 CO4 9TN	Detached	£470,000
23 Nov 2006	14 CO4 9TN	Detached	£430,000
14 Sep 2006	18 CO4 9TN	Detached	£410,000
4 Aug 2006	6 CO4 9TN	Detached	£435,000
13 Jul 2005	19 CO4 9TN	Detached	£410,000
19 Nov 2003	19 CO4 9TN	Detached	£360,000
9 Sep 2003	14 CO4 9TN	Detached	£249,500
4 Apr 2003	8 CO4 9TN	Detached	£340,000
7 Feb 2003	14 CO4 9TN	Detached	£245,000
12 Jul 2002	11 CO4 9TN	Detached	£311,500
12 Jul 2001	8 CO4 9TN	Detached	£285,000
2 Jul 2001	9 CO4 9TN	Detached	£295,000
29 Jun 2000	12 CO4 9TN	Detached	£219,500	New build.
23 Jun 2000	6 CO4 9TN	Detached	£244,000	New build.
16 Jun 2000	10 CO4 9TN	Detached	£229,250	New build.
5 May 2000	14 CO4 9TN	Detached	£225,500	New build.
28 Apr 2000	16 CO4 9TN	Detached	£209,950	New build.
20 Apr 2000	18 CO4 9TN	Detached	£227,500	New build.
17 Mar 2000	19 CO4 9TN	Detached	£223,950	New build.
25 Feb 2000	21 CO4 9TN	Detached	£223,500	New build.
21 Jan 2000	17 CO4 9TN	Detached	£209,950	New build.
22 Dec 1999	15 CO4 9TN	Detached	£210,250	New build.
17 Dec 1999	13 CO4 9TN	Detached	£209,950	New build.
5 Nov 1999	11 CO4 9TN	Detached	£209,950	New build.
15 Oct 1999	9 CO4 9TN	Detached	£204,995	New build.
1 Oct 1999	7 CO4 9TN	Detached	£204,750	New build.
9 Sep 1999	5 CO4 9TN	Detached	£194,950	New build.
20 Aug 1999	8 CO4 9TN	Detached	£199,950	New build.
2 Jul 1999	3 CO4 9TN	Detached	£194,500	New build.
30 Jun 1999	1 CO4 9TN	Detached	£199,950	New build.

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

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 173 m². Most common: House, detached (13). Built: 1996-2002 (7); 1983-1990 (3); 1991-1995 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

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.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£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 B (38% of about 630 homes).

A6%

B38%

C22%

D14%

E6%

F5%

G8%

H0%

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: 17 protected trees on or by this street.
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.

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 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 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 38 m and 40 m above sea level (39 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
CO4 9TN	100%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Colchester 3.6 million journeys in 2024–25	2.1 km (1.3 miles)
	Hythe (Essex) 433,000 journeys in 2024–25	2.3 km (1.4 miles)
	Colchester Town 1.0 million journeys in 2024–25	2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Bus stops	10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 44 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Myland Hall Chase Colchester	160 m
Bus or coach station	Colchester North Park-and-Ride Mile End	2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Ferry terminal	East Mersea Ferry Landing	13.2 km (8.2 miles)
Car parks	Colchester Hospital Visitor Car Park	1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points	Roam Charging Station	2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	London Southend Airport SEN	40.5 km (25 miles)
Nearest large airport	London Stansted Airport STN	47.3 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Highwoods Surgery	620 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies	4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy	490 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists	3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bupa Dental Care	170 m
Hospital	Hospital Liaison Team	1.6 km (1 mile)
Police station	Essex Police	2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machines	Deposit & Withdrawal Asda Colchester Cashzone	1.5 km (0.9 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest High Woods Country Park 154 ha	60 m
Play area	3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 170 m²	300 m
Playing field	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7.4 ha	790 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments	Unnamed 2.2 ha	1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 157 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Earthwork in Brinkley Grove, a scheduled monument, 1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Earthwork in Brinkley Grove	Scheduled monument	1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Town ditch	Scheduled monument	1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Colchester Castle Park	Registered park or garden, Grade II	1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Friar's Grove	Wood	320 m south
Magdalen Wood	Wood	460 m (0.3 miles) east
East Wood	Wood	470 m (0.3 miles) north
John de Bois Hill	Hill	2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Ardleigh Reservoir	Lake or reservoir	2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Hythe Marshes	Wetland	4.7 km (2.9 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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	9.3	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	7.2	20	5
Particles (PM10)	11.7	40	15

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
55 to 59	1	0
Under 55	20	21

1 of the street's 21 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), 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
Friars Grove Primary School	Primary	5–11	460 m (0.3 miles)	No published inspection
St John's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Colchester	Primary	4–11	600 m (0.4 miles)	No published inspection
Highwoods Community Primary School	Primary	4–11	650 m (0.4 miles)	No published inspection
Willow Brook Primary School and Nursery	Primary	3–11	1 km (0.6 miles)	Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brinkley Grove Primary School	Primary	5–11	1.1 km (0.7 miles)	No published inspection
The Gilberd School	Secondary	11–16	1.1 km (0.7 miles)	No published inspection
The Trinity School	Secondary	11–16	1.2 km (0.7 miles)	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
Parsons Heath Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School	Primary	4–11	1.2 km (0.8 miles)	No published inspection
Roach Vale Primary School	Primary	4–11	1.5 km (0.9 miles)	Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Queen Boudica Primary School	Primary	4–11	1.5 km (1 mile)	No published inspection
Hazelmere Junior School	Primary	7–11	1.7 km (1 mile)	Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hazelmere Infant School and Nursery	Primary	4–7	1.7 km (1 mile)	No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement

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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
BP Eastwood CO4 0EX	Retailers - other	210 m	5 Very good	4 Dec 2024
The Brambles CO4 0HN	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	210 m	5 Very good	4 Sep 2026
Milton Lodge CO4 0ES	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	320 m	5 Very good	9 Dec 2025
St John's News CO4 0HW	Retailers - other	380 m	5 Very good	30 Oct 2024
Gables Cygnet Health Care CO4 0ER	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	450 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	27 Jul 2026
Friars Grove Junior & Infant School CO4 0PZ	School/college/university	460 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	8 Jul 2025
Treetops Livability CO4 9YE	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	480 m (0.3 miles)	3 Generally satisfactory	15 Nov 2025
Tesco CO4 9ED	Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets	480 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	28 May 2025
Tesco Family Dining Ltd CO4 9ED	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	480 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	19 Nov 2025
Yo! To Go! CO4 9ED	Takeaway/sandwich shop	480 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	23 Jun 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.

122 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Shoplifting	81
Public order	19
Violence and sexual offences	10
Vehicle crime	4
Other theft	3
Theft from the person	2
Anti-social behaviour	1
Drugs	1
Criminal damage and arson	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (103); On or near Myland Hall Chase (9); On or near Greenwood Grove (4); On or near Ipswich Road (4); On or near The Jays (1).

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: 266 residents in 108 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 street	England
Median age	49	40
Children under 15	16%	17%
Aged 65 and over	27%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	89%	61%
Owned outright	50%	33%
Shared ownership	0%	1%
Social rented	6%	17%
Private rented	6%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	51%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	3%	6%
Retired (of adults)	30%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	5%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	50%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	40%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	4%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	4%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	6%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	62%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	13%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	53%	34%
No qualifications	14%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	2%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	91%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	0%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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.

CO4 9TN: 21 addresses

Nearby streets

The Jays · Myland Hall Chase · The Brackens · Baronia Croft · Greenwood Grove · Chanterelle · Langham Place · Harebell Close · Friars Close · Coppice End · Ipswich Road · St Joseph Road

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.