Mount Echo Drive Chingford, Waltham Forest

42 addresses across 6 postcodes (E4), about 450 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 22860050.

  • Sales: 44 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £884,270 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 3, D: 8, E: 2).
  • 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 E; Band D in Waltham Forest costs £2,387 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 96% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chingford, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Mansfield Park, is about 330 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 15.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 36 to 50 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 42 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Ridgeway Surgery, about 290 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,010 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 85% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 51 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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
20262£884,270£868,540£900,000
20251£795,000£795,000£795,000
20241£845,000£845,000£845,000
20211£800,000£800,000£800,000
20203£635,000£535,000£645,000
20191£555,750£555,750£555,750
20161£515,000£515,000£515,000
20142£537,500£525,000£550,000
20131£480,000£480,000£480,000
20121£725,000£725,000£725,000
20111£450,000£450,000£450,000
20101£325,000£325,000£325,000
Most recent sales (44)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Apr 202649 E4 7LASemi-detached£900,000
30 Jan 202643 E4 7LASemi-detached£868,540
12 Sep 202533 E4 7LATerraced£795,000
2 Apr 202423 E4 7LASemi-detached£845,000
17 Mar 20215 E4 7LATerraced£800,000
19 Jun 202011 E4 7LASemi-detached£635,000
27 Mar 20207 E4 7LATerraced£645,000
14 Feb 202020 E4 7LBSemi-detached£535,000
1 Mar 201913 E4 7LATerraced£555,750
19 Sep 201620 E4 7LBSemi-detached£515,000
16 May 201445 E4 7LASemi-detached£550,000
6 Feb 201419 E4 7LADetached£525,000
24 Oct 201323 E4 7LASemi-detached£480,000
19 Mar 20121 E4 7LASemi-detached£725,000
7 Feb 201127 E4 7LASemi-detached£450,000
9 Jun 201011 E4 7LASemi-detached£325,000
15 Oct 200743 E4 7LASemi-detached£475,000
14 Mar 200710 E4 7LBTerraced£270,000
10 Aug 20062A E4 7LBTerraced£378,000
14 Jul 20061 E4 7LASemi-detached£592,500
28 Apr 200645 E4 7LASemi-detached£360,000
1 Sep 200525 E4 7LASemi-detached£420,000
27 May 200529 E4 7LASemi-detached£352,000
20 Aug 200447 E4 7LADetached£637,500
20 Aug 200413 E4 7LATerraced£320,000
16 Jul 200437 E4 7LASemi-detached£520,000
24 May 20023 E4 7LASemi-detached£286,000
30 Oct 200143 E4 7LASemi-detached£280,000
15 Oct 200127 E4 7LATerraced£304,995
13 Aug 200113 E4 7LATerraced£223,500
8 Jun 200120 E4 7LBSemi-detached£200,000
20 Apr 200125 E4 7LASemi-detached£300,000
20 Apr 200115 E4 7LASemi-detached£220,000
23 Jan 200133 E4 7LATerraced£289,995
12 Dec 20002A E4 7LBTerraced£240,000
10 Jul 200023 E4 7LASemi-detached£249,999
30 May 200013 E4 7LATerraced£150,000
30 Jul 199931 E4 7LASemi-detached£245,000
27 May 199949 E4 7LASemi-detached£205,000
30 Apr 199947 E4 7LADetached£185,000
26 Jun 199718 E4 7LBSemi-detached£100,000
8 Nov 199615 E4 7LASemi-detached£115,000
22 Jul 19969 E4 7LASemi-detached£113,500
24 Mar 19952A E4 7LBTerraced£145,000

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

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 135 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (9); Bungalow, semi-detached (3); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1930-1949 (9); 1950-1966 (4); 1900-1929 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Waltham Forest in 2026-27: Band D £2,387 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,591£1,857£2,122£2,387£2,917£3,448£3,978£4,774

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (64% of about 610 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): Other Article 4 Direction Area, Other Article 4 Direction Area, Other Article 4 Direction Area.
  • Tree preservation orders: 9 protected trees on or by this street.
  • 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 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
E4 7LAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
E4 7LBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E4 7JZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E4 7JYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
E4 7LRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
E4 7LWnot in 2 or 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 42 addresses are between 36 m and 50 m above sea level (43 m on average); the ground rises about 14 m from the lowest to the highest.

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

Broadband

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

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
E4 7JY100%100%100%0%
E4 7JZ100%96%96%0%
E4 7LA100%100%100%0%
E4 7LB100%100%100%0%
E4 7LR100%100%100%0%
E4 7LW100%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 stationsChingford 2.0 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Ponders End 884,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Highams Park 2.7 million journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 36 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pole Hill Road Chingford250 m
Bus or coach stationTesco Drop Off Point Waltham Abbey6 km (3.7 miles)
Ferry terminalEast India Pier13.8 km (8.6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest 3 Richmond Road Parking800 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points35 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity200 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY14.7 km (9.1 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN32.9 km (20 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Ridgeway Surgery290 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kingshead Chemist810 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apolline House Dental Practice920 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalChingford Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationWaltham Forest Police470 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shell Ching, Chingford Cashzone560 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mansfield Park 9.0 ha330 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 530 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.3 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,310 m²680 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 10 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Peter and St Paul, a listed building (Grade II*), 700 m (0.4 miles) east. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Peter and St PaulListed building, Grade II*700 m (0.4 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pole HillHill790 m (0.5 miles) north-east
The Hawk WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
William Girling ReservoirLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Yardley HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) north
South MarshWetland2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Fairmead BottomValley3.6 km (2.3 miles) north-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)15.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.5205
Particles (PM10)14.44015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail 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 trafficRailways
70 to 7410
65 to 6910
55 to 5930
Under 553742

5 of the street's 42 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 Waltham Forest: see them on the Waltham Forest 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
Chingford Foundation SchoolSecondary11–18150 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Parkside Primary SchoolPrimary3–11740 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Chingford CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11800 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Mary's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11860 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Yardley Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Longshaw Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lime Academy LarkswoodPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whitehall Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Heathcote School & Science CollegeSecondary11–181.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Chase Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
Olive Dining at Chingford Foundation School E4 7LTSchool/college/university150 m5 Very good4 Nov 2024
Enterprise House Restaurant E4 7NBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good16 May 2025
Butterfly17 E4 7NBRetailers - other300 mAwaiting inspection
Old Ridgeway Hotel E4 6QUHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good28 Jul 2026
The Kings Head E4 7EAPub/bar/nightclub500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 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.

51 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences16
Vehicle crime12
Anti-social behaviour10
Drugs4
Burglary3
Public order2
Criminal damage and arson1
Theft from the person1
Other theft1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Kings Head Hill (14); On or near Nevin Drive (14); On or near Seymour Road (11); On or near Mount Echo Drive (7); On or near College Gardens (3).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,006 residents in 394 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 age4740
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)85%61%
Owned outright49%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van43%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram8%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%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)33%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%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

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

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.

  • E4 7LA: 26 addresses
  • E4 7LB: 11 addresses
  • E4 7JZ: 2 addresses of 27 in the postcode
  • E4 7JY: 1 address of 18 in the postcode
  • E4 7LR: 1 address of 27 in the postcode
  • E4 7LW: 1 address of 48 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Sunset Avenue · College Gardens · Pino Way · Seymour Road · Echo Heights · Meadow Close · Maida Avenue · Hungerdown · Shingly Place · Nevin Drive · Mansfield Hill · St Egberts Way

All the streets in E4 and across Waltham Forest.

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.