Wadley Close Tiptree, Colchester

28 addresses across 2 postcodes (CO5), about 190 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 8902341.

  • Sales: 71 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £350,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (C: 11, D: 5).
  • 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 D; Band D in Colchester costs £2,283 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Kelvedon, about 5 km (3.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 70 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 50 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 28 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Tiptree Medical Centre, about 570 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 96% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 11 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often vehicle crime.

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
20241£350,000£350,000£350,000
20231£515,000£515,000£515,000
20203£327,500£298,000£370,750
20192£310,000£300,000£320,000
20182£300,000£300,000£300,000
20154£254,000£185,000£307,500
20142£225,000£210,000£240,000
20134£210,500£165,000£230,000
20121£206,000£206,000£206,000
20113£200,000£153,500£230,000
20102£184,500£144,000£225,000
20075£218,600£158,995£232,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 71)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Feb 202418 CO5 0SLDetached£350,000
24 Jul 202328 CO5 0SLDetached£515,000
2 Dec 20208 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£327,500
15 Sep 20205 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£370,750
27 Jul 20201 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£298,000
13 Sep 201920 CO5 0SLDetached£300,000
22 Mar 20193 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£320,000
10 Jul 201818 CO5 0SLDetached£300,000
25 May 201816 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£300,000
22 Jul 201534 CO5 0SLTerraced£248,000
22 Jul 201540 CO5 0SLTerraced£185,000
9 Jun 20156 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£260,000
6 Feb 201528 CO5 0SLDetached£307,500
30 Jun 20141 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£240,000
29 Apr 201416 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£210,000
8 Oct 201334 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£205,000
9 Aug 201322 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£216,000
25 Jul 201312 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£230,000
1 Feb 201338 CO5 0SLTerraced£165,000
17 Dec 201216 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£206,000
22 Sep 20118 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£230,000
24 Jun 20112 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£200,000
27 May 201140 CO5 0SLTerraced£153,500
27 Aug 201026 CO5 0SLTerraced£225,000
16 Apr 201042 CO5 0SLTerraced£144,000
20 Dec 20073 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£218,600
31 Aug 200720 CO5 0SLDetached£232,000
10 Aug 200710 CO5 0SLDetached£225,000
8 Feb 20074 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£208,000
23 Jan 200740 CO5 0SLTerraced£158,995
19 Apr 20067 CO5 0SLDetached£250,000
22 Dec 200520 CO5 0SLDetached£201,000
16 Dec 200536 CO5 0SLDetached£207,000
16 Dec 20051 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£175,000
14 Nov 200514 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£197,000
4 Aug 200528 CO5 0SLDetached£272,500
24 Jun 200524 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£214,995
29 Nov 200446 CO5 0SLTerraced£164,995
21 May 200418 CO5 0SLDetached£200,000New build.
14 May 200438 CO5 0SLTerraced£160,000
12 May 200440 CO5 0SLTerraced£144,000
26 Mar 200422 CO5 0SLTerraced£177,000
30 Jan 200444 CO5 0SLTerraced£157,000
28 Nov 200320 CO5 0SLDetached£200,000New build.
21 Nov 200316 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£180,000New build.
27 Oct 20037 CO5 0SLDetached£220,000
17 Oct 20033 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£195,995New build.
26 Sep 20038 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£199,995New build.
12 Sep 200310 CO5 0SLDetached£202,995New build.
8 Sep 20035 CO5 0SLSemi-detached£237,995New 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 September 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 94 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (7); House, mid-terrace (4); House, detached (3). Built: 1996-2002 (11); 2003-2006 (3); 2007-2011 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (12 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.

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 D (30% of about 1,190 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

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

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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 2 October 2026 to 6 October 2026: GIGACLEAR LIMITED, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (minor works)

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
CO5 0SLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
CO5 0SFnot 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 addresses are about 50 m above sea level.

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

Broadband

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

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CO5 0SF100%0%0%0%
CO5 0SL100%0%0%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 stationsKelvedon 600,000 journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Marks Tey 474,000 journeys in 2024–257.8 km (4.9 miles)
Witham 1.9 million journeys in 2024–258.3 km (5.2 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Station Road Tiptree580 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station8.3 km (5.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN27.2 km (17 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN37 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tiptree Medical Centre570 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tiptree Pharmacy570 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tiptree Dental Surgery570 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalSt Peters Hospital10.9 km (6.8 miles)
Police stationCopford Police Station8.3 km (5.1 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM590 m (0.4 miles)

Parks and green space

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

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,830 m²70 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,220 m²480 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.5 ha370 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,020 m²2.5 km (1.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 0.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The rampart S of Haynes Green, a scheduled monument, 1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The rampart S of Haynes GreenScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Layer Marney TowerRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Birch WoodWood370 m south-east
Ransome's GroveWood770 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Cadgers WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Tolls SpringWood1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Virley Brook (North Arm)Lake or reservoir4.3 km (2.7 miles) east
Middle Field HillHill4.6 km (2.8 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)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)7.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

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

Road and rail noise

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

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 552728

1 of the street's 28 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Luke's Church of England Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–11650 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Milldene Primary SchoolPrimary4–11770 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Thurstable SchoolSecondary11–161.1 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: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Tiptree Heath Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Baynards Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Rowans Care Ltd CO5 0HXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good17 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.

11 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Vehicle crime3
Violence and sexual offences3
Public order2
Anti-social behaviour1
Other crime1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shelley Avenue (3); On or near Archer Crescent (2); On or near Gager Drive (2); On or near Keeble Close (1); On or near Luther Drive (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: 325 residents in 114 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 age4040
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over15%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)96%61%
Owned outright38%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented4%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work66%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)41%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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

Gager Drive · Chapel Lane · Powell Close · Archer Crescent · Shelley Avenue · Winston Avenue · Kiltie Road · Luther Drive · Bladon Close · Chapel Road · Holbrooke Walk · Keeble Close

All the streets in CO5 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.