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On Westgate Street, in London Fields & Mare Street
What it's like at E8 3RN: every home that has sold on Westgate 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.
Sales and extensions on Westgate 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.
2 of the 6 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Westgate StreetOther · company-owned | Jun 2024 | £1,135,000 | 22 m² | £51,591/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Westgate StreetSemi-detached | Jul 2000 | £250,000 | 33 m² | £7,576/m² | 1 |
| 6, Westgate StreetTerraced · company-owned | Apr 2018 | £940,000 | – | – | 1 |
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 56% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is London Fields, a few minutes' walk (350 m), with 1.9m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Liverpool Street.
The nearest bus stop is King Edward's Road, 50 m away, with a bus about every 2 minutes on weekdays (routes 254, 55, 106, 236); 286 departures an hour from the 17 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 10% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 6 km away as the crow flies.
68% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is London Fields Primary School, a few minutes' walk (100 m); 79% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Orchard Primary School (0.5 km), with 13 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is The Urswick School - A Church of England Secondary School, 800 m away; Attainment 8: 39.2 · 5.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy (0.8 km) and Mossbourne Community Academy (1.5 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Woodford County High School (9.2 km) and The Latymer School (9.8 km).
Few families with young children: only 14% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 350 m away, with Mare Street Market closer still (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Greenhouse Walk-In (200 m), with Unipharm Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, Glasshouse Salon is 100 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Homerton University Hospital, 1.5 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: 86 restaurants and cafés and 7 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Elliot's is the closest café or restaurant (under 50 m), and Diddy's Bar the nearest pub (150 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (19 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 178 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 45% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Mare Street, Broadway Market).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trough Just North of Junction with Westgate Road | II | 30 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.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Hackney South and Shoreditch constituency: Dame Meg Hillier MP (Labour (Co-op)), since May 2005. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 14,737 (35.3%), turnout 53%. Vote shares: Labour 59%, Green Party 24%, Conservative 5%, Liberal Democrat 5%.
57 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 E8 3RN →
There are 15 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (81%).
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 173 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Broadway Market Green, 250 m away; for exercise, Basis (50 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Hampstead Heath (Mens Pond), 7.5 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 23.2 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London City is 8.2 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 29 km.
Many neighbours rent: 37% of households rent privately and 34% socially.
It's young: 26% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 62% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is University of Law, 2.9 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.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.1% | 0.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.3% | 0.7% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 63.1% | 65.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 20.5% | 11.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 14.7% | 22.2% | 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.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 31 min
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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 6 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.