Poplar Close Hackney

11 addresses across 1 postcode (E9), about 40 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 20901710.

  • Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5).
  • Flood: 6 addresses on its postcodes are 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 C; Band D in Hackney costs £2,060 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Hackney Wick, about 910 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 510 m away, and Victoria Park (87 hectares) is about 710 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 20.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 7 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 11 of its 11 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Kingsmead Healthcare, about 330 m away, with 9 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 11% of households owned their home and 43% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 216 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.

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 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from January 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 83 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (3); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1991-1995 (4); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (3); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

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

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (44% of about 550 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

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

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

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, 6 at medium risk and 0 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 9 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 5 medium, 0 low and 2 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: the 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.

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.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 7 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
E9 5HZ100%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 stationsHackney Wick 4.2 million journeys in 2024–25910 m
Homerton 4.7 million journeys in 2024–25930 m
Stratford International 2.7 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km
Underground, metro or tramStratford International DLR Station1.6 km
Leyton Underground Station1.8 km
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m, 38 within 800 m; nearest Lee Conservancy Rd / Poplar Cl Hackney Wick20 m
Bus or coach stationPark View Road (N17) Tottenham Hale4.9 km
Ferry terminalCanary Wharf Pier5.0 km
Car parksCar Parking Near London Stadium1.7 km
EV charging points32 within 1.6 km; nearest ubitricity140 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY7.8 km
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR31.1 km

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; nearest Kingsmead Healthcare330 m
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Silverfields330 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km; nearest V Dental Smile Studio580 m
HospitalHomerton University Hospital1.1 km
Police stationBow Road Police Station2.6 km
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m; nearest Payzone80 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 garden4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 390 m²510 m
Largest park within 800 mVictoria Park 87 ha710 m
Play area17 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 350 m²100 m
Playing field4 within 800 m; nearest Mabley Green 12 ha80 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 460 m²920 m

Within 800 m: 4 parks and gardens, 115 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary of Eton With St Augustine, a listed building (Grade II*), 600 m south. 20 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Mary of Eton With St AugustineListed building, Grade II*600 m south
Parnell Road BridgeScheduled monument1.4 km south
Victoria ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.5 km south
Three Colt Bridge, Gunmaker's LaneScheduled monument1.7 km south
Springfield ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II3.0 km north-west
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site5.7 km south-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hackney CutLake or reservoir220 m north-west
Wick FieldWood300 m east
Main MarshWetland630 m north
Clapton PondLake or reservoir1.8 km west
Prescott ChannelLake or reservoir2.8 km south-east
Abbey CreekTidal water3.2 km south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)20.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.4205
Particles (PM10)15.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; all three 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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 6940
60 to 6470
Under 55011

11 of the street's 11 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Kingsmead Primary SchoolPrimary2–11460 m Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Daubeney Primary SchoolPrimary2–11570 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gainsborough Primary SchoolPrimary0–11640 m Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mossbourne Riverside AcademyPrimary3–11830 m No published inspection
Mandeville Primary SchoolPrimary2–11950 m Outstanding (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Berger Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km No published inspection
Wentworth Nursery School and Children's CentreNursery2–51.1 km No published inspection
Rushmore Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km No published inspection
Cardinal Pole Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–191.3 km No published inspection
The City Academy, HackneySecondary11–191.3 km Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John and St James CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.4 km Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Morningside Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Kingsmead Primary School E9 5PPSchool/college/university220 m4 Good5 Feb 2026
Hackney Food Bank E9 5QBRetailers - other290 m5 Very good25 Jul 2024
Silverfield Chemist E9 5QGRetailers - other310 mExempt
Kingsmead Food Centre E9 5QGRetailers - other310 m3 Generally satisfactory21 Aug 2026
Hackney Fried Chicken E9 5QGTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m5 Very good10 Oct 2026
Hackney Cake Corner E5 0DZOther catering premises400 m5 Very good13 Oct 2026
Soulfull Pizza E9 5JHMobile caterer410 m5 Very good6 Jun 2025
The Bath House E9 5JHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m2 Improvement necessary8 Dec 2025
Bobby's Superstore E9 5QARetailers - other410 m4 Good27 Mar 2025
Rose Garden E9 5QATakeaway/sandwich shop420 mAwaiting inspection
Zula Grill E9 5QARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m5 Very good17 Jun 2025
Marsh Hilll News E9 5QARetailers - other440 m4 Good18 Dec 2023
Terrafusa E5 0EBRetailers - other440 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.

216 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences63
Anti-social behaviour49
Theft from the person31
Vehicle crime21
Other theft14
Robbery9
Criminal damage and arson8
Drugs7
Public order7
Burglary5
Other crime1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near King'S Mead Way (61); On or near Homerton Road (42); On or near Kingsmead Way (40); On or near Poplar Close (23); On or near Lee Conservancy Road (23).

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: 316 residents in 113 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3340
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)11%61%
Owned outright0%33%
Shared ownership11%1%
Social rented66%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)4%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van21%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram16%4%
By any public transport, including bus32%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)85%65%
Work 30 km or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)43%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%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

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.

  • E9 5HZ: 11 addresses of 12 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lockgate Close · Lee Conservancy Road · Towpath Walk · Crowfoot Close · Jarrow Way · Offa's Mead · East Cross Route · East Cross Route · Kingsmead Way · Lindisfarne Way · Adley Street · Penda's Mead

All the streets in E9 and across Hackney.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.