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On Chart Street, in Hoxton South & East
What it's like at N1 6DB: every home that has sold on Chart 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Chart 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.
7 of the 34 homes on the street are owned by companies (1 overseas).
| Flat 21, Touchard House, Chart StreetFlat | Aug 2016 | £400,000 | 46 m² | £8,696/m² | 4 |
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| Flat 28, Touchard House, Chart StreetFlat | Dec 2018 | £395,000 | 57 m² | £6,930/m² | 4 |
| Flat 17, Touchard House, Chart StreetFlat | Jul 2013 | £290,000 | 47 m² | £6,170/m² | 4 |
| Flat 23, Touchard House, Chart StreetFlat | May 2004 | £122,000 | 54 m² | £2,259/m² | 1 |
| Flat 7, Touchard House, Chart StreetFlat | Apr 2004 | £173,000 | 72 m² | £2,403/m² | 1 |
| Flat 5, Touchard House, Chart StreetFlat | Jun 2002 | £155,000 | 55 m² | £2,818/m² | 1 |
| Flat 30, Touchard House, Chart StreetFlat | Nov 2004 | £188,000 | 59 m² | £3,186/m² | 1 |
| Flat 12, Touchard House, Chart StreetFlat | Apr 2025 | £375,000 | 51 m² | £7,353/m² | 2 |
| Flat 13, Touchard House, Chart StreetFlat | Apr 2013 | £270,000 | 55 m² | £4,909/m² | 1 |
| Flat 11, Touchard House, Chart StreetFlat · company-owned | Feb 2019 | £275,000 | 54 m² | £5,093/m² | 1 |
| Flat 24, Touchard House, Chart StreetFlat | Nov 2024 | £471,964 | 74 m² | £6,378/m² | 3 |
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: 54% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Old Street Underground station, a few minutes' walk (300 m). The nearest rail station is Old Street, 350 m away, with 6.1m journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Great Eastern Street, 150 m away, with a bus about every 4 minutes on weekdays (routes 55, 243); 342 departures an hour from the 18 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 11% 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 6 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 4 km away as the crow flies.
79% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is St Monica's Catholic Primary School, a few minutes' walk (300 m); 83% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is St John the Baptist Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School (0.2 km), with 13 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Central Foundation Boys' School, 300 m away; Attainment 8: 55.2 · 16.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Waterside Academy (1.2 km) and Swanlea School (2 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Henrietta Barnett School (9.2 km) and The Latymer School (10.8 km).
Few families with young children: only 12% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 100 m away; Late Snacks (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Regency Clinic (300 m), with Judds Chemist the closest pharmacy (200 m).
For a haircut, Lily's Nail Spa is 50 m away.
The nearest full A&E is The Royal London Hospital, 2.2 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 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 41 restaurants and cafés and 4 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Hungry Taco is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and Prince Arthur the nearest pub (50 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (10 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 167 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
80 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.
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.
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%.
59 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 N1 6DB →
There are 21 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (98%).
It's new: 51% of homes were built since 2000.
The nearest park is Aske Gardens, 50 m away; for exercise, Bikram Yoga (250 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Hampstead Heath (Mens Pond), 6.2 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 28.6 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London City is 9.7 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 26 km.
Many neighbours rent: 37% of households rent privately and 43% socially.
It's young: 34% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 56% 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, 750 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.
Nearest 8 shown. Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
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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 34 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 28 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.1% | 0.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.9% | 0.7% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 38.2% | 65.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 9.8% | 11.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 51.0% | 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.
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