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On Halstead Road, in Halstead East & Colnes
What it's like at CO6 2LR: every home that has sold on Halstead 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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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 Halstead Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 151 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 8, Halstead RoadTerraced | Jun 2011 | £200,000 | 165 m² | £1,212/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 - 10, Halstead RoadTerraced | Apr 1997 | £57,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 10, Halstead RoadTerraced | Nov 2003 | £144,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Priory Farm Barn, Halstead RoadDetached | Sept 2007 | £347,500 | 169 m² | £2,056/m² | 1 |
| Priory Farm Granary, Halstead RoadDetached | Nov 1996 | £72,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Priory Farm House, Halstead RoadDetached | Sept 2003 | £408,000 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Chappel & Wakes Colne, a drive away (4.3 km), with 33k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Liverpool Street.
The nearest bus stop is Station Road, 150 m away, with a bus about every 30 minutes on weekdays (routes 88, 89, 814); 9 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 58 minutes away by public transport (32 by car).
Central London is 73 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Earls Colne Primary School and Nursery, about a 5-minute walk (550 m); 54% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is The Ramsey Academy, Halstead, 4.0 km away; Attainment 8: 39.3 · 6.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Colchester County High School for Girls (14.6 km).
The nearest supermarket is East Of England Co-op, 200 m away; Fresh And Wild Fish (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Pump House Surgery (150 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, @The Courtyard is 5.1 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Colchester General Hospital, 15 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: 9 restaurants and cafés, 8 pubs and bars.
Pulse Studio is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and The Drum Inn the nearest pub (200 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 36 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 167 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 6% flats and 37% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 330 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
A swim is a short trip away: Friars Meadow, River Stour, 12 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.6 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, London Stansted is 31 km away.
29 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 9 and 10, Colne Green | II | 0 m |
| 7, Colne Green | II | 10 m |
| 6, Colne Green | II | 20 m |
| Telephone Kiosk | II | 60 m |
| Central Block of Atlas Works | II | 80 m |
| Priory Farmhouse | II | 80 m |
| Granary Approximately 10 Metres South East of Priory Farmhouse | II | 90 m |
| South Lodge to Colne House | II | 100 m |
| Gas Lamp and Standard Approximately 18 Metres East of Central Block of Atlas Works | II | 110 m |
| 1, High Street | II | 120 m |
| 3 and 5, High Street | II | 130 m |
| the Willows | II | 140 m |
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%.
5 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 CO6 2LR →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 41% 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.
Nearest 12 shown. 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.
On this street: 2 of 101 homes with certificates have solar panels, 2 a heat pump, and 35 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.5% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.9% | 1.9% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 91.4% | 78.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 5.1% | 9.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.1% | 9.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
Nearest: Manningtree Beach, Stour Estuary · about 35 min
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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 151 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.