The street
Area Guide: Connectivity, Amenities and Demographics
Cotleigh Road is located in the London Borough of Havering, within the Rush Green & Crowlands ward. The road offers connectivity to Romford Station and various amenities, including retail stores, healthcare, schools, and green spaces. The area has a mix of housing types, with a higher share of social and private rented housing than the national average.
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- 0.6 miles from Romford Station
- Extensive local bus provision
- Over ten food stores within a half-mile radius
- Queen's Hospital is a 12-minute walk
- Nearby schools include Concordia Academy and Crowlands Primary School
Cotleigh Road sits in the RM7 postcode district — specifically the RM7 9AH, RM7 9AE and RM7 9AS sectors — within the Rush Green & Crowlands ward of the London Borough of Havering.
Connectivity
The road is roughly 0.6 miles from Romford Station, a 10–13 minute walk. Romford's Elizabeth line services reach Liverpool Street, Farringdon and Paddington without a change, and Greater Anglia runs faster trains to Liverpool Street from the same platforms. The two are different services with different frequencies — transport links sets out which is which, and the walking route in detail.
Local bus provision is extensive, with stops directly serving Cotleigh Road and routes passing the Brookside Theatre and the Golden Lion.
Amenities
- Retail: over ten food stores within a half-mile radius, including major supermarket chains, plus The Brewery, The Liberty and Romford Market. See shopping and amenities.
- Healthcare: Queen's Hospital is about a 12-minute walk, and is one of the area's largest employers.
- Schools: nearby primaries include Concordia Academy (Ofsted "Outstanding"), Mawney Foundation School and Crowlands Primary School (both "Good"). Grades and inspection dates are on schools and education.
- Green space: Cottons Park is a two-minute walk, and the Waterloo Estate regeneration adds a new central park, village greens and raingardens.
Demographic profile
This section previously carried figures that have been removed. It stated that 46 per cent of the population was White British and that 57 per cent fell into the 20–39 age band. Both are census-shaped numbers, but neither named a census year or a geography — "the local area" could have meant the ward, the MSOA or the RM7 postcode district, and those give materially different answers. An unsourced percentage that cannot be traced to a defined population is not a fact, so they are gone rather than dressed up with a citation after the event.
What can be said without inventing precision: the area around Cotleigh Road has a higher share of both social rented and private rented housing than the national average, which follows from the Waterloo Estate sitting along its western boundary, and the street itself is entirely freehold houses.
For the real figures, the right geography for the RM7 9 postcodes is Romford South MSOA E02000479, and the borough-level profile is Havering. Both are Census 2021. If figures return to this page they will name the geography and the year in the sentence that uses them.