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On Fairfield Road, in Bow South
What it's like at E3 2UP: every home that has sold on Fairfield 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.
23 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 Fairfield 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.
14 of the 1068 homes on the street are owned by companies.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 55% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Bow Church DLR station, a few minutes' walk (400 m). The nearest rail station is Hackney Wick, 1.3 km away, with 4.2m journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Bow Bus Garage, 200 m away, with a bus about every 7 minutes on weekdays (routes 276, 488); 112 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 18% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 8 km away as the crow flies.
65% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is St Agnes RC Primary School, a few minutes' walk (500 m); 73% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Old Ford Primary - A Paradigm Academy (0.5 km), with 6 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Mulberry UTC, 500 m away; Attainment 8: 30.3 · 1.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy (1.6 km) and Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School (2.2 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Woodford County High School (8.9 km) and Ilford County High School (9.7 km).
Few families with young children: only 14% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Asda Express Bow - Bow Road PFS, 400 m away, with 5th Avenue, Morrisons Bow closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Harley Grove Medical Ctr. (650 m), with Kamsons Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (500 m).
For a haircut, Noor Hair & Beauty is 350 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Homerton University Hospital, 2.6 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 15 restaurants and cafés, 2 pubs and bars.
KIRN Coffee Roasters is the closest café or restaurant (under 50 m), and Dead Pedro's the nearest pub (400 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 141 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 40% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Fairfield Road, Tredegar Square).
51 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bryant and May Factory, Main Building | II | 40 m |
| Fairfield Match Works (Bryant and May) | II | 110 m |
| Fairfield Match Works | II | 130 m |
| Fairfield Match Works | II | 130 m |
| Fairfield Match Works | II | 140 m |
| Boundary Wall to Road at Fairfield Match Works | II | 140 m |
| London Transport Trolley Bus Depot | II | 140 m |
| Fairfield Match Works | II | 140 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.
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%.
96 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 2UP →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
There are 36 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (86%).
It's new: 55% of homes were built since 2000.
It's growing: about 581 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Grove Hall Park, 250 m away; for exercise, Bow Quarter Leisure Centre (50 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Hampstead Heath (Mens Pond), 9.9 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 22.5 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London City is 5.9 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 31 km.
Many neighbours rent: 38% of households rent privately and 30% socially.
It's young: 31% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 57% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is Ravensbourne University London, 3.8 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.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
On this street: 0 of 614 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 549 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 | 0.4% | 0.9% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 34.7% | 36.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 45.4% | 22.9% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 19.5% | 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 1068 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 35 min
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