Broadmeadows Washington, Sunderland

66 addresses across 2 postcodes (NE38), about 320 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 38709440.

  • Sales: 52 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £85,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 52 homes have an energy certificate (C: 39, D: 13).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Sunderland costs £2,197 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 97% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chester-Le-Street, about 5.2 km (3.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 40 m away, and The James Steel Park (67 hectares) is about 140 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 35 to 39 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 66 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is I J Healthcare, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 36% of households owned their home and 18% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 77 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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
20251£85,000£85,000£85,000
20244£74,500£51,250£125,000
20221£82,000£82,000£82,000
20215£68,000£61,000£111,500
20191£105,000£105,000£105,000
20181£106,000£106,000£106,000
20162£82,000£68,000£96,000
20152£71,500£53,000£90,000
20141£58,000£58,000£58,000
20131£59,000£59,000£59,000
20111£61,500£61,500£61,500
20102£94,000£89,000£99,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 52)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 Mar 20264 NE38 8RQTerraced£118,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Sep 202530 NE38 8RQFlat or maisonette£85,000Leasehold.
4 Dec 20249 NE38 8RQTerraced£125,000
10 Oct 202429 NE38 8RQTerraced£51,250Leasehold.
15 Jul 202457 NE38 8RHTerraced£86,000
5 Jul 202451 NE38 8RHTerraced£89,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Jun 202460 NE38 8RHFlat or maisonette£63,000Leasehold.
8 Mar 202417 NE38 8RQTerraced£114,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Dec 202231 NE38 8RHTerraced£82,000Leasehold.
15 Nov 202164 NE38 8RHTerraced£61,000Leasehold.
25 Jun 202147 NE38 8RHTerraced£95,000
22 Jun 202148 NE38 8RHFlat or maisonette£63,000Leasehold.
7 May 202119 NE38 8RQFlat or maisonette£68,000Leasehold.
26 Mar 20215 NE38 8RQTerraced£111,500
31 Jul 20195 NE38 8RQTerraced£105,000
26 Oct 20182 NE38 8RQTerraced£106,000
31 Mar 201642 NE38 8RHFlat or maisonette£68,000Leasehold.
24 Mar 20164 NE38 8RQTerraced£96,000
3 Jun 201521 NE38 8RQTerraced£90,000
4 Mar 201560 NE38 8RHFlat or maisonette£53,000Leasehold.
26 Sep 201459 NE38 8RHFlat or maisonette£58,000Leasehold.
20 Jun 201463 NE38 8RHTerraced£62,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Mar 201319 NE38 8RQFlat or maisonette£59,000Leasehold.
4 Nov 201153 NE38 8RHFlat or maisonette£61,500Leasehold.
21 May 201036 NE38 8RHTerraced£99,000
4 May 201023 NE38 8RQFlat or maisonette£89,000
21 Aug 200955 NE38 8RHSemi-detached£99,950
21 Aug 200930 NE38 8RQFlat or maisonette£90,000Leasehold.
7 Mar 200833 NE38 8RHFlat or maisonette£91,000
6 Jul 200739 NE38 8RHTerraced£105,000
8 Jun 200716 NE38 8RQTerraced£104,000
5 Apr 200720 NE38 8RQDetached£85,500Leasehold.
22 Sep 200630 NE38 8RQFlat or maisonette£89,000Leasehold.
1 Sep 200661 NE38 8RHSemi-detached£77,000Leasehold.
6 Sep 200533 NE38 8RHTerraced£96,000
26 Aug 200542 NE38 8RHFlat or maisonette£81,000Leasehold.
8 Apr 200543 NE38 8RHFlat or maisonette£77,000Leasehold.
26 Oct 200418 NE38 8RQTerraced£93,000
25 Jun 200442 NE38 8RHFlat or maisonette£70,000Leasehold.
26 Mar 200455 NE38 8RHSemi-detached£86,000
19 Mar 200420 NE38 8RQDetached£67,000Leasehold.
5 Mar 200457 NE38 8RHTerraced£64,950
21 Nov 200361 NE38 8RHSemi-detached£54,000Leasehold.
28 Mar 200333 NE38 8RHTerraced£76,950
1 Nov 200233 NE38 8RHTerraced£45,000
11 May 200117 NE38 8RQTerraced£40,950
28 Jul 200039 NE38 8RHTerraced£39,950
8 Oct 199947 NE38 8RHTerraced£42,000
22 May 199853 NE38 8RHFlat or maisonette£26,000Leasehold.
14 May 199820 NE38 8RQDetached£28,000Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

52 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (25); Flat (18); House, end-terrace (8). Built: 1976-1982 (38); 1967-1975 (12); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (23); owner-occupied (16); rented (private) (10).

Council tax

What each band costs in Sunderland in 2026-27: Band D £2,197 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,465£1,709£1,953£2,197£2,685£3,174£3,662£4,394

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (60% of about 670 homes).

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 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: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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.

Roadworks

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 29 September 2026 to 1 October 2026: BT, New service connection, give and take, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 14 August 2026: NORTHERN POWERGRID (NORTHEAST) PLC, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the verge (immediate - urgent works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 2 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
NE38 8RHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 1 unlikely
NE38 8RQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely

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.

© 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 66 addresses are between 35 m and 39 m above sea level (37 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
NE38 8RH100%100%100%0%
NE38 8RQ97%97%97%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 stationsChester-Le-Street 232,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Heworth 46,000 journeys in 2024–257.8 km (4.9 miles)
Sunderland 709,000 journeys in 2024–258.9 km (5.6 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fallowfield Way - Shepherd Way Fatfield160 m
Bus or coach stationGalleries Bus Station Washington1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Ferry terminalNewcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays12.8 km (7.9 miles)
Car parksCox Green Visitor Parking1.7 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Biddick Village Centre1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL20.3 km (13 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. 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest I J Healthcare1 km (0.6 miles)
PharmaciesGalleries Pharmacy1.7 km (1 mile)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalSpire Washington Hospital2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationWashington Police Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fatfield Stores Cashzone100 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 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.1 ha40 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)The James Steel Park 67 ha140 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 580 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9.1 ha320 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,140 m²650 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 112 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Victoria Railway Bridge, a listed building (Grade II*), 930 m (0.6 miles) east. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Victoria Railway BridgeListed building, Grade II*930 m (0.6 miles) east
Lambton CastleRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Worm HillHill470 m (0.3 miles) south
Mount Pleasant LakeLake or reservoir710 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Pattinson South PondLake or reservoir790 m (0.5 miles) east
Dog HoleTidal water820 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Reach WoodWood870 m (0.5 miles) south-east
The BottomsValley2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-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)8.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.9205
Particles (PM10)9.44015

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 5950
Under 556166

5 of the street's 66 addresses are 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 Sunderland: see them on the Sunderland page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Fatfield AcademyPrimary3–11120 m No published inspection
St Robert of Newminster Catholic School and Sixth Form College, Washington Roman CatholicSecondary11–18390 m No published inspection
Biddick AcademySecondary11–16730 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Biddick Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
John F Kennedy Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Lambton Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
New Penshaw AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Wessington Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Barmston Village Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School, Penshaw Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
The Courtyard At Arts Centre Washington NE38 8ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good3 Mar 2025
The Box Office NE38 8ABRetailers - other170 m5 Very good27 Sep 2018
Kool Kids ( Fatfield Primary Breakast/Afterschool Club ) NE38 8RBSchool/college/university200 m5 Very good23 Jun 2025

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.

77 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences33
Anti-social behaviour13
Criminal damage and arson8
Other crime6
Other theft5
Public order5
Burglary4
Theft from the person1
Drugs1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Biddick Lane (17); On or near Birchfleld (13); On or near Fernlea Close (10); On or near Broadmeadows (9); On or near Southcroft (7).

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 street's postcodes are in: 297 residents in 146 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 age4340
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)36%61%
Owned outright19%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented49%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus11%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)18%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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.

Nearby streets

Limetree · Wildbriar · Mapledene · Biddick Lane · Birchfield · Longacre · Hollyhock · Newriggs · Birchfleld · Southcroft · The Spinney · Rivermead

All the streets in NE38 and across Sunderland.

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.
  • 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.