Clarks Lane Epping

2 addresses across 2 postcodes (CM16), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 13800297.

  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 Epping Forest costs £2,277 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Cheshunt, about 9.2 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 560 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 106 m above sea level.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is High Street Surgery, Epping, about 500 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 750 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 65% of households owned their home and 45% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 163 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 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 Epping Forest in 2026-27: Band D £2,277 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,518£1,771£2,024£2,277£2,783£3,289£3,795£4,554

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (30% of about 1,700 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, Epping (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 3.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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

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

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

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CM16 4LSnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CM16 4LUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 106 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
CM16 4LS100%100%100%0%
CM16 4LU100%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 stationsCheshunt 2.5 million journeys in 2024–259.2 km
Harlow Town 1.8 million journeys in 2024–259.4 km
Waltham Cross 1.3 million journeys in 2024–259.5 km
Underground, metro or tramEpping Underground Station480 m
Epping Underground Station490 m
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m, 20 within 800 m; nearest Tesco Store Epping70 m
Bus or coach stationTesco Drop Off Point Waltham Abbey7.5 km
Car parksTheydon Bois Station Car Park (TfL)2.9 km
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station2.9 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY21.7 km
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN22.6 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest High Street Surgery, Epping500 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Boots270 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Hawthorn Dental Practice90 m
HospitalSt Margarets Hospital1.3 km
Police stationLoughton Police Station6.8 km
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest Shell Halfmoon Cashzone100 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 garden1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha560 m
Play area1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 470 m²650 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha570 m
Allotments1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 8,580 m²350 m

Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 1.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St John the Baptist, a listed building (Grade II*), 200 m north-east. 42 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St John the BaptistListed building, Grade II*200 m north-east
Epping PlaceListed building, Grade II*580 m south-west
Purlieu Bank, EppingScheduled monument1.2 km south
Coopersale HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km east
Copped HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.9 km west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bell CommonWood1.5 km south-west
Epping PlainWood1.6 km north-east
Wintry WoodWood1.6 km north
Griffin's WoodWood1.7 km west
The LakeLake or reservoir1.9 km north-east
Piercing HillHill2.1 km south-west

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)10.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)13.44015

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).

Noise figures are still being loaded.

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
Epping Primary SchoolPrimary4–11660 m Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Epping St John's Church of England SchoolSecondary11–18730 m Report card (Mar 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; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ivy Chimneys Primary SchoolPrimary4–11940 m No published inspection
Coopersale and Theydon Garnon Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–112.0 km No published inspection

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
Eden Coffee Club CM16 4AERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m5 Very good9 Nov 2023
Hemnall social club CM16 4LSPub/bar/nightclub40 m5 Very good11 Aug 2025
IC CAFE LTD (T/A EPPING BEAN) CM16 4AERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good27 Oct 2026
Piya Kitchen Ltd CM16 4AERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good16 Jun 2025
The Kebabery CM16 4AFTakeaway/sandwich shop70 m4 Good27 Jan 2026
Epping Express CM16 4AFRetailers - other90 m5 Very good29 Sep 2026
The Duke of Wellington P.H. CM16 4AEPub/bar/nightclub90 m3 Generally satisfactory1 Aug 2024
Epping News CM16 4BDRetailers - other100 m4 Good11 Aug 2025
Peggottys CM16 4BDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises100 m5 Very good8 Aug 2025
Slice CM16 4HARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good9 Nov 2023
Koffe Ltd CM16 4HARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Jul 2025
Olive Kitchen CM16 4BARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good7 Nov 2024
Smiths CM16 4AEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises140 m4 Good26 Aug 2025
Quore Matto CM16 4BDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good14 Mar 2025
Raj Indian Restaurant CM16 4BAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good8 Dec 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.

163 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting44
Violence and sexual offences44
Public order15
Other theft14
Anti-social behaviour14
Criminal damage and arson12
Burglary5
Vehicle crime4
Robbery4
Drugs4
Other crime1
Bicycle theft1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (70); On or near Petrol Station (19); On or near High Street (19); On or near B1393 (13); On or near Clarks Lane (12).

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: 747 residents in 339 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 age4140
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)65%61%
Owned outright34%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented33%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)52%32%
Travel to work by car or van26%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram13%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)39%65%
Work 30 km or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)45%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 6 to 9 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.

  • CM16 4LS: 1 address of 39 in the postcode
  • CM16 4LU: 1 address of 27 in the postcode

Nearby streets

High Street · Nicholl Road · Amesbury Close · Half Moon Lane · Regent Road · Amesbury Road · High Street · Crows Road · Hartland Road · Rahn Road · Station Road · Green Trees

All the streets in CM16 and across Epping 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.