Martello Terrace Hackney

13 addresses across 2 postcodes (E8), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 20900667.

  • Energy: 7 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 5).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 Hackney costs £2,060 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is London Fields, about 60 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, London Fields, is about 30 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 23.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 18 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 13 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Greenhouse Walk-In, about 320 m away, with 14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 550 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 31% of households owned their home and 76% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 588 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 dates from March 2023 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

7 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 49 m². Most common: Flat (7). Built: 2003-2006 (6); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (7).

Council tax

What each band costs in Hackney in 2026-27: Band D £2,060 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,374£1,602£1,831£2,060£2,518£2,976£3,434£4,121

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (39% of about 1,350 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): London borough of Hackney, A4D Non-residential to residential, Hackney Central.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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
E8 3PGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E8 3PNnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 3 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 addresses are about 18 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
E8 3PG100%100%100%0%
E8 3PN100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsLondon Fields 1.9 million journeys in 2024–2560 m
Hackney Central 5.3 million journeys in 2024–25710 m (0.4 miles)
Hackney Downs 3.0 million journeys in 2024–25890 m (0.6 miles)
Underground, metro or tramBethnal Green Underground Station1.5 km (1 mile)
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 52 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mare Street / Well Street South Hackney210 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus4.8 km (3 miles)
Ferry terminalTower Pier Tower Hill4 km (2.5 miles)
Car parksDalston Lane Car Park1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points50 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity80 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY8.8 km (5.5 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR28.9 km (18 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 surgeries14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Greenhouse Walk-In320 m
Pharmacies26 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sonigra Pharmacy350 m
NHS dentists26 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery280 m
HospitalHomerton University Hospital1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationTower Hamlets Police1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone500 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 garden9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest London Fields 13 ha30 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Victoria Park 87 ha710 m (0.4 miles)
Play area18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,210 m²190 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 3,020 m²900 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 200 m²840 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 9 parks and gardens, 104 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The New Lansdowne Club, a listed building (Grade II*), 190 m east. 127 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The New Lansdowne ClubListed building, Grade II*190 m east
The Hackney EmpireListed building, Grade II*540 m (0.3 miles) north
Old Tower of Former Church of St AugustineListed building, Grade I820 m (0.5 miles) north
Church of St John of JerusalemListed building, Grade II*860 m (0.5 miles) east
Bonner Hall Bridge, Regent's CanalScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Bethnal Green GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Victoria ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Three Colt Bridge, Gunmaker's LaneScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site3.8 km (2.4 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Clapton PondLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Hackney CutLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Wick FieldWood2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Main MarshWetland2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-east
Shadwell EntranceTidal water3.7 km (2.3 miles) south
Stave HillHill4.6 km (2.9 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)23.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.8205
Particles (PM10)16.54015

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 more010
70 to 740120
55 to 59100
Under 5512013

1 of the street's 13 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 13 from railways, 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 Hackney: see them on the Hackney 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
Gayhurst Community SchoolPrimary3–11330 m Outstanding (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
London Fields Primary SchoolPrimary3–11420 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
The Urswick School - A Church of England Secondary SchoolSecondary11–19500 m (0.3 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John of Jerusalem Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11580 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St. Paul's With St. Michael's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11620 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Orchard Primary SchoolPrimary3–11650 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Morningside Primary SchoolPrimary2–11840 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Mowlem Primary SchoolPrimary3–11860 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Mossbourne Parkside AcademyPrimary3–11920 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Sebright SchoolPrimary3–11930 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Queensbridge Primary SchoolPrimary4–11940 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John and St James CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
BunBunBun E8 3PHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m3 Generally satisfactory13 Dec 2025
kichiya E8 3PHManufacturers/packers60 mAwaiting inspection
Cafe Kowloon E8 3PHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good6 Mar 2026
e5 Bakehouse E8 3PHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good29 Jul 2026
Soft & Swirly E8 3PHRetailers - other80 m5 Very good4 Sep 2026
Rosas Thai Cafe E8 3PHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good7 Jan 2026
The Fine Cider Company E8 3PHRetailers - other90 m5 Very good14 Aug 2026
The Fisheries London Ltd E8 3PNOther catering premises100 m5 Very good8 Jul 2026
SoCo Enterprises Ltd (The Society Company) E8 3PNRetailers - other100 m4 Good28 Feb 2020
Zapata Burger E8 3PHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good20 Mar 2026
Secret Smokehouse Ltd E8 3RRManufacturers/packers120 m5 Very good16 Sep 2026
Mini Bees Childcare E8 3SDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good27 Mar 2025
Bodeans @ Pub On The Park at 19 Martello Street E8 3PE E8 3PERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m4 Good4 Aug 2026
From The Ashes E8 3PERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good5 May 2026
Bread & truffle E8 3SBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m1 Major improvement necessary8 Jul 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

588 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour187
Violence and sexual offences95
Theft from the person58
Other theft51
Burglary38
Vehicle crime34
Public order31
Bicycle theft28
Drugs19
Robbery18
Criminal damage and arson11
Shoplifting9
Possession of weapons8
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Warburton Road (98); On or near Elizabeth Fry Road (63); On or near Pemberton Place (42); On or near Warburton Street (39); On or near Helmsley Street (36).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 550 residents in 264 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 age3340
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over3%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)31%61%
Owned outright8%33%
Shared ownership12%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented44%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work83%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)2%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)66%32%
Travel to work by car or van4%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram13%4%
By any public transport, including bus17%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)91%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more awayunder 1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)76%34%
No qualifications5%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)90%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

  • Food hygiene ratings Brat x Climpsons Arch (restaurant/cafe/canteen, E8 3SB) now 4 Good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 2 October 2026) found 31 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.

  • E8 3PG: 12 addresses
  • E8 3PN: 1 address of 124 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Martello Street · Lamb Lane · Fortescue Avenue · London Lane · Helmsley Place · Gransden Avenue · Mentmore Terrace · London Fields East Side · Bayford Street · Elizabeth Fry Road · Silesia Buildings · Sidworth Street

All the streets in E8 and across Hackney.

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.