Amberley Walk Fellside, Gateshead

35 addresses across 3 postcodes (NE16), about 360 m long. USRN 14900660.

  • Sales: 39 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £242,000 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Gateshead cost £156,036 in August 2026 (+4.4% on a year); private rents averaged £808 a month.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 8, E: 3).
  • Flood: 14 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: 3 of its postcodes are in a coal mining high risk area; ask for a coal mining search.
  • Storm overflows: 5 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 57 times (179 hours) in 2025.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the Minor road, carries 3,490 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Gateshead costs £2,716 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is MetroCentre, about 2.6 km (1.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 370 m away, and Chase Park (5.0 hectares) is about 710 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 121 to 125 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 35 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Whickham Cottage Medical Centre, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 630 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 47% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 5 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20262£242,000£239,000£245,000
20251£225,000£225,000£225,000
20231£230,000£230,000£230,000
20213£225,150£165,000£280,000
20201£260,000£260,000£260,000
20191£190,000£190,000£190,000
20163£167,000£160,000£175,000
20151£167,500£167,500£167,500
20141£185,000£185,000£185,000
20132£172,500£165,000£180,000
20101£170,500£170,500£170,500
20092£168,500£150,000£187,000
All 39 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 Aug 19982 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£66,000Leasehold.
22 Oct 20213 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£280,000
22 Oct 20213 NE16 5HUOther£280,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Jan 19963 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£71,500Leasehold.
27 May 19984 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£60,000Leasehold.
9 May 20035 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£145,000Leasehold.
14 Jul 20005 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£85,950Leasehold.
14 Mar 20005 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£23,500Leasehold.
3 Apr 19985 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£71,500Leasehold.
14 Feb 20146 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£185,000Leasehold.
3 Jul 20098 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£187,000Leasehold.
10 Oct 19978 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£59,500Leasehold.
26 May 202310 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£230,000Leasehold.
30 Apr 201510 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£167,500Leasehold.
15 Jun 200511 NE16 5HUDetached£185,000Leasehold.
27 Nov 199811 NE16 5HUDetached£62,250Leasehold.
23 Aug 201912 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£190,000Leasehold.
8 Aug 201612 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£175,000Leasehold.
29 Nov 201312 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£165,000Leasehold.
20 Jul 200112 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£86,500Leasehold.
29 Aug 200314 NE16 5HUTerraced£140,000Leasehold.
5 Jun 202616 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£239,000Leasehold.
22 Oct 202116 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£225,150Leasehold.
19 Feb 202116 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£165,000Leasehold.
27 Mar 202617 NE16 5HUDetached£245,000Leasehold.
30 Mar 200717 NE16 5HUDetached£165,000Leasehold.
18 Aug 200022 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£70,000Leasehold.
5 Sep 199724 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£52,000Leasehold.
1 May 202525 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£225,000Leasehold.
15 Nov 201026 NE16 5HUDetached£170,500
13 May 201627 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£160,000Leasehold.
2 Dec 200927 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£150,000
24 Oct 201329 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£180,000Leasehold.
2 Apr 199829 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£69,000Leasehold.
4 Sep 200330 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£142,000Leasehold.
24 Jul 202032 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£260,000Leasehold.
9 Dec 201632 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£167,000Leasehold.
4 Oct 200632 NE16 5HUSemi-detached£198,000Leasehold.
29 Sep 200635 NE16 5HUDetached£207,000

House prices and rents in Gateshead

A typical home in Gateshead cost £156,036 in August 2026, 4.4% more than a year before. That is 14% more than five years earlier and 29% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£287,336
Semi-detached£181,868
Terraced£152,031
Flat or maisonette£97,856
Bought by a first-time buyer£141,251

Private renters in Gateshead paid £808 a month on average in September 2026, 5.7% more than a year before. That is 39% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£593
Two bedrooms£727
Three bedrooms£848
Four or more bedrooms£1,202

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from January 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 86 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (16); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1967-1975 (9); 1950-1966 (8). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13).

Each home's certificates and sales (17 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 14,338 kWh of it on average in 2024, 7% more than the district's 13,350 kWh, and 3,228 kWh of electricity, 13% more than the district's 2,849 kWh. There are gas meters for about 98% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
NE16 5HU332,222 kWh 3312,071 kWh
NE16 4PP132,874 kWh 1319,208 kWh
NE16 5QS182,765 kWh 1715,015 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is NE16.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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.

ABCDEFGH
£1,811£2,112£2,414£2,716£3,319£3,923£4,526£5,432

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (43% of about 650 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 17 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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 on or by this street. 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.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Path Head Gateshead 1236/02 Landfill Gas 1 MW Operational Feb 2009 4.2 km (2.6 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Started, not reported finished by 31 October 2026

  • 26 October 2026 to 4 November 2026: NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footpath (immediate - emergency works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 31 July 2026 to 4 September 2026: GATESHEAD METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (major works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 11 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 5 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

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

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
NE16 5HUnot in 2 or 3 11 / 2 / 5 unlikely
NE16 4PPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE16 5QSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

5 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 57 times, for 179 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Trib Black Burn Via Sw Sewer, Black Burn, Black Burn Trib.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Whickham South &Amp; Sunniside Cso Northumbrian Water Trib Black Burn Via Sw Sewer 5 1 290 m
Napier Court Cso Northumbrian Water Black Burn 0 0 440 m (0.3 miles)
Gellesfield Cso Northumbrian Water; monitored 59% of the year Black Burn 52 178 650 m (0.4 miles)
Southfield Road Cso Northumbrian Water Black Burn Trib 0 0 890 m (0.6 miles)
Washingwell School Cso Northumbrian Water Black Burn Trib 0 0 890 m (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

3 of the street's 3 postcodes are in a coal mining high risk area, where coal mining features at or near the surface, such as shallow workings or old mine shafts, are recorded or likely and could affect the ground.

Ask your conveyancer for a coal mining search (CON29M) on the home: it says what is recorded beneath and near it, and whether there have been claims for subsidence damage.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 35 addresses are between 121 m and 125 m above sea level (124 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
NE16 4PP100%100%100%0%
NE16 5HU100%100%100%0%
NE16 5QS100%100%100%0%

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 middle of the street, 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.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsMetroCentre 632,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Dunston 51,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Blaydon 69,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 36 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Whaggs Lane-Ashfield Road Whickham60 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Metrocentre2.5 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL11.3 km (7 miles)

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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whickham Cottage Medical Centre Good Jul 20261 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Oakfield Pharmacy470 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whickham Dental Practice1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalBensham Hospital4.1 km (2.6 miles)
Care homes2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chase Park Neuro Centre Good Oct 2026730 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationWhickham Police Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Sunniside, Sunniside Cashzone1.6 km (1 mile)

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 middle of the street 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.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,120 m²370 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Chase Park 5.0 ha710 m (0.4 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 5,100 m²890 m (0.6 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 7.5 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.6 ha480 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 5.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Washingwells Roman fort, Whickham, a scheduled monument, 1.1 km (0.7 miles) east. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Washingwells Roman fort, WhickhamScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Enclosures near Damhead Wood, WhickhamScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) north-west
Coal mining remains at Dunston HillScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Buck's HillHill270 m east
Buck's Hill PlantationWood560 m (0.3 miles) east
Derwent GutTidal water2.3 km (1.5 miles) north
Snipes DeneValley2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-west
Shibdon PondLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.8 miles) north-west
Lemington PointWetland4.2 km (2.6 miles) north-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). 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 middle of the street. 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)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)8.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: 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, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, 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, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 553435

1 of the street's 35 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Gateshead: see them on the Gateshead page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Whickham SchoolSecondary11–18600 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 50.2 (53.0 in 2025 and 52.4 in 2024); 55.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 19.1% AAB or better; progress average
Washingwell Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11680 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 48% in 2024 and 70% in 2023)
Whickham Parochial Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11790 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 80% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 72% in 2024 and 80% in 2023)
Fellside Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11810 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 90% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 73% in 2024 and 69% in 2023)
Clover Hill Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11870 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 93% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 88% in 2024 and 80% in 2023)
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Whickham Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 90% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 26% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 79% in 2023)
Front Street Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 82% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 75% in 2024 and 75% in 2023)
Swalwell Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 54% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 36% in 2024 and 41% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

9 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 600 m (0.4 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Stagecoach Whickham NE16 5AR Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 600 m (0.4 miles)
Fellside Fun Club NE16 5AY Out-of-school day care 34 Not inspected yet 790 m (0.5 miles)
Whickham Parochial Pre-school NE16 5QW Full day care 60 Outstanding (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 790 m (0.5 miles)
Whickham Community Centre Pre-School NE16 4JL Sessional day care 45 Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Rose Villa Day Nursery NE16 4JF Full day care 92 Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Kip McGrath Education Centres - Gateshead West NE16 4AJ Full day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Small Saints Out of School Club NE16 4EN Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Duckpool Pre-School C.I.C NE16 4HB Full day care 24 Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Whickham PlayZone Ltd NE16 4AE Out-of-school day care 45 Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 54 childminders and 11 home childcarers (nannies) in Gateshead. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Oakfield Pharmacy NE16 5QURetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Premier NE16 5QURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 May 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

5 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences3
Public order1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cheam Close (2); On or near Shirwood Avenue (1); On or near Warwick Drive (1); On or near Mayfield (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the Minor road, with 3,490 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 260 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
Minor road Not recorded 3,490 counted 2025 0% 260 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 626 residents in 259 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 streetEngland
Median age4540
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)47%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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.

What has changed

  • Roadworks Street works permit: NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS: Utility repair and maintenance works, 26 October 2026 to 4 November 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • NE16 5HU: 33 addresses of 35 in the postcode
  • NE16 4PP: 1 address of 18 in the postcode
  • NE16 5QS: 1 address of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Cheam Close · Enfield Gardens · Warwick Avenue · Warwick Drive · Cloverdale Gardens · Elm Court · Ashfield Rise · Mayfield · Burns Close · Brentwood Gardens · Ashfield Road · Chestnut Avenue

All the streets in NE16 and across Gateshead.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.