Firefly Close London, Ealing

20 addresses across 2 postcodes (UB5), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 20604961.

  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (B: 17, C: 2).
  • Flood: 6 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 Ealing costs £2,139 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is South Ruislip, about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Willow Tree Open Space, is about 560 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 15.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 33 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 11 of its 20 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Yeading Medical Centre, about 620 m (0.4 miles) away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 840 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 39% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 193 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 September 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 93 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (7); House, semi-detached (6); House, end-terrace (6). Built: 2011 (13); 2007-2011 (4); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4); rented (social) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Ealing in 2026-27: Band D £2,139 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,426£1,663£1,901£2,139£2,614£3,089£3,564£4,277

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (35% of about 750 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): 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

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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 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
UB5 6WPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
UB5 6ETnot in 2 or 3 3 / 3 / 6 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 33 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
UB5 6ET100%100%100%0%
UB5 6WP100%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 stationsSouth Ruislip 165,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Southall 7.7 million journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Greenford 140,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wayfarer Road Northolt270 m
Bus or coach stationHillingdon Underground Station North Hillingdon4.9 km (3 miles)
Ferry terminalKew Pier8.7 km (5.4 miles)
Car parksPrivate parking space for rent at UB1 2YF930 m (0.6 miles)
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity400 m (0.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR8.4 km (5.2 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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Yeading Medical Centre620 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Touchwood Pharmacy580 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Colosseum Dental (Highview)390 m
HospitalEaling Hospital4 km (2.5 miles)
Police stationSouthall Police Station2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machines8 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone260 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Willow Tree Open Space 16 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
Play area21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 150 m²80 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rectory Park 22 ha310 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lime Tree 2 Allotments 5,350 m²770 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 25 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Moated site at Down Barns Farm, a scheduled monument, 1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Moated site at Down Barns FarmScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Royal Botanic Gardens, KewWorld Heritage Site8.8 km (5.4 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Willow Tree PondLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Lane CovertWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
The RoxbourneLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) north
Conolly DellValley4 km (2.5 miles) south-east
Ickenham MarshWetland4 km (2.5 miles) north-west
Horsenden HillHill4.7 km (2.9 miles) 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)15.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.6205
Particles (PM10)13.84015

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, 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
60 to 64100
55 to 591000
Under 5592020

11 of the street's 20 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 Ealing: see them on the Ealing 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
Viking Primary SchoolPrimary3–11340 m No published inspection
Brookside Primary SchoolPrimary3–11440 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Barnhill Community High SchoolSecondary11–18720 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Belmore Primary AcademyPrimary2–11890 m (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Raphael's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Downe Manor Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gifford Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Yeading Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Durdans Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Yeading Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Greenford High SchoolSecondary11–191.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Lady Margaret Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Exceptional; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Exceptional; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Paddington Home UB4 9QHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises160 mAwaiting inspection
Promised Care UB5 6EEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises270 m4 Good17 Mar 2026
Happy Shop UB5 6EERetailers - other280 m5 Very good7 Feb 2025
ISS Facility Services Education At Viking Primary School UB5 6HWSchool/college/university320 m5 Very good10 Jun 2025
Northolt Food Hub UB5 6HWRetailers - other320 m5 Very good5 Dec 2025
ENG Sports Academy At Viking Community Centre UB5 6HWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m4 Good16 Aug 2023
Cooking Kids @ Viking Community Centre UB5 6HWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m4 Good11 Apr 2024
Inmaa Nursery & Pre-school UB5 6HWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Dec 2025
Clementina Day Centre UB5 6HWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m1 Major improvement necessary5 Feb 2026
Kidwise @ Viking Community Centre UB5 6HWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m5 Very good14 Apr 2025
Lidl UB5 6ZDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets340 m5 Very good5 Aug 2024
Jas Supermarket UB5 6BWRetailers - other390 m4 Good29 Apr 2025
Cooking Kids @ Gainsborough Tower UB5 5PFOther catering premises440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good31 Mar 2026
Middlesex Community Football Centres UB5 5FARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Apr 2025
ENG Sports Academy @ Rectory Park UB5 5FAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises450 m (0.3 miles)4 Good3 Jan 2024

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.

193 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences91
Anti-social behaviour38
Vehicle crime19
Other theft13
Criminal damage and arson6
Robbery5
Drugs5
Public order4
Other crime3
Burglary3
Bicycle theft2
Possession of weapons2
Theft from the person2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Dehavilland Close (35); On or near Concord Close (31); On or near Britannia Close (19); On or near Viscount Grove (18); On or near Javelin Way (16).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 836 residents in 285 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 age3440
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)39%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented36%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van42%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram14%4%
By any public transport, including bus32%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)71%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all7%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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.

Nearby streets

Tomahawk Gardens · Sealand Walk · Britannia Close · Trident Gardens · Caravelle Gardens · The Parkway · The Parkway · Viscount Grove · Javelin Way · Friendship Walk · Gemini Grove · Delta Grove

All the streets in UB5 and across Ealing.

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.