Amethyst Road Leyton, Waltham Forest

29 addresses across 2 postcodes (E15), about 150 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 22811050.

  • Sales: 31 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £550,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 25 homes have an energy certificate (C: 11, D: 12, E: 1, F: 1).
  • Flood: 9 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 C; Band D in Waltham Forest costs £2,387 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Maryland, about 810 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 190 m away, and Langthorne Park (1.8 hectares) is about 360 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 19.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 10 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 9 of its 29 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is High Road Surgery, about 300 m away, with 17 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 530 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 39% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 223 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£550,000£550,000£550,000
20242£595,000£520,000£670,000
20232£572,500£515,000£630,000
20222£506,500£500,000£513,000
20181£565,000£565,000£565,000
20161£401,500£401,500£401,500
20143£310,000£238,750£376,000
20131£230,000£230,000£230,000
20121£226,500£226,500£226,500
20112£254,500£225,000£284,000
20101£190,000£190,000£190,000
20091£171,500£171,500£171,500
Most recent sales (31)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Jun 202624 E15 2BETerraced£550,000
26 Apr 202413 E15 2BETerraced£670,000
23 Feb 20241 E15 2BETerraced£520,000
20 Dec 202328 E15 2BETerraced£515,000
16 Jun 202313 E15 2BETerraced£410,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Mar 202319 E15 2BETerraced£630,000
18 Feb 202210 E15 2BETerraced£513,000
20 Jan 202225 E15 2BETerraced£500,000
29 Aug 20187 E15 2BESemi-detached£565,000
11 Jan 201624 E15 2BETerraced£401,500
19 Dec 201419 E15 2BETerraced£376,000
31 Jul 201430 E15 2BETerraced£310,000
6 Jun 201430 E15 2BETerraced£238,750
19 Sep 201321 E15 2BETerraced£230,000
24 Aug 201225 E15 2BETerraced£226,500
31 Oct 201120 E15 2BETerraced£225,000
13 Jan 20117 E15 2BESemi-detached£284,000
12 Feb 20109 E15 2BETerraced£190,000
21 Oct 200913 E15 2BETerraced£171,500
6 Oct 200625 E15 2BETerraced£220,000
8 Sep 200623 E15 2BETerraced£226,000
12 Oct 200521 E15 2BETerraced£197,000
29 Nov 200410 E15 2BETerraced£82,000
30 May 200323 E15 2BETerraced£173,500
29 May 200321 E15 2BETerraced£172,000
27 Jul 200019 E15 2BETerraced£105,000
27 Jul 200021 E15 2BETerraced£104,000
26 Aug 199823 E15 2BETerraced£62,000
27 Feb 199816 E15 2BETerraced£58,500
8 Jul 19961 E15 2BETerraced£30,000
25 Mar 199619 E15 2BETerraced£49,000

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 dates from October 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

25 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 66 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (20); House, semi-detached (2); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1900-1929 (12); 1930-1949 (10); before 1900 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (11); owner-occupied (5); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (10 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Waltham Forest in 2026-27: Band D £2,387 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,591£1,857£2,122£2,387£2,917£3,448£3,978£4,774

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (68% of about 690 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 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): Other Article 4 Direction Area, Other Article 4 Direction Area, Other Article 4 Direction Area.
  • 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 15 August 2026: LONDON BOROUGH OF WALTHAM FOREST, Optional permit (no fee) e.g. for traffic management etc, road closure, on the footway, carriageway, verge (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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, 7 at medium risk and 19 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
E15 2BEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E15 2BDnot in 2 or 3 2 / 7 / 19 unlikely

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 addresses are about 10 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
E15 2BD100%100%100%0%
E15 2BE100%100%100%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 stationsMaryland 4.1 million journeys in 2024–25810 m (0.5 miles)
Stratford International 2.7 million journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Stratford (London) 51 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tramLeyton Underground Station620 m (0.4 miles)
Stratford International DLR Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Stratford Underground Station1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 39 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Edith Road Leyton90 m
Bus or coach stationPark View Road (N17) Tottenham Hale6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Ferry terminalEast India Pier5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Car parksStratford International Station Car Park940 m (0.6 miles)
EV charging points52 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity100 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY6.5 km (4 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR33.3 km (21 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 surgeries17 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest High Road Surgery300 m
Pharmacies20 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Acheason Pharmacy300 m
NHS dentists12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Langthorne Health Centre320 m
HospitalWhipps Cross Hospital2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationMetropolitan Police - Waltham House1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone330 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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,880 m²190 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Langthorne Park 1.8 ha360 m
Play area13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 320 m²160 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Drapers Field 2.6 ha400 m (0.2 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Downsell Road Allotments 1,020 m²290 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 3.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is West Ham Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
West Ham ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Wanstead ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-east
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site7.3 km (4.5 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wick FieldWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Bush WoodWood2.2 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Main MarshWetland2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Hackney CutLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) west
Reservoir WoodWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Abbey CreekTidal water2.6 km (1.6 miles) south

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)19.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.6205
Particles (PM10)16.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; all three 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 5990
Under 552029

9 of the street's 29 addresses are 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 Waltham Forest: see them on the Waltham Forest page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Downsell Primary SchoolPrimary2–11210 m Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ronald Openshaw Nursery SchoolNursery2–4450 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Colegrave Primary SchoolPrimary4–11490 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
The Jenny Hammond Primary SchoolPrimary4–11520 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Maryland Primary SchoolPrimary3–11590 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Francis' Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11650 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Harris Academy ChobhamAll-through3–18700 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Mayville AcademyPrimary3–11890 m (0.6 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Buxton SchoolAll-through3–161 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Acacia NurseryNursery2–51.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sarah Bonnell SchoolSecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Newport SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Efem Food & Wine E15 2ABRetailers - other120 m5 Very good27 Mar 2025
After School Club at Downsell Primary School E15 2BSSchool/college/university150 m4 Good9 Sep 2025
Community Links Academy Trust T/A Education Links E15 1TTSchool/college/university170 m5 Very good26 Nov 2025
Busy Angels Day Nursery E15 1DZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good24 Mar 2026
Juniper Pursuits at Downsell Primary School E15 2BSSchool/college/university190 m5 Very good1 Jul 2026
Happy Ninos Nursery & Pre School E15 1NAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good27 May 2025
F.A.M Halal Butchers E11 4HHRetailers - other300 m1 Major improvement necessary30 Apr 2026
F.A.M. Caribbean Groceries E11 4HHRetailers - other300 m1 Major improvement necessary30 Apr 2026
Rustic Shop Costan Ltd E11 4HHRetailers - other300 m4 Good2 May 2026
Dixy Chicken Leytonstone E11 4HHTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m4 Good28 Mar 2026
Acheason Chemist E11 4HHRetailers - other300 mExempt
Tikka Nation/Bunify E11 4HHTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m4 Good16 May 2026
Eat 2 Feed The Needy E11 4HHTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m3 Generally satisfactory16 May 2026
Morley's E11 4HHTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m5 Very good22 Aug 2026
Krystal Lounge E11 4HHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 mAwaiting inspection

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.

223 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences65
Anti-social behaviour56
Vehicle crime33
Other theft18
Drugs11
Criminal damage and arson9
Theft from the person7
Burglary7
Public order6
Possession of weapons5
Robbery3
Other crime3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Drapers Road (48); On or near Brierley Road (23); On or near Edith Road (22); On or near Dunmow Road (22); On or near Downsell Road (15).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 531 residents in 202 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 age3740
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)39%61%
Owned outright18%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented35%17%
Private rented25%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van18%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram27%4%
By any public transport, including bus35%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)75%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%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

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

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.

Nearby streets

Ellingham Road · Dunmow Road · Buttermere Close · Edith Road · Snowberry Close · Dunmow Road · Ashlin Road · Downsell Road · Burgess Road · Stewart Road · Hall Road · Edith Road

All the streets in E15 and across Waltham 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.