Avis Square Stepney, Tower Hamlets

33 addresses across 2 postcodes (E1), about 180 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 22700107.

  • Sales: 26 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £700,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 26 homes have an energy certificate (C: 12, D: 12, E: 2).
  • Flood: 6 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 Tower Hamlets costs £1,838 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 88% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Limehouse, about 340 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Belgrave Open Space, is about 230 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 24.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 11 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 33 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Jubilee Street Practice LTD, about 450 m away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 900 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 16% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 542 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£700,000£700,000£700,000
20251£630,000£630,000£630,000
20241£642,000£642,000£642,000
20181£590,000£590,000£590,000
20161£550,000£550,000£550,000
20151£495,000£495,000£495,000
20112£255,500£121,000£390,000
20091£275,000£275,000£275,000
20062£224,950£149,900£300,000
20051£245,000£245,000£245,000
20044£212,500£144,000£263,500
20033£225,000£124,000£250,000
Most recent sales (26)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Jul 202628 E1 0QDTerraced£700,000
27 Mar 202513 E1 0QDTerraced£630,000
24 May 202411 E1 0QDTerraced£642,000
14 Mar 201830 E1 0QDTerraced£590,000
23 Mar 20162 E1 0QDTerraced£550,000
25 Sep 20151 E1 0QDTerraced£555,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Feb 201511 E1 0QDTerraced£495,000
25 Mar 20117 E1 0QDTerraced£390,000
4 Feb 20115 E1 0QDTerraced£121,000
9 Apr 200924 E1 0QDTerraced£275,000
13 Nov 20066 E1 0QDTerraced£300,000
15 Sep 20069 E1 0QDFlat or maisonette£149,900Leasehold.
15 Jul 200514 E1 0QDTerraced£245,000
30 Jul 200426 E1 0QDTerraced£263,500
5 Mar 20049 E1 0QDFlat or maisonette£144,000Leasehold.
10 Feb 20048 E1 0QDFlat or maisonette£175,000Leasehold.
29 Jan 200421 E1 0QDTerraced£250,000
24 Oct 200325 E1 0QDFlat or maisonette£250,000
22 Aug 200328 E1 0QDTerraced£225,000
19 Aug 200313 E1 0QDTerraced£124,000
11 Jan 20023 E1 0QDTerraced£196,000
24 Mar 199911 E1 0QDTerraced£103,000
28 Aug 199823 E1 0QDTerraced£93,500
8 Apr 199826 E1 0QDTerraced£93,000
27 Feb 199815 E1 0QDTerraced£77,000
15 Jul 199731 E1 0QDTerraced£83,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

26 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 88 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (19); Flat (3); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1950-1966 (16); 1967-1975 (8); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (social) (6); rented (private) (6).

Council tax

What each band costs in Tower Hamlets in 2026-27: Band D £1,838 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,225£1,429£1,634£1,838£2,246£2,655£3,063£3,676

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (35% of about 1,390 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, York Square. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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.

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, 4 at medium risk and 14 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
E1 0QDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
E1 0RAnot in 2 or 3 2 / 4 / 12 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.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 11 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
E1 0QD100%100%100%0%
E1 0RA100%88%88%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 stationsLimehouse 2.6 million journeys in 2024–25340 m
Shadwell 3.9 million journeys in 2024–25940 m
Whitechapel 37 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km
Underground, metro or tramLimehouse DLR Station350 m
Stepney Green Underground Station890 m
Shadwell DLR Station910 m
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m, 35 within 800 m; nearest Stepney Methodist Church Ratcliff90 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus5.9 km
Ferry terminalRotherhithe Pier1.4 km
Car parks3 within 800 m; nearest Parking290 m
EV charging points18 within 1.6 km; nearest Shell Recharge210 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY7.0 km
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR29.3 km

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; nearest The Jubilee Street Practice LTD450 m
Pharmacies18 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Boots400 m
NHS dentists21 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Smile Dental Care Tower Hamlets640 m
HospitalLondon Independent Hospital740 m
Police stationMetropolitan Police Service1.6 km
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest Payzone580 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 garden14 within 800 m; nearest Belgrave Open Space 6,440 m²230 m
Largest park within 800 mKing Edward Memorial Park 3.7 ha520 m
Play area14 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 100 m²180 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Stepney Green 4.4 ha340 m
Allotments2 within 800 m; nearest Cable Street Allotments 4,500 m²500 m

Within 800 m: 14 parks and gardens, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Royal Foundation of St Katharine, a listed building (Grade II*), 350 m south-east. 157 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 2 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Royal Foundation of St KatharineListed building, Grade II*350 m south-east
Parish Church of St Dunstan and All Saints (The Church of the High Seas)Listed building, Grade I360 m north-east
Railings and Gate With Overthrow at No 37Listed building, Grade II*730 m north
Church of St PaulListed building, Grade II*750 m south-west
Roman Bath House, ShadwellScheduled monument1.1 km south-west
The Novo CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km north
Pumping engine house for Brunel's Thames tunnelScheduled monument1.5 km south-west
Bethnal Green GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km north-west
Medieval moated manor house, 43m west of Cathay HouseScheduled monument1.9 km south-west
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site2.3 km west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Limehouse Basin EntranceTidal water670 m south-east
Limehouse BasinLake or reservoir700 m south-east
Shadwell EntranceTidal water760 m south-west
RedriffWetland780 m south
Stave HillHill1.5 km south
Russia Dock WoodlandWood1.8 km south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)24.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.9205
Particles (PM10)16.54015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 553233

1 of the street's 33 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Marion Richardson Primary SchoolPrimary3–11140 m Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary SchoolSecondary11–18270 m Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Exceptional; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Exceptional; Leadership and governance: Exceptional; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Cayley Primary SchoolPrimary3–11460 m No published inspection
Bishop Challoner Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18500 m Good (Nov 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mulberry Stepney Green Mathematics and Computing CollegeSecondary11–18500 m Report card (Jan 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; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Mary and St Michael Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11610 m No published inspection
Halley Primary SchoolPrimary3–11650 m Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sir William Burrough Primary SchoolPrimary3–11690 m No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Stepney Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11730 m Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Blue Gate Fields Junior SchoolPrimary7–11800 m Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Blue Gate Fields Infants' SchoolPrimary3–7800 m No published inspection
Alice Model Nursery SchoolNursery2–5810 m Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Westport Store E1 0RARetailers - other20 m5 Very good19 Jun 2025
Westport Wines E1 0RARetailers - other30 m4 Good4 Mar 2025
Westport Street Care Centre Kitchen E1 0RAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises50 m5 Very good29 May 2026
Golden Fish Bazar E1 0RARetailers - other50 m2 Improvement necessary22 Aug 2024
New Classic Xpress E1 0HJRetailers - other90 m4 Good4 Sep 2023
Troxy Restaurant E1 0HXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good20 Jul 2023
Two Magpies Cafe E1 0HJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good20 May 2025
Docklands Fish Bar E1 0HYTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m5 Very good20 May 2025
Rayyans E1 0HYRetailers - other110 m5 Very good16 Jun 2026
Spirits of East E1 0HYRetailers - other120 m5 Very good8 Jan 2026
Cafe Mimoza E1 0HYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good9 Jun 2025
Taj Mahal Fried Chicken & Grill E1 0HYTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good24 Nov 2025
Marion Richardson Primary School Kitchen E1 0QFSchool/college/university130 m5 Very good10 Dec 2025
Bubblewrap E1 0HSTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m5 Very good23 Jul 2026
Hung Tou E1 0HYTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m5 Very good20 May 2025

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.

542 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences166
Anti-social behaviour94
Drugs47
Other theft41
Shoplifting32
Vehicle crime29
Public order28
Burglary27
Theft from the person25
Robbery18
Criminal damage and arson14
Possession of weapons7
Other crime7
Bicycle theft7

Most of these are attached to: On or near Boulcott Street (58); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (54); On or near Chudleigh Street (40); On or near Ratcliffe Cross Street (38); On or near Senrab Street (28).

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: 904 residents in 260 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 age3040
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)16%61%
Owned outright8%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented72%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work44%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)14%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)10%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van21%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram30%4%
By any public transport, including bus41%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)86%65%
Work 30 km or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications31%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)70%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all10%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 2 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.

  • E1 0QD: 32 addresses
  • E1 0RA: 1 address of 113 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Westport Street · Old Church Road · Bromley Street · Chudleigh Street · Head Street · Pitsea Street · Walter Terrace · Belgrave Street · Antill Terrace · Pitsea Place · Boulcott Street · Ratcliffe Cross Street

All the streets in E1 and across Tower Hamlets.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

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