Moss Close London, Tower Hamlets

9 addresses across 2 postcodes (E1), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 22700847.

  • Sales: 2 recorded sales since 1995; in 2011 the median was £495,000 across 1 sale.
  • 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: 7 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 4, D: 2).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A11, carries 18,587 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 26% to 88% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Whitechapel, about 360 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 120 m away, and Weaver's Community Space (6.0 hectares) is about 670 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 27.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 10.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 13 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 9 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Spitalfields Practice, about 340 m away, with 12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 220 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 27% of households owned their home and 42% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 794 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 40 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 6 of them fatal or serious; 4 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20111£495,000£495,000£495,000
20041£162,000£162,000£162,000
All 2 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Jan 20118 E1 5HTTerraced£495,000
9 Aug 20048 E1 5HTTerraced£162,000

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 2009 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 126 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1976-1982 (3); 1967-1975 (2); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (3); rented (social) (1); owner-occupied (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 12,739 kWh of it on average in 2024, 45% more than the district's 8,771 kWh, and 3,996 kWh of electricity, 29% more than the district's 3,090 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
E1 5HT92,835 kWh 812,558 kWh
E1 5JA323,069 kWh 3311,869 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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (36% of about 560 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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

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

Energy projects nearby

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
SELCHP ERF Energy from waste (incinerator) 35 MW Operational Dec 1993 4 km (2.5 miles)
King's Yard Newham 2008/0826 Biomass 3 MW Operational Jul 2012 4.6 km (2.8 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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 2 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
E1 5HTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E1 5JAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

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

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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 addresses are about 13 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
E1 5HT100%88%88%0%
E1 5JA26%26%26%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 stationsWhitechapel 37 million journeys in 2024–25360 m
Bethnal Green 1.6 million journeys in 2024–25700 m (0.4 miles)
Shoreditch High Street 7.3 million journeys in 2024–25860 m (0.5 miles)
Underground, metro or tramWhitechapel Underground Station380 m
Aldgate East Underground Station640 m (0.4 miles)
Aldgate Underground Station880 m (0.5 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 40 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The East London Mosque Whitechapel90 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus4.4 km (2.7 miles)
Ferry terminalTower Bridge Quay Wapping1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest NCP London Whitechapel High Street570 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points19 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge380 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY8.5 km (5.3 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR27.9 km (17 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. 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 surgeries12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Spitalfields Practice Good Jun 2026340 m
Pharmacies28 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pharmacyforce130 m
NHS dentists37 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whitechapel Dental Practice140 m
HospitalThe Royal London Hospital Whitechapel Rd360 m
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Silk Court Care Home Good Jun 20201 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationBishopsgate Police Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines7 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM230 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 garden11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,280 m²120 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Weaver's Community Space 6.0 ha670 m (0.4 miles)
Play area25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 40 m²130 m
Playing fieldStepney Green 4.4 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsCable Street Allotments 4,500 m²1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 11 parks and gardens, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Anne (Roman Catholic), a listed building (Grade II*), 310 m north-west. 322 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade I and 14 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Anne (Roman Catholic)Listed building, Grade II*310 m north-west
St Augustine With St Philip's ChurchListed building, Grade II*380 m south-east
Whitechapel Art GalleryListed building, Grade II*460 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Brick Lane Jamme Masjid (Former Neuve Eglise)Listed building, Grade II*470 m (0.3 miles) west
Priory and Hospital of St Mary SpitalScheduled monument890 m (0.6 miles) west
London Wall: remains of Roman wall, bastions and city gate of Aldgate from 17 Bevis Marks to India StreetScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion, Goring StreetScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Arnold Circus, Bethnal GreenRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Bethnal Green GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
East DockLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
West DockLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Shadwell EntranceTidal water1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
RedriffWetland2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Stave HillHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Russia Dock WoodlandWood2.9 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)27.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)10.2205
Particles (PM10)17.44015

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
55 to 59200
Under 55799

2 of the street's 9 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), 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Osmani Primary SchoolPrimary3–11260 m 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)
Kobi Nazrul Primary SchoolPrimary3–11310 m 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)
St Anne's and Guardian Angels Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11320 m No published inspection None published
Thomas Buxton Primary SchoolPrimary3–11330 m No published inspection 71% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 14% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
London Enterprise AcademySecondary11–16410 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
Swanlea SchoolSecondary11–18430 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 58.7 (56.9 in 2025 and 56.1 in 2024); 68.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 6% AAB or better; progress below average
Christ Church CofE School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11460 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)
Wapping High SchoolSecondary11–16520 m (0.3 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
Mulberry Canon Barnett Primary AcademyPrimary3–11530 m (0.3 miles) 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)
Harry Gosling Primary SchoolPrimary3–11560 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)
William Davis Primary SchoolPrimary3–11620 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 83% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 79% in 2024 and 77% in 2023)
Stewart Headlam Primary SchoolPrimary3–11620 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 83% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 20% at the higher standard (2025; 83% in 2024 and 80% 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 390 m; the nearest is 120 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Rainbow House Whitechapel E1 1DN Sessional day care 60 Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 120 m
Women's Inclusive Team Ltd E1 5JY Full day care 24 Good (Sep 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 160 m
Ace Child Care E1 5HZ Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 160 m
Rainbow House E1 1JX Full day care 26 Outstanding (Sep 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 170 m
Early Steps Daycare E1 5HH Full day care 32 Feb 2026: Expected standard in 6 areas 240 m
Inaaya Academy E1 5LQ Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 250 m
TH Holiday Childcare St Anne's and Guardian Angels School E1 5AW Out-of-school day care 170 Not inspected yet 270 m
Rainbow Angels Nurseries & Learning Centres E1 5AW Full day care 75 Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 270 m
Iqra Preschool E1 5LT Sessional day care 20 Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 360 m
Rawdatul Atfaal E1 1HL Full day care 50 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 390 m

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 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
The Urban Chocolatier E1 5NBRetailers - other60 m5 Very good11 Feb 2025
Cafe Bite E1 5HURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good24 Sep 2025
Shell Service Station and Shop E1 1DTRetailers - other80 m5 Very good16 Jun 2025
Reset Recovery Support Service (CGL) E1 1DNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 mExempt
HFC E1 1DTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m4 Good8 Oct 2025
Cafe Roast E1 5HSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m4 Good19 May 2026
Al Kahf E1 1JERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m3 Generally satisfactory14 Jan 2026
Zaiqa London E1 1JERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m4 Good12 Mar 2025
Makkah PFC E1 1JERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m2 Improvement necessary11 Dec 2025
Chickaros Whitechapel E1 1JERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m4 Good14 Sep 2026
Green Leaf E1 1JERetailers - other140 m2 Improvement necessary12 Nov 2025
Bismillah Hotel E1 1JETakeaway/sandwich shop140 m2 Improvement necessary19 Jun 2025
Alhambra Cafe E1 1JERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m2 Improvement necessary20 Aug 2026
Ambala E1 1JERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good3 Mar 2025
Subway E1 1JETakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good23 Oct 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.

794 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences228
Anti-social behaviour161
Other theft75
Shoplifting71
Public order66
Theft from the person46
Drugs39
Burglary23
Criminal damage and arson23
Robbery17
Bicycle theft15
Vehicle crime14
Other crime9
Possession of weapons7

Most of these are attached to: On or near Plumbers Row (156); On or near Petrol Station (98); On or near Fieldgate Street (98); On or near Greatorex Street (54); On or near Further/Higher Educational Building (46).

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.

40 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 6 serious and 34 slight, in which 6 people were seriously hurt. 4 involved a pedestrian; 10 involved a cyclist; 13 involved a motorcyclist. 48% happened in the dark, and 38% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 20 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
2021101
202282
2023101
202461
202561
The most recent 10 of 40
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
10 Nov 2025 13:38 Slight 1 person A11, 20 mph Wet road
15 Aug 2025 09:20 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
30 Jul 2025 22:35 Slight 1 person A11, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
24 Jul 2025 16:44 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian A11, 20 mph Wet road
7 Apr 2025 12:38 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A11, 20 mph Daylight
29 Jan 2025 19:21 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
15 Oct 2024 15:25 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian A11, 20 mph Daylight
11 Sep 2024 20:00 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
25 Jul 2024 13:54 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A11, 20 mph Wet road
25 Mar 2024 20:00 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A11, 30 mph Dark, street lights on

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 A1202/A13 mid-junction and A107, with 18,587 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 130 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 130 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 Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 217 residents in 68 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 age3140
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)27%61%
Owned outright12%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented37%17%
Private rented34%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)8%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van7%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram17%4%
By any public transport, including bus24%8%
On foot or by bicycle29%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)42%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)56%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all14%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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 Midpoint Restaurant (restaurant/cafe/canteen, E1 1JE) now Unknown, was 1 Major improvement necessary (rated 12 October 2026) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The Naan Yard (restaurant/cafe/canteen, E1 6QR) newly listed: 5 Very good (rated 27 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Coba Mexicana (takeaway/sandwich shop, E1 6QR) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 27 October 2026) found 30 October 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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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.

  • E1 5HT: 8 addresses
  • E1 5JA: 1 address of 37 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Davenant Street · Spring Walk · Regal Close · Old Montague Street · Whitechapel Road · Vine Court · Coverley Close · Munshi Street · Greatorex Street · Deal Street · Fieldgate Street · Durward Street

All the streets in E1 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.