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On Stainsby Road, in Poplar West
What it's like at E14 6JN: every home that has sold on Stainsby Road since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates). 6 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Stainsby Road; planning applications within 500 m (Planning London Datahub); new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
6 of the 191 homes on the street are owned by companies (1 overseas).
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 40% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Langdon Park DLR station, about a 10-minute walk (650 m). The nearest rail station is Limehouse, 1.1 km away, with 2.6m journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Broomfield Street, 250 m away, with a bus about every 12 minutes on weekdays (route 309); 83 departures an hour from the 12 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 22% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 11 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 7 km away as the crow flies.
65% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Stebon Primary School, a few minutes' walk (200 m); 77% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Mayflower Primary School (0.2 km), with 10 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is St Paul's Way Trust School, 350 m away; Attainment 8: 51.8 · 16.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School (1.5 km) and Mulberry School for Girls (2.6 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Bexley Grammar School (11 km) and Woodford County High School (11 km).
It's a family area: 21% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 300 m away, with Dod Street Butchers & Groceries closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is St Paul's Way Medical Centre (300 m), with Lincoln Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, Chrisp Street Nails and Beauty is 650 m away.
The nearest full A&E is The Royal London Hospital, 2.5 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 61% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 9 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
E5 Poplar Bakehouse is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and Star of the East the nearest pub (500 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 141 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
55 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Poplar and Limehouse constituency: Apsana Begum MP (Labour), since December 2019. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 12,560 (29.2%), turnout 51%. Vote shares: Labour 43%, Green Party 14%, Conservative 11%, Independent 11%.
56 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near E14 6JN →
There are 24 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (91%).
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 106 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Bartlett Park, 100 m away; for exercise, Revolution Karting (550 m).
A swim is a short trip away: The Serpentine - Hyde Park, 10 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 23.5 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London City is 5.1 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 30 km.
Most households own their home, 33% rent privately.
It's young: 28% of residents are aged 15–29.
The nearest university is Ravensbourne University London, 2.6 km away (TEF Silver).
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
On this street: 0 of 179 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 40 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.1% | 0.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.9% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 53.8% | 36.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.9% | 22.9% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 38.7% | 39.1% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 191 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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