NE8 2FT Gateshead

Live postcode, introduced July 2026. Ward: Bridges. Region: North East.

Streets

No addresses are linked to this postcode in the ONS UPRN Directory.

Council tax

What each band costs in Gateshead in 2026-27: Band D £2,716 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,811	£2,112	£2,414	£2,716	£3,319	£3,923	£4,526	£5,432

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (56% of about 960 homes).

A16%

B20%

C56%

D7%

E1%

F0%

G0%

H0%

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

Conservation area: yes, Bridges. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: none.
Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

Tynegate blocks, Sunderland Rd, Gateshead: up to 200 homes, permissioned (60 m)
Heaton Paper Co, Eldon St, Gateshead: up to 20 homes, not permissioned (130 m)
Jackson Street, Gateshead: up to 23 homes, not permissioned (170 m)
Hillgate - Gateshead Quays Key Site (part of), Gateshead: up to 91 homes, not permissioned (180 m)
Old Dispensary: up to 10 homes, permissioned (390 m)
Hudson St car park, Gateshead: up to 165 homes, not permissioned (410 m)
68-72 Close, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 3RF: up to 5 homes, not permissioned (430 m)
Askew Road (West), Gateshead: up to 207 homes, not permissioned (460 m)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this postcode yet.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Broadband

No Ofcom figures for this postcode.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Newcastle 11 million journeys in 2024–25	750 m
	Manors 64,000 journeys in 2024–25	1.0 km
	Dunston 51,000 journeys in 2024–25	2.7 km
Underground, metro or tram	Gateshead (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)	410 m
	Central Station (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)	750 m
	Monument (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)	1.1 km
Bus stops	5 stops within 400 m, 53 within 800 m; nearest Wellington Street Gateshead	220 m
Bus or coach station	Interchange Gateshead	310 m
Ferry terminal	Newcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays	10.7 km
Car parks	6 within 800 m; nearest High Level Bridge Parking Co.	160 m
EV charging points	8 within 1.6 km; nearest bp pulse Charging Station	300 m
Airport with scheduled flights	Newcastle International Airport NCL	9.7 km

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	10 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Millennium Family Practice	320 m
Pharmacies	16 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Boots	410 m
NHS dentists	9 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Perfect Smile Gateshead Partnership	470 m
Hospital	Royal Victoria Infirmary	1.9 km
Police station	Gateshead Police Station	710 m
Cash machines	13 machines within 800 m; nearest Cashpoint® 17 Ellison Walk Lloyds Bank	410 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	3 within 800 m; nearest Windmill Hills 3.5 ha	230 m
Play area	2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 110 m²	400 m
Playing field	Unnamed 3.1 ha	1.0 km
Allotments	Unnamed 660 m²	1.0 km

Within 800 m: 3 parks and gardens, 6.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is High Level Bridge, a listed building (Grade I), 340 m north. 280 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 29 of them Grade I and 40 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the postcode's centre
High Level Bridge	Listed building, Grade I	340 m north
Swing Bridge Over River Tyne	Listed building, Grade II*	380 m north
Newcastle Swing Bridge	Scheduled monument	390 m north
35, Close	Listed building, Grade II*	390 m north
Newcastle upon Tyne town defences: section of curtain wall including Closegate and Water Tower	Scheduled monument	400 m north-west
1-15 Walker Terrace	Listed building, Grade II*	410 m south-east
Old Tyne Bridge (land arches)	Scheduled monument	460 m north
Westgate Hill Cemetery	Registered park or garden, Grade II	1.7 km north-west
Leazes Park	Registered park or garden, Grade II	1.8 km north-west

Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
Name	What it is	From the postcode's centre
Millers Hill	Hill	1.4 km north-east
Ouseburn Valley	Valley	1.6 km north-east
Team Gut	Tidal water	2.0 km south-west
Quarry Plantation	Wood	2.4 km south-east
Jesmond Vale	Valley	2.5 km north-east
St Anthony's Point	Wetland	3.7 km east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	17.2	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	6.5	20	5
Particles (PM10)	10.6	40	15

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic and 54 dB for railways.

No addresses here are in the mapped area.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 167 residents in 104 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

	Around this postcode	England
Median age	29	40
Children under 15	2%	17%
Aged 65 and over	6%	18%

Homes

	Around this postcode	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	28%	61%
Owned outright	8%	33%
Shared ownership	0%	1%
Social rented	2%	17%
Private rented	70%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this postcode	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	86%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	4%	6%
Retired (of adults)	2%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	1%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	39%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	33%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	6%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	12%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	15%	10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)	67%	65%
Work 30 km or more away	14%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this postcode	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	69%	34%
No qualifications	2%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	4%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	88%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	1%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 5 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.