Leman Street London, Tower Hamlets

646 addresses across 25 postcodes (E1,SE16), about 640 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 22701338.

  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Tower Hamlets cost £447,950 in August 2026 (-13.3% on a year); private rents averaged £2,462 a month.
  • Energy: 187 homes have an energy certificate (B: 127, C: 36, D: 16, E: 6, F: 2).
  • Flood: 87 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: 1 recorded flood covered 1 of its 25 postcode centres, most recently in January 1928.
  • Landfill: 3 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Lavender Dock, is 160 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 6 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 54 times (26 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 2 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Hedgehog Grove Solar Farm - Solar Panels, is 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A11, carries 21,480 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Tower Hamlets costs £1,838 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 30% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is London Fenchurch Street, about 580 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Altab Ali Park, is about 250 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 32.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 10.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are -2 to 15 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 648 of its 654 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Goodman's Field Health Centre, about 320 m away, with 11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 3,970 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 21% of households owned their home and 59% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1,340 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 332 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 51 of them fatal or serious; 63 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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.

House prices and rents in Tower Hamlets

A typical home in Tower Hamlets cost £447,950 in August 2026, 13.3% less than a year before. That is 19% less than five years earlier and 9% less than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£899,832
Semi-detached£675,369
Terraced£696,816
Flat or maisonette£429,851
Bought by a first-time buyer£430,635

Private renters in Tower Hamlets paid £2,462 a month on average in September 2026, 3.8% more than a year before. That is 41% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£1,998
Two bedrooms£2,427
Three bedrooms£2,760
Four or more bedrooms£3,390

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 October 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

187 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 51 m². Most common: Flat (186); Maisonette, semi-detached (1). Built: 2012 onwards (51); 2007-2011 (49); 2013 (25). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (118); owner-occupied (39).

Each home's certificates and sales (187 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 7,712 kWh of it on average in 2024, 12% less than the district's 8,771 kWh, and 4,030 kWh of electricity, 30% more than the district's 3,090 kWh. There are gas meters for about 27% of the homes.

4 of its postcodes have no gas meters recorded among 10 or more homes: often flats heated by electricity, or homes off the gas grid.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
E1 7PT104,916 kWh 94,644 kWh
E1 7AP63 38 Economy 71,605 kWh none recorded
E1 7RA133,570 kWh 94,248 kWh
E1 7AQ57 25 Economy 71,492 kWh none recorded
E1 7QX141,499 kWh 103,920 kWh
E1 7PL71,222 kWh 85,187 kWh
E1 1DT27 6 Economy 72,472 kWh 196,621 kWh
E1 1HD395,612 kWh none recorded
E1 5JS331,795 kWh 347,238 kWh
E1 6LP81,274 kWh 84,688 kWh
E1 7AT792,815 kWh none recorded
E1 7EX58,702 kWh 610,806 kWh
E1 7RG61,102 kWh under 5
SE16 5XR50 40 Economy 73,850 kWh 86,372 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is E1.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Tower Hamlets in 2026-27: Band D £1,838 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,225£1,429£1,634£1,838£2,246£2,655£3,063£3,676

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (22% of about 8,420 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 8 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: yes, Whitechapel High Street, Whitechapel High Street, Wentworth Street. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 8.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Aldgate East, Aldgate West, Whitechapel 2.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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.

Energy projects nearby

4 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 2 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Hedgehog Grove Solar Farm - Solar Panels The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure 26/00440/FUL Solar farm 98 MW Planning application made Mar 2026 1.7 km (1.1 miles)
SELCHP ERF Energy from waste (incinerator) 35 MW Operational Dec 1993 2.5 km (1.6 miles)
The O2 Arena - Wind turbines Greenwich 21/2229/F Wind 10 turbines 3 MW Permission granted, not yet built Sep 2021 3.3 km (2.1 miles)
King's Yard Newham 2008/0826 Biomass 3 MW Operational Jul 2012 4.1 km (2.5 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 2 November 2026 to 11 November 2026: TRANSPORT FOR LONDON (TFL), Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)
  • 3 November 2026 to 11 November 2026: TRANSPORT FOR LONDON (TFL), Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)
  • 8 December 2026 to 9 December 2026: THAMES WATER, Remedial works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 22 October 2026 to 23 October 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the footway, carriageway, cycleway (immediate - emergency works)
  • 30 September 2026: VERIZON BUSINESS, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 30 September 2026: VERIZON BUSINESS, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 7 September 2026: TRANSPORT FOR LONDON (TFL), Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - emergency works)
  • 5 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Permanent reinstatement, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 1 September 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - emergency 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 72 addresses are in areas at high risk, 15 at medium risk and 24 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 49 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 41 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
E1 7PTnot in 2 or 3 9 / 1 / 2 unlikely
E1 7APnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E1 7RAnot in 2 or 3 8 / 3 / 1 unlikely
E1 7AQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E1 8QSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 10 unlikely
E1 7QXnot in 2 or 3 19 / 0 / 1 unlikely
E1 7PLnot in 2 or 3 5 / 1 / 1 unlikely
E1 6BFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E1 7PHnot in 2 or 3
E1 7PEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E1 7PSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E1 1DTnot in 2 or 3 21 / 2 / 2 unlikely
E1 1EWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
E1 1HDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E1 5JSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E1 6LAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E1 6LPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E1 7ATnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E1 7AYnot in 2 or 3
E1 7EXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E1 7NTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
E1 7QAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
E1 7RGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 8 / 0 unlikely
E1 8AXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SE16 5XRzone 3 10 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

1 recorded flood covered 1 of the centres of this street's postcodes, most recently in January 1928 (main river).

WhenFloodSource and causePostcodes
6 Jan 1928Not named Main river; overtopping of defences SE16 5XR

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

6 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 54 times, for 26 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Tidal Thames, R.thames ( Tidal ), Tidal Riverthames.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Ratcliffe Highway Limekiln Cso Thames Water Tidal Thames 0 0 290 m
Holloway Storm Relief Cso Thames Water R.thames ( Tidal ) 0 0 300 m
North East St Cso Thames Water Tidal Thames 2 1 420 m (0.3 miles)
Bell Wharf Cso Thames Water Tidal Riverthames 0 0 420 m (0.3 miles)
Beer Lane Cso Thames Water R.thames ( Tidal ) 24 9 830 m (0.5 miles)
Irongate Cso Thames Water R.thames ( Tidal ) 28 15 870 m (0.5 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

3 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 160 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Lavender Dock Rotherhithe, Bermondsey, London until 1975 Inert 160 m
Island Dock Rotherhithe, Bermondsey, London until 1975 Inert 410 m (0.3 miles)
Stave Dock Rotherhithe, Bermondsey, London until 1975 Inert 500 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 668 addresses are between -2 m and 15 m above sea level (14 m on average); the ground rises about 17 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
E1 1DT96%96%96%0%
E1 1EW100%100%100%0%
E1 1HD100%100%100%0%
E1 5JS100%100%100%0%
E1 6BF100%100%100%0%
E1 6LA100%100%100%0%
E1 6LP57%57%57%0%
E1 7AP100%100%100%0%
E1 7AQ100%100%100%0%
E1 7AT100%100%100%0%
E1 7AY100%100%100%0%
E1 7EX50%50%50%0%
E1 7NT100%75%75%0%
E1 7PE100%100%100%0%
E1 7PH100%100%100%0%
E1 7PL100%100%100%0%
E1 7PS100%100%100%0%
E1 7PT57%57%57%0%
E1 7QX89%77%77%0%
E1 7RA41%41%41%0%
E1 7RG30%30%30%0%
E1 8AX100%100%100%0%
E1 8QS90%90%90%0%
SE16 5XR100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 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 stationsLondon Fenchurch Street 11 million journeys in 2024–25580 m (0.4 miles)
London Liverpool Street 98 million journeys in 2024–25710 m (0.4 miles)
Shoreditch High Street 7.3 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Underground, metro or tramAldgate East Underground Station10 m
Aldgate Underground Station240 m
Tower Gateway DLR Station520 m (0.3 miles)
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 68 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Aldgate East60 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus4.1 km (2.5 miles)
Ferry terminalTower Pier Tower Hill920 m (0.6 miles)
Car parks4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest NCP London Whitechapel High Street110 m
EV charging points16 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge430 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY8.9 km (5.5 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR27.4 km (17 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Goodman's Field Health Centre320 m
Pharmacies29 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots320 m
NHS dentists41 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Square Mile Dental Centre310 m
HospitalSt Clements Hospital150 m
Care homes1 home within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Silk Court Care Home Good Jun 20201.5 km (1 mile)
Police stationBishopsgate Police Station610 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Easypaypoint90 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 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 garden14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Altab Ali Park 4,800 m²250 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Allen Gardens 1.9 ha790 m (0.5 miles)
Play area17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,670 m²60 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.5 ha1.3 km (0.8 miles)
AllotmentsCable Street Allotments 4,500 m²1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 14 parks and gardens, 5.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 46, Aldgate High Street Ec3, a listed building (Grade II*), 140 m south-west. 455 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 31 of them Grade I and 34 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
46, Aldgate High Street Ec3Listed building, Grade II*140 m south-west
Hoop and Grapes Public HouseListed building, Grade II*150 m south-west
Church of St George (German Lutheran Church and Vestry)Listed building, Grade II*170 m south-east
Whitechapel Art GalleryListed building, Grade II*190 m north-east
London Wall: remains of Roman wall, bastions and city gate of Aldgate from 17 Bevis Marks to India StreetScheduled monument350 m south-west
London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion (4a) at Crutched FriarsScheduled monument410 m (0.3 miles) south-west
London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion, Goring StreetScheduled monument470 m (0.3 miles) west
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site800 m (0.5 miles) south
Finsbury CircusRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) west
Arnold Circus, Bethnal GreenRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.8 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
West DockLake or reservoir830 m (0.5 miles) south
East DockLake or reservoir880 m (0.5 miles) south
Upper PoolTidal water1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
RedriffWetland2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Stave HillHill2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Russia Dock WoodlandWood3 km (1.8 miles) south-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)32.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)10.7205
Particles (PM10)17.74015

All three are within the UK legal limits; all three 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
75 dB or more39100
70 to 7413600
65 to 693500
60 to 648600
Under 556654654

648 of the street's 654 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 Tower Hamlets: see them on the Tower Hamlets page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 13 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Mulberry Canon Barnett Primary AcademyPrimary3–11150 m Report card (Jun 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 59% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 45% in 2024 and 57% in 2023)
English Martyrs Roman Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary3–11240 m 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 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 16% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)
The Aldgate School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11370 m Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 77% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 79% in 2024 and 76% in 2023)
Christ Church CofE School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11430 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection 71% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 35% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 68% in 2023)
Harry Gosling Primary SchoolPrimary3–11470 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 84% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
Kobi Nazrul Primary SchoolPrimary3–11530 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection 70% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 76% in 2024 and 83% in 2023)
London Enterprise AcademySecondary11–16540 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 48.7 (48.0 in 2025 and 46.0 in 2024); 48.9% grade 5+ in English and maths
St Paul's Whitechapel Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11710 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 82% in 2024 and 70% in 2023)
St Anne's and Guardian Angels Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11750 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection None published
Mulberry Academy London DockSecondary11–19790 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection GCSE figures withheld (2026, provisional)
Wapping High SchoolSecondary11–16790 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 46.9 (46.9 in 2025 and 46.9 in 2024); 46.6% grade 5+ in English and maths
Osmani Primary SchoolPrimary3–11850 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 78% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 77% in 2024 and 77% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 630 m (0.4 miles); the nearest is 140 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Canon Barnett Extended Provison E1 7RQ Out-of-school day care 16 Not inspected yet 140 m
Global Kids Aldgate East E1 7AJ Full day care 29 Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 220 m
Attlee Youth & Community Centre E1 6RT Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 320 m
Iqra Preschool E1 5LT Sessional day care 20 Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 340 m
Childcare at The Aldgate School EC3A 5DE Full day care 16 Good (Jun 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 380 m
Inaaya Academy E1 5LQ Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 460 m (0.3 miles)
Rainbow House E1 1JX Full day care 26 Outstanding (Sep 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 500 m (0.3 miles)
Kids Kingdom Nursery @ Pinchin St E1 1PG Full day care 36 Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 570 m (0.4 miles)
Bright Horizons Spitalfields Day Nursery and Preschool E1 6EA Full day care 50 Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 600 m (0.4 miles)
St Paul's Nursery E1 8JN Full day care 120 Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 630 m (0.4 miles)

Ofsted also registers 69 childminders and 62 home childcarers (nannies) in Tower Hamlets. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 13 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
Black Sheep Coffee E1 8FATakeaway/sandwich shop30 m5 Very good14 Jan 2026
Bartlett Mitchell Ltd at Aecom E1 8FARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good10 Mar 2026
Uber Eats E1 8FAOther catering premises30 m5 Very good22 Sep 2025
Costa Coffee E1 7PURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good18 Sep 2025
Tesco E1 6BFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets60 m5 Very good15 Jul 2025
BaxterStorey - Derwent London White Chapel Building E1 8QSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good24 Sep 2025
Roastery Club E1 8ENRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good10 Aug 2026
Fora Whitechapel E1 7QARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good6 May 2026
Ibis London City Hotel Restaurant/Bar E1 6BFHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house80 m5 Very good30 Sep 2026
Pret A Manger E1 6BFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good30 Sep 2026
Convenience 65 (Aldgate East) E1 8ENRetailers - other80 m5 Very good6 May 2026
Wang Wang E1 6LPTakeaway/sandwich shop80 m5 Very good17 Jun 2024
BT One Braham Restaurant E1 8EPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good10 Mar 2026
Bento Bab E1 6LPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good18 Jun 2025
Ara E1 7AYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good16 Sep 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.

1,340 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences262
Theft from the person218
Anti-social behaviour216
Other theft169
Public order100
Burglary81
Drugs69
Shoplifting57
Vehicle crime50
Robbery43
Bicycle theft31
Criminal damage and arson27
Other crime13
Possession of weapons4

Most of these are attached to: On or near Little Somerset Street (160); On or near Plough Street (115); On or near Aldgate East (102); On or near Parking Area (88); On or near Further/Higher Educational Building (85).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

332 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 50 serious and 281 slight, in which 1 person died and 53 people were seriously hurt. 63 involved a pedestrian; 126 involved a cyclist; 92 involved a motorcyclist; 7 involved a child under 16. 37% happened in the dark, and 21% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 20 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
20217611
20227110
20236010
20246710
20255810
The most recent 10 of 332
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
25 Dec 2025 22:09 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist A11, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
21 Dec 2025 10:25 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist A11, 20 mph Wet road
11 Dec 2025 18:00 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A11, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
5 Dec 2025 20:20 Slight 2 people: 1 pedestrian, 1 motorcyclist A1209, 20 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
21 Nov 2025 09:00 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A1202, 20 mph Daylight
13 Nov 2025 16:40 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A11, 30 mph Daylight
10 Nov 2025 13:38 Slight 1 person A11, 20 mph Wet road
8 Oct 2025 09:45 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A11, 20 mph Daylight
18 Sep 2025 07:50 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A1209, 20 mph Daylight
8 Sep 2025 07:40 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A11, 20 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A11 between LA Boundary and A1202/A13 mid-junc, with 21,480 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 30 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A11 A1202/A13 mid-junction to A107 18,587 estimated; counted 2020 4% +2% since 2015 20 m
A11 LA Boundary to A1202/A13 mid-junc 21,480 counted 2025 4% -24% since 2015 30 m
A1211 London Wall to Outwich St 11,298 counted 2025 6% 130 m
A1202 B126 Prescot St to A13/A11 mid-junction 8,544 estimated; counted 2019 4% -35% since 2015 140 m
A1211 LA Boundary to A11 11,299 estimated; counted 2021 6% -36% since 2015 180 m
A1211 Goodman's Yard to Bevis Marks 6,269 counted 2025 3% 200 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 12 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 3,971 residents in 1,678 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 age2840
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over4%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)21%61%
Owned outright9%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented21%17%
Private rented56%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)4%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)57%32%
Travel to work by car or van5%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram16%4%
By any public transport, including bus20%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)86%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)59%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)65%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The 8 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Pangea (restaurant/cafe/canteen, E1 6LY) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 12 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Oliver's (takeaway/sandwich shop, E1 6BD) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 12 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Houston & Hawkes (restaurant/cafe/canteen, E1 8BB) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 12 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Shori Donburiya (restaurant/cafe/canteen, E1 7NE) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 23 October 2026) found 12 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Artizian (restaurant/cafe/canteen, E1 8BB) now Awaiting inspection, was 5 Very good found 12 November 2026

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers November 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • E1 7PT: 260 addresses of 272 in the postcode
  • E1 7AP: 76 addresses
  • E1 7RA: 76 addresses of 78 in the postcode
  • E1 7AQ: 62 addresses
  • E1 8QS: 52 addresses of 53 in the postcode
  • E1 7QX: 47 addresses of 50 in the postcode
  • E1 7PL: 25 addresses of 29 in the postcode
  • E1 6BF: 10 addresses of 29 in the postcode
  • E1 7PH: 10 addresses of 12 in the postcode
  • E1 7PE: 9 addresses of 12 in the postcode
  • E1 7PS: 5 addresses of 6 in the postcode
  • E1 1DT: 1 address of 76 in the postcode
  • E1 1EW: 1 address of 205 in the postcode
  • E1 1HD: 1 address of 47 in the postcode
  • E1 5JS: 1 address of 37 in the postcode
  • E1 6LA: 1 address of 77 in the postcode
  • E1 6LP: 1 address of 116 in the postcode
  • E1 7AT: 1 address of 193 in the postcode
  • E1 7AY: 1 address of 12 in the postcode
  • E1 7EX: 1 address of 49 in the postcode
  • E1 7NT: 1 address of 25 in the postcode
  • E1 7QA: 1 address
  • E1 7RG: 1 address of 22 in the postcode
  • E1 8AX: 1 address of 17 in the postcode
  • SE16 5XR: 1 address of 54 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Tyne Street · Braham Street · Pomell Way · New Drum Street · Camperdown Street · Halfmoon Passage · Middlesex Street · Old Castle Street · Plough Street · Whitechapel High Street · Aldgate High Street · Buckle Street

All the streets in E1, SE16 and across Tower Hamlets.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.