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On Pretoria Avenue, in Walthamstow Market & South Grove
What it's like at E17 7DE: every home that has sold on Pretoria Avenue 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.
4 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 3 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 Pretoria Avenue; 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.
3 of the 81 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 8, Pretoria AvenueTerraced | Nov 2020 | £790,000 | 103 m² | £7,670/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10, Pretoria AvenueTerraced | Mar 2021 | £807,126 | 136 m² | £5,935/m² | 3 |
| 18, Pretoria AvenueTerraced | Sept 1998 | £124,000 | 131 m² | £947/m² | 1 |
| 20, Pretoria AvenueTerraced | Feb 2025 | £1,275,000 | 157 m² | £8,121/m² | 5 |
| 26, Pretoria AvenueTerraced | Sept 2006 | £195,000 | 71 m² | £2,746/m² | 2 |
| 26a, Pretoria AvenueFlat | Nov 2017 | £430,000 | 53 m² | £8,113/m² | 4 |
| 28, Pretoria AvenueTerraced | Jan 2004 | £300,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 32, Pretoria AvenueFlat · company-owned | Feb 2023 | £270,000 | 56 m² | £4,821/m² | 4 |
| First Floor Flat, 32, Pretoria AvenueFlat | Dec 2020 | £522,695 | – | – | 1 |
| 32a, Pretoria AvenueFlat | Sept 2023 | £532,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 32b, Pretoria AvenueFlat | Feb 2018 | £500,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 36, Pretoria AvenueTerraced | Feb 2014 | £515,000 | 123 m² | £4,187/m² | 2 |
| 38, Pretoria AvenueFlat | Mar 2019 | £410,000 | 55 m² | £7,455/m² | 3 |
| 40, Pretoria AvenueTerraced | Mar 1998 | £130,000 | 75 m² | £1,733/m² | 2 |
| 42, Pretoria AvenueTerraced | Jul 2022 | £945,000 | 114 m² | £8,289/m² | 3 |
| 44, Pretoria AvenueTerraced | Aug 2011 | £385,000 | 144 m² | £2,674/m² | 4 |
| 46, Pretoria AvenueTerraced | Aug 1998 | £90,000 | 115 m² | £783/m² | 1 |
| 48, Pretoria AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2024 | £900,000 | 108 m² | £8,333/m² | 2 |
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 41% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is St James Street (London), a few minutes' walk (200 m), with 1.6m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Liverpool Street.
The nearest bus stop is Carisbrooke Road, 50 m away, with a bus about every 14 minutes on weekdays (route W12); 174 departures an hour from the 15 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 28% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 11 km away as the crow flies.
56% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Mission Grove Primary School, a few minutes' walk (150 m); 46% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is South Grove Primary School (0.5 km), with 8 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Willowfield School, 500 m away; Attainment 8: 46.1 · 8.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Eden Girls' School, Waltham Forest (1.5 km) and Harris Academy Tottenham (2.4 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Woodford County High School (4.3 km) and The Latymer School (5.8 km).
The nearest supermarket is Lidl, 150 m away; Well Pharmacy (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Firs (300 m), with Well the closest pharmacy (100 m).
For a haircut, Mozart Hairdressers is 100 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Whipps Cross University Hospital, 2.2 km away, rated requires improvement 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).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 69 restaurants and cafés and 6 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Moroccan Corner is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and The Untraditional Pub the nearest pub (250 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (57 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 199 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Homes are mostly flats (62%).
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 57% were built before 1919.
It's growing: about 584 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Stoneydown Park, 350 m away; for exercise, Dench Fitness (350 m).
57 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Clock House | II | 50 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Walthamstow constituency: Ms Stella Creasy MP (Labour (Co-op)), since May 2010. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 17,996 (39.4%), turnout 61%. Vote shares: Labour 60%, Green Party 20%, Conservative 5%, Reform UK 4%.
32 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 E17 7DE →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
A swim is a short trip away: Hampstead Heath (Mens Pond), 9.1 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 18.1 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London City is 10 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 32 km.
Many neighbours rent: 38% of households rent privately and 20% socially.
It's highly educated: 49% of adults have a degree.
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.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
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Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 46 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 1 of 58 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 13 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.4% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 74.3% | 85.7% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 9.3% | 7.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 16.0% | 6.2% | 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 81 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.