Higham Path Walthamstow, Waltham Forest

1 address across 1 postcode (E17), about 50 m long. USRN 22805550.

  • Flood: 3 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 Waltham Forest costs £2,387 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Blackhorse Road, about 710 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 380 m away, and Stoneydown Park (0.5 hectares) is about 600 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 14 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 Sinnott Medical Centre, about 310 m away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 11% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 226 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 (load in progress). 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 Waltham Forest in 2026-27: Band D £2,387 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,591£1,857£2,122£2,387£2,917£3,448£3,978£4,774

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (51% of about 1,200 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: 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): Other Article 4 Direction Area, Other Article 4 Direction Area, Other Article 4 Direction Area.
  • 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 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 2 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 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 14 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
E17 6DD100%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 stationsBlackhorse Road 2.7 million journeys in 2024–25710 m (0.4 miles)
St James Street (Walthamstow) 1.6 million journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Walthamstow Queen's Road 997,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tramBlackhorse Road Underground Station680 m (0.4 miles)
Walthamstow Central Underground Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Tottenham Hale Underground Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 35 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hillyfield Primary School Higham Hill100 m
Bus or coach stationPark View Road (N17) Tottenham Hale2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Ferry terminalCanary Wharf Pier9.5 km (5.9 miles)
Car parksParking lot930 m (0.6 miles)
EV charging points49 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge100 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY11.4 km (7.1 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR32.4 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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sinnott Medical Centre310 m
Pharmacies16 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cavendish Pharmacy310 m
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery370 m
HospitalWhipps Cross Hospital2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationMetropolitan Police Service1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines7 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone250 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,670 m²380 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Stoneydown Park 5,280 m²600 m (0.4 miles)
Play area10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 60 m²360 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.0 ha660 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Higham Hill Allotment Site 4.2 ha270 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 1.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Water House, Lloyd Park (William Morris Gallery), a listed building (Grade II*), 940 m (0.6 miles) east. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Water House, Lloyd Park (William Morris Gallery)Listed building, Grade II*940 m (0.6 miles) east
Springfield ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-west
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site9.7 km (6 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
High Maynard ReservoirLake or reservoir870 m (0.5 miles) west
Lockwood ReservoirLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Low Maynard ReservoirLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Reservoir Number 4Lake or reservoir1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Tottenham MarshesWetland1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Ainslie WoodWood2.7 km (1.7 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)17.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.2205
Particles (PM10)14.54015

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 Waltham Forest: see them on the Waltham Forest 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
Hillyfield Primary AcademyPrimary3–11210 m No published inspection
Big Creative Academy16 plus16–19420 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Stoneydown Park SchoolPrimary3–11610 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Greenleaf Primary SchoolPrimary3–11660 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Winns Primary SchoolPrimary3–11670 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Eden Girls' School, Waltham Forest MuslimSecondary11–18680 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Willowfield SchoolSecondary11–16710 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11710 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whittingham Primary AcademyPrimary3–11740 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Mission Grove Primary SchoolPrimary3–11930 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Roger Ascham Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Walthamstow Academy ChristianSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection

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
E17 Supermarket E17 6EARetailers - other100 mUnknown19 Feb 2026
Acorn Day Opportunies Ltd E17 6BHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good19 Aug 2026
JB Food & Wine E17 6EJRetailers - other250 m1 Major improvement necessary9 Jun 2025
Jug & Bottle E17 6BDRetailers - other280 m5 Very good18 Mar 2025
Khushboo London E17 6EJTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m3 Generally satisfactory8 May 2025
Allied Pharmacy Higham Hill E17 5RQRetailers - other300 mExempt
The Italian Bakery E17 6DYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good18 Feb 2026
Black Cactus BBQ at Burnt Faith Spirits E17 6BHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good3 May 2025
Burnt Faith Spirits E17 6BHManufacturers/packers310 m4 Good11 Sep 2024
Smart Buns E17 6DYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m4 Good13 Jun 2026
Oriental Kitchen E17 6DYTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m3 Generally satisfactory9 Jul 2026
Forest Kebab E17 6HDTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m1 Major improvement necessary20 Nov 2025
KSM Food & Wine E17 6HDRetailers - other320 m1 Major improvement necessary20 Nov 2025
Cavendish Pharmacy E17 6HDRetailers - other320 mExempt
Bliss Stop E17 6JGTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m1 Major improvement necessary18 Jul 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.

226 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences79
Anti-social behaviour51
Vehicle crime30
Other theft14
Drugs12
Criminal damage and arson11
Public order6
Theft from the person6
Burglary6
Robbery5
Other crime3
Possession of weapons1
Bicycle theft1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Wigmore Place (29); On or near Chamberlain Place (28); On or near Green Pond Close (25); On or near Stirling Road (21); On or near Luton Road (20).

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: 304 residents in 146 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 age3940
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)11%61%
Owned outright8%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented72%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van22%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram29%4%
By any public transport, including bus42%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%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)29%34%
No qualifications32%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)74%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%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.

  • E17 6DD: 1 address of 47 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Higham Place · Chamberlain Place · Higham Street · Sutherland Road · Queen Elizabeth Road · Stirling Road · Green Pond Road · Roma Road · Pasquier Road · Bunyan Road · Unity Place · Fairfield Road

All the streets in E17 and across Waltham 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.