Whitcher Place London, Camden

3 addresses across 3 postcodes (NW1), about 130 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 20400519.

  • 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 Camden costs £2,208 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Camden Road, about 370 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Rochester Terrace Gardens, is about 110 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 23.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 32 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 James Wigg Practice, about 260 m away, with 13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 390 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 32% of households owned their home and 54% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 257 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 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Camden in 2026-27: Band D £2,208 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,472£1,717£1,962£2,208£2,698£3,189£3,679£4,415

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (35% of about 1,030 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: yes, Rochester (council page). 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): Basements.
  • 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, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 5 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
NW1 9HZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
NW1 9JDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NW1 9JHnot in 2 or 3 5 / 3 / 4 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 32 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
NW1 9HZ50%0%0%0%
NW1 9JD100%100%100%0%
NW1 9JH100%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 stationsCamden Road 4.3 million journeys in 2024–25370 m
Kentish Town 2.6 million journeys in 2024–25660 m (0.4 miles)
Kentish Town West 1.9 million journeys in 2024–25690 m (0.4 miles)
Underground, metro or tramKentish Town Underground Station650 m (0.4 miles)
Camden Town Underground Station750 m (0.5 miles)
Chalk Farm Underground Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 60 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Murray Street Camden Town120 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Ferry terminalCamden Lock Waterbus Camden Town810 m (0.5 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Guiseppe Parking180 m
EV charging points70 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity120 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY14.1 km (8.7 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR23.9 km (15 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 surgeries13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest James Wigg Practice260 m
Pharmacies23 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wellcare Pharmacy350 m
NHS dentists21 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kentish Town Health Centre120 m
HospitalSt Pancras Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationKentish Town Police Station620 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines7 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM260 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 garden7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rochester Terrace Gardens 4,150 m²110 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Cantelowes Gardens 1.5 ha290 m
Play area25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 350 m²90 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,520 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 880 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 7 parks and gardens, 4.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Luke with St Paul, a listed building (Grade II*), 440 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 141 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Luke with St PaulListed building, Grade II*440 m (0.3 miles) north-east
House and attached garageListed building, Grade II*450 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Church of St MichaelListed building, Grade II*620 m (0.4 miles) south-west
All Saints Greek Orthodox ChurchListed building, Grade I690 m (0.4 miles) south
St Pancras GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Primrose HillRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's ChurchWorld Heritage Site5.1 km (3.2 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Three Island PondLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Primrose HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Barrow HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Belsize WoodWood2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Parliament HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Duck IslandIsland4.7 km (2.9 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)23.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.6205
Particles (PM10)16.14015

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
Under 55333

None of the street's 3 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, railways or aircraft.

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 Camden: see them on the Camden 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
The Camden School for GirlsSecondary11–18200 m Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hawley Primary SchoolPrimary3–11480 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Kentish Town Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11550 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Torriano Primary SchoolPrimary3–11600 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Holy Trinity and Saint Silas CofE Primary School, NW1 Church of EnglandPrimary4–11620 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): 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
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11630 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Our Lady Roman Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary3–11680 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brecknock Primary SchoolPrimary2–11690 m (0.4 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Abacus Belsize Primary SchoolPrimary4–11820 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Hungerford SchoolPrimary3–11830 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rhyl Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Richard Cobden Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Oct 2019, 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
Village Store NW5 2LNRetailers - other160 m5 Very good14 Mar 2023
Community Recovery Service for Older People NW1 9DBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good16 Nov 2022
Kido Camden NW1 9RYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good4 Sep 2024
Camden School For Girls NW5 2DBSchool/college/university200 m5 Very good21 Jan 2025
Le Pain Quotidien NW1 2QLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good8 May 2026
Starbucks Coffee Company Uk NW1 2QLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good30 May 2025
Boots the Chemist NW1 2QLRetailers - other220 m5 Very good13 May 2025
Tesco Express NW1 9HGRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets260 m5 Very good22 Feb 2019
H & H SELF DRIVE VAN HIRE NW5 2ARManufacturers/packers270 mAwaiting inspection
Twins Coffee Shop NW1 9EURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m4 Good4 Sep 2024
BERLIN DONER HAUS NW1 9EUTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m1 Major improvement necessary23 Feb 2026
Corner Express NW1 9EURetailers - other280 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Jul 2025
CAMDEN CHIPPY/Howdy Fish & Chips NW1 9EETakeaway/sandwich shop280 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Dec 2025
Roger's Kitchen NW1 9EUTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m5 Very good27 Jan 2022
Slatterys Bar NW1 9EUPub/bar/nightclub290 m4 Good3 Feb 2023

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.

257 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour72
Violence and sexual offences53
Other theft27
Vehicle crime26
Public order19
Theft from the person15
Criminal damage and arson13
Burglary11
Bicycle theft7
Drugs5
Robbery4
Other crime3
Shoplifting2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hospital (46); On or near Rochester Mews (38); On or near Lawford Road (31); On or near Sandall Road (29); On or near Wilmot Place (20).

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: 388 residents in 182 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 age3640
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)32%61%
Owned outright19%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented51%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)57%32%
Travel to work by car or van9%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle21%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)88%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)54%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)85%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%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

  • Food hygiene ratings BUN AND GRAIN SHACK (takeaway/sandwich shop, NW1 0SR) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings CAMDEN TANDOORI (restaurant/cafe/canteen, NW1 9EE) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Ceci (restaurant/cafe/canteen, NW1 9PE) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Shallal Shawarma Grill (restaurant/cafe/canteen, NW1 9EE) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings ALLPRESSED UP COFFEE & MATCHA (restaurant/cafe/canteen, NW1 9EE) now 5 Very good, was 4 Good (rated 6 October 2026) found 31 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

Rochester Mews · Bartholomew Road · Rochester Road · Lawford Road · Rochester Place · Rochester Terrace · St Augustine's Road · Wilmot Place · Patshull Place · Patshull Road · Sandall Road · Reeds Place

All the streets in NW1 and across Camden.

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.