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On Dombey Close, in South Broomfield
What it's like at CM1 4YF: every home that has sold on Dombey Close since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
Sales and extensions on Dombey Close; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 14 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Dombey CloseDetached | Jan 2013 | £350,000 | 126 m² | £2,778/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Dombey CloseTerraced | Nov 1999 | £114,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 5, Dombey CloseDetached | Nov 2007 | £290,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 6, Dombey CloseTerraced | Jun 2017 | £467,500 | 129 m² | £3,624/m² | 2 |
| 7, Dombey CloseDetached | May 2013 | £275,000 | 89 m² | £3,090/m² | 1 |
| 8, Dombey CloseDetached | Oct 2012 | £277,500 | 112 m² | £2,478/m² | 1 |
| 9, Dombey CloseDetached | Nov 2008 | £235,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 13, Dombey CloseDetached | Nov 2001 | £227,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 14, Dombey CloseSemi-detached | Jun 2003 | £225,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 15, Dombey CloseSemi-detached | Jul 2026 | £450,000 | 91 m² | £4,945/m² | 2 |
| 16, Dombey CloseDetached | Sept 2016 | £370,000 | 94 m² | £3,936/m² | 1 |
| 18, Dombey CloseTerraced | Apr 2015 | £350,000 | 117 m² | £2,991/m² | 1 |
| 19, Dombey CloseDetached | Sept 2000 | £176,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 21, Dombey CloseDetached | Nov 2022 | £700,000 | 167 m² | £4,192/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 41% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Chelmsford, a short drive or bike ride (2.2 km), with 7.0m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Liverpool Street.
The nearest bus stop is Longleat Close, 150 m away, with a bus about every 30 minutes on weekdays (routes C2, 676); 18 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 13 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 50 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is St Pius X Catholic Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (700 m); 73% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Perryfields Junior School (1.8 km).
The nearest secondary is St John Payne Catholic School, Chelmsford, 500 m away; Attainment 8: 49.9 · 14.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: The Beaulieu Park School (2.1 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Chelmsford County High School for Girls (1.9 km) and King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford (2.3 km).
The nearest supermarket is The Co-op, 900 m away, with Premier Woodhall Convenience Store closer still (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Chelmer Medical Partnership (700 m), with Shadforth Pharmaceutical Co the closest pharmacy (800 m).
For a haircut, Headline is 800 m away.
The nearest full A&E is The Princess Alexandra Hospital, 26 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 71% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 67% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 10 restaurants and cafés, 3 pubs and bars.
Devils Treats is the closest café or restaurant (700 m), and Red Beret the nearest pub (800 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 84 per 1,000 residents a year.
There are 27 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 10% flats and 31% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Andrews Park, 150 m away; for exercise, Chelmsford Sport & Athletics Centre (700 m).
12 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Chelmsford constituency: Marie Goldman MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 4,753 (9.4%), turnout 66%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 40%, Conservative 31%, Reform UK 13%, Labour 12%.
14 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near CM1 4YF →
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.4 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Stansted is 21 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 42% of households own their home outright.
The nearest university is Anglia Ruskin University, 1.9 km away (TEF Gold).
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
On this street: 0 of 8 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.6% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 1.3% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 92.6% | 82.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.6% | 5.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.3% | 10.0% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.9% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
Nearest: Canvey Island Foreshore · about 33 min
Nearest: Colchester Zoo · about 32 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Chelmsford since 2011.
police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 14 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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