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On Main Road, in Danbury & Bicknacre
What it's like at CM3 4NQ: 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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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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 9 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.
4 of the 476 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 6, Main RoadDetached | Jan 2007 | £300,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8, Main RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2020 | £610,000 | 151 m² | £4,040/m² | 3 |
| 10, Main RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2015 | £425,000 | 120 m² | £3,542/m² | 3 |
| 14, Main RoadDetached | Jan 2023 | £475,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 18a, Main RoadDetached | Jul 2004 | £382,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 18c, Main RoadDetached | May 2002 | £450,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 24, Main RoadDetached | Apr 2025 | £1,005,000 | 267 m² | £3,764/m² | 4 |
| 24a, Main RoadDetached | Dec 2020 | £940,000 | 240 m² | £3,917/m² | 1 |
| 25, Main RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2017 | £342,500 | 87 m² | £3,937/m² | 1 |
| 26, Main RoadDetached | Jun 2016 | £480,000 | 155 m² | £3,097/m² | 1 |
| 27, Main RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2004 | £222,000 | 85 m² | £2,612/m² | 1 |
| 28, Main RoadDetached | Aug 2023 | £670,000 | 144 m² | £4,653/m² | 2 |
| 30, Main RoadSemi-detached | Apr 1995 | £63,500 | 129 m² | £492/m² | 1 |
| 32, Main RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2008 | £187,976 | 86 m² | £2,186/m² | 1 |
| 34, Main RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2013 | £424,400 | 228 m² | £1,861/m² | 4 |
| 36, Main RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2025 | £475,000 | 93 m² | £5,108/m² | 1 |
| 40, Main RoadDetached | Jun 2021 | £630,000 | 150 m² | £4,200/m² | 2 |
| 42, Main RoadDetached | Nov 2021 | £615,000 | 160 m² | £3,844/m² | 6 |
| Danbury Delivery Office, 16, Main RoadDetached | May 1997 | £375,000 | – | – | 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 Beaulieu Park, a drive away (6.1 km).
The nearest bus stop is Eves Corner, 150 m away, with a bus about every 13 minutes on weekdays (routes 336, 375, 333, 331); 18 departures an hour from the 7 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 St John Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Danbury, a few minutes' walk (300 m); 71% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is The Sandon School, 4.4 km away; Attainment 8: 46.6 · 8.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford (9 km) and Chelmsford County High School for Girls (9.1 km).
The nearest supermarket is The Co-op, 100 m away; Blossom Hill Flowers (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Beacon Health Group-Danbury Medical Ctr (650 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Images Hairdressing is 250 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Southend University Hospital, 18 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: 12 restaurants and cafés, 6 pubs and bars.
Danbury Leisure Centre is the closest café or restaurant (under 50 m), and The Bakers Arms the nearest pub (400 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 44 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 86 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 63% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 145 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Eves Corner Playing Fields, 150 m away.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.6 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Southend is 16 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 31 km.
31 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 |
|---|---|---|
| End House and Opotipot | II | 120 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.
Maldon constituency: Sir John Whittingdale MP (Conservative), since April 1992. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 6,906 (13.9%), turnout 64%. Vote shares: Conservative 39%, Reform UK 25%, Labour 20%, Liberal Democrat 12%.
7 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 4NQ →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 46% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 26% are 65 or over.
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: 9 of 308 homes with certificates have solar panels, 19 a heat pump, and 181 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 2.1% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 4.7% | 1.3% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 72.1% | 82.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 16.5% | 5.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.3% | 10.0% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.7% | 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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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 476 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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