Boundary Row Southwark, Lambeth

1 address across 1 postcode (SE1), about 40 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 21902162.

  • 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 F; Band D in Lambeth costs £2,047 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is London Waterloo East, about 270 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Nelson Square Garden, is about 170 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 29.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 10.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 3 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 Blackfriars Medical Practice, about 330 m away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 140 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 16% of households owned their home and 37% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1,091 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 Lambeth in 2026-27: Band D £2,047 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,365£1,592£1,820£2,047£2,502£2,957£3,412£4,094

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band F (26% of about 1,840 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: yes, Mitre Road & Ufford Street. 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.

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

  • 18 September 2026 to 23 September 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent 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

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

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 38 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 38 very low.

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: the postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

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 3 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
SE1 8QD100%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 stationsLondon Waterloo East 6.8 million journeys in 2024–25270 m
London Waterloo 70 million journeys in 2024–25500 m (0.3 miles)
Elephant and Castle 2.2 million journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Underground, metro or tramSouthwark Underground Station190 m
Lambeth North Underground Station590 m (0.4 miles)
Waterloo Underground Station620 m (0.4 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 83 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pocock Street Southwark100 m
Bus or coach stationVictoria Station2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Ferry terminalFestival Pier South Bank910 m (0.6 miles)
Car parks11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Apcoa210 m
EV charging points38 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge180 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY11.2 km (7 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR24.8 km (15 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 Blackfriars Medical Practice330 m
Pharmacies17 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots400 m (0.2 miles)
NHS dentists20 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wellington House (Dental Surgery)210 m
HospitalEvelina London Children's Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationKennington Police Station680 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM140 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 garden8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Nelson Square Garden 3,950 m²170 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park 6.4 ha620 m (0.4 miles)
Play area18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 930 m²130 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,070 m²130 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 590 m²940 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 8 parks and gardens, 9.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Old Vic Theatre, a listed building (Grade II*), 230 m west. 229 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 14 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Old Vic TheatreListed building, Grade II*230 m west
Obelisk at the Centre of St George's CircusListed building, Grade II*420 m (0.3 miles) south
Church of St John with All SaintsListed building, Grade II*480 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Kirkaldy's testing works and testing machineListed building, Grade II*510 m (0.3 miles) north-east
The Hope Playhouse, and the remains of three further bear gardens, BanksideScheduled monument910 m (0.6 miles) north-east
The Rose Theatre, Rose Court, SouthwarkScheduled monument920 m (0.6 miles) north-east
The Globe TheatreScheduled monument920 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Inner TempleRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Middle TempleRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's ChurchWorld Heritage Site1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
King's ReachTidal water1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Pelican PoolLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) west
Duck IslandIsland1.7 km (1.1 miles) west
RedriffWetland4.3 km (2.7 miles) east
Holly Grove ShrubberyWood4.3 km (2.7 miles) south-east
Stave HillHill4.6 km (2.8 miles) east

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)29.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)10.2205
Particles (PM10)17.14015

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
55 to 59100
Under 55011

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 Lambeth: see them on the Lambeth 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
Friars Primary Foundation SchoolPrimary3–11210 m No published inspection
Oasis Academy South Bank PrimaryPrimary3–11420 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St George's Cathedral Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11450 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
London Nautical, City of London AcademySecondary11–18480 m (0.3 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Haberdashers' Borough AcademySecondary11–18550 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Morley College London16 plus16–99570 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Oasis Academy South BankSecondary11–19590 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Notre Dame Catholic Girls' School Roman CatholicSecondary11–16600 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Jude's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11620 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jan 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
Charles Dickens Primary SchoolPrimary2–11670 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
King's College London Maths School16 plus16–19810 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
The Cathedral School of St Saviour and St Mary Overie Church of EnglandPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Bar + block SE1 8LERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good22 Aug 2025
Buns from home SE1 8LFOther catering premises90 m5 Very good12 Sep 2025
Flat iron waterloo SE1 8LFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good5 Nov 2025
Honest burgers SE1 8LFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good18 Oct 2025
Tas restaurant SE1 8LFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good18 Mar 2026
Se1 SE1 8LFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good27 Jun 2025
Kokura SE1 8LFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 mAwaiting inspection
Meson don felipe SE1 8LFOther catering premises90 m5 Very good7 Jan 2026
Fiorenza SE1 8HATakeaway/sandwich shop130 m5 Very good25 Nov 2025
Fifth element SE1 8QWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m4 Good7 Jan 2025
Crown SE1 8HWRetailers - other130 m5 Very good26 Aug 2020
Blair grillz SE1 8HWTakeaway/sandwich shop130 mExempt
Sushisashimi blackfriars ltd SE1 8ERTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m4 Good10 Sep 2025
Pho The Cut SE1 8LLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good25 May 2026
The Anchor And Hope SE1 8LPPub/bar/nightclub130 m4 Good25 Feb 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.

1,091 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Theft from the person296
Anti-social behaviour189
Violence and sexual offences145
Shoplifting141
Other theft126
Robbery62
Public order33
Burglary31
Bicycle theft20
Drugs20
Criminal damage and arson13
Vehicle crime12
Possession of weapons2
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Cut (183); On or near Webber Street (163); On or near Gray Street (137); On or near Blackfriars Road (120); On or near Theatre/Concert Hall (98).

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: 143 residents in 82 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 age5840
Children under 155%17%
Aged 65 and over37%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)16%61%
Owned outright5%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented52%17%
Private rented32%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)54%32%
Travel to work by car or van7%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram12%4%
By any public transport, including bus22%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)83%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)37%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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 Byte & brew (restaurant/cafe/canteen, SE1 0BE) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Blair grillz (takeaway/sandwich shop, SE1 8HW) now Exempt, was Awaiting inspection found 3 November 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.

  • SE1 8QD: 1 address of 43 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Ufford Street · Ufford Street · Pontypool Place · Boundary Row · Burrows Mews · Chaplin Close · Chaplin Close · Short Street · Short Street · Valentine Place · The Cut · Valentine Row

All the streets in SE1 and across Lambeth.

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.