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On Chaucer Crescent, in Braintree South
What it's like at CM7 1AQ: every home that has sold on Chaucer Crescent 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Chaucer Crescent; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 15 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, Chaucer CrescentSemi-detached | Apr 2010 | £160,000 | 93 m² | £1,720/m² | 2 |
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| 3, Chaucer CrescentSemi-detached | Feb 2020 | £210,000 | 64 m² | £3,281/m² | 1 |
| 7, Chaucer CrescentSemi-detached | Sept 2011 | £125,000 | 64 m² | £1,953/m² | 1 |
| 13, Chaucer CrescentTerraced | May 2016 | £235,000 | 79 m² | £2,975/m² | 2 |
| 14, Chaucer CrescentSemi-detached | May 2017 | £236,000 | 63 m² | £3,746/m² | 1 |
| 16, Chaucer CrescentSemi-detached | Jul 2024 | £290,000 | 66 m² | £4,394/m² | 2 |
| 18, Chaucer CrescentSemi-detached | Nov 2022 | £247,000 | 63 m² | £3,921/m² | 2 |
| 19, Chaucer CrescentSemi-detached | Aug 2002 | £101,000 | 92 m² | £1,098/m² | 2 |
| 23, Chaucer CrescentSemi-detached | Jun 2001 | £74,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 24, Chaucer CrescentTerraced | Aug 2019 | £222,000 | 64 m² | £3,469/m² | 2 |
| 25, Chaucer CrescentSemi-detached | Sept 2023 | £275,000 | 76 m² | £3,618/m² | 5 |
| 27, Chaucer CrescentTerraced | Jun 2025 | £275,000 | 84 m² | £3,274/m² | 1 |
| 29, Chaucer CrescentTerraced | Nov 2015 | £203,000 | 109 m² | £1,862/m² | 1 |
| 35, Chaucer CrescentSemi-detached | Nov 2002 | £115,000 | 78 m² | £1,474/m² | 2 |
| 43, Chaucer CrescentSemi-detached | Sept 2020 | £223,000 | 66 m² | £3,379/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Braintree Freeport, about a 10-minute walk (800 m), with 142k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Liverpool Street.
The nearest bus stop is Milton Avenue, 100 m away, with a bus about every 35 minutes on weekdays (route 21BR); 19 departures an hour from the 12 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Central London is 63 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is John Ray Junior School, a few minutes' walk (350 m); 62% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is St Michael's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School (1.8 km).
The nearest secondary is Notley High School and Sixth Form, 400 m away; Attainment 8: 44.9 · 10.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is The Co-op, 250 m away; Challis Convenience Stores (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Blyth'S Meadow Surgery (1.1 km), with Challis Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (200 m).
For a haircut, Avenues is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Colchester General Hospital, 23 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 59% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 61% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 21 restaurants and cafés, 1 pubs and bars.
Costa Coffee is the closest café or restaurant (950 m), and The Sportsman the nearest pub (1.1 km).
Crime is around the national middle: about 86 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 18% flats and 14% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
The nearest park is Brain Valley Park, 500 m away; for exercise, Braintree Swimming Centre (900 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Stansted is 22 km away.
Most households own their home, 17% 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.
14 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.
Braintree constituency: Sir James Cleverly MP (Conservative), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 3,670 (7.5%), turnout 63%. Vote shares: Conservative 36%, Labour 28%, Reform UK 23%, Liberal Democrat 6%.
17 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 CM7 1AQ →
Nearest: Manningtree Beach, Stour Estuary · about 42 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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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 15 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 1 of 14 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 1.9% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 88.9% | 78.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 9.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 9.0% | 9.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 1.4% | 0.4% | 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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