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On Roach Road, in Bow North & Fish Island
What it's like at E3 2GZ: every home that has sold on Roach 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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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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.
13 homes 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 Roach 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 284 homes on the street are owned by companies (2 overseas).
| Flat 311, Omega Works, 4, Roach RoadFlat | Apr 2025 | £625,000 | 101 m² | £6,188/m² | 3 |
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| Unit 305, Omega Works, 4, Roach RoadFlat | Nov 2007 | £307,000 | 103 m² | £2,981/m² | 1 |
| Unit 307, Omega Works, 4, Roach RoadFlat | Oct 2010 | £238,000 | 91 m² | £2,615/m² | 2 |
| Unit 313, Omega Works, 4, Roach RoadFlat | Feb 2018 | £465,000 | 38 m² | £12,237/m² | 2 |
| Unit 314, Omega Works, 4, Roach RoadFlat | Nov 2007 | £310,000 | 36 m² | £8,611/m² | 1 |
| Unit 306, Omega Works, 4, Roach RoadFlat | Feb 2013 | £315,000 | 37 m² | £8,514/m² | 2 |
| Unit 312, Omega Works, 4, Roach RoadOther | May 2021 | £334,000 | 91 m² | £3,670/m² | 2 |
| Unit 315, Omega Works, 4, Roach RoadFlat | Dec 2015 | £517,000 | 91 m² | £5,681/m² | 2 |
| Flat 319, Omega Works, 4, Roach RoadFlat | Dec 2025 | £510,000 | 97 m² | £5,258/m² | 2 |
| Unit 309, Omega Works, 4, Roach RoadFlat | Jun 2014 | £445,000 | 94 m² | £4,734/m² | 2 |
| Unit 317, Omega Works, 4, Roach RoadFlat | Dec 2007 | £299,950 | 94 m² | £3,191/m² | 1 |
| Unit 308, Omega Works, 4, Roach RoadFlat | Mar 2013 | £310,000 | 84 m² | £3,690/m² | 2 |
| Flat 304, Omega Works, 4, Roach RoadFlat | Jun 2024 | £675,000 | 122 m² | £5,533/m² | 3 |
| Unit 318, Omega Works, 4, Roach RoadFlat | Mar 2013 | £300,000 | 100 m² | £3,000/m² | 2 |
| Flat 320, Omega Works, 4, Roach RoadFlat | Sept 2024 | £580,000 | 92 m² | £6,304/m² | 2 |
| Unit 310, Omega Works, 4, Roach RoadFlat | Feb 2013 | £275,000 | 87 m² | £3,161/m² | 1 |
| Unit 303, Omega Works, 4, Roach RoadFlat | Jun 2024 | £585,000 | 91 m² | £6,429/m² | 2 |
| Unit 302, Omega Works, 4, Roach RoadFlat | Jul 2012 | £241,000 | 91 m² | £2,648/m² | 1 |
| Flat 321, Omega Works, 4, Roach RoadOther · company-owned | Sept 2016 | £415,000 | 73 m² | £5,685/m² | 1 |
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 50% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Hackney Wick, a few minutes' walk (400 m), with 4.2m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Stratford (London).
The nearest bus stop is Monier Bridge, 50 m away, with a bus about every 17 minutes on weekdays (route 339); 73 departures an hour from the 13 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 15% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 8 km away as the crow flies.
64% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Gainsborough Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (650 m); 57% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Old Ford Primary - A Paradigm Academy (0.4 km), with 10 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Bobby Moore Academy, 700 m away; Attainment 8: 45.6 · 10.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy (1.1 km) and Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School (2.6 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Woodford County High School (8.5 km) and Ilford County High School (9.5 km).
The nearest supermarket is Welcome Co-op, 250 m away, with Your Local Food & Wine closer still (under 50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Ruston Street Clinic (650 m), with Parnell Chemist the closest pharmacy (850 m).
For a haircut, Harber Hair is under 50 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Homerton University Hospital, 2.0 km away, rated outstanding by the CQC.
At its trust, 79% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 73% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 10 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 42 restaurants and cafés and 7 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
The Taco House is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and Lanterna the nearest pub (50 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (15 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 148 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Homes are mostly flats (84%).
The typical home here was built in 1993-1999.
It's growing: about 332 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Canal Park, 450 m away; for exercise, Omega Fitness Lab (50 m).
45 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.
Stratford and Bow constituency: Uma Kumaran MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 11,634 (26.8%), turnout 54%. Vote shares: Labour 44%, Green Party 17%, Workers Party of Britain 8%, Conservative 7%.
76 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 E3 2GZ →
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), 9.4 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 21.7 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London City is 6.4 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 30 km.
Most households own their home, 24% rent privately.
It's young: 25% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 49% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is Ravensbourne University London, 4.7 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 247 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 247 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 | 0.3% | 0.9% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 39.9% | 36.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 18.4% | 22.9% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 41.4% | 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 284 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 36 min
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