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On Barley Mead, in Danbury & Bicknacre
What it's like at CM3 4RP: every home that has sold on Barley 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.
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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).
Sales and extensions on Barley Mead; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 28 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Barley MeadDetached | Aug 2025 | £672,000 | 164 m² | £4,098/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Barley MeadDetached | Oct 2020 | £490,000 | 114 m² | £4,298/m² | 3 |
| 2a, Barley MeadDetached | Apr 2016 | £375,000 | 84 m² | £4,464/m² | 1 |
| 4, Barley MeadDetached | Mar 2019 | £530,000 | 122 m² | £4,344/m² | 2 |
| 5, Barley MeadDetached | May 2024 | £505,000 | 101 m² | £5,000/m² | 1 |
| 6, Barley MeadDetached | Sept 2006 | £380,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 7, Barley MeadDetached | Sept 2018 | £495,000 | 97 m² | £5,103/m² | 2 |
| 8, Barley MeadDetached | Jul 2001 | £272,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 9, Barley MeadDetached | Sept 2024 | £530,000 | 102 m² | £5,196/m² | 2 |
| 10, Barley MeadDetached | Oct 2012 | £408,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 11, Barley MeadDetached | May 2011 | £310,000 | 103 m² | £3,010/m² | 1 |
| 12, Barley MeadDetached | Feb 2017 | £485,000 | 102 m² | £4,755/m² | 1 |
| 15, Barley MeadDetached | Aug 2014 | £385,000 | 105 m² | £3,667/m² | 1 |
| 18, Barley MeadDetached | Apr 2007 | £325,000 | 122 m² | £2,664/m² | 1 |
| 21, Barley MeadDetached | Jul 2001 | £245,000 | 120 m² | £2,042/m² | 1 |
| 22, Barley MeadDetached | Mar 1995 | £160,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 24, Barley MeadDetached | Oct 2007 | £490,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 26, Barley MeadDetached | Sept 2001 | £235,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 28, Barley MeadDetached | Nov 2023 | £575,000 | 115 m² | £5,000/m² | 1 |
| 30, Barley MeadDetached | Aug 2012 | £392,500 | 103 m² | £3,811/m² | 1 |
| 34, Barley MeadDetached | Jun 2007 | £380,000 | 126 m² | £3,016/m² | 1 |
| 36, Barley MeadDetached | Jun 2017 | £490,000 | 103 m² | £4,757/m² | 1 |
| 38, Barley MeadDetached | Dec 2016 | £560,000 | 114 m² | £4,912/m² | 1 |
| 42, Barley MeadDetached | Oct 2024 | £630,000 | 137 m² | £4,599/m² | 3 |
| 44, Barley MeadDetached | Dec 2006 | £357,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 46, Barley MeadDetached | Apr 2014 | £417,000 | 134 m² | £3,112/m² | 1 |
| 48, Barley MeadDetached | Jul 2011 | £367,000 | 100 m² | £3,670/m² | 1 |
| Ridings Cottage, 1a, Barley MeadDetached | Dec 2010 | £362,500 | 145 m² | £2,500/m² | 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 drive away (7.4 km).
The nearest bus stop is Runsell Green, 500 m away, with a bus about every 17 minutes on weekdays (routes 375, 333, 331, 31).
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 short drive or bike ride (1.4 km); 71% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
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, 1.4 km away, with Tesco closer still (550 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Beacon Health Group-Danbury Medical Ctr (850 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (1.2 km).
For a haircut, Images Hairdressing is 1.2 km 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.
Zara Indian Cuisine is the closest café or restaurant (950 m), and The Anchor PH the nearest pub (550 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 Village Green, 1.1 km 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.
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.
2 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.
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%.
10 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 4RP →
On this street: 3 of 21 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 5 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% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 72.1% | 82.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 16.4% | 5.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.2% | 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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 28 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.