Richmix Square Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets

61 addresses across 3 postcodes (E1), about 20 m long. USRN 22702664.

  • Energy: 58 homes have an energy certificate (B: 57, C: 1).
  • 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 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 Shoreditch High Street, about 190 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Allen Gardens, is about 220 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 28.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 10.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 16 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 61 of its 61 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Blithehale Med.ctr., about 530 m (0.3 miles) away, with 13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 15% of households owned their home and 57% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 998 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
Most recent sales (1)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Feb 2018UNIT 9, 6 E1 6LDOther£35,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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 March 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

58 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 69 m². Most common: Flat (44); Maisonette (11); Maisonette, mid-terrace (3). Built: 2012 (49); 2007-2011 (4); 2003-2006 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (5); rented (private) (3); owner-occupied (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (52 addresses)

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 840 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

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

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

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

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

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 16 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
E1 6GP100%100%100%0%
E1 6GQ100%100%100%0%
E1 6LD100%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 stationsShoreditch High Street 7.3 million journeys in 2024–25190 m
Hoxton 4.1 million journeys in 2024–25840 m (0.5 miles)
London Liverpool Street 98 million journeys in 2024–25910 m (0.6 miles)
Underground, metro or tramAldgate East Underground Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Whitechapel Underground Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Liverpool Street Underground Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 55 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brick Lane Spitalfields60 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Ferry terminalTower Pier Tower Hill1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Car parks4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Grey Eagle Street Car Park310 m
EV charging points30 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge710 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY9.1 km (5.7 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR27.5 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 The Blithehale Med.ctr.530 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies31 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Columbia Pharmacy500 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists45 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ap Dental Practice460 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSt Clements Hospital870 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationBishopsgate Police Station870 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM440 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 garden14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Allen Gardens 1.9 ha220 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Weaver's Community Space 6.0 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
Play area17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 780 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 6,890 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,160 m²1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 14 parks and gardens, 12 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Arnold Circus, Bethnal Green, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 260 m north-west. 365 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 8 of them Grade I and 17 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Arnold Circus, Bethnal GreenRegistered park or garden, Grade II260 m north-west
The Directors' House, Truman BreweryListed building, Grade II*330 m south
Church of St MatthewListed building, Grade II*410 m (0.3 miles) east
Church of St LeonardListed building, Grade I430 m (0.3 miles) north-west
19, Princelet Street E1Listed building, Grade II*480 m (0.3 miles) south
The Theatre PlayhouseScheduled monument480 m (0.3 miles) west
Priory and Hospital of St Mary SpitalScheduled monument500 m (0.3 miles) south-west
The Curtain PlayhouseScheduled monument540 m (0.3 miles) west
Bunhill Fields Burial GroundRegistered park or garden, Grade I1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
West DockLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
East DockLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Upper PoolTidal water2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
RedriffWetland2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Stave HillHill3.4 km (2.1 miles) south-east
Russia Dock WoodlandWood3.7 km (2.3 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)28.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)10.5205
Particles (PM10)17.64015

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
70 to 74200
65 to 695900
Under 5506161

61 of the street's 61 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), 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
Virginia Primary SchoolPrimary3–11310 m No published inspection
William Davis Primary SchoolPrimary3–11390 m No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Mulberry Academy ShoreditchSecondary11–19430 m (0.3 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Anne's and Guardian Angels Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11480 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Columbia Market Nursery SchoolNursery2–5480 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Workers' Educational Association16 plus16–99560 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Christ Church CofE School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11600 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Columbia Primary SchoolPrimary3–11600 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thomas Buxton Primary SchoolPrimary3–11620 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Osmani Primary SchoolPrimary3–11640 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Monica's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11720 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Elizabeth Selby Infants' SchoolPrimary2–7800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Urban Baristas E1 6LDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen10 m1 Major improvement necessary30 Jun 2026
Cocktail Trading Co E1 6GQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good25 Apr 2024
Gecko Coffeehouse E1 6LARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m2 Improvement necessary10 Sep 2026
Sainsbury's E1 6JWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets50 m5 Very good19 May 2025
Lahpet E1 6JWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good15 May 2024
Oranj E1 6LFPub/bar/nightclub60 mAwaiting inspection
The Cocktail Club E1 6HTPub/bar/nightclub60 m3 Generally satisfactory9 Jul 2025
Charista Limited E1 6LARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m4 Good19 Feb 2025
Artful Blend E2 7DJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good23 Jun 2026
Crosstown E1 6SBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good14 Jan 2026
Cake Me Over E2 7HXManufacturers/packers80 m5 Very good7 May 2025
Montys E1 6SBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m2 Improvement necessary28 May 2025
Close-Up Film Centre Limited E1 6HRRetailers - other80 m5 Very good22 Sep 2026
Franze & Evans E2 7DLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m1 Major improvement necessary2 Oct 2026
Bun House Disco E2 6DGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good6 Feb 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.

998 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour238
Shoplifting163
Violence and sexual offences157
Other theft108
Theft from the person87
Public order48
Burglary42
Bicycle theft40
Robbery30
Drugs29
Vehicle crime22
Criminal damage and arson21
Other crime8
Possession of weapons5

Most of these are attached to: On or near Sclater Street (147); On or near Brick Lane (117); On or near Code Street (99); On or near Ebor Street (88); On or near Turville Street (67).

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: 318 residents in 139 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 age2840
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and overunder 1%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)15%61%
Owned outright5%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented39%17%
Private rented45%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)under 1%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)55%32%
Travel to work by car or van9%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram14%4%
By any public transport, including bus17%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)92%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)57%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)79%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%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.

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 Yole (restaurant/cafe/canteen, E2 6DG) now 2 Improvement necessary, was 5 Very good (rated 9 October 2026) found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Piehole Shoreditch (restaurant/cafe/canteen, E1 6JE) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The Naan Yard (restaurant/cafe/canteen, E1 6QR) newly listed: 5 Very good (rated 27 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Phat for Life (restaurant/cafe/canteen, E2 0AA) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Lucy's Churreria (mobile caterer, E1 6QL) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 27 October 2026) found 30 October 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

Cygnet Street · Avantgarde Place · Bacon Street · Swanfield Street · Turville Street · Sclater Street · Bethnal Green Road · Whitby Street · Old Nichol Street · Redchurch Street · Montclare Street · Rhoda Street

All the streets in E1 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.
  • 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.