Maize Row London, Tower Hamlets

1 address across 1 postcode (E14), about 300 m long. USRN 22702269.

  • 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 D; Band D in Tower Hamlets costs £1,838 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 50% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Limehouse, about 520 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Ropemakers Field, is about 50 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 22.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 6 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Limehouse Practice, about 280 m away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 32% of households owned their home and 70% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 425 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in 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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (24% of about 910 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: yes, St Annes Church. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 4.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 18 protected trees on or by this street.
  • 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.

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 address is about 6 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
E14 7HR100%50%50%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 stationsLimehouse 2.6 million journeys in 2024–25520 m (0.3 miles)
Canary Wharf 16 million journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Shadwell 3.9 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Underground, metro or tramWestferry DLR Station450 m (0.3 miles)
Limehouse DLR Station520 m (0.3 miles)
West India Quay DLR Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 35 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Salmon Lane Limehouse180 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus6.8 km (4.2 miles)
Ferry terminalCanary Wharf Pier650 m (0.4 miles)
Car parks4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parking570 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points19 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity420 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR30 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 Limehouse Practice280 m
Pharmacies14 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Nash Chemist320 m
NHS dentists22 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest E14 Dental Centre320 m
HospitalLondon Independent Hospital1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationBow Road Police Station2 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM520 m (0.3 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 garden15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ropemakers Field 1.6 ha50 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Russia Dock Woodland 9.9 ha720 m (0.4 miles)
Play area15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 140 m²40 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 6,290 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsAckroyd Drive Allotments 1,690 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 15 parks and gardens, 20 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Anne, a listed building (Grade I), 200 m north-east. 119 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St AnneListed building, Grade I200 m north-east
The Royal Foundation of St KatharineListed building, Grade II*610 m (0.4 miles) west
Warehouses and General Offices at Western End of North QuayListed building, Grade I710 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Nelson House Including Railings to StepsListed building, Grade II*720 m (0.4 miles) south
The Novo CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.6 km (1 mile) north
Pumping engine house for Brunel's Thames tunnelScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Roman Bath House, ShadwellScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Southwark ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.3 km (1.5 miles) south-west
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site3 km (1.9 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Limehouse BasinLake or reservoir170 m west
Limehouse Basin EntranceTidal water350 m south-west
Cuckold's PointWetland610 m (0.4 miles) south
Lavender PondLake or reservoir660 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Stave HillHill1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Russia Dock WoodlandWood1.5 km (0.9 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)22.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.8205
Particles (PM10)16.74015

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
70 to 74100
Under 55011

1 of the street's 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Tower Hamlets: see them on the Tower Hamlets 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
Cyril Jackson Primary SchoolPrimary3–11210 m No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Sir William Burrough Primary SchoolPrimary3–11340 m No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Stepney Greencoat Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11370 m Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cayley Primary SchoolPrimary3–11700 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Stebon Primary SchoolPrimary3–11820 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Peter Hills with St Mary's and St Paul's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11850 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Paul With St Luke CofE Primary Federation Church of EnglandPrimary3–11850 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Halley Primary SchoolPrimary3–11860 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mayflower Primary SchoolPrimary3–11880 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11900 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Marion Richardson Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary SchoolSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Exceptional; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Exceptional; Leadership and governance: Exceptional; Post-16 provision: 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
Cruising Association Kitchen E14 8BTOther catering premises150 m5 Very good31 Jul 2026
Limehouse Cooperation Town Food Co-Op E14 7HARetailers - other170 mExempt
Panda House Canteen E14 7HSOther catering premises190 m5 Very good7 Jul 2025
Cyril Jackson Primary School Servery E14 8AQSchool/college/university210 m5 Very good11 Jun 2025
Cyril Jackson Primary School Kitchen E14 8HHSchool/college/university210 m5 Very good11 Jun 2025
Puddle Jumpers Nursery Kitchen E14 8HHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m5 Very good13 Aug 2026
Limehouse Aid Foodbank E14 8HHRetailers - other220 mExempt
The Grapes PH E14 8BPPub/bar/nightclub260 m5 Very good8 Jul 2025
Little Limehouse Smokeboat E14 8EGRetailers - other260 mAwaiting inspection
Little Limehouse Pre School E14 7EYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m5 Very good8 May 2024
Riverside Store E14 8BPRetailers - other270 m4 Good9 Apr 2024
Excel Wines & Spirits E14 7PQRetailers - other270 m5 Very good11 Jun 2026
Chhatak Bazar E14 7PGRetailers - other280 m5 Very good11 Feb 2025
Darbari Delight E14 7PGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m3 Generally satisfactory29 Apr 2026
Anchor Cafe E14 7PGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good29 Jan 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.

425 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour135
Violence and sexual offences97
Burglary37
Other theft33
Vehicle crime30
Drugs29
Criminal damage and arson17
Public order14
Robbery10
Theft from the person9
Bicycle theft8
Possession of weapons3
Other crime3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Wilson'S Place (81); On or near Three Colt Street (47); On or near Barleycorn Way (44); On or near Northey Street (42); On or near Mill Place (38).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 304 residents in 139 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 age3240
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over4%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)32%61%
Owned outright6%33%
Shared ownership10%1%
Social rented15%17%
Private rented43%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work77%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)3%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)69%32%
Travel to work by car or van2%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram14%4%
By any public transport, including bus18%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)88%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)70%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualificationunder 1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)74%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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 Little Limehouse Smokeboat (retailers - other, E14 8EG) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Solis (retailers - other, E14 7DL) re-inspected, still 1 Major improvement necessary (rated 7 October 2026) found 30 October 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

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

  • E14 7HR: 1 address of 10 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Oak Lane · Newell Street · Wharf Lane · Brightlingsea Place · Norway Place · Victory Place · Island Row · Roy Square · Shoulder of Mutton Alley · Bate Street · Ropemaker's Fields · Mill Place

All the streets in E14 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.
  • 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.