W2 2BB Westminster

Streets

• Connaught Street, Paddington: 24 addresses

Council tax

What each band costs in Westminster in 2026-27: Band D £1,050 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band G (34% of about 980 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

• Conservation area: yes, Bayswater (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
• Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 12.
• Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed.
• Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
• Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

• 1-23, ALBION STREET W2, grade II
• 12-34, CONNAUGHT STREET W2, grade II
• 24 AND 25, ALBION STREET W2 (See details for further address information), grade II
• 28-45, ALBION STREET W2, grade II
• 3-9, PORCHESTER PLACE W2, grade II
• 39-47, KENDAL STREET W2 (See details for further address information), grade II
• 4-16, PORCHESTER PLACE W2, grade II
• 40-48, CONNAUGHT STREET W2, grade II
• 61-65, CONNAUGHT STREET W2, grade II
• 7-57, CONNAUGHT STREET W2, grade II
• ARVON COURT, grade II
• DUKE OF KENDAL, grade II

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

• Development At 112-130 Edgware Road, 136-138 George Street And 24 Nutford Place, London, W1H 5YQ, permissioned (270 m)
• Development At 112-130 Edgware Road, 136-138 George Street And 24 Nutford Place London W1H 5YQ, permissioned (270 m)
• 33 Seymour Place London W1H 5AP, permissioned (360 m)
• Marble Arch Apartments 11 Harrowby Street London W1H 5PQ, permissioned (360 m)
• Vincent Court Seymour Place London W1H 2ND, permissioned (430 m)
• Development Site At 5-9 Marble Arch, 2-20 (evens) Edgware Road & 53-59 (odd) Bryanston Street London, permissioned (450 m)
• 47 Great Cumberland Place London W1H 7TQ, permissioned (450 m)
• Cambridge Court Sussex Gardens London W2 1EU, permissioned (470 m)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

No address in this postcode is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 100%, gigabit 100% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

No census figures match these postcodes.

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 7 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.