Browning Close Walthamstow, Waltham Forest

11 addresses across 1 postcode (E17), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 22819925.

  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, D: 1).
  • 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 B; 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 Wood Street, about 290 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Greenway Avenue Community Garden, is about 550 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 26 to 30 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 11 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Addison Road Medical Practice, about 310 m away, with 10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 48% of households owned their home and 48% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 290 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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 dates from September 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (8); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1996-2002 (8); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (5); owner-occupied (1); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 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 B (49% of about 870 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): 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

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 3 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

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

Height above sea level

The street's 11 addresses are between 26 m and 30 m above sea level (28 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
E17 9EW100%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 stationsWood Street 1.9 million journeys in 2024–25290 m
Walthamstow Central 4.3 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Walthamstow Queen's Road 997,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tramWalthamstow Central Underground Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Snaresbrook Underground Station2 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 51 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Church Lane (E17) Upper Walthamstow110 m
Bus or coach stationPark View Road (N17) Tottenham Hale4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Ferry terminalEast India Pier8.7 km (5.4 miles)
Car parksWalthamstow Central Station Car Park (TfL)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points67 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity430 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY9.9 km (6.1 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR34 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 surgeries10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Addison Road Medical Practice310 m
Pharmacies18 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well280 m
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wood Street Dental Practice350 m
HospitalWhipps Cross Hospital940 m (0.6 miles)
Police stationMetropolitan Police Service1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone410 m (0.3 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Greenway Avenue Community Garden 2,040 m²550 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Bisterne Avenue Park 6,440 m²640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 120 m²170 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.1 ha1.6 km (1 mile)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2.0 ha870 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 1.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Mary's, a listed building (Grade II*), 400 m (0.2 miles) west. 32 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of St Mary'sListed building, Grade II*400 m (0.2 miles) west
Walthamstow House (Corpus Christi School)Listed building, Grade II*500 m (0.3 miles) north
ABC CinemaListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) west
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site9.9 km (6.1 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Round PondLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Hollow PondLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Eagle PondLake or reservoir1.7 km (1 mile) east
Walthamstow ForestWood1.7 km (1 mile) north-east
Tottenham MarshesWetland3.4 km (2.1 miles) north-west
Lincoln IslandIsland3.7 km (2.3 miles) south-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)17.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.0205
Particles (PM10)14.34015

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

Road and rail noise

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

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 6904
60 to 6405
55 to 5912
Under 55100

1 of the street's 11 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 11 from railways, 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
St Mary's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–11290 m Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Exceptional; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Exceptional; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Exceptional; Leadership and governance: Exceptional; Early years: Exceptional; Safeguarding standards: Met
Henry Maynard Primary SchoolPrimary3–11330 m Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Family Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18490 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Our Lady and St George's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11520 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Walthamstow School for GirlsSecondary11–16550 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Church Hill Nursery SchoolNursery2–5560 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Emmanuel Community School ChristianPrimary4–11610 m (0.4 miles) Requires improvement (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Woodside Primary AcademyPrimary2–11680 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Waltham Forest College16 plus16–99730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Frederick Bremer SchoolSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Leyton Sixth Form College16 plus16–241 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Barclay Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Exceptional; Early years: Exceptional; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Alpha Steps Day Nursery E17 3JJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises170 m4 Good4 Aug 2026
Mother's Ruin E17 9HQPub/bar/nightclub220 m5 Very good14 Mar 2025
The Rolling Scones Cafe E17 9HQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m4 Good5 Sep 2026
The Real Al Company E17 9HQRetailers - other220 m1 Major improvement necessary5 Mar 2026
Pillars Brewery / Pillars Brewery Tap Room E17 9HQManufacturers/packers220 m5 Very good20 Sep 2024
Malt Haus E17 9HQManufacturers/packers220 m5 Very good21 Jun 2025
Walthamstow Conservative Club E17 9RWPub/bar/nightclub220 m5 Very good31 Jan 2025
Old Station Yard Cafe E17 3NZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good30 May 2026
HAVEN Coffee E17 3GNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m4 Good5 Aug 2026
Shernhall Street Market E17 3EYRetailers - other260 mUnknown17 Sep 2026
Co Operative Food E17 3GNRetailers - other270 m5 Very good6 Jan 2026
Wraps&Wings/Food Crave/Smak Ma Jack E17 3EYTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m4 Good31 Mar 2026
JK Vapes E17 3LXRetailers - other270 mUnknown14 Aug 2025
Wing N Slice E17 3LXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 mAwaiting inspection
Strawberry Hill E17 3LXTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m4 Good4 Aug 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.

290 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour115
Violence and sexual offences55
Other theft23
Burglary21
Vehicle crime21
Drugs17
Public order11
Shoplifting8
Criminal damage and arson7
Theft from the person6
Other crime2
Robbery2
Bicycle theft1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (81); On or near Marlowe Road (41); On or near Back Road (31); On or near Burns Close (23); On or near Evelyn Road (22).

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: 377 residents in 147 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 age3640
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)48%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented29%17%
Private rented22%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work66%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)47%32%
Travel to work by car or van17%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram16%4%
By any public transport, including bus20%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)48%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)86%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is 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

  • Food hygiene ratings The Patty Corner (takeaway/sandwich shop, E17 3HX) is no longer listed; it was rated 4 Good found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings SRK-DELIGHT JUICING (takeaway/sandwich shop, E17 3HX) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Wing N Slice (restaurant/cafe/canteen, E17 3LX) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 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.

Nearby streets

Brookfield Avenue · Greenacre Gardens · Burns Close · Barrett Road · Marlowe Road · Marlowe Road · Dukes Road · Brooke Road · Lambkins Mews · Greville Road · Lockes End · Vallentin Road

All the streets in E17 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.