Edward Close London, Barnet

9 addresses across 2 postcodes (NW2), about 40 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 20013930.

  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 4, E: 2).
  • 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 Barnet costs £2,133 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Cricklewood, about 220 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 410 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 18.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 50 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 9 of its 9 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Cricklewood General Practice, about 210 m away, with 11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 420 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 15% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 592 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 dates from June 2020 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 39 m². Most common: Flat (8). Built: 1900-1929 (8). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (6); owner-occupied (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Barnet in 2026-27: Band D £2,133 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,422£1,659£1,896£2,133£2,607£3,080£3,554£4,265

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (36% of about 850 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Article 4 Small Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) Area 1.
  • 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 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 7 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
NW2 1EUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NW2 1EXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 7 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 50 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
NW2 1EU100%0%0%0%
NW2 1EX100%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 stationsCricklewood 859,000 journeys in 2024–25220 m
Brent Cross West 675,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Brondesbury 2.4 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Underground, metro or tramWillesden Green Underground Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Kilburn Underground Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Dollis Hill Underground Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops22 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 43 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cricklewood Broadway20 m
Bus or coach stationFinchley Road Underground Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Ferry terminalLondon Zoo Waterbus Stop Regents Park4.4 km (2.7 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Apcoa200 m
EV charging points63 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station60 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR19.5 km (12 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 Cricklewood General Practice210 m
Pharmacies16 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gimmack Pharmacy70 m
NHS dentists13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cricklewood Dental Practice100 m
HospitalWillesden Hospital (Roundwood Resource Centre & Willesden Centre For Psychological Treatment)2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Police stationWest Hampstead Police Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Cricklewood, Cricklewood Cashzone50 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 410 m²410 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 3,950 m²700 m (0.4 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 940 m²240 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 6.1 ha800 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,810 m²440 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 0.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Hampstead Cemetery, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1 km (0.6 miles) east. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hampstead CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) east
Paddington CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's ChurchWorld Heritage Site8.9 km (5.5 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Westbere CopseWood730 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Leg of Mutton PondLake or reservoir2 km (1.3 miles) north-east
West HeathWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Whitestone PondLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.5 miles) east
Welsh Harp ReservoirLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-west
North HillHill3.5 km (2.1 miles) north-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)18.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.1205
Particles (PM10)14.64015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
70 to 7490
55 to 5901
Under 5508

9 of the street's 9 addresses are 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 Barnet: see them on the Barnet page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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 Agnes' Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11470 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Anson Primary SchoolPrimary3–11480 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Hampstead SchoolSecondary11–18550 m (0.3 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mora Primary SchoolPrimary3–11740 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Childs Hill Primary SchoolPrimary3–11800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Claremont Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Our Lady of Grace RC Infant and Nursery School Roman CatholicPrimary3–71 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
All Saints' CofE Primary School NW2 Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
West Hampstead Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Gladstone Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Avigdor Hirsch Torah Temimah Primary School JewishPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Convent of Jesus and Mary RC Infant School Roman CatholicPrimary3–71.3 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Admiral Casino NW2 3EDOther catering premises20 mExempt
Sam's Chicken NW2 1EXTakeaway/sandwich shop20 m3 Generally satisfactory28 Nov 2025
African Food Centre NW2 1EXRetailers - other20 m4 Good21 Dec 2025
Everfresh Fish NW2 1EXRetailers - other20 m2 Improvement necessary28 Oct 2024
Khan Supermarket NW2 1EXRetailers - other20 m4 Good23 Apr 2022
Chopan Kabab NW2 1EXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m4 Good17 Oct 2025
Iceland NW2 3EDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets20 m5 Very good28 Oct 2024
KFC NW2 3EDTakeaway/sandwich shop30 m5 Very good20 Dec 2025
The Crown Hotel NW2 3EDHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house30 m2 Improvement necessary17 Sep 2026
The Co-operative NW2 1ETRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets50 m5 Very good3 Mar 2026
ACC Polski Supermarket Ltd NW2 1ETRetailers - other50 m2 Improvement necessary18 Feb 2026
Lounge 4:04 NW2 1HBPub/bar/nightclub70 m4 Good8 Sep 2022
Ashley Fruit & Veg NW2 3EBRetailers - other70 m2 Improvement necessary8 Jul 2026
Nakhon Thai Kitchen NW2 3EBTakeaway/sandwich shop70 m4 Good2 Sep 2025
Peri Peri Grill NW2 3EBTakeaway/sandwich shop70 m3 Generally satisfactory6 Oct 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.

592 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences153
Anti-social behaviour94
Other theft72
Public order52
Drugs48
Vehicle crime44
Shoplifting23
Burglary21
Robbery19
Criminal damage and arson18
Theft from the person18
Possession of weapons13
Bicycle theft10
Other crime7

Most of these are attached to: On or near Yew Grove (119); On or near Cricklewood Broadway (85); On or near Supermarket (53); On or near Ashford Road (52); On or near Oaklands Road (48).

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: 415 residents in 176 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 age3740
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)15%61%
Owned outright8%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented79%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)6%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van9%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram21%4%
By any public transport, including bus53%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)87%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away0%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)48%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all13%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

  • Food hygiene ratings Sushi Daily (takeaway/sandwich shop, NW2 3BN) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 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.

Nearby streets

Oaklands Mews · Oaklands Passage · Elm Grove · Yew Grove · Howard Road · Oak Grove · Ash Grove · Oaklands Road · Sylvan Grove · Ashford Road · Sheldon Road · Richborough Road

All the streets in NW2 and across Barnet.

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.