Code Street Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets

165 addresses across 3 postcodes (E1), about 70 m long, classed as a local access road. USRN 22700336.

  • Energy: 35 homes have an energy certificate (B: 28, C: 7).
  • 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 C; Band D in Tower Hamlets costs £1,838 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 80% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Shoreditch High Street, about 330 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Allen Gardens, is about 40 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 28.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 10.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 13 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Blithehale Med.ctr., about 430 m (0.3 miles) away, with 11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 950 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 15% of households owned their home and 56% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 812 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 April 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

35 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 18 m². Most common: Flat (29); House, mid-terrace (6). Built: 1991-1995 (20); 1996-2002 (15). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (31 addresses)

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 (32% 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; 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, Fournier 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): Brick Lane.
  • 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 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 70 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 5ERnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 21 unlikely
E1 5FYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 41 unlikely
E1 6RUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 8 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.

© 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 addresses are about 13 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 5ER0%0%0%0%
E1 5FY0%0%0%0%
E1 6RU80%80%80%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 stationsShoreditch High Street 7.3 million journeys in 2024–25330 m
Bethnal Green 1.6 million journeys in 2024–25800 m (0.5 miles)
Whitechapel 37 million journeys in 2024–25810 m (0.5 miles)
Underground, metro or tramAldgate East Underground Station810 m (0.5 miles)
Whitechapel Underground Station820 m (0.5 miles)
Aldgate Underground Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 54 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brick Lane Spitalfields280 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Ferry terminalTower Pier Tower Hill1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Car parks5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Grey Eagle Street Car Park210 m
EV charging points24 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge660 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY9 km (5.6 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR27.6 km (17 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 surgeries11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Blithehale Med.ctr.430 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies31 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Letterbox Pharmacy480 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists46 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ap Dental Practice500 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSt Clements Hospital670 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationBishopsgate Police Station810 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines7 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM500 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 garden11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Allen Gardens 1.9 ha40 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Weaver's Community Space 6.0 ha580 m (0.4 miles)
Play area17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 180 m²210 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 6,890 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,160 m²1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 11 parks and gardens, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Directors' House, Truman Brewery, a listed building (Grade II*), 150 m south-west. 372 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 5 of them Grade I and 17 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Directors' House, Truman BreweryListed building, Grade II*150 m south-west
Church of St Anne (Roman Catholic)Listed building, Grade II*250 m south-east
19, Princelet Street E1Listed building, Grade II*290 m south
Brick Lane Jamme Masjid (Former Neuve Eglise)Listed building, Grade II*330 m south
Arnold Circus, Bethnal GreenRegistered park or garden, Grade II500 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Priory and Hospital of St Mary SpitalScheduled monument510 m (0.3 miles) west
The Curtain PlayhouseScheduled monument660 m (0.4 miles) west
The Theatre PlayhouseScheduled monument670 m (0.4 miles) west
Finsbury CircusRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site1.6 km (1 mile) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
West DockLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) south
East DockLake or reservoir1.7 km (1 mile) south
Upper PoolTidal water1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
RedriffWetland2.5 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Stave HillHill3.2 km (2 miles) south-east
Russia Dock WoodlandWood3.5 km (2.1 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)28.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)10.5205
Particles (PM10)17.64015

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
70 to 74010
65 to 690220
60 to 6401420
Under 551650165

165 of the street's 165 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more 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 Tower Hamlets: see them on the Tower Hamlets page.

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
St Anne's and Guardian Angels Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11240 m No published inspection
William Davis Primary SchoolPrimary3–11330 m No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Christ Church CofE School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11390 m No published inspection
Thomas Buxton Primary SchoolPrimary3–11420 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Osmani Primary SchoolPrimary3–11430 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Virginia Primary SchoolPrimary3–11560 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Mulberry Academy ShoreditchSecondary11–19570 m (0.4 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mulberry Canon Barnett Primary AcademyPrimary3–11670 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Columbia Market Nursery SchoolNursery2–5720 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Workers' Educational Association16 plus16–99730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Swanlea SchoolSecondary11–18770 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Columbia Primary SchoolPrimary3–11780 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Mookies London Ltd E1 6RUManufacturers/packers30 m4 Good17 Sep 2025
Oat Coffee E1 6RURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good27 Aug 2025
Harvest E1 E1 6SERetailers - other70 m5 Very good18 Nov 2025
Exit Bar E1 6RUPub/bar/nightclub80 m4 Good29 Feb 2024
The Nazrul E1 6RURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good15 Jun 2026
Aladin Brick Lane E1 6RURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good15 Jun 2026
Afghan Eats E1 6RURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m3 Generally satisfactory18 Nov 2025
Brick Lane Souvenirs Ltd E1 6RURetailers - other80 m5 Very good9 Jul 2025
Thai O'CHA E1 6RURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good8 Jan 2025
Core a bodybylara Studio E1 6RURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 mExempt
Allen Gardens Playgroup Kitchen E1 5EHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m5 Very good25 Feb 2025
93 Feet East E1 6RUPub/bar/nightclub120 m5 Very good31 May 2026
All Star Lanes Restaurant E1 6QLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good17 Feb 2026
Alhikma Ltd E1 6QLRetailers - other120 m5 Very good1 Oct 2025
Dal Fiorentino E2 6EHTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m5 Very good3 Mar 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.

812 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour156
Violence and sexual offences137
Shoplifting134
Other theft90
Theft from the person78
Public order58
Burglary40
Drugs31
Bicycle theft29
Robbery18
Criminal damage and arson16
Vehicle crime12
Other crime9
Possession of weapons4

Most of these are attached to: On or near Brick Lane (171); On or near Sclater Street (147); On or near Shopping Area (107); On or near Code Street (99); On or near Quaker Street (62).

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: 947 residents in 387 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 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over3%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)15%61%
Owned outright5%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented31%17%
Private rented51%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)13%6%
Retired (of adults)3%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)56%32%
Travel to work by car or van7%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram12%4%
By any public transport, including bus16%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)84%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)56%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)72%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 3 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 Yole (restaurant/cafe/canteen, E2 6DG) now 2 Improvement necessary, was 5 Very good (rated 9 October 2026) found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The Naan Yard (restaurant/cafe/canteen, E1 6QR) newly listed: 5 Very good (rated 27 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Phat for Life (restaurant/cafe/canteen, E2 0AA) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Lucy's Churreria (mobile caterer, E1 6QL) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 27 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Noxy Brothers - Spitalfields (restaurant/cafe/canteen, E1 6BG) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 26 October 2026) found 30 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.

  • E1 5ER: 115 addresses
  • E1 5FY: 44 addresses of 46 in the postcode
  • E1 6RU: 6 addresses of 155 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Brick Lane · Grimsby Street · Sheba Place · Cheshire Street · Spital Street · Woodseer Street · Oakley Yard · Cygnet Street · Bacon Street · Quaker Court · Kerbela Street · Hunton 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 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.