Prospect Place Shadwell, Tower Hamlets

75 addresses across 2 postcodes (E1W), about 180 m long. USRN 22701909.

  • Sales: 134 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £624,999 across 3 sales.
  • 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: 65 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 40, D: 21, E: 3).
  • 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.
  • Landfill: 3 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Wapping Basin, is 90 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 6 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 40 times (27 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, The O2 Arena - Wind turbines, is 4.1 km (2.6 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A1203, carries 37,382 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Tower Hamlets costs £1,838 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wapping, about 280 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 150 m away, and King Edward Memorial Park (3.7 hectares) is about 320 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 23.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 3 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 47 of its 75 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Wapping Group Practice, about 350 m away, with 10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 460 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 47% of households owned their home and 59% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 177 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20253£624,999£400,000£740,000
20233£615,000£280,000£675,000
20222£665,000£630,000£700,000
20218£432,500£325,000£930,000
20204£667,500£343,000£796,050
20192£757,500£635,000£880,000
20183£375,000£370,000£655,000
20154£670,000£380,000£775,000
20141£355,000£355,000£355,000
20131£608,000£608,000£608,000
20123£285,000£245,000£525,000
20114£334,000£242,500£460,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 134)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Nov 202530 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£740,000Leasehold.
8 Aug 202561 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£400,000Leasehold.
27 Mar 202518 E1W 3TJOther£675,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Mar 202529 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£624,999Leasehold.
29 Sep 202330 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£615,000Leasehold.
30 Jun 202346 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£280,000Leasehold.
15 Jun 20231 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£795,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jan 20236 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£675,000Leasehold.
26 Apr 202248 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£700,000Leasehold.
25 Apr 202218 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£630,000Leasehold.
8 Dec 202141 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£362,000Leasehold.
18 Oct 202163 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£625,000Leasehold.
30 Sep 202154 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£760,000Leasehold.
29 Sep 202121 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£325,000Leasehold.
20 Aug 202162 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£450,000Leasehold.
5 Mar 202169 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£930,000Leasehold.
10 Feb 202114 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£390,000Leasehold.
2 Feb 202139 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£415,000Leasehold.
10 Dec 202053 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£700,000Leasehold.
4 Dec 202031 E1W 3TJTerraced£343,000Leasehold.
3 Apr 202023 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£635,000Leasehold.
14 Feb 202059 E1W 3TJTerraced£796,050Leasehold.
18 Oct 201967 E1W 3TJTerraced£880,000Leasehold.
25 Jan 20196 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£635,000Leasehold.
25 May 201819 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£375,000Leasehold.
23 Mar 201841 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£370,000Leasehold.
8 Feb 201818 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£655,000Leasehold.
23 Oct 201532 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£380,000Leasehold.
31 Jul 20151 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£775,000Leasehold.
1 Apr 201549 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£725,000Leasehold.
2 Mar 201530 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£615,000Leasehold.
15 Aug 201436 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£355,000Leasehold.
9 Aug 201345 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£608,000Leasehold.
30 Nov 201219 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£245,000Leasehold.
2 Nov 201255 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£285,000Leasehold.
10 Aug 20123 E1W 3TJTerraced£525,000Leasehold.
1 Jul 20112 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£460,000Leasehold.
17 Jun 201136 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£285,000Leasehold.
23 Feb 201110 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£383,000Leasehold.
27 Jan 201136 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£242,500Leasehold.
30 Jul 201037 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£375,000Leasehold.
25 Jun 201068 E1W 3TJTerraced£465,000Leasehold.
9 Apr 201057 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£250,000Leasehold.
7 Apr 201035 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£240,000Leasehold.
1 Apr 20106 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£350,000Leasehold.
3 Nov 200933 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£355,000Leasehold.
23 Oct 200945 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£500,000Leasehold.
25 Sep 200930 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£350,000Leasehold.
4 Sep 200963 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£365,000Leasehold.
24 Jul 200951 E1W 3TJFlat or maisonette£470,000Leasehold.

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 January 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

65 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 71 m². Most common: Flat (31); House, mid-terrace (15); Maisonette, mid-terrace (11). Built: 1983-1990 (45); 1991-1995 (8); 1996-2002 (5). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (35); owner-occupied (21); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (65 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 7,819 kWh of it on average in 2024, about the same as the district, and 3,856 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 45% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
E1W 3TJ68 33 Economy 72,950 kWh 287,627 kWh
E1W 3QS212,323 kWh 127,786 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 E1W.

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 D (33% of about 1,020 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: yes, Wapping Wall. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 3.
  • 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.

Energy projects nearby

3 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
SELCHP ERF Energy from waste (incinerator) 35 MW Operational Dec 1993 2.5 km (1.5 miles)
The O2 Arena - Wind turbines Greenwich 21/2229/F Wind 10 turbines 3 MW Permission granted, not yet built Sep 2021 4.1 km (2.6 miles)
King's Yard Newham 2008/0826 Biomass 3 MW Operational Jul 2012 4.6 km (2.9 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

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: of the 88 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 88 very low.

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

Flood zone for planning: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
E1W 3TJzone 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E1W 3QSzone 3 0 / 0 / 0 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

6 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 40 times, for 27 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into R.thames ( Tidal ), Tidal Thames, Tidal Riverthames, River Thames.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Gun Wharf Cso Thames Water R.thames ( Tidal ) 0 0 280 m
North East St Cso Thames Water Tidal Thames 2 1 480 m (0.3 miles)
Bell Wharf Cso Thames Water Tidal Riverthames 0 0 510 m (0.3 miles)
Ratcliffe Highway Limekiln Cso Thames Water Tidal Thames 0 0 890 m (0.6 miles)
Holloway Storm Relief Cso Thames Water R.thames ( Tidal ) 0 0 950 m (0.6 miles)
Nightingale Lane Cso Thames Water River Thames 38 26 1 km (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

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

3 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 90 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Wapping Basin St. George in the East, Tower Hamlets, London Not recorded Not recorded 90 m
Shadwell Basin Eastern Dock, E1, London Not recorded Not recorded 180 m
Island Dock Rotherhithe, Bermondsey, London until 1975 Inert 440 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

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 3 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
E1W 3QS100%100%100%0%
E1W 3TJ100%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 stationsWapping 2.5 million journeys in 2024–25280 m
Shadwell 3.9 million journeys in 2024–25560 m (0.3 miles)
Rotherhithe 1.7 million journeys in 2024–25660 m (0.4 miles)
Underground, metro or tramShadwell DLR Station600 m (0.4 miles)
Canada Water Underground Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Bermondsey Underground Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 45 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Monza Street Wapping40 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus5.6 km (3.5 miles)
Ferry terminalWapping Pier720 m (0.4 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest City Car Parking Services560 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points20 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity530 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY7.6 km (4.7 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR28.5 km (18 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 surgeries10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Wapping Group Practice Good Nov 2018350 m
Pharmacies17 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tower Pharmacy350 m
NHS dentists23 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wapping Dental Centre450 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalThe Royal London Hospital Requires improvement Nov 20221.4 km (0.9 miles)
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Westport Care Home Good Dec 20181.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationMetropolitan Police Service510 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM320 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 garden15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha150 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)King Edward Memorial Park 3.7 ha320 m
Play area20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 840 m²200 m
Playing fieldStepney Green 4.4 ha1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 820 m²500 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 15 parks and gardens, 14 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is London Hydraulic Power Company Station With Number 37, a listed building (Grade II*), 190 m north-east. 145 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I and 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
London Hydraulic Power Company Station With Number 37Listed building, Grade II*190 m north-east
Raine's HouseListed building, Grade II*280 m west
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade I290 m west
Church of St PaulListed building, Grade II*340 m north
Roman Bath House, ShadwellScheduled monument410 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Pumping engine house for Brunel's Thames tunnelScheduled monument560 m (0.3 miles) south
Medieval moated manor house, 43m west of Cathay HouseScheduled monument810 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Southwark ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site1.6 km (1 mile) west
The Novo CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Shadwell Old BasinLake or reservoir220 m north-east
Lower PoolTidal water280 m south-east
Shadwell EntranceTidal water370 m north-east
RedriffWetland670 m (0.4 miles) east
Stave HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Russia Dock WoodlandWood1.4 km (0.9 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)23.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.8205
Particles (PM10)16.64015

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
65 to 69600
60 to 643800
55 to 59300
Under 55287575

47 of the street's 75 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Peter's London Docks CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11100 m No published inspection
Blue Gate Fields Junior SchoolPrimary7–11440 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Blue Gate Fields Infants' SchoolPrimary3–7440 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Albion Primary SchoolPrimary3–11760 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bishop Challoner Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18780 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Peter Hills with St Mary's and St Paul's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11790 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary and St Michael Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Hermitage Primary SchoolPrimary3–11830 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bigland Green Primary SchoolPrimary3–11830 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Mulberry Academy London DockSecondary11–19890 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Paul's Whitechapel Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11910 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mulberry School for GirlsSecondary11–18930 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 630 m (0.4 miles); the nearest is 150 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Little Creatives FUNdango E1W 3QT Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 150 m
Complex Needs Summer Scheme at St Peters School E1W 3QT Out-of-school day care 40 Not inspected yet 150 m
Pollyanna E1W 3RL Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 240 m
The Pier Head Prep Montessori School Limited E1W 3TD Full day care 30 Good (Nov 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 330 m
Step By Step Nursery E1W 2QL Full day care 52 Good (Jan 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 350 m
Puddle Jumpers Nursery - Wapping E1W 2QH Full day care 67 Apr 2026: Expected standard in 3 areas, Needs attention in 3 400 m (0.2 miles)
Green Gables Primary Nursery School E1W 2RG Full day care 32 Good (Oct 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 450 m (0.3 miles)
Littlepips Preschool SE16 4HZ Sessional day care 23 Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 620 m (0.4 miles)
Green Gables E1 0BH Full day care 72 Good (Aug 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 630 m (0.4 miles)
Purple Lion Day Nursery Wapping E1W 2BP Full day care 62 Good (Feb 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 630 m (0.4 miles)

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
EI&A's Brunch E1W 3QSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good21 Oct 2024
Wapping Mini Store E1W 3QTRetailers - other50 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Jul 2026
Docklands General Store E1W 3SPRetailers - other60 m5 Very good11 Jun 2026
River View Restaurant E1W 3TURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Oct 2025
Field Vision Bars E1W 3SSMobile caterer90 m5 Very good11 Sep 2024
Il Bordello E1W 3SSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m4 Good22 Jul 2026
Bello De Nonna E1W 3SSTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m5 Very good21 Aug 2024
Rahel's E1W 3SSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good8 Jan 2025
Riverside General Store E1W 3TBRetailers - other110 m5 Very good18 Sep 2024
St Peters School Kitchen E1W 3QTSchool/college/university110 m5 Very good6 May 2026
Prospect of Whitby E1W 3SHPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good16 Oct 2025
Urban Baristas E1W 3PARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good22 Jul 2025
The Dockers Inn E1W 2RWPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good22 Jul 2025
One Food London Ltd E1W 2RWRetailers - other300 m5 Very good7 Jan 2026
Wapping Wines E1W 2RWRetailers - other300 mExempt

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.

177 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences58
Anti-social behaviour38
Other theft14
Burglary14
Vehicle crime12
Bicycle theft11
Drugs9
Criminal damage and arson8
Public order7
Theft from the person3
Robbery3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Wine Close (27); On or near Clegg Street (24); On or near Cinnamon Street (21); On or near Monza Street (16); On or near Milk Yard (13).

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.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. 1 involved a cyclist. Most were on roads with a 20 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202300
202400
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
1 Jun 2025 10:10 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A1204, 20 mph Daylight

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 A1203 between A1202 and A101/A126, with 37,382 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 460 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A101 LA Boundary to A13 30,066 counted 2025 2% -6% since 2015 370 m
A1203 A1202 to A101/A126 37,382 counted 2025 6% -15% since 2015 460 m (0.3 miles)

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: 463 residents in 144 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 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)47%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented40%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work74%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)4%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)51%32%
Travel to work by car or van24%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram12%4%
By any public transport, including bus13%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)59%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)75%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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 Best One Supermarket (retailers - other, E1W 2RL) now 2 Improvement necessary, was 4 Good (rated 12 October 2026) found 3 November 2026

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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.

  • E1W 3TJ: 74 addresses of 75 in the postcode
  • E1W 3QS: 1 address of 34 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Wapping Wall · New Crane Place · Wine Close · Milk Yard · New Crane Stairs · Monza Street · Benson Quay · Pearl Street · Agatha Close · Hilliard's Court · Penang Street · John Rennie Walk

All the streets in E1W 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.