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On Ley Street, in Ilford North East
What it's like at IG1 4BN: every home that has sold on Ley 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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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.
14 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 Ley 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.
41 of the 261 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 235, Ley StreetSemi-detached | Oct 2024 | £570,000 | 115 m² | £4,957/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 237, Ley StreetSemi-detached | Jul 2007 | £250,000 | 144 m² | £1,736/m² | 2 |
| 239, Ley StreetSemi-detached | Feb 2002 | £146,000 | 141 m² | £1,035/m² | 1 |
| 241, Ley StreetTerraced · company-owned | Feb 2005 | £200,000 | 80 m² | £2,500/m² | 1 |
| 243, Ley StreetTerraced | Mar 2003 | £194,000 | 91 m² | £2,132/m² | 2 |
| 247, Ley StreetTerraced | Jan 2011 | £340,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 249, Ley StreetTerraced | Jan 2018 | £245,000 | 110 m² | £2,227/m² | 2 |
| 251, Ley StreetSemi-detached | Oct 1995 | £75,000 | 122 m² | £615/m² | 1 |
| 267, Ley StreetTerraced | Jan 2017 | £455,000 | 106 m² | £4,292/m² | 1 |
| 269, Ley StreetTerraced | May 2021 | £430,000 | 105 m² | £4,095/m² | 2 |
| 271, Ley StreetTerraced · company-owned | Aug 1998 | £72,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 273, Ley StreetTerraced | Oct 1998 | £61,500 | 91 m² | £676/m² | 1 |
| 275a, Ley StreetTerraced | Apr 2002 | £140,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 277, Ley StreetTerraced · company-owned | Feb 2007 | £148,000 | 41 m² | £3,610/m² | 5 |
| 279, Ley StreetTerraced | Jun 2000 | £126,000 | 131 m² | £962/m² | 1 |
| 281, Ley StreetTerraced · company-owned | Aug 1999 | £80,000 | 91 m² | £879/m² | 1 |
| 283, Ley StreetTerraced | Dec 2024 | £435,000 | 84 m² | £5,179/m² | 2 |
| 285, Ley StreetTerraced | Aug 1996 | £72,500 | 43 m² | £1,686/m² | 1 |
| 287, Ley StreetTerraced · company-owned | Dec 2021 | £435,000 | 110 m² | £3,955/m² | 3 |
| 289, Ley StreetTerraced | Mar 2013 | £238,000 | 88 m² | £2,705/m² | 3 |
| 291, Ley StreetTerraced | Apr 2021 | £329,500 | 91 m² | £3,621/m² | 1 |
| 301 - 305, Ley StreetOther · company-owned | Sept 2019 | £675,000 | – | – | 2 |
The nearest station is Ilford, about a 10-minute walk (900 m), with 10.9m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Stratford (London).
The nearest bus stop is Brisbane Road, 100 m away, with a bus about every 10 minutes on weekdays (route 169); 60 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 20% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 15 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Christchurch Primary School, a few minutes' walk (300 m); 79% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Cleveland Road Primary School (1.2 km), with 4 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Seven Kings School, 700 m away; Attainment 8: 57.3 · 19.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Valentines High School (1.2 km) and Loxford School (1.9 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Ilford County High School (3 km) and Woodford County High School (6.1 km).
It's a family area: 22% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Express, 50 m away; RSV Wholesale and Retail (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Balfour Road Surgery (350 m), with Mydirectpharmacy the closest pharmacy (200 m).
For a haircut, Bladez & Fadez is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is King George Hospital, 3.1 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 63% 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 16 restaurants and cafés, 1 pubs and bars.
Sasha's Restaurant and Lounge is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and Ilford Liberal Club the nearest pub (600 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 94 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 40% flats and 6% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 85% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is Vicarage Lane Play Park, 600 m away; for exercise, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing (850 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 17.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 6.9 km away, and London Stansted, with far more destinations, 37 km.
54 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.
Ilford South constituency: Jas Athwal MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 6,894 (16.7%), turnout 51%. Vote shares: Labour 40%, Independent 23%, Conservative 15%, Green Party 8%.
52 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 IG1 4BN →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Many neighbours rent: 39% of households rent privately and 7% socially.
It's highly educated: 43% of adults have a degree.
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.
Nearest: Leigh Bell Wharf · about 40 min
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 183 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 45 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.5% | 0.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 94.9% | 89.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.7% | 8.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.2% | 1.2% | 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
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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 261 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.