Violet Close London, Newham

10 addresses across 2 postcodes (E16), about 70 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 22208050.

  • Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5).
  • 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 Newham costs £1,944 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is West Ham, about 800 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Star Park, is about 90 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 20.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 2 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 Star Lane Medical Centre, about 300 m away, with 11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 22% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 272 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.

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (3); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1996-2002 (5). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Newham in 2026-27: Band D £1,944 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,296£1,512£1,728£1,944£2,376£2,808£3,240£3,888

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (48% of about 970 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: 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

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 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 16 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 16 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
E16 4NZzone 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
E16 4NHzone 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 2 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
E16 4NH100%100%100%0%
E16 4NZ100%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 stationsWest Ham 11 million journeys in 2024–25800 m (0.5 miles)
Custom House 9.8 million journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Stratford (London) 51 million journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Underground, metro or tramStar Lane DLR Station210 m
West Ham DLR Station750 m (0.5 miles)
West Ham Underground Station770 m (0.5 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 36 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Star Lane Station / Star Primary School Canning Town100 m
Bus or coach stationPark View Road (N17) Tottenham Hale9.1 km (5.6 miles)
Ferry terminalEast India Pier1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Car parksHoliday Inn Express London-Royal Docks Car Park1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points14 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station170 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR32.9 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 surgeries11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Star Lane Medical Centre300 m
Pharmacies14 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Jetsol Pharmacy360 m
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Docklands Dental House Limited560 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalNewham General Hospital Bhoc Elective Surgical Hub1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationBritish Transpot Police Station810 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone80 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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Star Park 4.0 ha90 m
Play area17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,010 m²100 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.1 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 900 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 5.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Stratford Langthorne Abbey (part of area within precincts), Baker's Row, West Ham, a scheduled monument, 1.3 km (0.8 miles) north. 18 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stratford Langthorne Abbey (part of area within precincts), Baker's Row, West HamScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
West Ham ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
Maritime GreenwichWorld Heritage Site4.8 km (3 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bow CreekTidal water710 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Abbey CreekTidal water1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Prescott ChannelLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Ashburton WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Blackwall PointWetland1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Stave HillHill4 km (2.5 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)20.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.6205
Particles (PM10)15.84015

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 59050
Under 5510510

5 of the street's 10 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from railways, 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 Newham: see them on the Newham 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
Star Primary SchoolPrimary3–1140 m No published inspection
Eastlea Community SchoolSecondary11–16270 m No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Gainsborough Primary SchoolPrimary3–11420 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Rokeby SchoolSecondary11–16670 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Helen's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11730 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Grange Primary SchoolPrimary2–11790 m (0.5 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Luke's Primary School Church of England/ChristianPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Keir Hardie Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ravenscroft Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 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
Ranelagh Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
East London Arts & Music16 plus16–191.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Bow SchoolSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 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
Star Primary School E16 4NHSchool/college/university20 m5 Very good20 Oct 2025
Junior Adventures Group - Wrapped Around / Afterschool Club E16 4NHOther catering premises20 m5 Very good3 Jun 2025
J D Corner Shop E16 4RFRetailers - other130 m1 Major improvement necessary30 Nov 2024
Eastlea Community School E16 4NNSchool/college/university160 m5 Very good14 Mar 2025
Star Off Licence & Grocers E16 4RFRetailers - other190 m4 Good7 Jan 2019
Cyber Vending E16 4SARetailers - other310 m4 Good24 Jul 2025
St Matthias Church E16 4NTOther catering premises320 mExempt
Starlane Pizza Bar E16 4SRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m2 Improvement necessary1 Sep 2026
The Cafe Upstairs Canning Town Ltd E16 4SPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good25 Jun 2026
EADN London E16 4SAPub/bar/nightclub340 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Aug 2025
Osbon Pharmacy E16 4PZRetailers - other360 mExempt
Mini Uni Nursery E16 4PZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 m5 Very good26 Feb 2026
Gainsborough Primary School E15 3AFSchool/college/university380 m5 Very good4 Feb 2025
Canaan Chinese Food Takeaway E16 4LFTakeaway/sandwich shop390 m2 Improvement necessary19 May 2026
Auntie Nanas E16 4LFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good1 Mar 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.

272 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour96
Violence and sexual offences57
Vehicle crime28
Drugs22
Other theft19
Theft from the person11
Robbery10
Burglary8
Public order8
Criminal damage and arson7
Shoplifting4
Bicycle theft2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Violet Close (37); On or near Star Lane (33); On or near Manor Road (27); On or near Addington Road (22); On or near Cranberry Lane (21).

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: 275 residents in 107 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 age4040
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)22%61%
Owned outright8%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented54%17%
Private rented24%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van17%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram45%4%
By any public transport, including bus50%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)74%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications31%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)77%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all7%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

  • E16 4NZ: 9 addresses of 31 in the postcode
  • E16 4NH: 1 address of 11 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Hilda Road · Eastlea Mews · Addington Road · Desford Road · Durham Road · Chester Road · Sycamore Close · Cranberry Lane · Clarence Road · Hilda Road · Nutmeg Close · Grayling Close

All the streets in E16 and across Newham.

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.