View Close Chigwell, Epping Forest

43 addresses across 1 postcode (IG7), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 13801753.

  • Sales: 43 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £425,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 23 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 5, D: 12, E: 4).
  • Flood: 8 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 D; Band D in Epping Forest costs £2,277 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Newbury Racecourse, about 3.9 km (2.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 120 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 55 to 58 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Chigwell Medical Centre, about 600 m (0.4 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 89% of households owned their home and 45% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 26 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
20241£425,000£425,000£425,000
20233£450,000£435,000£520,000
20221£480,000£480,000£480,000
20201£365,000£365,000£365,000
20181£422,000£422,000£422,000
20161£425,000£425,000£425,000
20151£402,500£402,500£402,500
20121£250,000£250,000£250,000
20101£242,000£242,000£242,000
20094£225,000£223,500£250,000
20081£220,000£220,000£220,000
20064£236,750£221,000£249,995
Most recent sales (43)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Dec 20257 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£473,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Jan 202416 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£425,000
4 Oct 202335 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£450,000
30 Jun 20231 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£520,000
19 May 202310 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£435,000
1 Apr 202236 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£480,000
8 Jul 202030 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£365,000
18 Feb 201916 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£387,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Aug 201841 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£422,000
26 Feb 201635 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£425,000
28 Oct 201513 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£402,500
22 May 20121 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£250,000
26 Mar 201041 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£242,000
28 Aug 200915 IG7 5JUTerraced£223,500
27 Aug 20096 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£250,000
6 Mar 200941 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£225,000
12 Feb 200939 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£225,000
10 Oct 200826 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£220,000
22 Dec 200628 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£249,995
8 Dec 200623 IG7 5JUDetached£248,500
29 Sep 200641 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£225,000
12 Apr 200614 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£221,000
19 Dec 200518 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£206,000
2 Dec 200518 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£210,000
7 Oct 200525 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£249,950
9 Jul 200428 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£225,000
7 May 200424 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£220,000
9 Jan 200432 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£235,000
5 Sep 200332 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£175,000
4 Mar 200319 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£190,700
3 Sep 200240 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£197,500
7 Aug 200210 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£155,000
6 Mar 200239 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£161,000
28 Sep 200135 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£120,000
17 Aug 200112 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£139,950
7 Feb 200121 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£145,000
30 Aug 200035 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£100,000
9 Jun 200019 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£114,000
20 Nov 199915 IG7 5JUTerraced£109,000
2 Aug 19994 IG7 5JUDetached£148,000
9 Oct 19984 IG7 5JUDetached£125,000
30 Oct 199635 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£73,000
25 Oct 199518 IG7 5JUSemi-detached£59,750

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from June 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

23 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 90 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (21); House, detached (1); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1967-1975 (14); 1950-1966 (7); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (20); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Epping Forest in 2026-27: Band D £2,277 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,518£1,771£2,024£2,277£2,783£3,289£3,795£4,554

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (26% of about 800 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

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

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

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

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 20 August 2026 to 21 August 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)
  • 18 August 2026 to 20 August 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

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

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 7 at medium risk and 3 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 43 addresses are between 55 m and 58 m above sea level (57 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
IG7 5JU100%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 stationsNewbury Racecourse 115,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Seven Kings 4.1 million journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Goodmayes 4.8 million journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Underground, metro or tramGrange Hill Underground Station440 m (0.3 miles)
Grange Hill Underground Station450 m (0.3 miles)
Hainault Underground Station790 m (0.5 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Copperfield Grange Hill200 m
Ferry terminalBarking Riverside Pier Creekmouth10.6 km (6.6 miles)
Car parksHainault Station Car Park (TfL)810 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points11 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity570 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY11.9 km (7.4 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN32.2 km (20 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 Chigwell Medical Centre600 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chigwell Pharmacy600 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alan C Goldman Dental Practice280 m
HospitalKing George Hospital3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Police stationBarkingside Police Station2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Nisa Cashzone290 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.8 ha120 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 880 m²330 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 38 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,770 m²420 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 4.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hospital Hill WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Fairlop WatersLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Cocked Hat PlantationWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
High WoodWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) north
Egg ClumpWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-west
Dog Kennel HillHill3.2 km (2 miles) 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)14.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.4205
Particles (PM10)13.54015

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
Under 554343

None of the street's 43 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Epping Forest: see them on the Epping Forest page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Limes Farm Junior SchoolPrimary7–11230 m No published inspection
Limes Farm Infant School and NurseryPrimary3–7230 m No published inspection
Manford Primary SchoolPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Fairlop Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
John Bramston Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Coppice Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Chigwell Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
West Hatch High SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Wohl Ilford Jewish Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
King Solomon High School JewishSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Forest AcademySecondary11–161.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Clore Tikva School JewishPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

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

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Shimla Mirch IG7 5NTTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m4 Good24 Apr 2026
Sky Kebab & Pizza IG7 5NTTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m5 Very good15 Oct 2026
Manor Kebab and Pizza IG7 5QATakeaway/sandwich shop310 m4 Good19 Feb 2026
Limes kitchen IG7 5NTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good15 Oct 2026
Manor (Chinese Food Takeaway) IG7 5QATakeaway/sandwich shop320 m5 Very good29 Sep 2025
Delicacy IG7 5QARetailers - other320 m5 Very good11 Mar 2025
NISA IG7 5NTRetailers - other330 m4 Good1 Oct 2026
Flying Start Day Nursery IG7 5NTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good29 Sep 2025
Manor Supermarket IG7 5QBRetailers - other380 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Feb 2026
St Winifred's Nursery IG7 5PSOther catering premises380 mExempt
Elly's Caffe IG7 5QBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m4 Good3 Jul 2025
Indian Ocean Chigwell IG7 5QBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises390 m5 Very good4 Apr 2025
MAKIVO SUSHI IG7 5QBTakeaway/sandwich shop390 m5 Very good14 May 2026
Sherrell House Care Centre IG7 5DPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Jul 2025
Shell Chigwell IG7 5PPRetailers - other500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 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.

26 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences16
Vehicle crime4
Other theft3
Public order2
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near High Meadows (12); On or near View Close (7); On or near Millwell Crescent (5); On or near Northdene (1); On or near Oak Lodge Avenue (1).

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: 343 residents in 129 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 age4840
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)89%61%
Owned outright50%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)47%32%
Travel to work by car or van32%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram14%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)43%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)45%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)82%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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 NISA (retailers - other, IG7 5NT) now 4 Good, was 3 Generally satisfactory (rated 1 October 2026) found 30 October 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

High Meadows · Northdene · Millwell Crescent · Oak Lodge Avenue · Copperfield · Regency Close · Limes Avenue · Trotwood · Grange Crescent · Clayside · Stanwyck Drive · Mount Pleasant Road

All the streets in IG7 and across Epping 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.