Apsley Way City of Westminster, Westminster

5 addresses across 4 postcodes (SW1X,W1J), about 150 m long. USRN 8401712.

  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 H; Band D in Westminster costs £1,050 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 25% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is London Victoria, about 930 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Green Park, is about 130 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 28.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 14 to 16 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 5 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Knightsbridge Medical Centre, about 780 m (0.5 miles) away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 630 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 36% of households owned their home and 57% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 386 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often theft from the person.

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

ABCDEFGH
£700£816£933£1,050£1,283£1,516£1,749£2,099

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band H (51% of about 3,220 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: yes, Belgravia, Mayfair, Royal Parks (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 3.
  • 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

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 31 October 2026.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
W1J 7NTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SW1X 7HJnot in 2 or 3
SW1X 7TAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
W1J 7NSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 5 addresses are between 14 m and 16 m above sea level (15 m on average).

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
SW1X 7HJ75%75%75%0%
SW1X 7TA100%100%100%0%
W1J 7NS100%100%100%0%
W1J 7NT25%25%25%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 stationsLondon Victoria 54 million journeys in 2024–25930 m (0.6 miles)
Bond Street 43 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
London Charing Cross 20 million journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Underground, metro or tramHyde Park Corner Underground Station100 m
Knightsbridge Underground Station650 m (0.4 miles)
Green Park Underground Station760 m (0.5 miles)
Bus stops24 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 49 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hyde Park Corner60 m
Bus or coach stationVictoria Station770 m (0.5 miles)
Ferry terminalWestminster Pier1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Car parks12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mayfair - Achilles Way Car Park250 m
EV charging points62 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge300 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY14.3 km (8.9 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR21.7 km (14 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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Knightsbridge Medical Centre780 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies29 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Pharmacy At Mayfair & Clinic550 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists26 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Beresford Clinic690 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalThe Gordon Hospital1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationPolice Roll Of Honour Trust730 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machinesNatWest1 km (0.6 miles)

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 garden13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Green Park 19 ha130 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Hyde Park 130 ha170 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 370 m²390 m
Playing fieldWestminster School Playing Field 3.7 ha1.5 km (1 mile)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,020 m²2.7 km (1.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 13 parks and gardens, 158 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Wellington Arch, a listed building (Grade I), 30 m. 761 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 48 of them Grade I and 86 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wellington ArchListed building, Grade I30 m
Royal Artillery MemorialListed building, Grade I50 m west
Machine Gun Corps MemorialListed building, Grade II*80 m north-east
Forecourt Railings, Piers and Gates to Apsley HouseListed building, Grade I90 m north
The Grosvenor Estate: Wilton CrescentRegistered park or garden, Grade II380 m south-west
The Grosvenor Estate: Belgrave SquareRegistered park or garden, Grade II410 m (0.3 miles) south
The Chapter House and Pyx Chamber in the abbey cloisters, Westminster AbbeyScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's ChurchWorld Heritage Site1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
The Jewel TowerScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
St James's Park LakeLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
The SerpentineLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.8 miles) west
Duck IslandIsland1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Pelican PoolLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Paddington GreenWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-west
Barrow HillHill4 km (2.5 miles) north

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)28.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.9205
Particles (PM10)16.74015

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

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
70 to 74400
65 to 69100
Under 55055

5 of the street's 5 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 Westminster: see them on the Westminster 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
St George's Hanover Square CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11700 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Peter's Eaton Square CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11780 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Westminster City School ChristianSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Vincent De Paul Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Holy Trinity CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St. Thomas More Language College Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Barnabas' CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Grey Coat Hospital Church of EnglandSecondary11–181.4 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Burdett-Coutts and Townshend Foundation CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Harris Westminster Sixth Form16 plus16–191.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Ada National College for Digital Skills16 plus16–991.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

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
H&W Catering Ltd SW1X 7HJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m4 Good23 Mar 2021
The Peninsula London Hotel SW1X 7HJHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house100 m5 Very good22 Jul 2026
Bridges SW1X 7LYRetailers - other120 mAwaiting inspection
Apax Partners LLP SW1X 7LXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good13 Nov 2025
THE PEMBROKE CLUB Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good25 Sep 2026
Hotel Intercontinental W1J 7QYHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house180 m5 Very good16 Feb 2026
The Wellesley Hotel SW1X 7LYHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house180 m5 Very good13 Nov 2025
Kosher Central London SW1X 7HHRetailers - other190 m5 Very good1 Jun 2023
Chabad Belgravia SW1X 7HHTakeaway/sandwich shop190 mExempt
Four Seasons Hotel W1J 7DRHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house200 m5 Very good24 Sep 2026
Company of Cooks @ The Royal Aeronautical Society W1J 7BQOther catering premises200 m5 Very good27 Jan 2026
Les Ambassadeurs Club W1J 7EDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good3 Dec 2025
Hard Rock Cafe W1K 1QZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good18 Jun 2026
Rose & Crown W1K 1QNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good28 Nov 2024
The Caledonian Club SW1X 7DRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m4 Good16 Apr 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.

386 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Theft from the person139
Violence and sexual offences66
Other theft65
Anti-social behaviour40
Public order22
Drugs14
Robbery9
Bicycle theft9
Criminal damage and arson9
Vehicle crime7
Burglary4
Shoplifting1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hamilton Mews (138); On or near Grosvenor Crescent Mews (119); On or near Further/Higher Educational Building (66); On or near Grantham Place (40); On or near Headfort Place (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: 625 residents in 221 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 age3940
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)36%61%
Owned outright27%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented61%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work66%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)67%32%
Travel to work by car or van5%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram13%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)92%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)57%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)59%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 8 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 Cafe Eighty-One (restaurant/cafe/canteen, SW1X 7RB) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 20 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings La Mome London (restaurant/cafe/canteen, SW1X 7RL) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 22 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The Colony Club Limited (restaurant/cafe/canteen, W1J 7SA) now 5 Very good, was 4 Good (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.

  • W1J 7NT: 2 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • SW1X 7HJ: 1 address of 103 in the postcode
  • SW1X 7TA: 1 address of 4 in the postcode
  • W1J 7NS: 1 address of 27 in the postcode

Nearby streets

A4 · A4 · Piccadilly · Grosvenor Place · Lanesborough Place · Pembroke Close · Grosvenor Place · Halkin Street · Headfort Place · Grosvenor Crescent · Hamilton Mews · Grosvenor Crescent Mews

All the streets in SW1X, W1J and across Westminster.

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.