What's changing near CM77 7GN

On the map

Nearby, most recent first

• New homes
  8 new homes completedhouses · Feb 2025 – May 2025
  May 2025
  1.5 km away

New-home postcodes with fewer than 5 homes are counted above but not listed. 8 postcodes nearby had new homes completed in the last two years.

Extensions and loft conversions within 500 m Map of every extended home within 1 km →

• Millers Drive: 3 homes extended since 2021
• Thresher Rise: 2 homes extended since 2021
• Ellen Way: 2 homes extended since 2021
• Queenborough Lane: 2 homes extended since 2021
• Oaklands Close: 2 homes extended since 2021
• Draymans Grove: 1 home extended since 2021
• Coopers Crescent: 1 home extended since 2021
• Cuckoo Way: 1 home extended since 2021

• Extended
  4, Bridge End Lane84 m² → 133 m² (+49 m²)
  certificate 2017

Spotted when a home's energy certificate shows at least 15 m² (and 15%) more floor area than an earlier one. Only homes with two certificates show up, so the real number is higher. A busy street suggests extensions get permission here; check the council's planning register for the details.

Storm overflows within 2 km

• Anglian Water
  Braintree Water Recycling Centreinto River Brain Nt7 spills, 8 hours in 2025
  1.9 km away
• Anglian Water
  Notley Road Csointo The River Brain0 spills, 0 hours in 2025
  1.9 km away
• Anglian Water
  Rayne Terminal Pumping Stationinto Pods Brook0 spills, 0 hours in 2025
  1.9 km away

Environment Agency event duration monitoring, 2025 annual return (OGL; © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026). Overflows release diluted sewage into rivers and the sea when sewers are overwhelmed, mostly after heavy rain.

Solar, wind and battery projects within 10 km

19 planned, approved or being built and 9 running (112 MW between them). Those within 5 km are on the map above.

• Battery storage
  Pods Brook Road - Battery DistributionApproved, not yet built · 200 kW
  Mar 2026
  1.3 km away
• Solar farm
  Felsted School Road - Solar Photovoltaic Farm & Battery storageApproved, not yet built · 50 MW
  Sept 2023
  1.7 km away
• Battery storage
  Felsted School Road - Solar Photovoltaic Farm & Battery storageApproved, not yet built
  Sept 2023
  1.7 km away
• Battery storage
  Slamseys Energy StorageBeing built · 10 MW
  Jan 2020
  1.7 km away
• Rooftop solar
  Antislip Antiwear Treads International, Swinbourne Drive - Solar PanelsApproved, not yet built · 150 kW
  Oct 2023
  1.8 km away
• Battery storage
  Enterprise Drive, Springwood Drive - Batter Energy StorageApproved, not yet built · 200 kW
  Jul 2025
  2.4 km away
• Rooftop solar
  Braintree Village, Charter Way - Solar PanelsApproved, not yet built · 360 kW
  Jun 2025
  2.9 km away
• Energy from waste
  Chelmsford City Racecourse - Pyrolysis PlantApproved, not yet built
  Sept 2021
  2.9 km away
• Battery storage
  Braintree Road, Cressing - Battery StorageBeing built · 57 MW
  Jan 2025
  3.2 km away
• Solar farm
  Cressing East - Solar FarmApproved, not yet built · 25 MW
  Mar 2025
  5.2 km away

Road and street works within 1 km

4 permitted works running now or planned, 2 of them major.

• Major, planned
  London Road, BraintreeHighway improvement works · ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL · Road closure
  Nov 2026 to Nov 2026
  700 m away
• Major, planned
  Pods Brook Road, BraintreeHighway improvement works · ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL · Lane closure
  Oct 2026 to Dec 2026
  900 m away
• Standard
  Avenue West, Great NotleyUtility repair and maintenance works · UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON · Give and take
  Oct 2026 to Oct 2026
  600 m away
• Minor
  London Road, BraintreeHighway improvement works · ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL · Two-way signals
  Oct 2026 to Oct 2026
  850 m away

DfT Street Manager permits (OGL), England. Dates are the planned ones; works often finish early or overrun.

Major infrastructure projects within 30 km

• Decided
  Rivenhall IWMF and Energy CentreGenerating Stations · Land at the former Rivenhall Airfield, off Coggeshall Road (A120), Braintree CO5 9DF
  decided Dec 2024
  8.1 km away
• Decided
  Longfield Solar FarmGenerating Stations · Located on land north east of Chelmsford and north of the A12 between Boreham and Hatfield Peverel
  decided Jun 2023
  9.3 km away
• Decided
  A12 Chelmsford to A120 Widening SchemeHighways · From Junction 19 of the A12 to the East of Chelmsford to Junction 25 with the A120 at Marks Tey
  decided Jan 2024
  10.9 km away
• Decided
  Bramford to Twinstead Electric Lines · 29km linear route between the Bramford Substation,Suffolk and 1.5km south of Twinstead Tee, Essex
  decided Sept 2024
  27.3 km away

Planning Inspectorate list of nationally significant infrastructure projects (roads, railways, energy, water, waste), October 2026 (OGL). Each is placed at one point, usually the middle of the site; long schemes run well beyond it.

Transport schemes within 20 km

None on our list yet. We're starting with recently opened and under-construction rail schemes.

The longer view

• Like-for-like prices in Great Notley & Black Notley: +15% over five years (2020 → 2025).
• Council tax list: 10 homes added in the neighbourhood since April 2024.
• Population (GP registrations): -1.1% in two years.
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