Stafford Road Bow, Tower Hamlets

184 addresses across 8 postcodes (E3), about 220 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 22701065.

  • Energy: 159 homes have an energy certificate (B: 5, C: 39, D: 23, E: 73, F: 19).
  • 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 C; Band D in Tower Hamlets costs £1,838 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 93% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Hackney Wick, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Selwyn Green, is about 30 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 21.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 12 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 23 of its 184 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Tredegar Practice, about 100 m away, with 10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,850 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 27% of households owned their home and 49% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 418 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 May 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

159 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 81 m². Most common: Flat (137); House, mid-terrace (5); Maisonette, end-terrace (5). Built: 2014 (59); 1967-1975 (35); 2015 (30). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (34); rented (private) (14); owner-occupied (10).

Each home's certificates and sales (124 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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (39% of about 1,840 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 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: yes, Medway. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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.

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 25 August 2026 to 26 August 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 21 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
E3 5HJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E3 5HHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E3 5EBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 9 unlikely
E3 5HGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E3 5DXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E3 5EFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E3 5EGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 6 unlikely
E3 5JGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 6 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 addresses are about 12 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
E3 5DX100%100%100%0%
E3 5EB100%100%100%0%
E3 5EF100%100%100%0%
E3 5EG100%96%93%0%
E3 5HG100%100%100%0%
E3 5HH100%100%100%0%
E3 5HJ100%100%100%0%
E3 5JG100%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 stationsHackney Wick 4.2 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Cambridge Heath 1.1 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Homerton 4.7 million journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Underground, metro or tramMile End Underground Station640 m (0.4 miles)
Bow Road Underground Station690 m (0.4 miles)
Bow Church DLR Station900 m (0.6 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 45 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ford Road (E3) Old Ford160 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus6.4 km (4 miles)
Ferry terminalCanary Wharf Pier2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Car parksCar Parking Near London Stadium860 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points30 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity400 m (0.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY6.8 km (4.2 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR30.4 km (19 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 surgeries10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tredegar Practice100 m
Pharmacies15 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bell Pharmacy Bow280 m
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest William Place Dental Aesthetics220 m
HospitalMile End Hospital Cdc910 m (0.6 miles)
Police stationBow Road Police Station730 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines7 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone130 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 garden12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Selwyn Green 1,860 m²30 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Victoria Park 87 ha580 m (0.4 miles)
Play area13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 270 m²290 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 6,290 m²1.2 km (0.8 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,670 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 12 parks and gardens, 113 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 26, Tredegar Square, a listed building (Grade II*), 360 m south. 107 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
26, Tredegar SquareListed building, Grade II*360 m south
Three Colt Bridge, Gunmaker's LaneScheduled monument580 m (0.4 miles) north
Three Colts Bridge at Tq 364837Listed building, Grade II*580 m (0.4 miles) north
Phoenix SchoolListed building, Grade II*580 m (0.4 miles) south-east
The Novo CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II830 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Blind Beggar and His Dog Cranbrook EstateListed building, Grade II*840 m (0.5 miles) west
Victoria ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*860 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Parnell Road BridgeScheduled monument860 m (0.5 miles) north
Bonner Hall Bridge, Regent's CanalScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site3.9 km (2.4 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Limehouse CutTidal water1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Prescott ChannelLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Limehouse BasinLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) south
Wick FieldWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north
RedriffWetland2.8 km (1.7 miles) south
Stave HillHill3.3 km (2.1 miles) south

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)21.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.6205
Particles (PM10)15.54015

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
55 to 592300
Under 55161184184

23 of the street's 184 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), 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
Olga Primary SchoolPrimary3–11230 m Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Old Ford Primary - A Paradigm AcademyPrimary3–11280 m Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Malmesbury Primary SchoolPrimary3–11410 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Chisenhale Primary SchoolPrimary3–11480 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Central Foundation Girls' SchoolSecondary11–19490 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jan 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; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Mulberry UTCSecondary14–19590 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Wellington Primary SchoolPrimary3–11830 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Solebay Primary - A Paradigm AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Agnes RC Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lauriston SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bonner Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Morpeth SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2023, 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
Coborn Corner Shop E3 2DGRetailers - other130 m5 Very good20 Mar 2025
Antill Road Centre Kitchen E3 5BWOther catering premises130 m5 Very good14 Apr 2025
Mr Mark Herbert E3 5LURetailers - other140 m5 Very good7 Feb 2026
Cafe East E3 5LURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good14 Jul 2026
Roman Tandoori E3 5LUTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m3 Generally satisfactory17 Feb 2025
Indian Snack Shack E3 5LUTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good18 Jun 2026
Nur Falafel E3 5LURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m3 Generally satisfactory8 Jul 2025
Mebi Sushi & Mo' E3 5LURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good17 Mar 2026
City Supermarket E3 5LURetailers - other140 m5 Very good30 Oct 2025
Young Prince E3 5LUPub/bar/nightclub140 m4 Good8 Jan 2026
A Fallen Poete E3 5LURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m4 Good7 Jan 2026
Breadery E3 5LUManufacturers/packers160 m4 Good2 Jan 2026
Sugar Shack E3 5LURetailers - other170 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
New Lotus House, Roman Empire E3 5LXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 mAwaiting inspection
Mannat Supermarket E3 5LXRetailers - other170 m5 Very good9 Jun 2026

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.

418 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences135
Anti-social behaviour90
Other theft29
Burglary27
Public order24
Bicycle theft23
Vehicle crime23
Drugs21
Criminal damage and arson12
Theft from the person11
Shoplifting9
Robbery7
Other crime6
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Balmer Road (48); On or near Sutherland Road (38); On or near Lyal Road (36); On or near Parking Area (31); On or near St Stephen'S Road (26).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 5 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,853 residents in 709 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 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)27%61%
Owned outright11%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented41%17%
Private rented31%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)8%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van10%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram16%4%
By any public transport, including bus25%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)84%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)49%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)84%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 5 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, flat (lodged 16 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Akdeniz Artisan Bakery (retailers - other, E3 2RW) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 20 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Vicolo Pizza (restaurant/cafe/canteen, E3 5LU) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 20 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Mae & Harvey (restaurant/cafe/canteen, E3 5LU) now 5 Very good, was 4 Good (rated 20 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Morgan Arms (pub/bar/nightclub, E3 5AA) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 23 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.

  • E3 5HJ: 67 addresses
  • E3 5HH: 65 addresses
  • E3 5EB: 19 addresses of 20 in the postcode
  • E3 5HG: 19 addresses of 20 in the postcode
  • E3 5DX: 11 addresses
  • E3 5EF: 1 address of 62 in the postcode
  • E3 5EG: 1 address of 102 in the postcode
  • E3 5JG: 1 address of 41 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Norman Grove · Selwyn Road · Viking Close · Rosebank Gardens · Athelstane Grove · Rosebank Gardens North · Lyal Road · Stoneleigh Mews · Stanfield Road · Ford Road · Medway Mews · Ford Close

All the streets in E3 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.