Dimson Crescent London, Tower Hamlets

18 addresses across 2 postcodes (E3), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 22700412.

  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Tower Hamlets cost £447,950 in August 2026 (-13.3% on a year); private rents averaged £2,462 a month.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 11, D: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, The O2 Arena - Wind turbines, is 3.3 km (2.1 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A11, carries 25,146 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • 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 75% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Limehouse, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Archibald Open Space, is about 30 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 22.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 12 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 18 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Wellington Way Health Centre, about 110 m away, with 12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 400 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 7% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 495 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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.

House prices and rents in Tower Hamlets

A typical home in Tower Hamlets cost £447,950 in August 2026, 13.3% less than a year before. That is 19% less than five years earlier and 9% less than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£899,832
Semi-detached£675,369
Terraced£696,816
Flat or maisonette£429,851
Bought by a first-time buyer£430,635

Private renters in Tower Hamlets paid £2,462 a month on average in September 2026, 3.8% more than a year before. That is 41% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£1,998
Two bedrooms£2,427
Three bedrooms£2,760
Four or more bedrooms£3,390

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 November 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 70 m². Most common: Flat (7); House, mid-terrace (5). Built: 1991-1995 (9); 1983-1990 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (10).

Each home's certificates and sales (12 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 9,226 kWh of it on average in 2024, 8% more than the district's 8,547 kWh, and 3,438 kWh of electricity, 18% more than the district's 2,905 kWh. There are gas meters for about 97% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
E3 4XB163,187 kWh 156,190 kWh
E3 4XA183,216 kWh 188,799 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is E3.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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 C (45% of about 960 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, Tower Hamlets Cemetery. 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): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 6 protected trees on or by this street.
  • 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.

Energy projects nearby

4 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Bywaters’ Materials Recovery Facility Solar Array Newham 15/02981/PREPV Solar farm 1 MW Operational Jan 2017 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
King's Yard Newham 2008/0826 Biomass 3 MW Operational Jul 2012 1.7 km (1.1 miles)
The O2 Arena - Wind turbines Greenwich 21/2229/F Wind 10 turbines 3 MW Permission granted, not yet built Sep 2021 3.3 km (2.1 miles)
SELCHP ERF Energy from waste (incinerator) 35 MW Operational Dec 1993 4.7 km (2.9 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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: 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.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 12 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
E3 4XA100%100%100%0%
E3 4XB100%75%75%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 stationsLimehouse 2.6 million journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Hackney Wick 4.2 million journeys in 2024–252 km (1.3 miles)
West Ham 11 million journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Underground, metro or tramBow Road Underground Station220 m
Bow Church DLR Station360 m
Devons Road DLR Station510 m (0.3 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 49 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bow Road Station250 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus7.1 km (4.4 miles)
Ferry terminalCanary Wharf Pier2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Car parksBloc Space - Hackney Wick - Car Park 2 (Bloc Riverbank)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points14 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge110 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY5.9 km (3.7 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 (1 mile); nearest Wellington Way Health Centre Good Feb 2024110 m
Pharmacies16 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mayors Chemist300 m
NHS dentists13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 195 Bow Common Lane (Dental Practice)680 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalMile End Hospital Cdc1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Coxley House Good Sep 2019230 m
Police stationBow Road Police Station300 m
Cash machines8 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone290 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 garden14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Archibald Open Space 3,230 m²30 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Mile End Park 14 ha770 m (0.5 miles)
Play area24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 340 m²40 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bromley Recreation Ground 5,140 m²690 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Reeves Road Allotments 3,270 m²430 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 14 parks and gardens, 31 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Phoenix School, a listed building (Grade II*), 330 m north-west. 106 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Phoenix SchoolListed building, Grade II*330 m north-west
The Widow's Son Public HouseListed building, Grade II*520 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Church of St Mary Stratford BowListed building, Grade II*640 m (0.4 miles) north-east
26, Tredegar SquareListed building, Grade II*650 m (0.4 miles) north-west
The Novo CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Three Colt Bridge, Gunmaker's LaneScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Parnell Road BridgeScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Victoria ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Bonner Hall Bridge, Regent's CanalScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site4.1 km (2.5 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Limehouse CutTidal water910 m (0.6 miles) south
Prescott ChannelLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Abbey CreekTidal water1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
Cuckold's PointWetland2.3 km (1.4 miles) south
Wick FieldWood2.8 km (1.8 miles) north
Stave HillHill2.9 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)22.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.8205
Particles (PM10)16.44015

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 59200
Under 55161818

2 of the street's 18 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), 4 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Wellington Primary SchoolPrimary3–1170 m Outstanding (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 71% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
Central Foundation Girls' SchoolSecondary11–19420 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 53.0 (54.3 in 2025 and 55.0 in 2024); 57.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 6.3% AAB or better; progress below average
St Agnes RC Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11450 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 23% at the higher standard (2025; 92% in 2024 and 74% in 2023)
Childrens House Nursery SchoolNursery2–5460 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
The Clara Grant Primary SchoolPrimary3–11470 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Exceptional; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Exceptional; Leadership and governance: Exceptional; Early years: Exceptional; Safeguarding standards: Met 80% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 16% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 63% in 2023)
Malmesbury Primary SchoolPrimary3–11500 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 70% in 2023)
St Paul's Way Trust SchoolAll-through4–18730 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 66% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 64% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 52.0 (51.8 in 2025 and 55.4 in 2024); 60.9% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 11.7% AAB or better; progress below average
Old Palace Primary SchoolPrimary4–11730 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 75% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 25% at the higher standard (2025; 81% in 2024 and 87% in 2023)
Marner Primary SchoolPrimary3–11830 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 69% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 77% in 2024 and 71% in 2023)
St Paul With St Luke CofE Primary Federation Church of EnglandPrimary3–11850 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 69% in 2024 and 72% in 2023)
Stebon Primary SchoolPrimary3–11940 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 77% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 14% at the higher standard (2025; 84% in 2024 and 79% in 2023)
Bow SchoolSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 43.8 (43.2 in 2025 and 43.4 in 2024); 39.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B; 19% AAB or better; progress well above average

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 730 m (0.5 miles); the nearest is 290 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Pillar Box Montessori E3 2AN Full day care 42 Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 290 m
Complex Needs Holiday Schemes E3 2AD Out-of-school day care 44 Not inspected yet 300 m
Little Miracles Nursery - Rainhill Way E3 3EY Full day care 39 Not inspected yet 350 m
Lincoln Hall Preschool E3 3PR Sessional day care 40 Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 460 m (0.3 miles)
Tower Project Complex Needs Holiday Schemes E3 2QD Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 480 m (0.3 miles)
Young Performing Arts E3 2SG Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 510 m (0.3 miles)
Lincoln Hall Preschool @ Sleaford E3 3PY Sessional day care 32 Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 530 m (0.3 miles)
Pillar Box Gardens Nursery E3 2QA Full day care 30 Good (Oct 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 570 m (0.4 miles)
Springasc Mile End E3 4QE Out-of-school day care 50 Not inspected yet 660 m (0.4 miles)
Tutorbase Mile End E3 4TU Full day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 730 m (0.5 miles)

Ofsted also registers 69 childminders and 62 home childcarers (nannies) in Tower Hamlets. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Wellington Primary School Food Bank E3 4NERetailers - other70 mExempt
Fish Surgeon E3 4URRetailers - other100 m4 Good30 Apr 2026
Ranna E3 4URTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good28 Jul 2026
Bun & Sum E3 4URTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m4 Good28 Mar 2026
UK Halal Chicken Ltd E3 4URDistributors/Transporters100 mExempt
Meat Surgeon E3 4URRetailers - other120 m4 Good30 Apr 2025
Wellington Primary School Kitchen E3 4NESchool/college/university120 m5 Very good29 Apr 2026
Silver Service E3 4UROther catering premises120 m5 Very good26 May 2026
Holy Smokes BBQ E3 4URTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good25 Sep 2025
Chowpatty, Vegan Curries, Desi Videsi, Healthy Wealthy E3 4URTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good12 Nov 2025
Fortune Cat E3 4URTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m3 Generally satisfactory28 Aug 2025
Wok N Smoke, Sushi House E3 4URTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m4 Good18 Jul 2025
Imperial Spice,Wraps & Wings Bow,Indo - Chinese,Indian King's Biryani E3 4UROther catering premises120 m5 Very good11 Jul 2025
Far East Kitchen E3 4URTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good13 Feb 2025
Imperial Deserts,Desert King,Mad about Desert,Mad about Indian Food E3 4UROther catering premises120 m5 Very good11 Jul 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.

495 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences171
Anti-social behaviour114
Theft from the person30
Other theft29
Shoplifting29
Vehicle crime28
Public order27
Criminal damage and arson18
Burglary15
Drugs14
Other crime9
Robbery8
Bicycle theft3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Merchant Street (191); On or near Wellington Way (64); On or near Bow Road (50); On or near Eagling Close (36); On or near Dimson Crescent (24).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a motorcyclist. 50% happened in the dark, and 50% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 20 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202210
202300
202400
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
4 Jan 2025 21:30 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 20 mph Dark
24 May 2022 19:23 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A11 between A1205 and A12, with 25,146 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 270 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A11 A1205 to A12 25,146 counted 2025 2% -28% since 2015 270 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 396 residents in 132 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 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)7%61%
Owned outright5%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented88%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work39%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)23%6%
Retired (of adults)5%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)14%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van17%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram39%4%
By any public transport, including bus48%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%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)25%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all9%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 The Coborn (pub/bar/nightclub, E3 2DA) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 22 October 2026) found 30 October 2026

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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.

  • E3 4XB: 17 addresses
  • E3 4XA: 1 address of 19 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Archibald Street · Ireton Street · Tidworth Road · Mornington Grove · Wellington Way · Old Willow Close · Eleanor Street · Merchant Street · Arnold Road · Eagling Close · Eleanor Street · Navenby Walk

All the streets in E3 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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.