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On Alverton Close, in Braintree West & Rayne
What it's like at CM77 7XU: every home that has sold on Alverton Close 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 Alverton Close; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 17 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Alverton CloseDetached | Jan 2022 | £622,500 | 164 m² | £3,796/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Alverton CloseDetached | May 2016 | £440,000 | 149 m² | £2,953/m² | 2 |
| 3, Alverton CloseDetached | May 1997 | £130,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 4, Alverton CloseDetached | Apr 2022 | £600,000 | 144 m² | £4,167/m² | 3 |
| 5, Alverton CloseDetached | Jan 2003 | £229,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 6, Alverton CloseDetached | Feb 2017 | £450,000 | 127 m² | £3,543/m² | 4 |
| 7, Alverton CloseDetached | Jun 2002 | £210,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 8, Alverton CloseDetached | Jul 2002 | £262,000 | 129 m² | £2,031/m² | 2 |
| 9, Alverton CloseDetached | Aug 2017 | £505,055 | 144 m² | £3,507/m² | 2 |
| 10, Alverton CloseDetached | Apr 1997 | £133,000 | 127 m² | £1,047/m² | 1 |
| 11, Alverton CloseDetached | Feb 1997 | £130,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 12, Alverton CloseDetached | Sept 2025 | £500,000 | 146 m² | £3,425/m² | 3 |
| 14, Alverton CloseDetached | Dec 2018 | £490,000 | 130 m² | £3,769/m² | 2 |
| 15, Alverton CloseDetached | Aug 2016 | £385,000 | 113 m² | £3,407/m² | 2 |
| 16, Alverton CloseDetached | Apr 2018 | £425,000 | 106 m² | £4,009/m² | 4 |
| 17, Alverton CloseDetached | Dec 2012 | £315,246 | 125 m² | £2,522/m² | 3 |
| 19, Alverton CloseDetached | Jul 2023 | £555,000 | 169 m² | £3,284/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Braintree, a short drive or bike ride (2.8 km), with 631k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Liverpool Street.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 45 minutes away by public transport (21 by car).
Central London is 61 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 7% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is White Court School, a few minutes' walk (500 m); 64% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is St Michael's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School (1.1 km).
The nearest secondary is Notley High School and Sixth Form, 2.1 km away; Attainment 8: 44.9 · 10.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Chelmsford County High School for Girls (15 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 350 m away; The Co-op (650 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Blandford Medical Centre (2.4 km), with Tesco In-Store Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, Passion is 2.7 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Colchester General Hospital, 26 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: 7 restaurants and cafés, 4 pubs and bars.
The Prince Louis is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and King William IV PH the nearest pub (1.2 km).
It's a low-crime area: about 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 80 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 45% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 235 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Notley Green, 500 m away; for exercise, Chelmsford City Racecourse (2.2 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.7 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Stansted is 20 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 43% of households own their home outright.
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.
17 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%.
4 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 CM77 7XU →
On this street: 0 of 13 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 | 1.4% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.5% | 1.9% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 93.7% | 78.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 3.9% | 9.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.5% | 9.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Braintree 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 17 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Canvey Island Foreshore · about 46 min
Nearest: Colne Valley Railway · about 32 min
Nearest: Colchester Zoo · about 33 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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