Meadow Row Southwark

40 addresses across 3 postcodes (SE1), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 22501696.

  • Sales: 2 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £525,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 27 homes have an energy certificate (B: 19, C: 7, 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 B; Band D in Southwark costs £1,967 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Elephant and Castle, about 210 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Newington Gardens, is about 150 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 28.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 10.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 1 to 2 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 41 of its 41 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Falmouth Road Group Practice, about 280 m away, with 9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 500 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 11% of households owned their home and 48% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1,275 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often theft from the person.

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
20211£525,000£525,000£525,000
20201£590,000£590,000£590,000
Most recent sales (2)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Apr 2021FLAT 4, MELBWAY HOUSE, 18 SE1 6BFFlat or maisonette£525,000Leasehold.
8 Oct 2020FLAT 6, MELBWAY HOUSE, 18 SE1 6BFFlat or maisonette£590,000Leasehold.

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

27 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 69 m². Most common: Flat (23); Maisonette, mid-terrace (3); House, detached (1). Built: 2003-2006 (8); 2012 onwards (4); 1991-1995 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (17); rented (social) (5); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (27 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Southwark in 2026-27: Band D £1,967 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,312£1,530£1,749£1,967£2,404£2,842£3,279£3,935

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (30% of about 2,680 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 2 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: 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): Central Activities Zone, Central Activities Zone, Central Activities Zone, Elephant and Castle Major Town Centre, Elephant and Castle Major Town Centre.
  • 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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 11 November 2026 to 13 November 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility asset works, give and take, on the footway, carriageway (minor 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 23 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 42 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 42 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
SE1 6BFzone 3 0 / 0 / 19 unlikely
SE1 6RGzone 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
SE1 6PGzone 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 41 addresses are between 1 m and 2 m above sea level (2 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
SE1 6BF100%100%100%0%
SE1 6PG100%100%100%0%
SE1 6RG100%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 stationsElephant and Castle 2.2 million journeys in 2024–25210 m
London Waterloo East 6.8 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
London Bridge 55 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tramElephant & Castle Underground Station290 m
Borough Underground Station670 m (0.4 miles)
Kennington Underground Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Bus stops27 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 72 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Elephant & Castle / New Kent Road90 m
Bus or coach stationVictoria Station3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Ferry terminalBankside Pier Southwark1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Borough Road Pay & Stay Car Park410 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points53 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity100 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY10.6 km (6.6 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR25.4 km (16 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 surgeries9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Falmouth Road Group Practice280 m
Pharmacies26 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chana Chemist230 m
NHS dentists25 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery130 m
HospitalGuy's Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationSouthwark Police Station450 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone230 m

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 garden19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Newington Gardens 1.3 ha150 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park 6.4 ha650 m (0.4 miles)
Play area35 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,770 m²120 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,160 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 590 m²530 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 19 parks and gardens, 19 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Obelisk at the Centre of St George's Circus, a listed building (Grade II*), 650 m (0.4 miles) north-west. 174 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Obelisk at the Centre of St George's CircusListed building, Grade II*650 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Church of St George the MartyrListed building, Grade II*710 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Number 142 and Attached RailingsListed building, Grade II*820 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Roman riverboat, 136m west of Greenwood TheatreScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Abbey buildings, BermondseyScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Romano-British bath house and medieval remains at 11-15 Borough High StreetScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Lambeth PalaceRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (1 mile) west
Kennington ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Upper PoolTidal water1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
King's ReachTidal water2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
St Katharine Docks BasinLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Holly Grove ShrubberyWood3.3 km (2.1 miles) south-east
RedriffWetland3.9 km (2.4 miles) east
Stave HillHill4 km (2.5 miles) 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)28.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)10.1205
Particles (PM10)17.14015

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 74600
65 to 69700
60 to 64200
55 to 592680
Under 5503341

41 of the street's 41 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 8 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 Southwark: see them on the Southwark page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
Victory Primary SchoolPrimary3–11400 m (0.2 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ark Globe AcademyAll-through3–18420 m (0.3 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Exceptional; Leadership and governance: Exceptional; Early years: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Exceptional; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Jude's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11610 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Charles Dickens Primary SchoolPrimary2–11620 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England SchoolSecondary11–18650 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Notre Dame Catholic Girls' School Roman CatholicSecondary11–16670 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Crampton PrimaryPrimary4–11680 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Haberdashers' Borough AcademySecondary11–18720 m (0.4 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St George's Cathedral Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11750 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Robert Browning Primary SchoolPrimary3–11800 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
English Martyrs' Roman Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary4–11800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Friars Primary Foundation SchoolPrimary3–11810 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Costa azul SE1 6PGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m2 Improvement necessary26 Sep 2019
Costa azul restaurant SE1 6PGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m4 Good30 Mar 2026
St. matthews at the elephant church SE1 6RGOther catering premises80 mExempt
Parish of holy trinity with st matthew SE1 6RGRetailers - other80 m5 Very good25 Sep 2020
May stores ltd SE1 6ASRetailers - other100 m3 Generally satisfactory30 Dec 2025
Rockingham community day nursery SE1 6QPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m5 Very good8 Sep 2025
Rockingham pre - school SE1 6QPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m5 Very good13 Jul 2023
Omosco food SE1 6QPRetailers - other110 m5 Very good5 Jun 2026
Treasure boxing club SE1 6QPSchool/college/university110 mAwaiting inspection
Gymbox elephant & castle SE1 6TJPub/bar/nightclub130 mAwaiting inspection
Sainsbury's SE1 6TJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets130 m5 Very good21 May 2025
Brotherhood of the cross and star SE1 6RTTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good11 May 2026
Sidequest gamers hub SE1 6TJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good25 Jul 2023
Cheli restaurant SE1 6TJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good19 Mar 2026
Leegangju uk ltd. SE1 6PSRetailers - other140 mAwaiting inspection

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.

1,275 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Theft from the person360
Violence and sexual offences213
Other theft208
Anti-social behaviour116
Robbery95
Shoplifting71
Drugs55
Public order55
Burglary38
Vehicle crime18
Criminal damage and arson17
Bicycle theft17
Possession of weapons6
Other crime6

Most of these are attached to: On or near Elephant Road (406); On or near Newington Causeway (253); On or near Supermarket (175); On or near Tarn Street (138); On or near Bath Terrace (74).

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: 496 residents in 247 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 age3540
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)11%61%
Owned outright4%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented68%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)8%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)40%32%
Travel to work by car or van5%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram14%4%
By any public transport, including bus39%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)80%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)48%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)78%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: THAMES WATER: Utility asset works, 11 November 2026 to 13 November 2026 (give and take) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Frieday5 Chicken & Boba (takeaway/sandwich shop, SE1 6SE) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Ap food express (retailers - other, SE1 6FZ) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Winemasters (retailers - other, SE1 6SF) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Kebab kitchen ltd (takeaway/sandwich shop, SE1 6DR) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 14 October 2026) found 3 November 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.

  • SE1 6BF: 20 addresses of 21 in the postcode
  • SE1 6RG: 19 addresses
  • SE1 6PG: 1 address of 28 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Arch Street · Rockingham Street · Tarn Street · Elephant Road · New Lion Way · Falmouth Road · Bath Terrace · Castle Square · Tiverton Street · Walworth Road · Ash Avenue · Chatteris Way

All the streets in SE1 and across Southwark.

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.