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Get started40 Well Lane is a four-bedroom detached house in Galleywood, Chelmsford, Chelmsford (CM2 8QZ). It has a recorded floor area of 142 m² (around 1528 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (November 2019) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump.
Sale prices here have outpaced Chelmsford HPI: 3.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £699,000 is 10.5% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£414/sq ft) was about 24.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 142 m² the property is well over the postcode median (98 m² across 41 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 4 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused. Sold September 2020 for £632,500.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
Extension: Part single, part two storey · Rear of property
Proposed part single storey and part two storey rear extensions. New porch to the front elevation.
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£699,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 3.2% per year over 14 years.
£632,500
Growth on file: 3.2% per year over 14 years.
40 Well Lane outperforms the street on floor area by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£4,454
Street avg £4,363
Floor Area
142 m²
Street avg 105 m²
Habitable Rooms
7 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
12/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
49.6dB

T1 Ash - rear garden boundary - remove both major laterals, either side of the main stem, back to base - to reduce possibility of failure due to lever action - remaining centre stem, clean out deadwood.
2 more applications for this property
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11 September 2020Most recent
£632,500
+56.2%over 14 years18 May 2006
£405,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in CM2 8QZ: £520,000 (2025–2023).
Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
5.3 t/year
Street avg 4.7 t/year
CM2 8QE
Well Lane — bus stop.
Closest school
0.4 km
Galleywood Infant School. 9 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
41.3dB
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