The Commons Colchester

168 addresses across 10 postcodes (CO3), about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 8900471.

Sales: 147 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £600,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 98 homes have an energy certificate (B: 12, C: 36, D: 32, E: 16, F: 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 C; Band D in Colchester costs £2,283 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 86% to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Colchester Town, about 2.5 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: There is a small park or garden about 540 m (0.3 miles) away, and Lexden Park (11 hectares) is about 690 m (0.4 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: Its addresses are 37 to 38 m above sea level.
Noise: 124 of its 168 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ambrose Avenue Group Practice, about 540 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 1,740 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 78% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 62 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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2026	1	£600,000	£600,000	£600,000
2025	5	£437,500	£335,000	£785,000
2024	5	£330,000	£292,000	£565,000
2023	3	£340,000	£310,000	£440,000
2022	1	£290,000	£290,000	£290,000
2021	1	£397,000	£397,000	£397,000
2020	2	£322,500	£295,000	£350,000
2019	7	£310,000	£255,000	£589,000
2018	3	£252,000	£230,000	£280,000
2017	4	£349,500	£278,000	£375,000
2016	9	£255,000	£116,100	£385,000
2015	4	£232,500	£180,000	£243,000

Most recent sales (latest 50 of 147)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
27 Feb 2026	158 CO3 4NT	Detached	£600,000
11 Dec 2025	143 CO3 4NT	Detached	£493,493
6 Aug 2025	116 CO3 4NP	Semi-detached	£437,500
14 Jul 2025	10 CO3 4NE	Detached	£785,000
30 Jun 2025	79 CO3 4NL	Terraced	£335,000
6 Jan 2025	22 CO3 4NF	Detached	£427,000
11 Oct 2024	33 CO3 4NF	Detached	£420,000
19 Jul 2024	7 CO3 4NE	Detached	£330,000
14 Jun 2024	145 CO3 4NT	Detached	£565,000
24 May 2024	41 CO3 4NF	Detached	£292,000
3 Jan 2024	127 CO3 4NR	Semi-detached	£292,500
17 Nov 2023	58 CO3 4NJ	Semi-detached	£310,000
29 Jun 2023	132 CO3 4NR	Detached	£440,000
16 Jun 2023	136 CO3 4NR	Semi-detached	£340,000
27 Oct 2022	117 CO3 4NR	Semi-detached	£335,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Oct 2022	80 CO3 4NL	Terraced	£290,000
28 Jun 2021	24 CO3 4NF	Detached	£397,000
9 Oct 2020	124 CO3 4NP	Semi-detached	£260,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Mar 2020	158 CO3 4NT	Detached	£350,000
29 Jan 2020	128 CO3 4NP	Detached	£295,000
19 Dec 2019	37 CO3 4NF	Detached	£293,000
6 Dec 2019	13 CO3 4NE	Detached	£450,000
6 Dec 2019	17 CO3 4NE	Detached	£310,000
8 Nov 2019	120 CO3 4NP	Semi-detached	£268,000
28 Aug 2019	10 CO3 4NE	Detached	£589,000
28 Aug 2019	39 CO3 4NF	Detached	£400,000
10 May 2019	73 CO3 4NL	Terraced	£255,000
19 Oct 2018	21 CO3 4NE	Semi-detached	£280,000
19 Jul 2018	77 CO3 4NL	Semi-detached	£230,000
29 Jun 2018	53 CO3 4NJ	Semi-detached	£252,000
19 Dec 2017	150 CO3 4NR	Semi-detached	£278,000
4 Sep 2017	22 CO3 4NF	Detached	£375,000
7 Aug 2017	152 CO3 4NR	Detached	£328,000
7 Apr 2017	18 CO3 4NE	Detached	£371,000
16 Dec 2016	81 CO3 4NN	Other	£40,000	Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Oct 2016	79 CO3 4NL	Terraced	£116,100
8 Aug 2016	116 CO3 4NP	Semi-detached	£280,000
28 Apr 2016	147 CO3 4NT	Detached	£385,000
8 Apr 2016	137 CO3 4NT	Detached	£321,000
3 Feb 2016	65 CO3 4NL	Semi-detached	£255,000
26 Jan 2016	89 CO3 4NW	Semi-detached	£255,000
20 Jan 2016	55 CO3 4NJ	Semi-detached	£225,000
15 Jan 2016	75 CO3 4NL	Terraced	£190,000
8 Jan 2016	97 CO3 4NW	Semi-detached	£234,995
23 Dec 2015	27 CO3 4NF	Semi-detached	£235,000
9 Oct 2015	29 CO3 4NF	Detached	£196,250	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Jun 2015	131 CO3 4NR	Semi-detached	£243,000
10 Mar 2015	55 CO3 4NJ	Semi-detached	£180,000
6 Feb 2015	138 CO3 4NR	Semi-detached	£230,000
10 Dec 2014	97 CO3 4NW	Semi-detached	£216,000

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 November 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

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98 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 83 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (32); Bungalow, detached (25); House, detached (9). Built: 1950-1966 (82); 1967-1975 (7); 1930-1949 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (51); rented (social) (28); rented (private) (7).

Each home's certificates and sales (71 addresses)

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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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (37% of about 1,390 homes).

A4%

B9%

C37%

D35%

E11%

F4%

H0%

G1%

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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: 7 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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

2 November 2026 to 4 November 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
19 November 2026 to 23 November 2026: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)
14 December 2026 to 16 December 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the footway (minor works, permit applied for)
18 January 2027 to 31 January 2027: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)
10 May 2027 to 13 May 2027: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works, permit applied for)

Finished in the last three months

29 October 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Remedial works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
22 October 2026 to 23 October 2026: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the footway (minor works)
15 October 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
14 October 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
5 October 2026 to 8 October 2026: BT, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway, verge (standard works)
2 October 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
30 September 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Remedial works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)
22 September 2026 to 24 September 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the footway (minor works)
14 September 2026 to 17 September 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the footway (standard works)
4 September 2026 to 8 September 2026: BT, Permanent reinstatement, multi-way signals, on the footway, verge (minor works)
25 August 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
5 August 2026 to 7 August 2026: BT, Permanent reinstatement, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway, verge (minor works)

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 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.

Postcode	Planning zone	Addresses at high / medium / low risk	Groundwater
CO3 4NW	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 0	unlikely
CO3 4NL	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 0	unlikely
CO3 4NF	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 0	unlikely
CO3 4NR	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 0	unlikely
CO3 4NE	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 1	unlikely
CO3 4NJ	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 0	unlikely
CO3 4NP	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 0	unlikely
CO3 4NT	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 0	unlikely
CO3 4NN	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 0	unlikely
CO3 4PS	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 0	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 168 addresses are between 37 m and 38 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
CO3 4NE	100%	100%	100%	0%
CO3 4NF	100%	100%	100%	0%
CO3 4NJ	100%	100%	100%	0%
CO3 4NL	100%	100%	100%	0%
CO3 4NN	100%	86%	86%	0%
CO3 4NP	100%	100%	100%	0%
CO3 4NR	100%	100%	100%	0%
CO3 4NT	100%	100%	100%	0%
CO3 4NW	100%	88%	88%	0%
CO3 4PS	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 Town 1.0 million journeys in 2024–25	2.5 km (1.5 miles)
	Colchester 3.6 million journeys in 2024–25	2.8 km (1.7 miles)
	Hythe (Essex) 433,000 journeys in 2024–25	4 km (2.5 miles)
Bus stops	8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Handy Fisher Court Colchester	50 m
Bus or coach station	Colchester North Park-and-Ride Mile End	5.6 km (3.5 miles)
Ferry terminal	East Mersea Ferry Landing	12.9 km (8 miles)
Car parks	Butt Road Car Park	1.7 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points	Osprey Charging Station	2 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	London Southend Airport SEN	36.5 km (23 miles)
Nearest large airport	London Stansted Airport STN	43.8 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. 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 Ambrose Avenue Group Practice	540 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies	5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots	350 m
NHS dentists	8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery	390 m
Hospital	Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust (Lexden Hospital)	1.6 km (1 mile)
Police station	Essex Police	1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines	East Of England Co-op Shrub End, Iceni Way	900 m (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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 900 m²	540 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)	Lexden Park 11 ha	690 m (0.4 miles)
Play area	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 440 m²	580 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha	730 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha	240 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, 720 m (0.4 miles) north. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Lexden Tumulus Iron Age barrow and associated cemetery area: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum of Camulodunum	Scheduled monument	720 m (0.4 miles) north
Lexden Dyke Middle: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum and Romano-British town of Camulodunum	Scheduled monument	750 m (0.5 miles) north
Heath Farm Dyke Middle (rear of Alan Way): part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum of Camulodunum	Scheduled monument	840 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Colchester Castle Park	Registered park or garden, Grade II	2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-east

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Bluebottle Grove	Wood	470 m (0.3 miles) north
Gathering Grounds	Wood	1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Birch Grove	Wood	2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
King's Ford Grove	Wood	2.7 km (1.7 miles) south
Butcher's Wood	Wood	2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Bourne Pond	Lake or reservoir	2.8 km (1.8 miles) 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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	8.5	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	7.1	20	5
Particles (PM10)	11.5	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
65 to 69	1	0
60 to 64	58	0
55 to 59	65	0
Under 55	44	168

124 of the street's 168 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), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
Philip Morant School and College	Secondary	11–18	220 m	Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Prettygate Junior School	Primary	7–11	270 m	No published inspection
Prettygate Infant School	Primary	5–7	270 m	Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Benedict's Catholic College Roman Catholic	Secondary	11–16	700 m (0.4 miles)	No published inspection
Colchester County High School for Girls	Secondary	11–18	700 m (0.4 miles)	Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Paxman Academy	Secondary	11–16	790 m (0.5 miles)	Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gosbecks Primary School	Primary	5–11	950 m (0.6 miles)	No published inspection
King's Ford Infant School and Nursery	Primary	2–7	1 km (0.6 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
Kings Ford Academy	Primary	7–11	1 km (0.6 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
Hamilton Primary School	Primary	4–11	1.1 km (0.7 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
Home Farm Primary School	Primary	4–11	1.3 km (0.8 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
St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Colchester Roman Catholic	Primary	2–11	1.3 km (0.8 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

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
The Philip Morant School CO3 4QS	School/college/university	210 m	5 Very good	7 Sep 2026
Prettygate Junior School CO3 4PH	School/college/university	220 m	5 Very good	29 Sep 2026
Coffeehog CO3 4QJ	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	310 m	5 Very good	25 Nov 2025
United Reformed Church CO3 4PQ	Other catering premises	320 m	Exempt
Plume Avenue Nursery CO3 4PQ	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	320 m	Exempt
Holly House Kindergarten CO3 4RX	School/college/university	320 m	5 Very good	19 Aug 2026
Redlands Cafe CO3 3UE	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	330 m	5 Very good	28 Jul 2025
Crazy Chef CO3 4NN	Takeaway/sandwich shop	330 m	5 Very good	30 Jun 2026
PRETTYGATE CONVEINIENCE STORE CO3 4QJ	Retailers - other	340 m	Awaiting inspection
East of England Co-op CO3 4NW	Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets	360 m	4 Good	31 Jan 2025
Essex Care Consortium CO3 4PG	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	380 m	5 Very good	25 Aug 2026
One Stop CO3 4PG	Retailers - other	400 m (0.2 miles)	5 Very good	23 Jan 2025
Boots UK Ltd CO3 4PG	Retailers - other	410 m (0.3 miles)	Exempt
The Prettygate CO3 4NW	Pub/bar/nightclub	420 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	5 Dec 2025
All Care Plus Ltd CO3 4NW	Retailers - other	430 m (0.3 miles)	Exempt

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.

62 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	31
Anti-social behaviour	8
Burglary	4
Criminal damage and arson	4
Public order	3
Vehicle crime	3
Other theft	3
Possession of weapons	2
Theft from the person	1
Robbery	1
Other crime	1
Bicycle theft	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Nash Close (22); On or near Rembrandt Way (22); On or near Winston Avenue (14); On or near Munnings Road (2); On or near Reynolds Avenue (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 6 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,737 residents in 735 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	48	40
Children under 15	15%	17%
Aged 65 and over	29%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	78%	61%
Owned outright	50%	33%
Shared ownership	0%	1%
Social rented	12%	17%
Private rented	10%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	52%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	5%	6%
Retired (of adults)	32%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	3%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	25%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	57%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	2%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	5%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	11%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	69%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	12%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	26%	34%
No qualifications	22%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	7%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	97%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	under 1%	2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 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

Roadworks Street works permit: VIRGIN MEDIA: Remedial works, 29 October 2026 to 30 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
Roadworks Street works permit: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway improvement works, 10 May 2027 to 13 May 2027 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
Roadworks Street works permit: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway improvement works, 19 November 2026 to 23 November 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
Roadworks Street works permit: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 22 October 2026 to 23 October 2026 (two-way signals) found 3 November 2026
Roadworks Street works permit: BT: New service connection, 15 October 2026 to 19 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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.

CO3 4NW: 27 addresses of 29 in the postcode
CO3 4NL: 26 addresses
CO3 4NF: 23 addresses of 24 in the postcode
CO3 4NR: 22 addresses of 24 in the postcode
CO3 4NE: 19 addresses of 20 in the postcode
CO3 4NJ: 17 addresses of 18 in the postcode
CO3 4NP: 14 addresses
CO3 4NT: 11 addresses
CO3 4NN: 8 addresses
CO3 4PS: 1 address of 23 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Handy Fisher Court · Reynolds Avenue · Winston Avenue · Rembrandt Way · Landseer Road · Van Dyck Road · Nash Close · Norman Way · Shrub End Road · Munnings Road · Laxton Court · Cotman Road

All the streets in CO3 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.