Oliver's Yard London, Islington

43 addresses across 4 postcodes (EC1Y), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 21605604.

  • 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 C; Band D in Islington costs £2,108 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 63% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Old Street, about 240 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 220 m away, and Finsbury Circus Gardens (0.7 hectares) is about 640 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 30.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 10.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 18 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 43 of its 43 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is City Road Medical Centre, about 530 m (0.3 miles) away, with 13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 420 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 28% of households owned their home and 73% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1,247 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

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

Energy performance certificates

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Islington in 2026-27: Band D £2,108 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,405£1,640£1,874£2,108£2,577£3,045£3,514£4,216

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (26% of about 1,450 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: yes, Bunhill Fields and Finsbury Square (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 4.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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

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

Roadworks

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 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
EC1Y 1AU63%63%63%0%
EC1Y 1DT100%100%100%0%
EC1Y 1HQ82%82%82%0%
EC1Y 1SP100%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 stationsOld Street 6.1 million journeys in 2024–25240 m
Moorgate 8.8 million journeys in 2024–25630 m (0.4 miles)
London Liverpool Street 98 million journeys in 2024–25760 m (0.5 miles)
Underground, metro or tramOld Street Underground Station220 m
Moorgate Underground Station650 m (0.4 miles)
Liverpool Street Underground Station780 m (0.5 miles)
Bus stops21 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 86 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest City Road / Leonard Street Old Street50 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Ferry terminalBlackfriars Pier1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Car parks8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest NCP270 m
EV charging points34 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest TotalEnergies Charging Station80 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY10.1 km (6.3 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR26.6 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. 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 surgeries13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest City Road Medical Centre530 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies27 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apex Pharmacy320 m
NHS dentists46 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Moorgate Dental220 m
HospitalMoorfield Eye Hospital City Road Elective Surgical Hub420 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationBishopsgate Police Station840 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine 167 Moorgate Halifax500 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 garden11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,010 m²220 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Finsbury Circus Gardens 7,210 m²640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 500 m²310 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.5 ha190 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 840 m²1.5 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 11 parks and gardens, 3.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Wesley's Chapel, a listed building (Grade I), 30 m. 435 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 11 of them Grade I and 29 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wesley's ChapelListed building, Grade I30 m
John Wesley's House and Attached RailingsListed building, Grade I50 m
Tomb of John Wesley in the Burial Ground of Wesley's ChapelListed building, Grade II*50 m
Monument to Sarah and John Wheatly, East EnclosureListed building, Grade II*100 m west
Bunhill Fields Burial GroundRegistered park or garden, Grade I140 m west
The Curtain PlayhouseScheduled monument470 m (0.3 miles) east
The Theatre PlayhouseScheduled monument500 m (0.3 miles) east
Golden Lane Estate Designed LandscapeRegistered park or garden, Grade II680 m (0.4 miles) west
Priory and Hospital of St Mary SpitalScheduled monument720 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
West DockLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-east
St Katharine Docks BasinLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Upper PoolTidal water2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
RedriffWetland3.5 km (2.2 miles) south-east
Stave HillHill4.1 km (2.5 miles) south-east
Russia Dock WoodlandWood4.4 km (2.7 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)30.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)10.7205
Particles (PM10)17.94015

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 more100
70 to 744200
Under 5504343

43 of the street's 43 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 Islington: see them on the Islington page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Central Foundation Boys' SchoolSecondary11–18160 m No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Workers' Educational Association16 plus16–99410 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Luke's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11460 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Prior Weston Primary School and Children's CentrePrimary0–11520 m (0.3 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
City of London Primary Academy, IslingtonPrimary4–11640 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Monica's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11650 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St John the Baptist Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–11790 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Virginia Primary SchoolPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Moreland Primary SchoolPrimary0–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Columbia Market Nursery SchoolNursery2–51 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Thomas Fairchild Community SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Pret A Manger EC1Y 1HQTakeaway/sandwich shop30 m5 Very good11 Feb 2025
EARLY BEES COFFEE LTD EC1Y 2ANRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m4 Good22 Oct 2025
MullenLowe EC1Y 1ATRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good2 Oct 2024
EatViet EC2A 4AQTakeaway/sandwich shop80 m4 Good27 Jan 2026
Ozone Coffee Roaster EC2A 4AQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good19 Jan 2026
BaxterStorey Cafe EC1Y 1BDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good22 Jan 2024
The Windmill Public House EC2A 4DEPub/bar/nightclub90 m5 Very good14 Mar 2025
The Angel Public House EC1Y 1BDPub/bar/nightclub90 m5 Very good3 Oct 2025
BaxterStorey - DL/28 EC1Y 8SLOther catering premises90 m5 Very good13 Aug 2026
Dal Fiorentino EC1Y 1BDTakeaway/sandwich shop90 mAwaiting inspection
Q Shoreditch EC2A 4AAPub/bar/nightclub90 m5 Very good9 Jul 2025
Sainsbury's EC1Y 1BDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets100 m5 Very good11 Dec 2019
GAIL's Bakery Old Street EC1Y 1BDRetailers - other110 m5 Very good5 Feb 2026
Maki and Ramen EC1Y 2ASRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 mAwaiting inspection
Travelodge Hotel EC1Y 1AGHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house140 m5 Very good7 May 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.

1,247 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting348
Theft from the person200
Other theft162
Anti-social behaviour122
Violence and sexual offences119
Burglary67
Robbery60
Drugs55
Bicycle theft52
Public order30
Criminal damage and arson13
Vehicle crime12
Possession of weapons6
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shopping Area (359); On or near Nightclub (191); On or near Bonhill Street (129); On or near Old Street (114); On or near Singer Street (94).

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: 418 residents in 238 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 156%17%
Aged 65 and over3%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)28%61%
Owned outright10%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented21%17%
Private rented49%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work74%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)4%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)66%32%
Travel to work by car or van3%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram9%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)90%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)73%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)79%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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 The Wrap Guys (mobile caterer, EC1Y 8JL) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Dal Fiorentino (takeaway/sandwich shop, EC1Y 1BD) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Beef or Chicken (mobile caterer, EC1V 2NJ) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Maki and Ramen (restaurant/cafe/canteen, EC1Y 2AS) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Gusto Tua - Authentic Italian (takeaway/sandwich shop, EC1V 9AY) newly listed: Awaiting inspection 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.

Nearby streets

Leonard Street · Epworth Street · Clere Street · Platina Street · Clere Place · Clere Place · Old Street Yard · Clere Street · Cowper Street · Tabernacle Street · Featherstone Street · St Agnes Well

All the streets in EC1Y and across Islington.

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.