Factory Road London, Newham

177 addresses across 16 postcodes (E16), about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 22207704.

  • Flood: 31 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 Newham costs £1,944 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Woolwich Dockyard, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 150 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 22.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are -2 to 5 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 81 of its 177 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Practice Albert Road, about 210 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 2,280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 21% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 78 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 Newham in 2026-27: Band D £1,944 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,296£1,512£1,728£1,944£2,376£2,808£3,240£3,888

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (34% of about 3,860 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 4 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 10 October 2026 to 16 October 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 28 September 2026 to 8 October 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (standard works)
  • 18 August 2026 to 19 August 2026: LONDON BOROUGH OF NEWHAM, Highway repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - emergency works)
  • 17 August 2026 to 18 August 2026: LONDON BOROUGH OF NEWHAM, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - emergency works)

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, 9 addresses are in areas at high risk, 22 at medium risk and 39 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 93 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 93 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
E16 2HBzone 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E16 2EJzone 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
E16 2EWzone 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
E16 2ELzone 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
E16 2EZzone 3 0 / 1 / 2 unlikely
E16 2ESzone 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E16 2BSzone 3 0 / 2 / 4 unlikely
E16 2DWzone 3 9 / 3 / 6 unlikely
E16 2DXzone 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
E16 2DTzone 3 0 / 5 / 22 unlikely
E16 2JBzone 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
E16 2BZzone 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
E16 2DAzone 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E16 2DYzone 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E16 2GNzone 3 0 / 8 / 0 unlikely
E16 2ZDzone 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 177 addresses are between -2 m and 5 m above sea level (3 m on average); the ground rises about 7 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
E16 2BS100%33%8%0%
E16 2BZ100%0%0%0%
E16 2DA100%33%33%0%
E16 2DT100%100%100%0%
E16 2DW100%100%100%0%
E16 2DX100%100%100%0%
E16 2DY100%100%100%0%
E16 2EJ67%67%67%33%
E16 2EL100%50%50%0%
E16 2ES100%100%100%0%
E16 2EW0%0%0%100%
E16 2EZ81%0%0%19%
E16 2GN100%0%0%0%
E16 2HB0%0%0%100%
E16 2JB100%25%25%0%
E16 2ZD100%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 stationsWoolwich Dockyard 315,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Woolwich 14 million journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Custom House 9.8 million journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Underground, metro or tramLondon City Airport DLR Station240 m
Royal Albert DLR Station820 m (0.5 miles)
King George V DLR Station870 m (0.5 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 16 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lord Street Silvertown60 m
Bus or coach stationAlbany Park - Footscray Lane Sidcup8.7 km (5.4 miles)
Ferry terminalWoolwich Ferry North Pier North Woolwich850 m (0.5 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bloc Spaces - Docklands Depot - London City Airport Car Park670 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station290 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY560 m (0.3 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR35.6 km (22 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Practice Albert Road210 m
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy940 m (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest City Airport Dental Surgery160 m
HospitalQueen Elizabeth Hospital2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Police stationCharlton Police Car Pound2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machinesATM910 m (0.6 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,050 m²150 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 1,570 m²300 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 870 m²110 m
Playing fieldBarrack Field 14 ha1.9 km (1.2 miles)
AllotmentsConnaught Allotments 1.6 ha1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 0.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Former St Mark's Church (Brick Lane Music Hall), a listed building (Grade II*), 520 m (0.3 miles) west. 13 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Former St Mark's Church (Brick Lane Music Hall)Listed building, Grade II*520 m (0.3 miles) west
Second World War anti-aircraft gun emplacements, BecktonScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north
Linear Training Fortification, Royal Military RepositoryScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Repository WoodsRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Maritime GreenwichWorld Heritage Site4.4 km (2.7 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Royal Albert DockLake or reservoir760 m (0.5 miles) north-east
King George V DockLake or reservoir840 m (0.5 miles) east
Woolwich ReachTidal water1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Ham Creek WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Gallions PointWetland1.7 km (1 mile) east
Shooters HillHill3.8 km (2.3 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)22.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.3205
Particles (PM10)15.14015

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 691300
60 to 641400
55 to 595434
Under 5596174173

81 of the street's 177 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, 3 from railways, and 4 from aircraft, 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 Newham: see them on the Newham 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
Drew Primary SchoolPrimary3–11250 m Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Royal Greenwich Trust SchoolSecondary11–191.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Windrush Charlton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Cardwell Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
London Design and Engineering UTCSecondary14–191.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Exceptional; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Exceptional; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Exceptional; Leadership and governance: Exceptional; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Winsor Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Woodhill Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Saint Mary Magdalene Church of England All Through SchoolAll-through3–181.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Kingsford Community SchoolSecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Royal Docks AcademySecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Royal Wharf Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mulgrave Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection

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
London City Airport Hotel E16 2DYHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house200 m5 Very good4 Aug 2026
Drew Primary School E16 2DPSchool/college/university250 m5 Very good25 Sep 2026
Olive Catering At Tate & Lyle E16 2EWOther catering premises260 m4 Good22 Sep 2025
The Girl Of Sandwiches E16 2DWTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m5 Very good19 Sep 2026
Kams Kitchen E16 2DWTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m3 Generally satisfactory5 Nov 2025
Pizzaza E16 2DWTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m2 Improvement necessary8 Nov 2025
Tuk Tuk Silvertown Ltd E16 2DWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good3 Sep 2026
Caffe Nero E16 2PXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good24 Mar 2026
Pret A Manger E16 2PXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good23 May 2025
Creedunt E16 2PXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good2 Apr 2025
Londis - E & L (UK) Limited E16 2DQRetailers - other310 m5 Very good18 Jan 2025
The Royal British Legion Club E16 2DQPub/bar/nightclub350 m4 Good3 Jul 2024
The Nuance Group (UK) Limited (Aelia) E16 2PXRetailers - other390 m5 Very good16 Oct 2023
WH Smith E16 2PXRetailers - other390 m5 Very good13 Oct 2023
Juniper & Co E16 2PXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good5 Jun 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.

78 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences20
Anti-social behaviour17
Other crime15
Drugs7
Vehicle crime5
Public order4
Criminal damage and arson3
Burglary2
Shoplifting2
Other theft1
Theft from the person1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (21); On or near Newland Street (12); On or near Leonard Street (10); On or near Tate Road (10); On or near Saville Road (9).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 6 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 2,280 residents in 812 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3340
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)21%61%
Owned outright10%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented47%17%
Private rented29%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)13%6%
Retired (of adults)8%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van22%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram36%4%
By any public transport, including bus45%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)38%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)76%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%2%

Deprivation

The 4 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 4 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: THAMES WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 10 October 2026 to 16 October 2026 (multi-way signals) found 3 November 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.

  • E16 2HB: 43 addresses
  • E16 2EJ: 35 addresses of 41 in the postcode
  • E16 2EW: 32 addresses
  • E16 2EL: 28 addresses of 31 in the postcode
  • E16 2EZ: 11 addresses of 63 in the postcode
  • E16 2ES: 10 addresses of 56 in the postcode
  • E16 2BS: 3 addresses of 47 in the postcode
  • E16 2DW: 3 addresses of 53 in the postcode
  • E16 2DX: 3 addresses of 31 in the postcode
  • E16 2DT: 2 addresses of 46 in the postcode
  • E16 2JB: 2 addresses of 11 in the postcode
  • E16 2BZ: 1 address of 17 in the postcode
  • E16 2DA: 1 address of 9 in the postcode
  • E16 2DY: 1 address of 7 in the postcode
  • E16 2GN: 1 address of 12 in the postcode
  • E16 2ZD: 1 address of 6 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Holt Road · Lord Street · Leonard Street · Newland Street · Tate Road · Muir Street · Saville Road · Albert Road · Ben Tillet Close · Wythes Road · Rawsthorne Close · Kennard Street

All the streets in E16 and across Newham.

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.