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On Chequer Street, in Old Street & St Luke's
What it's like at EC1Y 8PW: every home that has sold on Chequer 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 Chequer 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 24 homes on the street are owned by companies (1 overseas).
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: 53% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Old Street, a few minutes' walk (350 m), with 6.1m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Moorgate.
The nearest bus stop is St Luke's Music Edu Centre, 200 m away, with a bus about every 4 minutes on weekdays (routes 55, 243); 264 departures an hour from the 15 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 10% 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 4 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 3 km away as the crow flies.
78% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Prior Weston Primary School and Children's Centre, a few minutes' walk (200 m); 43% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is City of London Primary Academy, Islington (0.3 km), with 11 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Central Foundation Boys' School, 450 m away; Attainment 8: 55.2 · 16.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Waterside Academy (1.9 km) and Swanlea School (2.3 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Henrietta Barnett School (9.2 km) and The Latymer School (11.3 km).
The nearest supermarket is Waitrose, 150 m away; A J News (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is London Professional Aesthetics (200 m), with Portmans Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (200 m).
For a haircut, Bar Hair Ink is 150 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Guy's Hospital, 2.4 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 68% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 85 restaurants and cafés and 25 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Gather & Gather @ Tik Tok is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and Artillery Arms Public House the nearest pub (100 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (21 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 333 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 46% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (St Luke's, Bunhill Fields and Finsbury Square).
88 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.
Islington South and Finsbury constituency: Emily Thornberry MP (Labour), since May 2005. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 15,455 (36.1%), turnout 58%. Vote shares: Labour 54%, Green Party 18%, Liberal Democrat 10%, Conservative 8%.
70 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 EC1Y 8PW →
There are 116 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (98%).
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 704 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, 200 m away; for exercise, Virgin Active (150 m).
A swim is a short trip away: The Serpentine - Hyde Park, 5.8 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 30.2 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London City is 10 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 26 km.
Most households own their home, 28% rent privately.
It's young: 30% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 51% of adults have a degree.
There's a sizeable student population: 16% of adults were full-time students in 2021.
The nearest university is University of Law, 250 m 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.
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Nearest 12 shown. 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.
Nearest 8 shown. 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 22 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 3 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.0% | 0.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 4.0% | 1.0% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 21.4% | 66.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 11.9% | 12.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 62.4% | 19.3% | 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 24 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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