Latching Close London, Havering

12 addresses across 1 postcode (RM3), about 30 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 21301341.

  • Sales: 15 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £540,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 Havering costs £2,425 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 91% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Harold Wood, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Central Park, is about 330 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 44 to 46 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 12 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Saheecha's Practices, about 670 m (0.4 miles) away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 520 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 55% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 112 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20231£540,000£540,000£540,000
20152£320,000£310,000£330,000
20111£215,000£215,000£215,000
20041£180,000£180,000£180,000
20032£185,750£185,000£186,500
20022£146,250£130,000£162,500
20001£120,000£120,000£120,000
19991£105,500£105,500£105,500
19961£83,000£83,000£83,000
19952£91,250£72,500£110,000
Most recent sales (15)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Sep 20243 RM3 9DGSemi-detached£450,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Mar 20234 RM3 9DGDetached£540,000
11 Sep 20152 RM3 9DGDetached£310,000
14 May 20153 RM3 9DGSemi-detached£330,000
20 Jul 20119 RM3 9DGDetached£215,000
23 Jul 20045 RM3 9DGSemi-detached£180,000
28 Mar 20036 RM3 9DGDetached£186,500
10 Jan 20031 RM3 9DGDetached£185,000
19 Jun 20027 RM3 9DGTerraced£162,500
28 Mar 20025 RM3 9DGSemi-detached£130,000
20 Nov 20006 RM3 9DGDetached£120,000
15 Oct 19991 RM3 9DGDetached£105,500
31 Jan 19966 RM3 9DGDetached£83,000
30 Jun 19954 RM3 9DGDetached£72,500
23 Jun 19951 RM3 9DGDetached£110,000

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

5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 102 m². Most common: House, detached (4); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1983-1990 (3); 1996-2002 (1); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (2 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Havering in 2026-27: Band D £2,425 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,616£1,886£2,155£2,425£2,963£3,502£4,041£4,849

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (38% of about 800 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): 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 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 12 addresses are between 44 m and 46 m above sea level (45 m on average).

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
RM3 9DG91%91%91%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 stationsHarold Wood 3.6 million journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Gidea Park 3.0 million journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Emerson Park 303,000 journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 34 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dorking Walk Harold Hill120 m
Bus or coach stationCommunity Hospital Shenfield6.9 km (4.3 miles)
Ferry terminalBarking Riverside Pier Creekmouth12.7 km (7.9 miles)
Car parksParking space on Hilldene Avenue860 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hilldene Avenue Car Park530 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY16.4 km (10 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN30.5 km (19 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Saheecha's Practices670 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots570 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Essence Dental Clinic1.2 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalVictoria Hospital (Romford)3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Police stationRomford Police Station4 km (2.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Harold Hill590 m (0.4 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Central Park 19 ha330 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,060 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.3 ha310 m
AllotmentsKeats Avenue Allotments 1.9 ha1.7 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 19 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Dagnam Park Farm moated site, Noak Hill, Romford, a scheduled monument, 1.2 km (0.7 miles) east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Dagnam Park Farm moated site, Noak Hill, RomfordScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Little Hatter's WoodWood470 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Hatter's WoodWood880 m (0.5 miles) east
Long WoodWood890 m (0.6 miles) east
Sage WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Park LakeLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.2 miles) south-west
Willoughby's HillHill4.8 km (3 miles) 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)11.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)12.84015

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 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 5930
Under 55912

3 of the street's 12 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 Havering: see them on the Havering 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
Drapers' Brookside Junior SchoolPrimary7–11410 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Drapers' Brookside Infant SchoolPrimary3–7420 m (0.3 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Ursula's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Broadford Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mead Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Drapers' Pyrgo Priory SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Hilldene Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Drapers' AcademySecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Drapers' Maylands Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Strong standard; 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 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
St Thomas JSO Church London RM3 7STRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m4 Good19 Jun 2026
Whitchurch Wine RM3 9AARetailers - other190 mExempt
Knights Tandoori RM3 9AATakeaway/sandwich shop190 m1 Major improvement necessary20 Mar 2026
Whitchurch Newsagents RM3 9AARetailers - other190 mExempt
Toastea Cafe RM3 9AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m4 Good19 May 2025
Wok-U-Like RM3 9AATakeaway/sandwich shop190 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Jun 2025
Hillside Nursing Home RM3 9AWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good5 Oct 2026
Ingrebourne Day Nursery RM3 7YTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m5 Very good20 Jul 2026
Koru Educational Services RM3 7YDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good23 Jun 2025
HES @ Brookside School RM3 9DJSchool/college/university400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good29 Jan 2026
Playdays Preschool 8 RM3 9ENHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Aug 2026
Caloroso Pizza Romford RM3 9ENRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Feb 2026
Havering Youth Service RM3 9ENHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good26 Feb 2026
Harvest Hope CIC RM3 9ENRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good12 Jul 2026
My Place RM3 9DJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Apr 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.

112 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour46
Violence and sexual offences30
Drugs7
Other theft6
Vehicle crime5
Public order4
Burglary4
Criminal damage and arson3
Robbery3
Theft from the person3
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Latching Close (23); On or near Peony Road (15); On or near Dorking Walk (15); On or near Ingrebourne Avenue (14); On or near North Hill Drive (13).

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: 520 residents in 193 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 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)55%61%
Owned outright20%33%
Shared ownership4%1%
Social rented23%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram15%4%
By any public transport, including bus21%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)46%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)87%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%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.

Nearby streets

Joyes Close · Dorking Walk · Skylark Grove · Dorking Road · Troopers Drive · North Hill Drive · Dorking Rise · St Martins Place · Taunton Road · Lewes Road · Peony Road · Ingrebourne Avenue

All the streets in RM3 and across Havering.

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.