Colmar Close Stepney, Tower Hamlets

5 addresses across 1 postcode (E1), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 22700344.

  • Energy: 1 homes have an energy certificate (E: 1).
  • Flood: 4 addresses on its postcodes are 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 D; Band D in Tower Hamlets costs £1,838 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bethnal Green, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Carlton Square Gardens, is about 20 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 23.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 11 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 5 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Xx Place Health Centre, about 270 m away, with 14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 10% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 892 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 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from June 2016 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

1 home with a current certificate; median floor area 120 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1900-1929 (1). Tenure at assessment: 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 D (36% of about 530 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: yes, Carlton Square. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 11 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 0 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 addresses are about 11 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 4EX100%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 stationsBethnal Green 1.6 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Whitechapel 37 million journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cambridge Heath 1.1 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tramStepney Green Underground Station210 m
Bethnal Green Underground Station820 m (0.5 miles)
Mile End Underground Station820 m (0.5 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 55 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bancroft Road / Ocean Estate Stepney150 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus5.6 km (3.5 miles)
Ferry terminalCanary Wharf Pier2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Peters Court Car Park310 m
EV charging points16 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge110 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY7.3 km (4.5 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR29.4 km (18 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 surgeries14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Xx Place Health Centre270 m
Pharmacies27 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Medichem Pharmacy290 m
NHS dentists23 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mile End Dental Practice150 m
HospitalMile End Hospital Cdc270 m
Police stationTower Hamlets Police780 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone150 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 garden13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Carlton Square Gardens 7,820 m²20 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Mile End Park 14 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area16 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 550 m²210 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stepney Green 4.4 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,670 m²530 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 13 parks and gardens, 33 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Railings and Gate With Overthrow at No 37, a listed building (Grade II*), 420 m (0.3 miles) south-west. 159 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Railings and Gate With Overthrow at No 37Listed building, Grade II*420 m (0.3 miles) south-west
The Novo CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II430 m (0.3 miles) east
Blind Beggar and His Dog Cranbrook EstateListed building, Grade II*700 m (0.4 miles) north
Trinity Green (Almshouses and Chapel) Including Gates, Railings, Wall and PiersListed building, Grade I720 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Parish Church of St Dunstan and All Saints (The Church of the High Seas)Listed building, Grade I790 m (0.5 miles) south
Bethnal Green GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II840 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Bonner Hall Bridge, Regent's CanalScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Three Colt Bridge, Gunmaker's LaneScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Roman Bath House, ShadwellScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Limehouse BasinLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Limehouse Basin EntranceTidal water1.6 km (1 mile) south
Shadwell EntranceTidal water1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
RedriffWetland1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Stave HillHill2.5 km (1.6 miles) south
Russia Dock WoodlandWood2.9 km (1.8 miles) south

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)23.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.8205
Particles (PM10)16.34015

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 59400
Under 55155

4 of the street's 5 addresses are 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 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
Alice Model Nursery SchoolNursery2–5290 m Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Morpeth SchoolSecondary11–18380 m Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Solebay Primary - A Paradigm AcademyPrimary3–11500 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
John Scurr Primary SchoolPrimary2–11520 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ben Jonson Primary SchoolPrimary3–11540 m (0.3 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bangabandhu Primary SchoolPrimary3–11540 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mulberry Stepney Green Mathematics and Computing CollegeSecondary11–18600 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Stepney Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11680 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bonner Primary SchoolPrimary4–11730 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Globe Primary SchoolPrimary2–11740 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary SchoolSecondary11–18800 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Exceptional; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Exceptional; Leadership and governance: Exceptional; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Halley Primary SchoolPrimary3–11820 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 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
Pck Me E1 4EEMobile caterer80 m5 Very good12 May 2026
Harpley School and Inclusion Support Centre E1 4EESchool/college/university120 m5 Very good28 Apr 2025
Mile End American Pool & Snooker E1 4AARetailers - other140 m5 Very good26 Feb 2025
Drapers Arms Bar & E1 Venue Bar E1 4DHPub/bar/nightclub140 m5 Very good15 Jan 2025
Green Pepper E1 4AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good21 Jul 2026
Globe Court Care Home Kitchen E1 4DSOther catering premises140 m5 Very good9 Sep 2025
Andy's Bangin Burgers E1 4AATakeaway/sandwich shop140 m4 Good20 Jan 2026
Globe Food and Wine E1 4DURetailers - other140 m5 Very good16 Jun 2025
Mr Wong's Wok & Box E1 4AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good6 Nov 2024
Afrikana E1 4AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good9 Sep 2025
Roasted Delights, Foods Oriental E1 4AAOther catering premises140 m3 Generally satisfactory21 Jul 2026
Flavaz E1 4AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good28 Apr 2025
T's Cafe Au Lait E1 4DURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m3 Generally satisfactory18 Nov 2025
Barclay Wools E1 4DURetailers - other140 m5 Very good16 Jun 2025
German Doner Kebab E1 4AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good8 Jan 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.

892 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting409
Violence and sexual offences165
Theft from the person64
Other theft50
Anti-social behaviour48
Robbery33
Drugs25
Public order25
Burglary23
Criminal damage and arson17
Bicycle theft14
Vehicle crime13
Possession of weapons4
Other crime2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Stepney Green (342); On or near Supermarket (232); On or near Bancroft Road (65); On or near Alderney Road (34); On or near A11 (31).

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: 259 residents in 95 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 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)10%61%
Owned outright0%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented68%17%
Private rented22%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)17%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)44%32%
Travel to work by car or van15%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram14%4%
By any public transport, including bus21%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 away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)85%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

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

Argyle Road · Carlyle Mews · Alderney Road · Holton Street · Carlton Square · Tollet Street · Mile End Place · Frimley Way · Portelet Road · Globe Road · Grantley Street · Stayner's Road

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.