Shaw Square Walthamstow, Waltham Forest

19 addresses across 3 postcodes (E17), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 22874250.

  • Sales: 12 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £668,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 5, D: 4).
  • Flood: 9 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 Waltham Forest costs £2,387 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 88% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Blackhorse Road, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 270 m away, and Lloyd Park (12 hectares) is about 660 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 14 to 16 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Penrhyn Surgery, about 510 m (0.3 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 760 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 46% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 181 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20222£668,000£605,000£731,000
20061£215,000£215,000£215,000
20051£209,995£209,995£209,995
20041£230,000£230,000£230,000
20032£179,250£178,500£180,000
20021£138,000£138,000£138,000
20002£115,998£114,000£117,995
19981£35,000£35,000£35,000
Most recent sales (12)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Aug 20221A E17 5JBTerraced£605,000
17 Jun 20221 E17 5JBSemi-detached£731,000
14 Dec 20181 E17 5JBSemi-detached£430,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Aug 200611 E17 5JBTerraced£215,000
11 Apr 200514 E17 5JBDetached£209,995
28 May 200414 E17 5JBTerraced£230,000
18 Dec 200313 E17 5JBFlat or maisonette£178,500
23 May 2003LAND ON THE EAST SIDE OF, 3 E17 5JBTerraced£180,000
17 Jan 200211 E17 5JBTerraced£138,000
4 Sep 2000LAND ON THE EAST SIDE OF, 3 E17 5JBTerraced£114,000
17 Mar 200011 E17 5JBTerraced£117,995
11 Sep 19985 E17 5JBTerraced£35,000

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

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 95 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (5); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1930-1949 (4); 1900-1929 (4); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (4); owner-occupied (4); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Waltham Forest in 2026-27: Band D £2,387 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,591£1,857£2,122£2,387£2,917£3,448£3,978£4,774

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (69% of about 1,620 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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): Other Article 4 Direction Area, Other Article 4 Direction Area, Other Article 4 Direction Area.
  • 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 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 14 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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
E17 5JBnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E17 5HHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
E17 5HYnot in 2 or 3 2 / 6 / 12 unlikely

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 19 addresses are between 14 m and 16 m above sea level (15 m on average).

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
E17 5HH100%100%100%0%
E17 5HY100%100%100%0%
E17 5JB94%88%88%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 stationsBlackhorse Road 2.7 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Northumberland Park 1.1 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Meridian Water 494,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Underground, metro or tramBlackhorse Road Underground Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Walthamstow Central Underground Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Guildsway Higham Hill110 m
Bus or coach stationPark View Road (N17) Tottenham Hale2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Ferry terminalCamden Lock Waterbus Camden Town10.3 km (6.4 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parking lot650 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points45 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity170 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY12 km (7.4 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR33 km (21 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Penrhyn Surgery510 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Akshar Pharmacies510 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalChingford Hospital3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Police stationMetropolitan Police Service1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM430 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.1 ha270 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Lloyd Park 12 ha660 m (0.4 miles)
Play area10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 840 m²270 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.0 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Trencherfield Allotment Site 1.6 ha530 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 16 hectares in all.

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Banbury ReservoirLake or reservoir750 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Tottenham MarshesWetland1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Lockwood ReservoirLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
High Maynard ReservoirLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Ainslie WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Pole HillHill4.6 km (2.9 miles) north-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)17.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.0205
Particles (PM10)14.24015

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

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 trafficRailways
55 to 5930
Under 551619

3 of the street's 19 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 Waltham Forest: see them on the Waltham Forest page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Roger Ascham Primary SchoolPrimary3–11250 m No published inspection
Whittingham Primary AcademyPrimary3–11340 m No published inspection
Walthamstow Academy ChristianSecondary11–18430 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Walthamstow Primary AcademyPrimary4–11510 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Hillyfield Primary AcademyPrimary3–11710 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
The Winns Primary SchoolPrimary3–11760 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Eden Girls' School, Waltham Forest MuslimSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Greenleaf Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Salisbury Manor Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chapel End Junior AcademyPrimary7–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Chapel End Infant School and Early Years CentrePrimary2–71.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Big Creative Academy16 plus16–191.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Nimika Best Food & Wine E17 5DXRetailers - other120 m2 Improvement necessary10 Jun 2025
Hotwings Fried Chicken E17 5DXTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m4 Good26 Mar 2025
Billet Fish Bar E17 5DXTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m4 Good23 Dec 2025
Golden Wine E17 5DXRetailers - other130 m1 Major improvement necessary1 Oct 2025
Billet Road Post Office & Convenience Store E17 5DXRetailers - other190 m5 Very good12 Mar 2025
Juniper Pursuits at Roger Ascham Primary School E17 5HUSchool/college/university260 mAwaiting inspection
Unique Child Day Nursery E17 5RYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good5 May 2026
Barney's Pie & Mash E17 5PERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good25 Mar 2026
UM Store E17 5PERetailers - other330 m4 Good18 Mar 2025
Taylorshaw at Whittingham Primary Academy E17 5QXSchool/college/university330 m5 Very good8 Jul 2025
DERIN mini market E17 5DSRetailers - other340 m5 Very good12 Mar 2025
Tavern on the Hill E17 5RGPub/bar/nightclub390 m5 Very good6 Feb 2026
Food Express E17 5RGTakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good30 Dec 2025
La Barbosu E17 5RGRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)1 Major improvement necessary27 Apr 2026
Higham Hill Post Office E17 5RGRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)Exempt

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.

181 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences66
Anti-social behaviour34
Vehicle crime20
Other theft13
Criminal damage and arson10
Public order9
Drugs8
Theft from the person6
Shoplifting5
Burglary4
Possession of weapons2
Other crime2
Bicycle theft1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Broughton Place (36); On or near Fair View Close (26); On or near Guildsway (15); On or near B179 (12); On or near Supermarket (12).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 758 residents in 236 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 age3540
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)46%61%
Owned outright18%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented31%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van33%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram23%4%
By any public transport, including bus33%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications26%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)74%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 4 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

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.

  • E17 5JB: 17 addresses
  • E17 5HH: 1 address of 63 in the postcode
  • E17 5HY: 1 address of 47 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Guildsway · Millfield Avenue · Billet Road · Bosworth Close · Lyne Crescent · Kimberley Road · Faulkner Mews · Williams Avenue · Fair View Close · Cheney Row · Ascham End · Broughton Place

All the streets in E17 and across Waltham Forest.

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.