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 Plantation Road, in Boreham & Little Baddow
What it's like at CM3 3DZ: every home that has sold on Plantation 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.
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.
4 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Plantation Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 66 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 55, Plantation RoadDetached | Jul 2008 | £405,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57, Plantation RoadDetached | Jul 2015 | £350,000 | 80 m² | £4,375/m² | 1 |
| 59, Plantation RoadDetached | Jul 2002 | £225,000 | 97 m² | £2,320/m² | 1 |
| 63, Plantation RoadDetached | Aug 2010 | £380,000 | 88 m² | £4,318/m² | 2 |
| 65, Plantation RoadDetached | Sept 2017 | £300,000 | 100 m² | £3,000/m² | 1 |
| 73, Plantation RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2023 | £440,000 | 96 m² | £4,583/m² | 3 |
| 74, Plantation RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2016 | £340,000 | 82 m² | £4,146/m² | 2 |
| 77, Plantation RoadDetached | May 2002 | £247,500 | 147 m² | £1,684/m² | 1 |
| 78, Plantation RoadSemi-detached | Aug 1995 | £65,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 80, Plantation RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2019 | £330,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 82, Plantation RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2023 | £400,000 | 69 m² | £5,797/m² | 3 |
| 84, Plantation RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2017 | £340,000 | 60 m² | £5,667/m² | 2 |
| 86, Plantation RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2013 | £249,950 | 58 m² | £4,309/m² | 2 |
| 88, Plantation RoadDetached | Jul 2006 | £230,000 | 80 m² | £2,875/m² | 1 |
| 92, Plantation RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2021 | £388,000 | 74 m² | £5,243/m² | 4 |
| 94, Plantation RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2007 | £248,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 96, Plantation RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2024 | £429,000 | 86 m² | £4,988/m² | 3 |
| 98, Plantation RoadSemi-detached | May 2002 | £169,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 100, Plantation RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2007 | £265,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 102, Plantation RoadDetached | Jun 2024 | £850,000 | 148 m² | £5,743/m² | 3 |
| 104, Plantation RoadDetached | Aug 1995 | £107,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 108, Plantation RoadDetached | Jul 2008 | £250,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 110, Plantation RoadDetached | Nov 2022 | £985,000 | 225 m² | £4,378/m² | 4 |
| 118, Plantation RoadSemi-detached | May 2021 | £370,000 | 86 m² | £4,302/m² | 1 |
| 120, Plantation RoadDetached | Jul 2003 | £222,500 | 146 m² | £1,524/m² | 1 |
| 122, Plantation RoadDetached | Apr 2003 | £330,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 128, Plantation RoadDetached | Sept 2003 | £335,000 | – | – | 1 |
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 (2.1 km).
The nearest bus stop is Plantation Road, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 73B, 73A); 12 departures an hour from the 9 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, about a 5-minute walk (550 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, 3.5 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, 2.6 km away, with A G Smith Butchers closer still (under 50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Laurels Surgery (500 m), with Boreham Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (500 m).
For a haircut, Distinctions Hair and Beauty is 650 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 (2.2 km), and Six Bells the nearest pub (200 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, 2.7 km away; for exercise, The Waltham Center (2.8 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.
11 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clock House and Clock House Cottage. | II | 160 m |
| 1, 2 and 3, Maltings Cottages | II | 180 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%.
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 3DZ →
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.
On this street: 0 of 49 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 2 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% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 88.7% | 82.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 5.0% | 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.
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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
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 66 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.