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AREA GUIDES
Chelmsford Area Guide
CM1 6AU · Chelmsford · Essex
A clearer picture of local life, the housing market and the things that shape your day.
CM1 6AUChange
WEATHER
Weather this week
Forecast for CM1 6AU.
OVERVIEW
Overview
A concise snapshot before the detail below.
YOUR LOCAL PICTURE
Around Chelmsford
CM1 6AU is in the Chelmsford local authority area. The nearest listed railway station is Beaulieu Park, about 0.8 miles from this location. Explore local services and travel connections below, alongside housing and planning records.
HOUSING MARKET
Explore house prices →Housing market
Completed property sales and the wider area price trend.
15 Sep 2025 – 24 Jul 2026
June 2026
June 2026 compared with a year earlier
The median is the middle recorded sale in the sample above. The official index adjusts for the mix of homes sold across a wider area. Recent registrations can arrive late; neither figure values an individual home.
What could that cost each month?
Take a recorded price into the mortgage calculator. Adjust the property price, deposit, rate and term for the home you have in mind.
PLANNING
View all planning →Planning
Recent nearby applications and a route to the full planning view.
Checking recent planning…This section will update when the latest local records are ready.
LOCAL LIFE
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What’s around here?
A lighter snapshot of useful local places, showing only the results available in each section.
Food & drink
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Beaulieu Community Centre
Springfield Community Centre, 17 Centenary Way, Springfield, Chelmsford
Restaurants
Coffee Squared Limited
61 Centenary Way, Springfield, Chelmsford
Cafés & coffee
Churchills Fish And Chips
5 Centenary Way, Springfield, Chelmsford
Restaurants
Costa
1 Centenary Way, Chelmsford
Cafés & coffee
Shops & wellbeing
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Cafés & coffee
View all →Some unclaimed business pages use category illustrations until the business adds its own photographs.
Food hygiene data: Food Standards Agency / local authorities, OGL. Place and available business details: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
LIVING HERE
Living here
Schools, population, reported crime and employment.
This information is updating.
This information is updating.
This information is updating.
This information is updating.
REPRESENTATION
Who represents this area?
Current representation and recent general-election history for this constituency.
GETTING AROUND
Getting around
Roads, rail, nearby car parks, EV charging, driving charges and airports.
NEARBY CAR PARKS
View all →Nearby car parks
The closest useful mapped car parks.
- Meadows Retail Multi-storey →Paid · 391 spaces · Chelmsford City Council2.2 miView car park →
- Tydemans →Paid3.1 miView car park →
- Beehive Lane →Free4.1 miView car park →
- 4.4 miView car park →
Nearby fuel prices
View allUp to four forecourts within 5 miles of CM1 6AU, ordered by unleaded price. Prices in pence per litre.
Official UK Fuel Finder data
EV CHARGING
View all →Nearby EV charging
Nearest public charging locations with useful charger details where available.
No reliable nearby EV-charger result is available right now.
NEAREST MAJOR AIRPORT
Airport information
Checking airport information…
NEARBY PLACES & OUTDOORS
Nearby places & outdoors
Useful nearby places, green space and walking routes.
Useful nearby places
HMP Chelmsford1.8 miles away
Green space and walks
- Danbury4.0 mi
- Blackwater Rail Trail6.3 mi
- Blackwater Estuary12.3 mi
- North Downs Way26.1 mi
- Thames Path27.0 mi
Distance is to the nearest mapped point; it does not guarantee immediate access to the route from this postcode.
Vets near this area
Explore practice profiles, owner reviews and contact details around CM1 6AU.
- Spring Lodge Veterinary GroupChelmsford CM1 6AUAbout 0.0 miles away
- Westpoint Farm Vets, ChelmsfordChelmsford CM1 7TGAbout 0.6 miles away
- Spring Lodge Veterinary GroupChelmsford CM1 4DUAbout 1.3 miles away
- Vista VetsChelmsford CM2 6TEAbout 1.3 miles away
- Medivet ChelmsfordChelmsford CM2 6ANAbout 1.3 miles away
- Pets at Home ChelmsfordChelmsford CM2 6XEAbout 2.0 miles away
Published practices within 10 miles, ordered by approximate straight-line distance from the map point. Some practice locations use postcode centres. This is not a quality ranking or a complete directory.
Find and compare vets near CM1 6AUCoverage at a glanceIndoor and outdoor coverage around CM1 6AU
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EEIndoor: LimitedOutdoor: Likely
Three
ThreeIndoor: LimitedOutdoor: Likely
O2
O2Indoor: LimitedOutdoor: Likely
Vodafone
VodafoneIndoor: LikelyOutdoor: Likely
UTILITIES & BROADBAND
Utilities & broadband
BIN DAYS
Check bin days →Collection dates are address-specific
Use the postcode, then choose the exact household before Place Keys shows collection dates.
Data, sources and limitationsSources, refresh dates and important context
Key sources
Weather: MET Norway, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Mobile coverage and broadband: Ofcom. Population: ONS / Nomis where available. Property sales: HM Land Registry. Local places may include Food Standards Agency and OpenStreetMap data. Elections use published constituency results and current representative data.
How to read the figures
Small-area population is a defined statistical geography, not a town total or mileage radius. Distances are approximate straight-line or mapped distances unless a module states otherwise. Older election results may use pre-2024 constituency boundaries.
Dataset dates
- Weather: 15 Sep 2026, 13:14
- Sold prices: most recent displayed sale 24 Jul 2026