Verity Close Kensington

74 addresses across 1 postcode (W11), about 100 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 21701043.

  • Sales: 29 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £850,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 55 homes have an energy certificate (B: 4, C: 45, D: 6).
  • 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 Kensington and Chelsea costs £1,667 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Shepherd's Bush, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 310 m away, and Ladbroke Square Gardens (2.8 hectares) is about 710 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 21.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 8 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 53 of its 74 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Foreland Medical Centre, about 130 m away, with 25 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 210 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 17% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 439 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
20241£850,000£850,000£850,000
20213£950,000£370,000£966,000
20191£935,000£935,000£935,000
20181£975,000£975,000£975,000
20161£1,050,000£1,050,000£1,050,000
20142£595,000£340,000£850,000
20132£476,500£283,000£670,000
20121£646,500£646,500£646,500
20111£650,000£650,000£650,000
20073£375,000£237,200£377,500
20062£427,500£425,000£430,000
20052£185,000£183,000£187,000
Most recent sales (29)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Aug 202452 W11 4HETerraced£850,000
29 Oct 2021FLAT 8, 8 W11 4HEOther£92,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Jun 202147 W11 4HETerraced£950,000
28 Apr 202157 W11 4HETerraced£966,000
16 Mar 202141 W11 4HEFlat or maisonette£370,000Leasehold.
2 Dec 20197 W11 4HETerraced£935,000
25 May 201844 W11 4HETerraced£975,000
26 Jul 201647 W11 4HETerraced£1,050,000
18 Dec 20146 W11 4HEDetached£850,000
4 Jul 201434 W11 4HEFlat or maisonette£340,000Leasehold.
19 Aug 201341 W11 4HEFlat or maisonette£283,000Leasehold.
15 Mar 20137 W11 4HETerraced£670,000
23 Mar 201257 W11 4HETerraced£646,500
7 Oct 201144 W11 4HETerraced£650,000
14 Dec 200723 W11 4HEFlat or maisonette£237,200Leasehold.
5 Feb 200747 W11 4HETerraced£375,000
15 Jan 200767 W11 4HETerraced£377,500
20 Nov 200659 W11 4HETerraced£425,000
13 Jul 200644 W11 4HETerraced£430,000
24 Nov 200524 W11 4HEFlat or maisonette£183,000Leasehold.
18 May 200523 W11 4HEFlat or maisonette£187,000Leasehold.
31 Jul 200123 W11 4HEFlat or maisonette£140,000Leasehold.
1 Nov 199959 W11 4HETerraced£225,000
26 Jun 199866 W11 4HETerraced£180,000
19 Sep 199765 W11 4HETerraced£161,000
15 Sep 199723 W11 4HEFlat or maisonette£71,000Leasehold.
18 Jul 199748 W11 4HETerraced£149,950
27 Oct 199557 W11 4HETerraced£150,000
7 Jun 199524 W11 4HEFlat or maisonette£55,000Leasehold.

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 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

55 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 52 m². Most common: Flat (32); House, mid-terrace (19); House, end-terrace (4). Built: 1967-1975 (26); 1976-1982 (18); 1983-1990 (5). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (24); rented (social) (14); owner-occupied (12).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Kensington and Chelsea in 2026-27: Band D £1,667 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,111£1,296£1,481£1,667£2,037£2,407£2,778£3,333

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (53% of about 740 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): Article 4 - No 100.
  • 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 38 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 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 8 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
W11 4HE100%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 stationsShepherd's Bush 6.9 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Kensington Olympia 2.8 million journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Kensal Green 1,000,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Underground, metro or tramLatimer Road Underground Station330 m
Ladbroke Grove Underground Station410 m (0.3 miles)
White City Underground Station810 m (0.5 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Latimer Road310 m
Bus or coach stationFinchley Road Underground Station4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Ferry terminalLittle Venice Waterbus Stop2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Westway Sports Centre Car Park410 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points80 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge300 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR17.8 km (11 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 surgeries25 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Foreland Medical Centre130 m
Pharmacies27 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bramley Pharmacy340 m
NHS dentists29 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ladbroke Grove Dental Care430 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSt Charles Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationNotting Hill Police Station910 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone300 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 garden17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,550 m²310 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Ladbroke Square Gardens 2.8 ha710 m (0.4 miles)
Play area18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,350 m²20 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Avondale Park 1.8 ha310 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,750 m²1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 17 parks and gardens, 12 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Pottery kiln in Walmer Road, a scheduled monument, 430 m (0.3 miles) south. 137 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pottery kiln in Walmer RoadScheduled monument430 m (0.3 miles) south
Church of St Francis AssisiListed building, Grade II*510 m (0.3 miles) south
Ladbroke EstateRegistered park or garden, Grade II580 m (0.4 miles) south-east
The Electric CinemaListed building, Grade II*580 m (0.4 miles) east
Cosmic HouseListed building, Grade I730 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade II*740 m (0.5 miles) east
Brunel EstateRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's ChurchWorld Heritage Site6.2 km (3.9 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Holland ParkWood1.4 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Portobello DockLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Round PondLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Chiswick EyotIsland3.7 km (2.3 miles) south-west
Barrow HillHill4.4 km (2.7 miles) north-east
Small ProfitsWetland4.9 km (3.1 miles) south-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)21.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.3205
Particles (PM10)15.44015

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
60 to 64500
55 to 594800
Under 55217474

53 of the street's 74 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 Kensington and Chelsea: see them on the Kensington and Chelsea 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
Kensington Aldridge AcademySecondary11–18170 m No published inspection
Thomas Jones Primary SchoolPrimary3–11220 m Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11340 m No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Anne's & Avondale Park Nursery SchoolNursery3–5390 m Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Avondale Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11390 m Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oxford Gardens Primary SchoolPrimary3–11510 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Clement and St James CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11580 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
All Saints Catholic CollegeSecondary11–16680 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Exceptional; Leadership and governance: Exceptional; Safeguarding standards: Met
Colville Primary SchoolPrimary0–11700 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Charles Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11810 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College Roman Catholic16 plus16–19810 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Golborne & Maxilla Nursery SchoolNursery2–5840 m (0.5 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
Midnight Spirit Express W11 1TXRetailers - other90 m5 Very good4 Sep 2024
Fatboy's Cocoa W11 1TYTakeaway/sandwich shop110 mAwaiting inspection
Kensington and Chelsea Food Bank W11 4AHSchool/college/university130 m5 Very good25 Feb 2025
St Andrews Methodist Church W11 4AHSchool/college/university130 m5 Very good19 Mar 2024
Latymer Community Church W11 4AHDistributors/Transporters130 m5 Very good8 Jan 2026
240 Project W11 4AHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good11 Nov 2024
Kensington Aldridge Academy W10 6EXSchool/college/university150 m5 Very good4 Sep 2026
Better Coffee Corner W10 6EXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good9 Jul 2025
NHFM - Butchery W10 6SWRetailers - other200 mAwaiting inspection
Lunchtime Company Ltd W11 1RQSchool/college/university210 m5 Very good25 Feb 2025
Impact Food Group @ Thomas Jones Primary School W11 1RQOther catering premises210 mAwaiting inspection
Rugby Portobello Trust W11 4EYSchool/college/university220 m5 Very good3 Oct 2026
IT'S A Date W11 1WQOther catering premises220 mAwaiting inspection
Bay 20 Community Kitchen W10 6JGOther catering premises250 m5 Very good27 Feb 2026
Andrews Garage W11 1UFRetailers - other250 m4 Good27 Feb 2024

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.

439 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour133
Violence and sexual offences125
Other theft47
Vehicle crime43
Public order22
Criminal damage and arson19
Burglary19
Drugs10
Theft from the person5
Other crime5
Bicycle theft4
Robbery4
Possession of weapons2
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Sports/Recreation Area (58); On or near Silchester Road (57); On or near Runcorn Place (44); On or near Wesley Square (33); On or near Threshers Place (31).

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: 213 residents in 102 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 age4540
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)17%61%
Owned outright13%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented71%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)15%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van13%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram14%4%
By any public transport, including bus28%8%
On foot or by bicycle25%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)95%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away0%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)80%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%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

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.

  • W11 4HE: 74 addresses of 76 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Dulford Street · Walmer Road · Treadgold Street · Cornwall Crescent · Barandon Walk · Upper Clarendon Walk · Wesley Square · Blenheim Crescent · Lancaster Road · Threshers Place · Bomore Road · Avondale Park Road

All the streets in W11 and across Kensington and Chelsea.

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.