Finding postcode…
These only choose where you start. Every page and every lens is still one tap away.
Sign in to keep them on every device →Finding postcode…
On Albra Mead, in Boreham & Little Baddow
What it's like at CM2 6YG: every home that has sold on Albra Mead 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.
Street View and the aerial view come from Google, which receives your IP address and may set cookies once you choose them. We'll remember your choice on this device.
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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Albra Mead; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 27 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Albra MeadDetached | Aug 2007 | £418,000 | 173 m² | £2,416/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Albra MeadDetached | Mar 1999 | £236,995 | 145 m² | £1,634/m² | 1 |
| 3, Albra MeadSemi-detached | Mar 2019 | £338,000 | 75 m² | £4,507/m² | 5 |
| 4, Albra MeadSemi-detached | Dec 2023 | £420,000 | 74 m² | £5,676/m² | 5 |
| 5, Albra MeadSemi-detached | Aug 2011 | £237,000 | 77 m² | £3,078/m² | 4 |
| 6, Albra MeadSemi-detached · company-owned | Sept 2015 | £255,000 | 67 m² | £3,806/m² | 3 |
| 7, Albra MeadDetached | Jun 2013 | £250,000 | 74 m² | £3,378/m² | 4 |
| 8, Albra MeadSemi-detached | Jan 2022 | £425,000 | 82 m² | £5,183/m² | 4 |
| 9, Albra MeadDetached | Dec 2014 | £367,500 | 90 m² | £4,083/m² | 4 |
| 10, Albra MeadDetached | May 2003 | £239,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 11, Albra MeadDetached | May 1999 | £150,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 12, Albra MeadSemi-detached | Feb 2023 | £405,000 | 66 m² | £6,136/m² | 3 |
| 13, Albra MeadDetached | Oct 1998 | £129,750 | – | – | 1 |
| 14, Albra MeadSemi-detached | Jul 2015 | £322,000 | 81 m² | £3,975/m² | 2 |
| 15, Albra MeadDetached | Oct 2016 | £520,000 | 112 m² | £4,643/m² | 2 |
| 16, Albra MeadSemi-detached | Aug 2014 | £280,000 | 82 m² | £3,415/m² | 4 |
| 17, Albra MeadDetached | Aug 2024 | £690,000 | 130 m² | £5,308/m² | 4 |
| 18, Albra MeadDetached | Feb 1999 | £109,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 19, Albra MeadDetached | Jul 2024 | £585,000 | 140 m² | £4,179/m² | 2 |
| 20, Albra MeadDetached | Mar 1999 | £118,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 21, Albra MeadDetached | Jan 2025 | £445,000 | 81 m² | £5,494/m² | 3 |
| 22, Albra MeadDetached | Dec 1998 | £96,000 | 67 m² | £1,433/m² | 1 |
| 23, Albra MeadDetached | Sept 2010 | £249,000 | 76 m² | £3,276/m² | 4 |
| 24, Albra MeadDetached | Jun 2004 | £189,950 | – | – | 2 |
| 25, Albra MeadDetached | Dec 2003 | £235,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 26, Albra MeadDetached | Jul 2011 | £248,000 | 73 m² | £3,397/m² | 4 |
| 28, Albra MeadDetached | Aug 2025 | £560,000 | 114 m² | £4,912/m² | 3 |
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 Beaulieu Park, a short drive or bike ride (1.7 km).
The nearest bus stop is Barlows Reach, 50 m away, with a bus about every 13 minutes on weekdays (routes C3, 371, 47, 73A); 31 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 53 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Barnes Farm Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (600 m); 50% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is The Boswells School, 1.7 km away; Attainment 8: 48.4 · 11.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: The Beaulieu Park School (2.9 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Chelmsford County High School for Girls (5 km) and King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford (5.2 km).
The nearest supermarket is Asda, 900 m away, with Phoenix Medical closer still (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is North Chelmsford Nhs Hcc (850 m), with Apple Tree Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (850 m).
For a haircut, The Tan Boutique is 1.2 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Southend University Hospital, 24 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 62% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 50% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 18 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 7 restaurants and cafés, 4 pubs and bars.
Jump Street is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and Chelmer Inn the nearest pub (850 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 62 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 74 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 45% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1993-1999.
It's growing: about 381 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Chancellor Park Sports Area, 500 m away; for exercise, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing (2.3 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.9 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Southend is 23 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 25 km.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cuton Hall | II | 110 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.
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%.
4 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 CM2 6YG →
Most households own their home, 11% rent privately.
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.
Nearest: Leigh Bell Wharf · about 34 min
Nearest: Epping Ongar Railway · about 37 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 20 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 | 1.0% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.1% | 1.3% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 88.7% | 82.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 5.1% | 5.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.9% | 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.
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 27 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.