Willow Tree Way Earls Colne, Braintree

40 addresses across 1 postcode (CO6), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 3902134.

Sales: 101 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £260,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 35 homes have an energy certificate (C: 25, D: 10).
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 Braintree costs £2,280 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Chappel and Wakes Colne, about 4.2 km (2.6 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: There is a small park or garden about 120 m away, and Colne Green (0.2 hectares) is about 190 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 53 to 55 m above sea level.
Noise: 3 of its 40 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Pump House Surgery, about 200 m away.
People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 56% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 42 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	£260,000	£260,000	£260,000
2025	7	£245,000	£237,000	£315,000
2022	1	£230,000	£230,000	£230,000
2021	2	£234,500	£227,500	£241,500
2020	1	£205,000	£205,000	£205,000
2019	4	£250,000	£220,000	£290,000
2018	3	£216,000	£200,000	£230,000
2017	1	£200,000	£200,000	£200,000
2016	1	£182,000	£182,000	£182,000
2015	1	£165,000	£165,000	£165,000
2014	3	£180,000	£158,500	£232,000
2013	4	£151,000	£145,000	£170,000

Most recent sales (latest 50 of 101)
Date	Address	Type	Price
13 Apr 2026	4 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£260,000
12 Sep 2025	25 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£315,000
12 Sep 2025	29 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£250,000
22 Aug 2025	14 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£237,000
13 Jun 2025	33 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£240,000
21 Mar 2025	3 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£242,500
21 Feb 2025	35 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£250,000
14 Feb 2025	7 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£245,000
21 Jan 2022	6 CO6 2SN	Detached	£230,000
24 Sep 2021	4 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£241,500
8 Jan 2021	35 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£227,500
20 Nov 2020	16 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£205,000
22 Oct 2019	7 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£220,000
26 Jul 2019	20 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£230,000
15 Apr 2019	25 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£270,000
8 Feb 2019	31 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£290,000
20 Aug 2018	35 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£216,000
9 Aug 2018	6 CO6 2SN	Detached	£200,000
31 May 2018	12 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£230,000
2 Feb 2017	7 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£200,000
29 Jul 2016	14 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£182,000
19 May 2015	30 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£165,000
5 Dec 2014	21 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£180,000
30 Jun 2014	16 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£158,500
31 Jan 2014	18 CO6 2SN	Semi-detached	£232,000
27 Sep 2013	25 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£170,000
6 Jun 2013	3 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£145,000
28 Feb 2013	5 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£155,000
12 Feb 2013	19 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£147,000
21 Jun 2012	1 CO6 2SN	Detached	£212,500
31 Aug 2011	24 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£170,000
17 Sep 2010	32 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£155,000
18 Jun 2010	20 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£150,000
23 Apr 2010	29 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£146,000
23 May 2008	33 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£162,500
4 May 2007	21 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£162,000
26 Jan 2007	12 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£156,000
19 Oct 2006	32 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£147,000
29 Sep 2006	19 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£148,995
19 Sep 2006	23 CO6 2SN	Semi-detached	£140,000
25 Aug 2006	13 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£145,000
14 Jul 2006	14 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£137,000
30 Jun 2006	16 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£140,200
27 Jan 2006	21 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£150,000
31 May 2005	27 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£140,000
15 Apr 2005	24 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£174,000
11 Jun 2004	2 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£135,000
4 Jun 2004	3 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£135,000
26 May 2004	10 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£134,500
13 May 2004	17 CO6 2SN	Terraced	£77,800

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

C25

D10

35 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 64 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (24); House, end-terrace (9); House, detached (2). Built: 1983-1990 (15); 1991-1995 (11); 1996-2002 (8). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16); rented (private) (15).

Each home's certificates and sales (22 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Braintree in 2026-27: Band D £2,280 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,520	£1,774	£2,027	£2,280	£2,787	£3,294	£3,801	£4,561

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (36% of about 960 homes).

A17%

B36%

C24%

D7%

E8%

F5%

G2%

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: yes, Earls Colne and White Colne West and East (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
Listed buildings on or by this street: 2.
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.

Listed buildings

COOMBE HAY, grade II
THE WILLOWS, grade II

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

Finished in the last three months

23 October 2026: GIGACLEAR LIMITED, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
12 August 2026 to 17 August 2026: BT, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (standard 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 40 addresses are between 53 m and 55 m above sea level (54 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
CO6 2SN	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	Chappel and Wakes Colne 33,000 journeys in 2024–25	4.2 km (2.6 miles)
	Bures 53,000 journeys in 2024–25	6.9 km (4.3 miles)
	Marks Tey 474,000 journeys in 2024–25	7.8 km (4.9 miles)
Bus stops	6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Lion Earls Colne	100 m
EV charging points	Roam Charging Station	2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	London Stansted Airport STN	32.2 km (20 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	1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Pump House Surgery	200 m
Pharmacies	1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots	190 m
NHS dentists	The Essex Dental Clinic	2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Hospital	Halstead Hospital	4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Police station	Copford Police Station	8.9 km (5.5 miles)
Cash machines	Sectorsure Ltd - Bradwell Service Station	830 m (0.5 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	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 730 m²	120 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)	Colne Green 1,850 m²	190 m
Play area	5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 400 m²	250 m
Playing field	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.8 ha	350 m
Allotments	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,250 m²	170 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 0.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Andrew, a listed building (Grade I), 470 m (0.3 miles) east. 74 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Parish Church of St Andrew	Listed building, Grade I	470 m (0.3 miles) east
Earls Colne Priory	Scheduled monument	870 m (0.5 miles) east
Boundary Wall to South,East and North East of Colne Priory	Listed building, Grade II*	950 m (0.6 miles) east

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Colne Valley	Valley	1 km (0.6 miles) east
Ash Bottom	Valley	1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Richard's Grove	Wood	1.2 km (0.8 miles) south
Millbrook Grove	Wood	1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Homely Ash Grounds	Wood	1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Mill Race	Lake or reservoir	1.9 km (1.2 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)	6.7	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	6.9	20	5
Particles (PM10)	12.4	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	3	0
Under 55	37	40

3 of the street's 40 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 Braintree: see them on the Braintree 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
Earls Colne Primary School and Nursery	Primary	4–11	450 m (0.3 miles)	No published inspection
Colne Engaine Church of England Primary School	Primary	4–11	1.8 km (1.1 miles)	No published inspection

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
Lucky Star CO6 2PA	Takeaway/sandwich shop	90 m	5 Very good	26 Mar 2025
East Of England Co-op CO6 2PA	Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets	90 m	5 Very good	23 Jan 2026
The Drum Inn CO6 2PA	Pub/bar/nightclub	90 m	5 Very good	29 Apr 2022
The Lion PH CO6 2PA	Pub/bar/nightclub	90 m	5 Very good	16 Oct 2026
The Atlas Club (Earls Colne) CO6 2SB	Pub/bar/nightclub	100 m	5 Very good	19 Feb 2026
Colnes Constitutional Club CO6 2RN	Pub/bar/nightclub	130 m	4 Good	8 Jan 2026
Grammar School House CO6 2RN	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	130 m	5 Very good	23 Jan 2026
Fresh And Wild Fish CO6 2RP	Retailers - other	170 m	5 Very good	8 May 2025
Golden Harvest CO6 2PB	Takeaway/sandwich shop	190 m	4 Good	11 Oct 2024
Rainbow Fish Bar CO6 2PB	Takeaway/sandwich shop	190 m	5 Very good	2 Oct 2026
The Drapers CO6 2PB	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	190 m	4 Good	27 Mar 2026
Kofi CO6 2QX	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	280 m	5 Very good	20 Jul 2026
Dusk Pop Up CO6 2QX	Other catering premises	280 m	5 Very good	10 Apr 2026
Colne Valley Wines CO6 2QX	Retailers - other	300 m	5 Very good	23 Jun 2023
Earls Colne Primary And Nursery School CO6 2RH	School/college/university	390 m	5 Very good	29 Jan 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.

42 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	24
Criminal damage and arson	6
Shoplifting	4
Drugs	2
Vehicle crime	2
Burglary	1
Other crime	1
Other theft	1
Bicycle theft	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Castings (8); On or near Nonancourt Way (6); On or near Massingham Drive (4); On or near Reuben Walk (4); On or near High Street (4).

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: 362 residents in 163 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	35	40
Children under 15	24%	17%
Aged 65 and over	14%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	56%	61%
Owned outright	22%	33%
Shared ownership	under 1%	1%
Social rented	9%	17%
Private rented	34%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	71%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	under 1%	6%
Retired (of adults)	17%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	2%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	20%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	64%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	2%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	5%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	9%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	41%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	18%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	24%	34%
No qualifications	12%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	6%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	97%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	under 1%	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

Roadworks Street works permit: GIGACLEAR LIMITED: Utility asset works, 23 October 2026 to 27 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
Food hygiene ratings Computerxplorers Colchester (school/college/university, CO6 2LF) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
Food hygiene ratings The Lion PH (pub/bar/nightclub, CO6 2PA) now 5 Very good, was 3 Generally satisfactory (rated 16 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
Food hygiene ratings Rainbow Fish Bar (takeaway/sandwich shop, CO6 2PB) now 5 Very good, was 4 Good (rated 2 October 2026) found 30 October 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.

CO6 2SN: 40 addresses of 41 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Foundry Lane · Foundry Lane · High Street · York Road · Park Lane Close · Sims Close · Reuben Walk · Park Lane · Nonancourt Way · The Castings · Swallow Field · Squires Court

All the streets in CO6 and across Braintree.

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.