Waterloo Close Hackney

35 addresses across 1 postcode (E9), about 240 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 20901836.

22 homes have an energy certificate (C: 19, D: 3). 12 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Hackney costs £2,060 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. 312 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 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

22 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 75 m². Most common: Flat (13); Maisonette, mid-terrace (3); House, mid-terrace (3). Built: 1967-1975 (14); 1976-1982 (6); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (10); owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Hackney in 2026-27: Band D £2,060 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,374£1,602£1,831£2,060£2,518£2,976£3,434£4,121

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (60% of about 650 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): London borough of Hackney.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

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 30 September 2026.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 12 at medium risk and 8 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.

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
E9 6EW100%100%100%0%

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 31 October 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
The City Academy, HackneySecondary11–19160 m Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John and St James CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11210 m Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Olive School, Hackney MuslimPrimary4–11210 m No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Cardinal Pole Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–19360 m No published inspection
Morningside Primary SchoolPrimary2–11390 m No published inspection
Berger Primary SchoolPrimary2–11540 m No published inspection
Clapton Girls' AcademySecondary11–19560 m Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rushmore Primary SchoolPrimary3–11620 m No published inspection
Millfields Community SchoolPrimary3–11670 m No published inspection
The Urswick School - A Church of England Secondary SchoolSecondary11–19680 m Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mossbourne Community AcademySecondary11–18840 m Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Exceptional; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Exceptional; Safeguarding standards: Met
Daubeney Primary SchoolPrimary2–11860 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 31 October 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Sprinkled Goodies E9 6EROther catering premises130 mAwaiting inspection
The City Academy, Hackney E9 6EARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 mAwaiting inspection
St John & St James CE Primary School E9 6DXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good9 Jun 2026
Safedale Pharmacy E5 0NSRetailers - other200 m5 Very good11 Mar 2026
Golden States Chinese Take-away E5 0NPTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good12 Jan 2025
HACKNEY WHOLE FOOD E5 0NSRetailers - other220 m5 Very good25 Nov 2025
Caloroso Pizza (Hackney) E5 0NPTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good10 Dec 2024
Friends Pharmacy E5 0RNRetailers - other230 m5 Very good10 Mar 2026
Connecting All Communities E9 6BNTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good19 May 2026
Olive School Hackney E9 6EJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good13 Dec 2023
Mellors Catering E9 6EJSchool/college/university230 mAwaiting inspection
Swift Caribbean Delights E9 6JPTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m4 Good10 Dec 2024
The Mokapot House E5 0RNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good9 Nov 2023
Kacey's Off Licence & Newsagents E9 6JPRetailers - other240 m5 Very good13 Jan 2023
Adonis Supermarket E9 6JPRetailers - other240 m5 Very good6 Dec 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.

312 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences86
Anti-social behaviour39
Theft from the person34
Public order33
Other theft25
Drugs24
Vehicle crime21
Burglary21
Criminal damage and arson13
Bicycle theft8
Robbery5
Other crime1
Shoplifting1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near College Close (66); On or near Churchill Walk (34); On or near Median Road (25); On or near Fenn Street (23); On or near Ryder Mews (21).

What has changed

  • Food hygiene ratings ThegrillsandJollof (distributors/transporters, E5 0LP) is no longer listed; it was rated 3 Generally satisfactory 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.

  • E9 6EW: 35 addresses of 36 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Waterloo Close · Tresham Walk · Churchill Walk · Burnett Close · Tresham Walk · Staveley Close · Urswick Road · Median Road · Halidon Close · Dean Close · Homerton Row · Median Road

All the streets in E9 and across Hackney.

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.
  • Anything about planning applications, noise or air quality yet.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.