Edwards Passage Stepney, Tower Hamlets

3 addresses across 2 postcodes (E1), about 50 m long. USRN 22702791.

  • Sales: 1 recorded sales since 1995; in 2014 the median was £829,995 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 1 homes have an energy certificate (C: 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.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Tower Hamlets costs £1,838 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 42% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Whitechapel, about 390 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, St Bartholomew's Gardens, is about 220 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 24.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 11 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 3 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Albion Health Centre, about 230 m away, with 13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 530 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 19% of households owned their home and 56% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 830 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20141£829,995£829,995£829,995
Most recent sales (1)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
4 Jul 20142 E1 4FATerraced£829,995New build.

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 March 2026 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 81 m². Most common: House, enclosed end-terrace (1). Built: before 1900 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (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 C (40% of about 930 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, Stepney Green. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 3.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • 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

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.

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 4FA100%0%0%0%
E1 4TP100%42%42%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 stationsWhitechapel 37 million journeys in 2024–25390 m
Bethnal Green 1.6 million journeys in 2024–25510 m (0.3 miles)
Shadwell 3.9 million journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Underground, metro or tramWhitechapel Underground Station400 m (0.2 miles)
Stepney Green Underground Station560 m (0.3 miles)
Bethnal Green Underground Station730 m (0.5 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 47 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Booth Memorial Stepney40 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus5.1 km (3.1 miles)
Ferry terminalWapping Pier2 km (1.3 miles)
Car parks4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sidney St Parking180 m
EV charging points13 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Smart Charge Charging Station260 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY7.8 km (4.9 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR28.7 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 surgeries13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Albion Health Centre230 m
Pharmacies26 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Regionchoice LTD310 m
NHS dentists22 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Abbey Dental250 m
HospitalThe Royal London Hospital310 m
Police stationTower Hamlets Police830 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM270 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 garden15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Bartholomew's Gardens 4,600 m²220 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Weaver's Community Space 6.0 ha570 m (0.4 miles)
Play area28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 870 m²180 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stepney Green 4.4 ha490 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,670 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 15 parks and gardens, 14 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Trinity Green (Almshouses and Chapel) Including Gates, Railings, Wall and Piers, a listed building (Grade I), 50 m. 179 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I and 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Trinity Green (Almshouses and Chapel) Including Gates, Railings, Wall and PiersListed building, Grade I50 m
Railings and Gate With Overthrow at No 37Listed building, Grade II*470 m (0.3 miles) east
St Augustine With St Philip's ChurchListed building, Grade II*560 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Church of St John on Bethnal GreenListed building, Grade I770 m (0.5 miles) north
Bethnal Green GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II840 m (0.5 miles) north
The Novo CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Roman Bath House, ShadwellScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Bonner Hall Bridge, Regent's CanalScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Priory and Hospital of St Mary SpitalScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) west
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site2 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Shadwell Old BasinLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Shadwell EntranceTidal water1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
RedriffWetland1.7 km (1 mile) south-east
Limehouse Basin EntranceTidal water1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Stave HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Russia Dock WoodlandWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)24.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.9205
Particles (PM10)16.54015

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
65 to 69100
55 to 59100
Under 55133

2 of the street's 3 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
John Scurr Primary SchoolPrimary2–11220 m Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stepney Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11300 m Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Swanlea SchoolSecondary11–18390 m Outstanding (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stewart Headlam Primary SchoolPrimary3–11440 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Alice Model Nursery SchoolNursery2–5540 m (0.3 miles) 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
Hague Primary SchoolPrimary3–11580 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Bangabandhu Primary SchoolPrimary3–11610 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thomas Buxton Primary SchoolPrimary3–11730 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Osmani Primary SchoolPrimary3–11730 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Wapping High SchoolSecondary11–16780 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary and St Michael Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11780 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Morpeth SchoolSecondary11–18800 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
Empire Chinese Take Away E1 4TPTakeaway/sandwich shop10 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Jan 2025
Ghost House E1 4TPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen10 m5 Very good24 Mar 2026
Subway E1 4TWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good16 Sep 2025
White Hart E1 4TPPub/bar/nightclub60 m5 Very good20 Mar 2025
Tower Hamlets Mission Kitchen E1 4TPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises60 m5 Very good8 Dec 2025
Bun & Sum E1 4TPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good27 Mar 2025
Haji Biryani E1 4TPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good22 Jul 2025
Nando's Chickenland E1 4TPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good24 Mar 2026
Chittagong Banoful E1 5QHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m4 Good24 Mar 2026
Coffee Corner E1 5QHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m1 Major improvement necessary23 Jul 2026
Atlas Supermarket E1 5QHRetailers - other110 m3 Generally satisfactory13 Nov 2024
Thai N Pie E1 4TTTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good16 Sep 2025
Alia Mini Market E1 4TTRetailers - other120 m5 Very good16 Jul 2025
The Burger Firm E1 4TPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Jan 2026
Damal Banqueting E1 4TTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m3 Generally satisfactory6 Aug 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.

830 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences220
Anti-social behaviour197
Other theft71
Shoplifting55
Theft from the person50
Public order45
Drugs39
Vehicle crime33
Burglary32
Bicycle theft24
Criminal damage and arson23
Robbery21
Other crime12
Possession of weapons8

Most of these are attached to: On or near Maples Place (166); On or near Cleveland Grove (99); On or near Darling Row (74); On or near Headlam Street (70); On or near Raven Row (68).

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: 534 residents in 227 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 age3140
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over4%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)19%61%
Owned outright6%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented19%17%
Private rented61%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work66%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)4%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)52%32%
Travel to work by car or van5%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram23%4%
By any public transport, including bus26%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)86%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)56%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)77%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all7%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

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.

  • E1 4FA: 2 addresses of 4 in the postcode
  • E1 4TP: 1 address of 96 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Mile End Road · Cleveland Grove · Key Close · Oleary Square · Mare Street · Vawdrey Close · Cleveland Grove · Adelina Grove · Darling Row · Foundry Place · Cleveland Way · Wyllen Close

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.