Cowdry Road Hackney

1 address across 1 postcode (E9), about 190 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 20900281.

  • Flood: 16 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 C; Band D in Hackney costs £2,060 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 94% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Hackney Wick, about 440 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Victoria Park, is about 60 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 21.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 7 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Trowbridge Practice, about 190 m away, with 10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 37% of households owned their home and 60% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 196 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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 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 Hackney in 2026-27: Band D £2,060 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,374£1,602£1,831£2,060£2,518£2,976£3,434£4,121

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (44% of about 1,580 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, Victoria Park (council page). 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): London borough of Hackney.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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, 11 addresses are in areas at high risk, 5 at medium risk and 5 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 address is about 7 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
E9 5EG100%94%94%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 stationsHackney Wick 4.2 million journeys in 2024–25440 m (0.3 miles)
Homerton 4.7 million journeys in 2024–25840 m (0.5 miles)
Stratford International 2.7 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Underground, metro or tramStratford International DLR Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Pudding Mill Lane DLR Station1.7 km (1 mile)
Stratford Underground Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 52 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hackney Wick / Trowbridge Rd100 m
Bus or coach stationPark View Road (N17) Tottenham Hale5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Ferry terminalCanary Wharf Pier4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Car parksCar Parking Near London Stadium1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points37 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity230 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY7.4 km (4.6 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR30.9 km (19 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 Trowbridge Practice190 m
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bees Chemist310 m
NHS dentists11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest V Dental Smile Studio160 m
HospitalHomerton University Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationBow Road Police Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM760 m (0.5 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Victoria Park 87 ha60 m
Play area17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 570 m²190 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mabley Green 12 ha330 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 460 m²1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 96 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary of Eton With St Augustine, a listed building (Grade II*), 140 m north. 23 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Mary of Eton With St AugustineListed building, Grade II*140 m north
Parnell Road BridgeScheduled monument670 m (0.4 miles) south
Parnell Road Bridge at Tq 367 840Listed building, Grade II*670 m (0.4 miles) south
Victoria ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*840 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Three Colts Bridge at Tq 364837Listed building, Grade II*940 m (0.6 miles) south
Three Colt Bridge, Gunmaker's LaneScheduled monument940 m (0.6 miles) south
Former French Protestant Hospital (later Cardinal Pole School)Listed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Bonner Hall Bridge, Regent's CanalScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-west
The Novo CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.3 km (1.4 miles) south
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site5.1 km (3.2 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wick FieldWood790 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Hackney CutLake or reservoir870 m (0.5 miles) north
Main MarshWetland1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Clapton PondLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Abbey CreekTidal water2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Stave HillHill4.8 km (3 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)21.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.7205
Particles (PM10)16.64015

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
75 dB or more100
60 to 64010
Under 55001

1 of the street's 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 1 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 Hackney: see them on the Hackney 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
Gainsborough Primary SchoolPrimary0–11400 m (0.2 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mossbourne Riverside AcademyPrimary3–11620 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Wentworth Nursery School and Children's CentreNursery2–5720 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Mossbourne Victoria Park AcademySecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Berger Primary SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Mulberry UTCSecondary14–191.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Daubeney Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kingsmead Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cardinal Pole Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–191.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Old Ford Primary - A Paradigm AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Orchard Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): 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; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The City Academy, HackneySecondary11–191.3 km (0.8 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
Scoffs Grill E9 5DHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good7 Jan 2025
Hackney Garden E9 5DHTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good7 Jan 2025
Papa John's Pizza E9 5JBTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good15 Jan 2025
St Mary of Eton E9 5JARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 mAwaiting inspection
The Indulgent Sugar Plum E9 5JARetailers - other160 mAwaiting inspection
Boulevard Events Ltd E9 5LDOther catering premises170 m5 Very good13 Jan 2025
Poolfresh Contract Services at Look Ahead Housing and Care E9 5LGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m5 Very good26 Feb 2025
Natura Cafe E9 5LGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good3 Jan 2026
Mighty Munch E9 5DGTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m5 Very good7 Jan 2025
Bees Chemist E9 5DGRetailers - other300 mExempt
Premier (Your Local Food & Wine) E9 5LTRetailers - other310 m4 Good11 Jul 2019
The Wick Cafe E9 5LTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m3 Generally satisfactory8 Oct 2025
Tubby's Kebab E9 5LTTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m3 Generally satisfactory9 Jun 2026
Bubble and Sushi E9 5DGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good17 Aug 2026
Wick Fisheries E9 5DGTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m5 Very good7 Jan 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.

196 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences56
Anti-social behaviour43
Theft from the person26
Public order16
Vehicle crime12
Other theft11
Drugs8
Robbery8
Criminal damage and arson7
Bicycle theft5
Burglary3
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bartrip Street (33); On or near Merriam Avenue (31); On or near Buxhall Crescent (28); On or near Lavington Close (18); On or near Homer Road (17).

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: 288 residents in 125 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 157%17%
Aged 65 and over3%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)37%61%
Owned outright9%33%
Shared ownership5%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented46%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)14%6%
Retired (of adults)4%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)55%32%
Travel to work by car or van8%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram15%4%
By any public transport, including bus18%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%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)60%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)85%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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 HWK Coffee and Bar (pub/bar/nightclub, E9 5EN) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 21 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.

  • E9 5EG: 1 address of 110 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Bartrip Street · Merriam Avenue · Cadogan Terrace · Lavington Close · Trowbridge Road · Buxhall Crescent · Chapman Road · Beanacre Close · Homer Road · Edmeston Close · Cadogan Terrace · Part of

All the streets in E9 and across Hackney.

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.