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On Kennet Street, in St George in the East & Wapping North
What it's like at E1W 2JJ: every home that has sold on Kennet Street 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.
5 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Kennet Street; 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.
4 of the 47 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 48, Kennet StreetFlat | Nov 2003 | £195,000 | 46 m² | £4,239/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50, Kennet StreetFlat | Sept 2003 | £225,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 52, Kennet StreetFlat | Feb 2026 | £430,000 | 48 m² | £8,958/m² | 2 |
| 54, Kennet StreetFlat | Sept 2025 | £462,500 | 48 m² | £9,635/m² | 4 |
| 56, Kennet StreetFlat | Sept 2002 | £338,000 | 114 m² | £2,965/m² | 1 |
| 58, Kennet StreetTerraced | Apr 1997 | £160,000 | 88 m² | £1,818/m² | 1 |
| 60, Kennet StreetTerraced | Oct 2007 | £610,000 | 123 m² | £4,959/m² | 2 |
| 68, Kennet StreetFlat | Jul 2012 | £340,000 | 49 m² | £6,939/m² | 2 |
| 70, Kennet StreetFlat | Aug 2011 | £327,500 | 48 m² | £6,823/m² | 4 |
| 72, Kennet StreetFlat | Aug 2003 | £220,000 | 47 m² | £4,681/m² | 1 |
| 74, Kennet StreetFlat | Jan 2000 | £162,000 | 49 m² | £3,306/m² | 2 |
| 76, Kennet StreetTerraced · company-owned | Aug 2007 | £485,000 | 97 m² | £5,000/m² | 1 |
| 78, Kennet StreetTerraced | Jul 2008 | £500,000 | 88 m² | £5,682/m² | 4 |
| 80, Kennet StreetTerraced | Apr 2019 | £932,500 | 107 m² | £8,715/m² | 5 |
| 84, Kennet StreetFlat | Aug 2004 | £238,000 | 47 m² | £5,064/m² | 1 |
| 86, Kennet StreetFlat | Aug 2001 | £190,000 | 50 m² | £3,800/m² | 1 |
| 88, Kennet StreetFlat | Sept 2021 | £425,000 | 44 m² | £9,659/m² | 5 |
| 90, Kennet StreetFlat | Aug 2019 | £487,500 | 36 m² | £13,542/m² | 6 |
| 92, Kennet StreetFlat | Jun 2006 | £261,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 94, Kennet StreetFlat | Mar 2004 | £227,500 | 44 m² | £5,170/m² | 2 |
| 96, Kennet StreetFlat | Aug 1995 | £79,500 | 46 m² | £1,728/m² | 1 |
| 98, Kennet StreetFlat | Jan 2020 | £460,000 | 42 m² | £10,952/m² | 3 |
| 100, Kennet StreetFlat · company-owned | Sept 2009 | £276,000 | 44 m² | £6,273/m² | 2 |
| 102, Kennet StreetFlat | Sept 2014 | £450,000 | 50 m² | £9,000/m² | 2 |
| 104, Kennet StreetTerraced | Jul 1995 | £140,000 | 96 m² | £1,458/m² | 1 |
| 106, Kennet StreetTerraced | Oct 1999 | £200,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 112, Kennet StreetFlat | Sept 2014 | £455,000 | 42 m² | £10,833/m² | 2 |
| 120, Kennet StreetTerraced | Aug 2008 | £450,000 | 90 m² | £5,000/m² | 3 |
| 122, Kennet StreetTerraced | Oct 2006 | £424,950 | 92 m² | £4,619/m² | 2 |
| 124, Kennet StreetTerraced | Sept 1999 | £221,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 126, Kennet StreetTerraced | Aug 2022 | £1,065,000 | 93 m² | £11,452/m² | 3 |
| 128, Kennet StreetTerraced | Sept 2005 | £415,250 | 104 m² | £3,993/m² | 2 |
| 130, Kennet StreetTerraced | Oct 2011 | £695,000 | 168 m² | £4,137/m² | 3 |
| 132, Kennet StreetTerraced | Jan 2026 | £1,080,000 | 130 m² | £8,308/m² | 2 |
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: 59% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Wapping, about a 5-minute walk (600 m), with 2.5m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Canada Water.
The nearest bus stop is Hermitage Wall, 200 m away, with a bus about every 12 minutes on weekdays (route 100); 58 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 14% 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 7 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 4 km away as the crow flies.
69% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Hermitage Primary School, a few minutes' walk (200 m); 77% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Bigland Green Primary School (0.6 km), with 8 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Mulberry Academy London Dock, 300 m away.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Mulberry School for Girls (0.7 km) and Swanlea School (1.4 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Henrietta Barnett School (11.8 km) and Woodford County High School (12.4 km).
The nearest supermarket is Waitrose, 250 m away; Origin Oils (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is St. Katherine'S Dock Practice (300 m), with City Dock Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, The Ivy Hair and Beauty is 300 m away.
The nearest full A&E is The Royal London Hospital, 1.3 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 12 restaurants and cafés, 6 pubs and bars.
Motherdough Pizza is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and Champagne Route the nearest pub (250 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 144 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 19 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (87%).
The typical home here was built in 1983-1992.
It's growing: about 446 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
65 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Warehouses Including Vaults | II | 180 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.
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%.
51 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 E1W 2JJ →
The nearest park is Hellings Street Open Space, 250 m away; for exercise, E1 CrossFit (200 m).
A swim is a short trip away: The Serpentine - Hyde Park, 7.3 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 25.5 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London City is 7.9 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 27 km.
Many neighbours rent: 48% of households rent privately and 24% socially.
It's young: 30% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 60% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is Northeastern University - London, 450 m away (TEF Bronze).
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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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 47 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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: 0 of 33 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 14 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.0% | 0.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 7.1% | 0.9% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 32.1% | 36.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 20.7% | 22.9% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 40.1% | 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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