Havering: local evidence before choosing a home
Three public reference positions, ten independent checks and the limitations you need before treating a map result as a housing shortlist.
By the notbad project · editorial review . Source dates are separate.
Explore Havering on the mapWhat these local examples show
Upminster station and Upminster Park both point towards Upminster in the report, with different walks and source crime areas. Rom Valley Retail Park instead points towards Romford. Even the station and park examples do not share every reading, so a familiar place name should not replace point-level checks. These examples compare supported walking approaches, not full journeys to work.
This page covers the official Havering boundary (E09000016), not a single neighbourhood with the same name. Its three examples are illustrative catalog positions, not a representative sample of homes or a borough-wide verdict.
Mapped destinations in this boundary
The retained catalogs place 9 supported station records, 58 named green-space references of at least 2 hectares, 19 supported supermarket records, 5 shopping-centre records and 92 official school positions inside this boundary. These are source-position counts, not a complete inventory or proof of present access; station records can represent separate services at one interchange.
Supported lines represented here: District, Elizabeth line, Liberty. Coverage includes Underground, Overground, DLR and Elizabeth lines, not every National Rail service. Walking destinations can lie outside the borough.
Three public reference reports
These use the independent Check profile: all supported destination choices, walks up to 30 minutes, green spaces at least 2 hectares, both noise periods and no combined score. School results use all phases and both inspection schemes; the new report-card area is Curriculum and teaching. Origins are source positions, sometimes inside a site, not verified entrances. Unknown means reliable evidence is unavailable, not a pass.
1. Upminster Rail Station
Station reference · mapped entrance. Coordinates: 51.559018, 0.250880.
Retained source ID: 910GUPMNSTR. A source position is not a surveyed front door or verified entrance.
| Check | Saved evidence at this point |
|---|---|
| Aircraft noise | Daytime: Unknown — no source reading Nighttime: Unknown — no source reading |
| Road noise | Daytime: 43.11 dB Nighttime: Unknown — no source reading |
| Railway noise | Daytime: 72.97 dB Nighttime: 67.81 dB |
| Tube-track proximity | Within the Tube setback 100 m setback · approximate boundary |
| Station walk | ≈ 1 min walk Upminster Underground Station mapped entrance |
| Green-space walk | ≈ 7 min walk Upminster Park 6.8 ha · park |
| Recorded crime | Band 1 / 5 · Lowest Havering 019C · E01002257 16.6 published crimes / 1,000 residents / year 59 crimes · 2024-09 – 2026-08 |
| School walk | ≈ 5 min walk St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Primary · Voluntary aided school · Good · legacy overall · 2022-11-01 · school position |
| Supermarket walk | ≈ 5 min walk Aldi Aldi · Mapped supermarket · store position |
| Shopping walk | No mapped route within 30 min No reliable shopping access estimate within the 30-minute routing cap. |
2. Upminster Park
Green-space reference · Mapped green-space reference position; not an entrance. Coordinates: 51.554966, 0.246081.
Retained source ID: 1143265678. A source position is not a surveyed front door or verified entrance.
| Check | Saved evidence at this point |
|---|---|
| Aircraft noise | Daytime: Unknown — no source reading Nighttime: Unknown — no source reading |
| Road noise | Daytime: 46.16 dB Nighttime: 40.44 dB |
| Railway noise | Daytime: Unknown — no source reading Nighttime: Unknown — no source reading |
| Tube-track proximity | Outside the Tube setback 100 m setback · approximate boundary |
| Station walk | ≈ 10 min walk Upminster Underground Station mapped entrance |
| Green-space walk | ≈ 1 min walk Upminster Park 6.8 ha · park |
| Recorded crime | Band 5 / 5 · Highest Havering 022E · E01002386 135.6 published crimes / 1,000 residents / year 580 crimes · 2024-09 – 2026-08 |
| School walk | ≈ 5 min walk St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Primary · Voluntary aided school · Good · legacy overall · 2022-11-01 · school position |
| Supermarket walk | ≈ 5 min walk Aldi Aldi · Mapped supermarket · store position |
| Shopping walk | No mapped route within 30 min No reliable shopping access estimate within the 30-minute routing cap. |
3. Rom Valley Retail Park
Shopping-site reference · centre position. Coordinates: 51.569211, 0.184764.
Retained source ID: r11772100. A source position is not a surveyed front door or verified entrance.
| Check | Saved evidence at this point |
|---|---|
| Aircraft noise | Daytime: Unknown — no source reading Nighttime: Unknown — no source reading |
| Road noise | Daytime: 59.53 dB Nighttime: 51.9 dB |
| Railway noise | Daytime: 40.98 dB Nighttime: 36.59 dB |
| Tube-track proximity | Outside the Tube setback 100 m setback · approximate boundary |
| Station walk | ≈ 11 min walk Romford Rail Station station position |
| Green-space walk | ≈ 3 min walk Oldchurch Park 5.4 ha · park |
| Recorded crime | Band 5 / 5 · Highest Havering 016B · E01002350 161.9 published crimes / 1,000 residents / year 590 crimes · 2024-09 – 2026-08 |
| School walk | ≈ 10 min walk Concordia Academy Primary · Free schools · No linked inspection in the state-funded school snapshot · school position |
| Supermarket walk | ≈ 2 min walk ALDI Aldi · Mapped supermarket · store position |
| Shopping walk | ≈ 1 min walk Rom Valley Retail Park Shopping centre · centre position |
Turn this comparison into viewing questions
Choose the journeys and surroundings you actually need. Check the location of the home, the route and entrance you would use, indoor noise and current access. A missing noise value is unverified quietness; a missing supported-line result does not cover every rail service. Tube proximity does not measure vibration, crime bands do not predict personal safety, and a nearby school does not establish eligibility.
Source snapshots behind these examples
- Aircraft: Defra Round 4 (2022 mapping). Airport activity years vary and are not verified for every airport; missing readings do not establish quietness.
- Road and railway: Defra Round 4 (2022 mapping); 2021 road/rail activity; historical model, not live measurements.. Published values begin at 40 dB day / 35 dB night.
- Walking and mapped destinations: retained OSM snapshot 2026-10-30T21:24:51Z; packaged station snapshot, not live services.
- Crime: 2024-09 to 2026-08; resident population year 2024. Historical London-only bands, not safety grades.
- Schools: GIAS 2026-10-31; Ofsted 2026-09-30. Proximity does not establish admissions.
- Tube proxy: April 2026; 100 m setback, not measured vibration.
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