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On Seabrook Gardens, in Boreham & Little Baddow
What it's like at CM3 3BX: every home that has sold on Seabrook Gardens 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 Seabrook Gardens; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 13 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Seabrook GardensSemi-detached | Jan 2011 | £390,000 | 158 m² | £2,468/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, Seabrook GardensTerraced | May 2007 | £273,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 9, Seabrook GardensDetached | Feb 2021 | £365,000 | 84 m² | £4,345/m² | 1 |
| 11, Seabrook GardensDetached | Dec 2025 | £520,000 | 135 m² | £3,852/m² | 4 |
| 13, Seabrook GardensSemi-detached | Mar 2016 | £310,000 | 83 m² | £3,735/m² | 1 |
| 19, Seabrook GardensSemi-detached | Sept 1998 | £84,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 21, Seabrook GardensSemi-detached | Apr 2022 | £320,000 | 87 m² | £3,678/m² | 1 |
| 23, Seabrook GardensSemi-detached | Jul 2015 | £305,000 | 102 m² | £2,990/m² | 2 |
| 27, Seabrook GardensSemi-detached | Jun 2019 | £295,000 | 99 m² | £2,980/m² | 1 |
| 29, Seabrook GardensSemi-detached | May 1998 | £86,700 | – | – | 1 |
| 31, Seabrook GardensSemi-detached | Sept 2012 | £230,000 | 79 m² | £2,911/m² | 1 |
| 33, Seabrook GardensSemi-detached | Jul 2024 | £460,000 | 90 m² | £5,111/m² | 3 |
| 35, Seabrook GardensSemi-detached | Feb 2022 | £520,000 | 123 m² | £4,228/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 Hurrell Down, 150 m away, with a bus about every 32 minutes on weekdays (routes 371, 73, 676, 513); 15 departures an hour from the 13 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 Boreham Primary School, a few minutes' walk (250 m); 65% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is The Beaulieu Park School, 3.1 km away; Attainment 8: 57.1 · 22.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
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 Donaldson, 2.2 km away, with Co-op closer still (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Laurels Surgery (300 m), with Boreham Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, Distinctions Hair and Beauty is 350 m 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.
McDonalds Restaurants is the closest café or restaurant (1.8 km), and Queens Head Boreham the nearest pub (400 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 The Cedar Plot, 2.4 km away; for exercise, The Waltham Center (2.5 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.
15 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.
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%.
5 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 CM3 3BX →
Most households own their home, 11% rent privately.
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.
No crimes recorded "on or near" Seabrook Gardens in the last 12 months.
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 10 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.