Amanda Close Chigwell, Epping Forest

1 address across 1 postcode (IG7), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 13801632.

  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Epping Forest costs £2,277 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 96% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Newbury Racecourse, about 3.3 km (2.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 140 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 42 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Chigwell Medical Centre, about 350 m away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 38% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 281 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Epping Forest in 2026-27: Band D £2,277 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,518£1,771£2,024£2,277£2,783£3,289£3,795£4,554

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (51% of about 740 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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 on or by this street. 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's address is about 42 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
IG7 5LU100%96%96%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsNewbury Racecourse 115,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2.1 miles)
Seven Kings 4.1 million journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.9 miles)
Goodmayes 4.8 million journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.9 miles)
Underground, metro or tramHainault Underground Station360 m
Grange Hill Underground Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Grange Hill Underground Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Amanda Close Grange Hill90 m
Ferry terminalBarking Riverside Pier Creekmouth10.1 km (6.3 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hainault Station Car Park (TfL)310 m
EV charging points14 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station300 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY11.3 km (7 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN32.7 km (20 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chigwell Medical Centre350 m
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chigwell Pharmacy350 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Fencepiece Dental Practice410 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalKing George Hospital3.2 km (2 miles)
Police stationBarkingside Police Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Gainsborough Studios, Islington250 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.8 ha140 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 880 m²240 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Oakfield Playing Fields 20 ha790 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Forest Farm Peace Garden 3.7 ha540 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 4.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hospital Hill WoodWood1.4 km (0.8 miles) west
Fairlop WatersLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Cocked Hat PlantationWood1.7 km (1 mile) south-west
Egg ClumpWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Dog Kennel HillHill3.3 km (2.1 miles) east
Lincoln IslandIsland4.9 km (3.1 miles) south-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)14.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.6205
Particles (PM10)13.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 5501

1 of the street's 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Epping Forest: see them on the Epping Forest page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Limes Farm Junior SchoolPrimary7–11380 m No published inspection
Limes Farm Infant School and NurseryPrimary3–7380 m No published inspection
Fairlop Primary SchoolPrimary3–11810 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Manford Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Wohl Ilford Jewish Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
King Solomon High School JewishSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
John Bramston Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Clore Tikva School JewishPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mossford Green Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ilford County High SchoolSecondary11–181.7 km (1 mile) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Gilbert Colvin Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Forest AcademySecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Sodexo IG6 2UURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good7 Aug 2025
Delroy's Grill House IG6 2UETakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good30 May 2025
Monsoon Restaurant IG6 2UERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m3 Generally satisfactory29 Apr 2026
CVS Super Store IG6 2UERetailers - other290 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Feb 2026
Zamzam Halal Butchers IG6 2UERetailers - other290 m1 Major improvement necessary10 Jul 2025
Lidl IG6 2SURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets310 m5 Very good17 Feb 2025
Flying Start Day Nursery IG7 5NTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m5 Very good29 Sep 2025
NISA IG7 5NTRetailers - other350 m4 Good1 Oct 2026
Limes kitchen IG7 5NTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good15 Oct 2026
Oriental Kitchen IG6 2UATakeaway/sandwich shop380 m2 Improvement necessary10 Jul 2025
Costcutter IG6 3BDRetailers - other390 m3 Generally satisfactory30 Apr 2025
Shimla Mirch IG7 5NTTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good24 Apr 2026
Sky Kebab & Pizza IG7 5NTTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good15 Oct 2026
Station Hainault Peri Peri & Pizza on Fire IG6 3BDTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)3 Generally satisfactory29 Apr 2026
Gullotti Cafe IG6 3BSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 May 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

281 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences76
Anti-social behaviour71
Shoplifting49
Vehicle crime25
Public order13
Burglary12
Criminal damage and arson11
Robbery8
Drugs5
Possession of weapons4
Other theft3
Other crime2
Theft from the person2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Andrew Close (59); On or near Thurlow Gardens (49); On or near Hughes Road (35); On or near Amanda Close (33); On or near Copperfield (31).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 359 residents in 135 households. 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.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3240
Children under 1526%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)38%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented42%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van41%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram20%4%
By any public transport, including bus27%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)53%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away0%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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.

What has changed

  • Food hygiene ratings NISA (retailers - other, IG7 5NT) now 4 Good, was 3 Generally satisfactory (rated 1 October 2026) found 30 October 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • IG7 5LU: 1 address of 31 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Amanda Close · Navigation Mews · Hughes Road · Franklyn Gardens · Marine Crescent · Andrew Close · Laing Close · Elmswood · Southdale · Thurlow Gardens · Hazelbrouck Gardens · Maypole Crescent

All the streets in IG7 and across Epping Forest.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.