Providence Place London, Barking and Dagenham
10 addresses across 2 postcodes (RM5), about 280 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 19900769.
- Prices and rents: A typical home in Barking and Dagenham cost £369,881 in August 2026 (+4.7% on a year); private rents averaged £1,700 a month.
- Flood: 5 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
- Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
- Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A1112, carries 12,686 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Barking and Dagenham costs £2,199 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 63% to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Chadwell Heath, about 3.1 km (2 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden, Educational Nature Reserve, is about 610 m (0.4 miles) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 29 to 37 m above sea level.
- Noise: 1 of its 10 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Marks Gate Health Centre, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
- People: About 400 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 53% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Crime: 21 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
- Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious.
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House sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Apr 2025 | 5 RM5 2BH | Other | £950,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
House prices and rents in Barking and Dagenham
A typical home in Barking and Dagenham cost £369,881 in August 2026, 4.7% more than a year before. That is 17% more than five years earlier and 29% more than ten years earlier.
| Home | Typical price, Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Detached | £652,275 |
| Semi-detached | £486,320 |
| Terraced | £404,884 |
| Flat or maisonette | £245,845 |
| Bought by a first-time buyer | £354,545 |
Private renters in Barking and Dagenham paid £1,700 a month on average in September 2026, 2.5% more than a year before. That is 36% more than five years earlier.
| Home | Average rent a month, Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| One bedroom | £1,378 |
| Two bedrooms | £1,723 |
| Three bedrooms | £1,902 |
| Four or more bedrooms | £2,523 |
Energy performance certificates
No certificates found for addresses on this street.
Gas and electricity use
Homes with gas used 21,191 kWh of it on average in 2024, 84% more than the district's 11,523 kWh, and 8,176 kWh of electricity, 144% more than the district's 3,346 kWh. There are gas meters for about 83% of the homes.
| Postcode | Electricity meters | Typical electricity | Gas meters | Typical gas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RM5 2BH | 5 | 5,860 kWh | 10 | 16,430 kWh |
| RM5 2EA | 7 | 11,111 kWh | under 5 |
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 RM5.
Council tax
What each band costs in Barking and Dagenham in 2026-27: Band D £2,199 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,466 | £1,710 | £1,954 | £2,199 | £2,687 | £3,176 | £3,664 | £4,397 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (57% of about 680 homes).
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): HMO Article 4.
- Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
- Green belt: yes, Barking and Dagenham.
Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)
- Land to the rear of Kent House, Durham House and Cumberland House (White Hart Lane Scheme, Collier Row), permissioned (720 m (0.4 miles))
- Land to the rear of Kent House, Durham House and Cumberland House (White Hart Lane Scheme, Collier Row), permissioned (720 m (0.4 miles))
- 109-115 COLLIER ROW ROAD, ROMFORD, permissioned (890 m (0.6 miles))
Energy projects nearby
No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.
Roadworks
No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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.
| Postcode | Planning zone | Addresses at high / medium / low risk | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM5 2BH | not in 2 or 3 | 4 / 0 / 3 | unlikely |
| RM5 2EA | not in 2 or 3 | 1 / 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.
Coastal erosion
No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Storm overflows
No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Coal mining
No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.
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.
Historic landfill
No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Height above sea level
The street's 10 addresses are between 29 m and 37 m above sea level (32 m on average); the ground rises about 7 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RM5 2BH | 67% | 63% | 63% | 33% |
| RM5 2EA | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Chadwell Heath 4.9 million journeys in 2024–25 | 3.1 km (2 miles) |
| Romford 12 million journeys in 2024–25 | 3.4 km (2.1 miles) | |
| Goodmayes 4.8 million journeys in 2024–25 | 4 km (2.5 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sungate Cottages Marks Gate | 200 m |
| Ferry terminal | Barking Riverside Pier Creekmouth | 8.9 km (5.5 miles) |
| Car parks | Parking space on Holland Close, RM7 | 2.4 km (1.5 miles) |
| EV charging points | 2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station | 820 m (0.5 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | London City Airport LCY | 11.7 km (7.3 miles) |
| Nearest large airport | London Stansted Airport STN | 32.9 km (20 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Marks Gate Health Centre Good Jul 2022 | 1.2 km (0.8 miles) |
| Pharmacies | 4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) |
| NHS dentists | 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lowshoe Dental Practice | 1.2 km (0.7 miles) |
| Hospital | King George Hospital Requires improvement Dec 2023 | 2.8 km (1.7 miles) |
| Care homes | 3 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Abbey Care Home Good Sep 2022 | 190 m |
| Police station | Marks Gate Police Office | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) |
| Cash machines | MFG - Collier Row Cashzone | 880 m (0.5 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Educational Nature Reserve 6,630 m² | 610 m (0.4 miles) |
| Play area | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 90 m² | 730 m (0.5 miles) |
| Playing field | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Collier Row Recreation Ground 2.4 ha | 740 m (0.5 miles) |
| Allotments | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha | 760 m (0.5 miles) |
Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.7 hectares in all.
Landmarks
7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Willoughby's Hill | Hill | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) north |
| Dog Kennel Hill | Hill | 2.1 km (1.3 miles) north |
| Foreberry Wood South | Wood | 2.4 km (1.5 miles) north |
| Mile Plantation | Wood | 2.4 km (1.5 miles) north |
| Hauntedhouse Wood | Wood | 2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-east |
| The Lake | Lake or reservoir | 2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-west |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 12.5 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 8.2 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 14.5 | 40 | 15 |
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
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 70 to 74 | 1 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 9 | 10 |
1 of the street's 10 addresses is 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 Barking and Dagenham: see them on the Barking and Dagenham page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection | Exam results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crownfield Junior School | Primary | 7–11 | 780 m (0.5 miles) | No published inspection | 49% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 44% in 2024 and 55% in 2023) |
| Crownfield Infant School | Primary | 3–7 | 780 m (0.5 miles) | No published inspection | None published |
| St Patrick's Catholic Primary School Roman Catholic | Primary | 4–11 | 1 km (0.6 miles) | Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met | 75% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 49% in 2024 and 68% in 2023) |
| Rose Lane Primary School | Primary | 3–11 | 1.2 km (0.7 miles) | Requires improvement (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) | 48% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 38% in 2024 and 46% in 2023) |
| Clockhouse Primary School | Primary | 3–11 | 1.6 km (1 mile) | Outstanding (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) | 66% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 65% in 2023) |
| The Warren School | Secondary | 11–18 | 2 km (1.2 miles) | Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) | GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 46.4 (47.6 in 2025 and 48.2 in 2024); 45.1% grade 5+ in English and maths A level 2025: average grade C+; 6.7% AAB or better; progress average |
Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.
Nurseries and childcare
9 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 90 m from the middle of the street.
| Provider | Kind | Places | Latest inspection | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Oaks Centre Ltd RM5 2DD | Full day care | 24 | Requires improvement (Jul 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) | 90 m |
| Buddies Pre School RM5 2BE | Full day care | 26 | Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) | 760 m (0.5 miles) |
| Corpus Christi Pre-School RM5 2AP | Sessional day care | 30 | Good (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) | 1 km (0.6 miles) |
| Rose Lane Holiday Clubs RM6 5NJ | Out-of-school day care | 20 | Not inspected yet | 1.2 km (0.7 miles) |
| Explorers Collier Row RM5 3NR | Full day care | 35 | Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) | 1.2 km (0.8 miles) |
| Bumbles Preschool RM7 8QU | Sessional day care | 28 | Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) | 1.2 km (0.8 miles) |
| Marks Gate Children's Centre Nursery RM6 5LL | Full day care | 52 | Good (Aug 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) | 1.2 km (0.8 miles) |
| Eljoy Nursery RM6 5NR | Full day care | 32 | Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) |
| Parklanes Wykeham Childcare Ltd. RM5 2LD | Sessional day care | 40 | Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) | 1.4 km (0.8 miles) |
Ofsted also registers 102 childminders and 240 home childcarers (nannies) in Barking and Dagenham. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.
Food hygiene ratings nearby
| Business | Type | Distance | Rating | Rated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oaks Acitivty Centre & Preschool RM5 2DD | School/college/university | 10 m | 5 Very good | 5 Feb 2026 |
| Snaxwagon Catering RM5 2BG | Other catering premises | 120 m | 5 Very good | 15 Jul 2026 |
| ROYAL MEZBAAN RM5 2BG | Other catering premises | 120 m | 5 Very good | 6 Feb 2026 |
| Mubarak Events Catering RM5 2BG | Other catering premises | 140 m | 5 Very good | 24 Mar 2025 |
| Wellgate Community Farm RM5 2BH | Retailers - other | 190 m | Exempt | |
| The Bowl Bar (City Pavilion) RM5 2BH | Pub/bar/nightclub | 190 m | 5 Very good | 17 Jan 2026 |
| Menoa Restaurant RM5 2BH | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 190 m | 5 Very good | 17 Jan 2026 |
| McDonald's RM6 5QT | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 440 m (0.3 miles) | 5 Very good | 11 Jun 2026 |
Crime within 250 m
| Category | Crimes |
|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 11 |
| Drugs | 3 |
| Vehicle crime | 2 |
| Theft from the person | 2 |
| Burglary | 1 |
| Criminal damage and arson | 1 |
| Anti-social behaviour | 1 |
Most of these are attached to: On or near Providence Place (19); On or near Park/Open Space (2).
Road safety
2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 1 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a cyclist. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.
| Year | Collisions | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| Date | Severity | Who was hurt | Road | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Jun 2024 16:30 | Serious | 1 person: 1 cyclist | Minor road, 30 mph | Daylight |
| 14 Jan 2022 15:46 | Slight | 1 person | Minor road, 30 mph | Wet road |
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 A1112 between Collier Row Rd and LA Boundary, with 12,686 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 210 m from the street's postcodes.
| Road | Between | Vehicles a day | Lorries | Ten years before | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A1112 | Collier Row Rd to LA Boundary | 12,686 estimated | 3% | -34% since 2015 | 210 m |
Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 37 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 23% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 15% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 53% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 22% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | under 1% | 1% |
| Social rented | 28% | 17% |
| Private rented | 18% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 55% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 9% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 18% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 7% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 14% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 50% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 18% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 29% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 4% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 56% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 1% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 24% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 29% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 5% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 81% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | 3% | 2% |
Deprivation
The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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.
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.
Postcodes on this street
Nearby streets
Grover Gardens · Northgate Industrial Park · Whalebone Lane North · Sungate Cottages · Collier Row Road · White Hart Lane
All the streets in RM5 and across Barking and Dagenham.
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.