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On Main Road, in South Broomfield
What it's like at CM1 7AW: every home that has sold on Main Road 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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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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 3 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Main Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 179 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 216, Main RoadSemi-detached | May 2017 | £400,000 | 98 m² | £4,082/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 222, Main RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2010 | £255,000 | 113 m² | £2,257/m² | 1 |
| 224, Main RoadTerraced | Apr 1999 | £77,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 226, Main RoadTerraced | Nov 1999 | £76,000 | 61 m² | £1,246/m² | 1 |
| 228, Main RoadTerraced | Jul 2024 | £226,000 | 75 m² | £3,013/m² | 1 |
| 228a, Main RoadTerraced | Aug 2024 | £230,000 | 65 m² | £3,538/m² | 2 |
| 232, Main RoadDetached | Nov 2013 | £365,000 | 120 m² | £3,042/m² | 1 |
| 234, Main RoadDetached | Feb 2024 | £815,000 | 290 m² | £2,810/m² | 2 |
| 236, Main RoadDetached | Jul 1999 | £189,995 | 183 m² | £1,038/m² | 1 |
| 238, Main RoadDetached | Jul 2023 | £745,000 | 151 m² | £4,934/m² | 2 |
| 252, Main RoadSemi-detached | Jul 1997 | £143,283 | 228 m² | £628/m² | 1 |
| 254, Main RoadDetached | Feb 2017 | £530,000 | 152 m² | £3,487/m² | 2 |
| 256, Main RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2016 | £476,000 | 163 m² | £2,920/m² | 2 |
| 262, Main RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2016 | £290,000 | 108 m² | £2,685/m² | 1 |
| 264, Main RoadSemi-detached | Mar 1999 | £59,995 | 68 m² | £882/m² | 1 |
| 268, Main RoadDetached | Aug 2016 | £410,000 | 130 m² | £3,154/m² | 1 |
| 270, Main RoadDetached | Aug 2012 | £300,000 | 111 m² | £2,703/m² | 2 |
| 280, Main RoadDetached | Jul 1999 | £395,041 | – | – | 1 |
| 286, Main RoadDetached | Jan 2007 | £2,100,000 | – | – | 2 |
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 Beaulieu Park, a drive away (3.3 km).
The nearest bus stop is Church Green, 100 m away, with a bus about every 6 minutes on weekdays (routes C1, C2, 170, 47); 77 departures an hour from the 7 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 Broomfield Primary School, a few minutes' walk (300 m); 49% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Perryfields Junior School (1.8 km).
The nearest secondary is Chelmer Valley High School, 700 m away; Attainment 8: 45.3 · 6.1% 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-operative, 1.0 km away, with Premier Express closer still (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Mountbatten House Surgery (1.7 km), with Outpatient Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (950 m).
For a haircut, Nadia Louise Hair Design is 450 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.
Kings Arms And Oyster Shack is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and The Angel the nearest pub (400 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 Church Green, 150 m away; for exercise, Chelmsford Sport & Athletics Centre (2.1 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.4 µg/m³).
17 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| the Well House | II | 10 m |
| the Kings Arms Inn | II | 90 m |
| Woolards Cottages | II | 110 m |
| Broomfields the Vineries | II | 150 m |
| 305-313, Main Road | II | 150 m |
| the Old Bakehouse | II | 160 m |
| 321, Main Road | II | 190 m |
| Church of St Mary the Virgin | II* | 200 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
North West Essex constituency: Mrs Kemi Badenoch MP (Conservative), since June 2017. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 2,610 (4.8%), turnout 68%. Vote shares: Conservative 36%, Labour 31%, Reform UK 14%, Liberal Democrat 11%.
12 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 7AW →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
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, 2.7 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: 1 of 122 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 6 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% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 92.7% | 82.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.6% | 5.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.2% | 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.
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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.
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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 179 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.