Soho Place Soho, Westminster

7 addresses across 1 postcode (W1D), about 50 m long. USRN 8402180.

  • Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Westminster costs £1,050 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 60% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Tottenham Court Road, about 40 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 80 m away, and Russell Square Gardens (2.5 hectares) is about 650 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 32.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 11.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 25 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 7 of its 7 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Soho Centre For Health And Care, about 160 m away, with 18 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 24% of households owned their home and 69% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 6,071 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often theft from the person.

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 (5)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Aug 20224 W1D 3BGOther£15,258,074Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Aug 20224 W1D 3BGOther£1,009,525Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jul 20222 W1D 3BGOther£40,500,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Jul 20224 W1D 3BGOther£4,778,334Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Mar 20224 W1D 3BGOther£68,000,000Leasehold. 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 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Westminster in 2026-27: Band D £1,050 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£700£816£933£1,050£1,283£1,516£1,749£2,099

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (34% of about 2,020 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, Soho (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed, Article 4 Direction Class E To C3 In Central Activities Zone.
  • 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.

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

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this street's postcodes yet.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre 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 25 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
W1D 3BG60%60%60%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 stationsTottenham Court Road 68 million journeys in 2024–2540 m
London Charing Cross 20 million journeys in 2024–25950 m (0.6 miles)
Bond Street 43 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Underground, metro or tramTottenham Court Road Underground Station80 m
Leicester Square Underground Station510 m (0.3 miles)
Covent Garden Underground Station520 m (0.3 miles)
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 61 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tottenham Court Road Station60 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Ferry terminalSavoy Pier Embankment1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Car parks21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest National Car Parks360 m
EV charging points57 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge80 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY13 km (8.1 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR23.4 km (15 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 surgeries18 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Soho Centre For Health And Care160 m
Pharmacies42 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Watsons Pharmacy160 m
NHS dentists71 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Centre Point Dental70 m
HospitalRoyal National Throat, Nose & Ear Hospital690 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationCharing Cross Police Station780 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines9 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine 118-132 New Oxford Street Halifax110 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 garden11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,380 m²80 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Russell Square Gardens 2.5 ha650 m (0.4 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 370 m²160 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 920 m²1.5 km (0.9 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 900 m²1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 11 parks and gardens, 5.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Roman Catholic Church of St Patricks, a listed building (Grade II*), 50 m. 1,194 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 46 of them Grade I and 141 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Roman Catholic Church of St PatricksListed building, Grade II*50 m
26, Soho Square W1Listed building, Grade II*80 m south
House of St BarnabasListed building, Grade I90 m south-west
Flying Horse Public HouseListed building, Grade II*100 m north
Bedford SquareRegistered park or garden, Grade II*370 m north
Bloomsbury SquareRegistered park or garden, Grade II650 m (0.4 miles) north-east
A subterranean commercial ice-well (City of Westminster), Park Crescent West, W1Scheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Inner Temple Hall ButteryScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Barnard's Inn Hall (Mercers' School)Scheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's ChurchWorld Heritage Site1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pelican PoolLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Duck IslandIsland1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
King's ReachTidal water1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
St James's Park LakeLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Paddington GreenWood3.1 km (1.9 miles) west
Barrow HillHill3.3 km (2 miles) north-west

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)32.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)11.0205
Particles (PM10)18.04015

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 69700
Under 55077

7 of the street's 7 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 Westminster: see them on the Westminster 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
Soho Parish CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11510 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Josephs Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary3–11620 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
All Souls CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11720 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
City Lit16 plus16–99740 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Clement Danes CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11840 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St George the Martyr Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thomas Coram CentreNursery2–51.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Alban's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Netley Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Capital City College16 plus14–991.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Christopher Hatton Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong 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
Argyle Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Starbucks Coffee Company W1D 3BGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen10 m2 Improvement necessary14 Jul 2026
The Soho Kitchen W1D 3BGOther catering premises10 m5 Very good9 Sep 2026
Donutelier W1D 3BGRetailers - other10 m5 Very good6 Jan 2026
Cafe Manoppello W1D 4NRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good30 Oct 2023
21 Soho W1D 4NRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good27 Sep 2024
Fooditude W1D 3QWOther catering premises50 m5 Very good20 Oct 2023
Royal George Public House WC2H 0EARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good29 Nov 2024
Pret A Manger W1D 2DHTakeaway/sandwich shop60 m5 Very good11 May 2024
Lola's Cupcakes Tottenham Court rd W1D 2DHRetailers - other60 m5 Very good15 Jul 2025
3 Peaks Health W1D 3QRDistributors/Transporters70 mExempt
BLANK STREET UK LIMITED WC2H 0LARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good10 Dec 2025
BUNS FROM HOME WC2H 0LARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good10 Dec 2025
Krispy Kreme W1D 2DPRetailers - other70 m5 Very good9 Dec 2025
Tigermilk WC2H 0EWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Dec 2025
Berbere Pizzeria WC2H 8APRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good16 Dec 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.

6,071 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Theft from the person2112
Other theft1322
Anti-social behaviour632
Violence and sexual offences598
Shoplifting538
Drugs225
Robbery216
Public order186
Burglary53
Criminal damage and arson51
Vehicle crime43
Bicycle theft40
Other crime35
Possession of weapons20

Most of these are attached to: On or near Further/Higher Educational Building (1411); On or near Nightclub (1007); On or near Soho Street (490); On or near Conference/Exhibition Centre (488); On or near Parking Area (322).

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: 297 residents in 135 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 age3140
Children under 155%17%
Aged 65 and over4%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)24%61%
Owned outright13%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented67%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)3%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)68%32%
Travel to work by car or van2%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram6%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle23%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)92%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)69%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)63%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is 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

  • Food hygiene ratings FLYING TIGER COPENHAGEN (retailers - other, W1T 1BJ) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Cocoro Bloomsbury (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WC1A 1NT) is no longer listed; it was rated 4 Good found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The Camera Cafe (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WC1A 1LY) is no longer listed; it was rated 3 Generally satisfactory found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings HOTEL CHOCOLAT LTD (retailers - other, WC2H 9PA) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings MASA TACOS (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WC2H 9LX) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 2 June 2026) found 31 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.

  • W1D 3BG: 7 addresses of 9 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Charing Cross Road · Sutton Row · Charing Cross Road · Goslett Yard · Denmark Place · Soho Square · St Giles High Street · Greek Street · St. Giles Square · Manette Street · Tottenham Court Road · Oxford Street

All the streets in W1D and across Westminster.

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.