Hoe Lane Epping Forest

111 addresses across 10 postcodes (RM4), about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 13800680.

  • Sales: 71 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £440,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 47 homes have an energy certificate (B: 7, C: 14, D: 10, E: 10, F: 1, G: 5).
  • Flood: 4 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 D; Band D in Epping Forest costs £2,277 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 80% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Newbury Racecourse, about 7.8 km (4.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Hainault Forest Country Park, is about 1.7 km (1 mile) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 26 to 96 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 15 of its 111 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Abridge Surgery, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,150 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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
20261£440,000£440,000£440,000
20241£2,300,000£2,300,000£2,300,000
20231£2,350,000£2,350,000£2,350,000
20217£720,000£300,000£1,750,000
20202£1,047,500£520,000£1,575,000
20171£600,000£600,000£600,000
20163£1,650,000£475,000£1,700,000
20151£460,000£460,000£460,000
20141£1,265,000£1,265,000£1,265,000
20131£325,000£325,000£325,000
20122£770,000£600,000£940,000
20111£900,000£900,000£900,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 71)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Mar 202612 RM4 1AXSemi-detached£440,000
19 Jun 2025191 RM4 1NPOther£2,130,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Feb 202494 RM4 1AUDetached£2,300,000
19 May 202339A RM4 1AUDetached£2,350,000
17 Dec 202190 RM4 1AUDetached£1,750,000
30 Sep 2021WILDERNESS, 171A RM4 1NPDetached£300,000
29 Jun 2021171 RM4 1NPDetached£1,275,000
28 Jun 202156 RM4 1AUDetached£1,050,000
15 Jun 2021184A RM4 1NLDetached£355,000
12 Apr 2021200 RM4 1NLOther£1,000,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Mar 20212 HILLSIDE COTTAGES, 162 RM4 1NPSemi-detached£720,000
19 Feb 20212 RM4 1AXSemi-detached£530,000
6 Jul 20201, AUGUSTA COTTAGES, 180 RM4 1NLTerraced£520,000
28 Feb 202041 RM4 1AUDetached£1,575,000
5 Apr 20171, HILLSIDE COTTAGES, 160 RM4 1NPSemi-detached£600,000
9 Sep 201639A RM4 1AUDetached£1,650,000
27 Jun 20162 RM4 1AXSemi-detached£475,000
16 Mar 201639 RM4 1AUDetached£1,700,000New build.
5 Nov 20151, AUGUSTA COTTAGES, 180 RM4 1NLTerraced£460,000
31 Jan 201439A RM4 1AUDetached£1,053,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Jan 201482 RM4 1AUDetached£1,265,000
8 Nov 20132 RM4 1AXSemi-detached£325,000
9 Nov 201244 RM4 1AUDetached£600,000
3 Aug 201260 RM4 1AUDetached£940,000
6 Apr 201183 RM4 1AUDetached£900,000
6 Jul 20102 RM4 1AXSemi-detached£310,000
11 Jun 201022 RM4 1AXSemi-detached£304,995
11 Sep 2008WILDERNESS, 171A RM4 1NPDetached£700,000
15 Jan 200841 RM4 1AUDetached£1,600,000
20 Aug 200767 RM4 1AUDetached£850,000
3 Nov 200660 RM4 1AUDetached£643,000
21 Jul 2006LANGDALE, 38 RM4 1AUDetached£765,000
9 May 200632 RM4 1AXSemi-detached£314,995
24 Feb 2006110 RM4 1AUDetached£2,812,500
7 Feb 200660 RM4 1AUDetached£600,000
19 Jan 200662 RM4 1AUDetached£945,000
19 Jan 200648 RM4 1AUDetached£705,000
18 Jul 200594 RM4 1AUDetached£1,500,000
1 Jun 200542 RM4 1AUDetached£425,000
20 May 200540 RM4 1AUDetached£300,000
19 May 200541 RM4 1AUDetached£700,000
11 Jan 200552 RM4 1AUDetached£565,000
2 Jul 200450 RM4 1AUDetached£612,500
7 Apr 2004180 RM4 1NLTerraced£250,000
9 Dec 2003LANGDALE, 38 RM4 1AUDetached£670,000
20 Nov 200363 RM4 1AUDetached£407,000
7 May 200342 RM4 1AUDetached£360,000
2 Oct 200261 RM4 1AUDetached£712,500
14 Aug 200256 RM4 1AUDetached£495,000
17 Jun 200263 RM4 1AUDetached£405,000

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 dates from February 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

47 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 149 m². Most common: House, detached (22); House, semi-detached (14); Bungalow, detached (6). Built: 1950-1966 (10); 1930-1949 (9); 1900-1929 (9). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (25); rented (social) (8); rented (private) (2).

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 D (27% of about 960 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: 5.
  • 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: yes, Epping Forest.

Listed buildings

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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 20 October 2026 to 21 October 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, temp obstruction 15 minute delay, on the footway (minor works)
  • 26 October 2026 to 30 October 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the footway, carriageway (major works)
  • 12 November 2026 to 16 November 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the footway, carriageway (major (paa) works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 16 September 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the footway, carriageway (major works)

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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 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
RM4 1AUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
RM4 1AXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RM4 1NLnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 2 unlikely
RM4 1NPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RM4 1AJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RM4 1AHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RM4 1BBnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 2 unlikely
RM4 1DFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RM4 1NBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
RM4 1XUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 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 111 addresses are between 26 m and 96 m above sea level (56 m on average); the ground rises about 70 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
RM4 1AH100%100%100%0%
RM4 1AJ100%100%100%0%
RM4 1AU98%95%95%2%
RM4 1AX100%100%100%0%
RM4 1BB100%100%100%0%
RM4 1DF100%87%87%0%
RM4 1NB88%81%81%0%
RM4 1NL86%86%86%0%
RM4 1NP100%80%80%0%
RM4 1XU100%86%86%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 stationsNewbury Racecourse 115,000 journeys in 2024–257.8 km (4.9 miles)
Chingford 2.0 million journeys in 2024–257.9 km (4.9 miles)
Chadwell Heath 4.9 million journeys in 2024–258.3 km (5.1 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Field Close Abridge710 m (0.4 miles)
Bus or coach stationTesco Drop Off Point Waltham Abbey9.5 km (5.9 miles)
Ferry terminalBarking Riverside Pier Creekmouth14 km (8.7 miles)
Car parksDebden Station Car Park (TfL)2.7 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY16 km (9.9 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN28.1 km (17 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Abridge Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
PharmaciesTotal Medcare Limited2.4 km (1.5 miles)
NHS dentistsBroadway Dental Clinic2.8 km (1.7 miles)
HospitalHolly House Private Hospital6.6 km (4.1 miles)
Police stationLoughton Police Station4.8 km (3 miles)
Cash machinesPayzone2.9 km (1.8 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 gardenHainault Forest Country Park 367 ha1.7 km (1 mile)
Play areaUnnamed 680 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.2 ha810 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 4,190 m²860 m (0.5 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Mary and All Saints, a listed building (Grade II*), 880 m (0.5 miles) east. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of St Mary and All SaintsListed building, Grade II*880 m (0.5 miles) east
Roman villa south of Hill FarmScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Knoll's WoodWood360 m east
Clark's WoodWood470 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Soapley's WoodWood570 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Halfmoon WoodWood720 m (0.4 miles) east
Cabin HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Sheep WaterLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) south

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)10.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)13.44015

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
65 to 6920
60 to 6410
55 to 59120
Under 5596111

15 of the street's 111 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 Epping Forest: see them on the Epping 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
Lambourne Primary SchoolPrimary4–11720 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jul 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (essex).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,154 residents in 481 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 age4740
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)47%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

  • RM4 1AU: 61 addresses of 62 in the postcode
  • RM4 1AX: 17 addresses
  • RM4 1NL: 14 addresses
  • RM4 1NP: 10 addresses
  • RM4 1AJ: 3 addresses of 41 in the postcode
  • RM4 1AH: 2 addresses of 15 in the postcode
  • RM4 1BB: 1 address of 22 in the postcode
  • RM4 1DF: 1 address of 50 in the postcode
  • RM4 1NB: 1 address of 33 in the postcode
  • RM4 1XU: 1 address of 18 in the postcode

All the streets in RM4 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.