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On Maldon Road, in Layer-de-la-Haye, Abberton & Mersea East
What it's like at CO5 7RH: every home that has sold on Maldon 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates). 4 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 Maldon Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 179 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| Chestnut Farm, Maldon RoadDetached | Jul 2007 | £545,000 | 82 m² | £6,646/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drakes Cottage, Maldon RoadDetached | May 2026 | £650,000 | – | – | 4 |
| Greenacres, Maldon RoadDetached | Apr 2003 | £55,300 | 308 m² | £180/m² | 1 |
| Greenacres Farmhouse, Maldon RoadDetached | Jun 2000 | £335,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Honeysuckle Cottage, Maldon RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2010 | £242,500 | 51 m² | £4,755/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Wivenhoe, a drive away (9.3 km), with 352k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Liverpool Street.
The nearest bus stop is School Lane South, 400 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 820).
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 41 minutes away by public transport (21 by car).
Central London is 76 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 6% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Mersea Island School, a drive away (4.7 km); 56% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
Grammar schools are within reach: Colchester County High School for Girls (6.6 km) and Colchester Royal Grammar School (7 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco West Mersea Express, 4.4 km away, with Wigborough Traditional Meats closer still (1.8 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is West Mersea Surgery (4.8 km), with Island Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (4.6 km).
The nearest full A&E is Colchester General Hospital, 9.8 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: 11 restaurants and cafés, 9 pubs and bars.
Essex Wildlife Sales is the closest café or restaurant (2.9 km), and The Plough the nearest pub (2.1 km).
It's a low-crime area: about 43 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 267 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 60% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 246 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is West Mersea Park, 4.7 km away; for exercise, Woodup Amenity Pool (4.5 km).
A swim is a short trip away: West Mersea, 8.5 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.7 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, London Southend is 30 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 42 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 48% of households own their home outright.
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.
Witham constituency: Priti Patel MP (Conservative), since May 2010. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 5,145 (10.2%), turnout 64%. Vote shares: Conservative 37%, Labour 27%, Reform UK 20%, Green Party 7%.
1 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 CO5 7RH →
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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Colchester 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 179 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Colne Valley Railway · about 43 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 1 of 129 homes with certificates have solar panels, 2 a heat pump, and 33 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.4% | 1.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 3.7% | 0.8% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 57.1% | 81.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 32.8% | 6.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.7% | 11.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.1% | 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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