Tower Hamlets

25 addresses across 1 postcode (E1W), about 40 m long. USRN 22701932.

23 homes have an energy certificate (C: 21, D: 2). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Tower Hamlets costs £1,838 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Wapping, about 660 m away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden, Swedenborg Gardens, is about 250 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 25.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 10.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. It is about 4 m above sea level. None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is St. Katherine's Dock Practice, about 270 m away, with 12 practices within 1.6 km. About 250 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 42% of households owned their home and 78% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 415 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from November 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

23 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 65 m². Most common: Flat (20); Maisonette, not recorded (1); Maisonette, semi-detached (1). Built: 1983-1990 (15); 1996-2002 (4); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (7); rented (social) (1).

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (37% of about 840 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): 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 1.0 km

  • Chambers Wharf Chambers Street London SE16 4XQ: up to 646 homes, permissioned (720 m)
  • Chambers Wharf Chambers Street London SE16 4XQ, permissioned (720 m)
  • Chambers Wharf: up to 646 homes, not permissioned (720 m)
  • Units 17 & 18 New Concordia Wharf Mill Street SE1 2BB, permissioned (750 m)
  • Units 17 & 18 New Concordia Wharf Mill Street SE1 2BB, permissioned (750 m)
  • Chambers Wharf Chambers Street London SE16 4XQ, permissioned (750 m)
  • Third Floor 23 Jacob Street SE1 2BG, permissioned (760 m)
  • Third Floor 23 Jacob Street SE1 2BG, permissioned (760 m)

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

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 24 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 24 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.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 4 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
E1W 2JU100%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 stationsWapping 2.5 million journeys in 2024–25660 m
Shadwell 3.9 million journeys in 2024–25690 m
Rotherhithe 1.7 million journeys in 2024–251.1 km
Underground, metro or tramShadwell DLR Station740 m
Tower Gateway DLR Station820 m
Tower Hill Underground Station900 m
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m, 35 within 800 m; nearest Nesham Street Wapping150 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus5.0 km
Ferry terminalWapping Pier460 m
Car parks4 within 800 m; nearest NCP London Thomas More Square240 m
EV charging points17 within 1.6 km; nearest ubitricity910 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY8.3 km
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR27.8 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 surgeries12 practices within 1.6 km; nearest St. Katherine's Dock Practice270 m
Pharmacies20 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest City Dock Pharmacy180 m
NHS dentists31 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Hermitage Clinic350 m
HospitalSt Clements Hospital1.2 km
Police stationMetropolitan Police Service590 m
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest ATM470 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 garden15 within 800 m; nearest Swedenborg Gardens 1.3 ha250 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 1.4 ha530 m
Play area16 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 140 m²90 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 7,090 m²1.3 km
AllotmentsUnnamed 820 m²1.1 km

Within 800 m: 15 parks and gardens, 7.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is A Warehouse (Skin Floor) Including Vaults Extending under Wapping Lane, a listed building (Grade I), 300 m north-east. 226 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 14 of them Grade I and 12 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
A Warehouse (Skin Floor) Including Vaults Extending under Wapping LaneListed building, Grade I300 m north-east
Wilton's Music HallListed building, Grade II*430 m north-west
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade I450 m east
Raine's HouseListed building, Grade II*450 m east
Roman Bath House, ShadwellScheduled monument460 m north-east
Tower of LondonScheduled monument830 m west
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site830 m west
Medieval moated manor house, 43m west of Cathay HouseScheduled monument860 m south-east
Southwark ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km south-east
Finsbury CircusRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km north-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
East DockLake or reservoir390 m west
St Katharine Docks BasinLake or reservoir510 m west
Upper PoolTidal water700 m west
RedriffWetland1.4 km east
Stave HillHill1.8 km east
Russia Dock WoodlandWood2.0 km south-east

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)25.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)10.0205
Particles (PM10)16.84015

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
Under 552525

None of the street's 25 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road or rail traffic.

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
Hermitage Primary SchoolPrimary3–11230 m Requires improvement (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mulberry Academy London DockSecondary11–19250 m No published inspection
St Paul's Whitechapel Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11340 m Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Peter's London Docks CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11640 m No published inspection
Harry Gosling Primary SchoolPrimary3–11740 m No published inspection
Bigland Green Primary SchoolPrimary3–11740 m No published inspection
Blue Gate Fields Junior SchoolPrimary7–11790 m Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Blue Gate Fields Infants' SchoolPrimary3–7790 m No published inspection
English Martyrs Roman Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary3–11820 m Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Riverside Primary SchoolPrimary3–11850 m Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mulberry School for GirlsSecondary11–18850 m Outstanding (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's Catholic CollegeSecondary11–18850 m No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 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
Champagne Route E1W 2AEPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good19 Mar 2026
Motherdough Pizza E1W 2AERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good11 Feb 2026
Moretown Belle E1W 1YWPub/bar/nightclub200 m4 Good13 May 2026
Origin Oils E1W 1YWRetailers - other200 m4 Good20 Sep 2023
Waitrose Ltd E1W 1YYRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets210 m5 Very good6 Nov 2024
Hermitage Primary School Kitchen E1W 2PTSchool/college/university240 m5 Very good14 Oct 2026
Sushi Daily E1W 1YYTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good16 Sep 2026
Mulberry Academy London Dock E1W 2ADSchool/college/university250 m5 Very good7 Feb 2025
Maxxi Childcare Ltd E1W 1YWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises250 m5 Very good19 May 2026
Starry Mart E1W 2AFRetailers - other270 m5 Very good18 May 2026
St Katherine's Service Station Shop E1W 2BXRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets270 m4 Good15 Jul 2026
E1 LDN E1W 2BBPub/bar/nightclub280 m5 Very good23 Sep 2026
Sainsbury's E1W 2AARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets290 m5 Very good5 Nov 2025
I&J Drinks E1W 2BXRetailers - other290 m5 Very good2 Jan 2024
Londis E1W 2BXRetailers - other290 m5 Very good21 Oct 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.

415 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting153
Violence and sexual offences55
Anti-social behaviour40
Burglary34
Other theft25
Public order21
Theft from the person20
Vehicle crime17
Robbery16
Bicycle theft11
Drugs11
Criminal damage and arson11
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Virginia Street (142); On or near Supermarket (71); On or near Pennington Street (45); On or near Nesham Street (44); On or near Breezer'S Hill (12).

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: 250 residents in 109 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 age3340
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over5%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)42%61%
Owned outright13%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented53%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work88%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)3%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)74%32%
Travel to work by car or van3%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram8%4%
By any public transport, including bus13%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)95%65%
Work 30 km or more away0%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)78%34%
No qualifications6%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualificationunder 1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

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

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

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All the streets in E1W 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.