High Road Chigwell, Epping Forest

1 address across 1 postcode (IG7), about 210 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 13801640.

  • Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band G; Band D in Epping Forest costs £2,277 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chingford, about 4.7 km (2.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Cedar Park, is about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 34 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Chigwell Medical Centre, about 1.7 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 390 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 60 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 Epping Forest in 2026-27: Band D £2,277 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,518£1,771£2,024£2,277£2,783£3,289£3,795£4,554

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band G (37% of about 710 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 22 October 2026 to 27 October 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON, Disconnection or alteration of supply, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works)
  • 2 September 2026 to 7 September 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard 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

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this street's postcodes yet.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre 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 address is about 34 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
IG7 6PY100%0%0%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 stationsChingford 2.0 million journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Newbury Racecourse 115,000 journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Highams Park 2.7 million journeys in 2024–255.3 km (3.3 miles)
Underground, metro or tramChigwell Underground Station170 m
Chigwell Underground Station180 m
Chigwell Underground Station180 m
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chigwell Station60 m
Bus or coach stationTesco Drop Off Point Waltham Abbey8.8 km (5.5 miles)
Ferry terminalBarking Riverside Pier Creekmouth11.9 km (7.4 miles)
Car parksBuckhurst Hill Station Car Park (TfL)2.1 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station910 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY12.8 km (7.9 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN31.6 km (20 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 surgeriesChigwell Medical Centre1.7 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Brook House Pharmacy40 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alan C Goldman Dental Practice1.2 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalHolly House Private Hospital3 km (1.9 miles)
Police stationLoughton Police Station3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mace, High Road Cashzone60 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 gardenCedar Park 3.0 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Station Green Playground 8,600 m²80 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 3.6 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.2 ha890 m (0.6 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Grange Court, a listed building (Grade II*), 610 m (0.4 miles) north-east. 32 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Grange CourtListed building, Grade II*610 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Parish Church of St Mary the VirginListed building, Grade II*700 m (0.4 miles) north-east
The Kings Head InnListed building, Grade II*700 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Chigwell Grammar SchoolListed building, Grade II*780 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
High WoodWood2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Hospital Hill WoodWood2 km (1.3 miles) south
Cocked Hat PlantationWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) south
Cuthbert LakeLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Warren HillHill3.4 km (2.1 miles) north-west
Fairmead BottomValley4.1 km (2.5 miles) north-west

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)14.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.3205
Particles (PM10)14.04015

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
55 to 5910
Under 5501

1 of the street's 1 addresses is 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 Epping Forest: see them on the Epping Forest 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
Chigwell Primary AcademyPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
West Hatch High SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Limes Farm Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Limes Farm Infant School and NurseryPrimary3–71.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Buckhurst Hill Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 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
Papilon IG7 6PFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good12 Nov 2024
Brook House Pharmacy IG7 6PFRetailers - other40 mExempt
Safe Healing Centre IG7 6PERetailers - other40 m5 Very good24 Sep 2026
MACE IG7 6PERetailers - other60 m5 Very good2 May 2025
Chigwell Fish Bar IG7 6PEOther catering premises60 m5 Very good12 Nov 2024
Chigwell Health Foods IG7 6PERetailers - other60 m5 Very good2 May 2025
Dominos Pizza IG7 6PDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good12 Nov 2024
Tesco Stores Limited IG7 6NURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets110 mAwaiting inspection
BOBO & WILD IG7 6NURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good5 Dec 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.

60 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences13
Vehicle crime12
Other theft8
Burglary6
Anti-social behaviour5
Public order4
Drugs3
Robbery3
Criminal damage and arson2
Shoplifting2
Possession of weapons1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near High Road (28); On or near Station Road (8); On or near Brook Way (7); On or near Dickens Rise (6); On or near A113 (4).

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: 387 residents in 164 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 age4540
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented28%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)44%32%
Travel to work by car or van31%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram16%4%
By any public transport, including bus16%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)40%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications26%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)87%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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: UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON: Disconnection or alteration of supply, 22 October 2026 to 28 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) 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.

  • IG7 6PY: 1 address of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

High Road · Brook Way · Dickens Rise · Station Road · Dickens Rise · Brook Rise · New Barns Way · Courtland Drive · Chigwell Rise · Chigwell Park · Coolgardie Avenue · Lee Grove

All the streets in IG7 and across Epping Forest.

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.