Burnhope Way Peterlee, County Durham

45 addresses across 13 postcodes (DL17,SR8), about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 11935012.

  • Sales: 7 recorded sales since 1995; in 2003 the median was £10,500 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in County Durham cost £140,788 in August 2026 (+4.9% on a year); private rents averaged £653 a month.
  • Flood: 15 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: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Land to the south of Lough House Bank, is 420 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Storm overflows: 4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 69 times (119 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 5 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, B H K UK Davy Drive - Solar Panels, is 730 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A19, carries 50,802 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in County Durham costs £2,622 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Horden, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Woodhouse Park, is about 350 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 88 to 140 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 37 of its 45 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is William Brown Centre, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 2,070 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 60% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 21 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 15 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 3 of them fatal or serious; 5 involved a pedestrian.

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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
20031£10,500£10,500£10,500
All 7 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Sep 20033 SR8 1BTTerraced£10,500Leasehold.
27 Apr 20239 - 11 SR8 1BTOther£80,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Jan 2018PETERLEE LIBRARY SR8 1NTOther£846,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Mar 2020SAMBUCA SR8 1BTOther£225,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Jan 2016THE CASTLEDENE SR8 1BTOther£150,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Sep 2025THE MOORCOCK SR8 2HWOther£352,101Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Dec 2025TURNER HOUSE SR8 1NTOther£100,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

House prices and rents in County Durham

A typical home in County Durham cost £140,788 in August 2026, 4.9% more than a year before. That is 19% more than five years earlier and 43% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£238,105
Semi-detached£141,657
Terraced£117,275
Flat or maisonette£79,042
Bought by a first-time buyer£125,556

Private renters in County Durham paid £653 a month on average in September 2026, 6.1% more than a year before. That is 34% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£459
Two bedrooms£582
Three bedrooms£697
Four or more bedrooms£1,004

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 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 10,743 kWh of it on average in 2024, about the same as the district, and 2,630 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
SR8 2EL492,416 kWh 5111,087 kWh
SR8 2BJ472,471 kWh 4810,423 kWh
SR8 2PF362,129 kWh 3510,185 kWh
SR8 1BX93,753 kWh 1018,826 kWh
SR8 1FA582,054 kWh 577,410 kWh
SR8 2RN452,469 kWh 459,458 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 SR8.

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 County Durham in 2026-27: Band D £2,622 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,748£2,039£2,331£2,622£3,205£3,788£4,370£5,244

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (84% of about 3,280 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 6 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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.

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

10 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 5 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
B H K UK Davy Drive - Solar Panels County Durham DM/22/00800/FPA Solar farm 1.3 MW Being built Oct 2022 730 m (0.5 miles)
Hackworth Road, North West Industrial Estate - Solar Panels County Durham DM/25/02042/FPA Solar farm 15.4 MW Planning application made Jul 2025 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Hackworth Road, North West Industrial Estate - Solar Panels County Durham DM/25/02042/FPA Battery storage 10 MW Planning application made Jul 2025 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Peterlee Solar Farm County Durham DM/15/02290/FPA Solar farm 5 MW Operational Mar 2016 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Chilton Energy Plant County Durham 7/2008/0522/DM Biomass 18 MW Operational Mar 2012 3.2 km (2 miles)
Haswell Moor County Durham PLAN/2006/0869 Wind 5 turbines 10 MW Operational Dec 2010 3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Hare Hill (B) Wind 2 turbines 2.7 MW Operational Jul 2004 3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Hare Hill Wind 1 turbine 1.3 MW Operational Jul 2004 3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Hulam Farm, Hutton Henry - Anaerobic Digestion Plant County Durham DM/17/00599/WAS Anaerobic digestion Permission granted, not yet built Jul 2017 4.2 km (2.6 miles)
MME3, Plot DC1, Integra 61 - Wind Turbine County Durham DM/25/00991/FPA Wind 1 turbine, 140 m tall 2.3 MW Planning application made Apr 2025 4.8 km (3 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

  • 14 October 2026 to 27 November 2026: NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS, Utility repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the footway, carriageway, verge (major works)
  • 29 October 2026 to 28 October 2026: DURHAM COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, two-way signals, on the carriageway, verge (minor works)
  • 29 October 2026 to 2 November 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 5 October 2026 to 23 November 2026: NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS, Utility repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the footway, carriageway, verge (major (paa) works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 5 October 2026 to 26 October 2026: NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (major works)
  • 21 September 2026 to 23 September 2026: DURHAM COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 11 September 2026: BT, New service connection, no carriageway incursion, on the verge (minor works)
  • 7 August 2026: DURHAM COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, lane closure, on the carriageway, verge (minor 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, 8 addresses are in areas at high risk, 7 at medium risk and 15 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
SR8 1BTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SR8 2ELnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
SR8 2HWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SR8 5ARnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SR8 2BJnot in 2 or 3 4 / 2 / 8 unlikely
SR8 2PFnot in 2 or 3 2 / 2 / 2 unlikely
SR8 1BUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SR8 1NTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DL17 9DJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SR8 1BSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SR8 1BXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
SR8 1FAnot in 2 or 3 2 / 2 / 2 unlikely
SR8 2RNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 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

4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 69 times, for 119 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Trib of the Carrs Rvr Skerne, Carrs Tributary, Mainsforth Stell, Mainsforth Stell (Skerne).

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Chilton Lane A Cso Northumbrian Water; monitored 81% of the year Trib of the Carrs Rvr Skerne 29 32 450 m (0.3 miles)
Rowlandson Terrace Cso Northumbrian Water Carrs Tributary 17 2 470 m (0.3 miles)
Chilton Lane Sso Northumbrian Water Mainsforth Stell 16 32 680 m (0.4 miles)
Chilton Lane Ps Emergency Overflow Northumbrian Water Mainsforth Stell (Skerne) 7 54 920 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

13 of the street's 13 postcodes are in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

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

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 420 m (0.3 miles) away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Land to the south of Lough House Bank Ferryhill, County Durham Not recorded Not recorded 420 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

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 45 addresses are between 88 m and 140 m above sea level (110 m on average); the ground rises about 52 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
DL17 9DJ100%100%100%0%
SR8 1BS100%0%0%0%
SR8 1BT100%0%0%0%
SR8 1BU100%0%0%0%
SR8 1BX100%100%100%0%
SR8 1FA100%100%100%0%
SR8 1NT100%0%0%0%
SR8 2BJ100%100%100%0%
SR8 2EL100%96%96%0%
SR8 2HW100%100%100%0%
SR8 2PF100%100%100%0%
SR8 2RN100%96%96%0%
SR8 5AR100%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 stationsHorden 165,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Seaham 165,000 journeys in 2024–258.8 km (5.5 miles)
Hartlepool 714,000 journeys in 2024–2512.1 km (7.5 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 38 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Burnhope Way - Neville Rd Peterlee80 m
Bus or coach stationPeterlee Bus Station Stand H640 m (0.4 miles)
Car parksNFS 360 Connect - Depot Parking2 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station610 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsTeesside International Airport MME28.4 km (18 miles)
Nearest large airportNewcastle International Airport NCL38 km (24 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 surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest William Brown Centre Good Mar 20171 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots770 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery640 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalPeterlee Community Hospital1 km (0.7 miles)
Care homes5 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Grampian Court Good Aug 2023370 m
Police stationPeterlee Police Station730 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM690 m (0.4 miles)

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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Woodhouse Park 4.7 ha350 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 5.1 ha550 m (0.3 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 580 m²310 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 7.5 ha890 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.7 ha1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Pasmore Pavilion, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.1 km (0.7 miles) south.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pasmore PavilionRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Yoden medieval settlementScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
The Castle, Castle EdenRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1 mile) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sunny BluntsValley1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Blunts PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Round PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Foolish HillHill1.5 km (1 mile) south
Gunner's PoolLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) south
Dene MouthBay3.8 km (2.4 miles) east

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)6.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)9.94015

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
75 dB or more20
70 to 7410
65 to 6990
60 to 64230
55 to 5920
Under 55845

37 of the street's 45 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 County Durham: see them on the County Durham 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
East Durham College16 plus14–99230 m No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 13.3 (12.1 in 2025 and 11.6 in 2024); 14% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade D+; 0% AAB or better; progress well below average
St Bede's Catholic School and Byron Sixth Form College Roman CatholicSecondary11–18280 m No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 42.1 (44.5 in 2025 and 44.0 in 2024); 39.9% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 20% AAB or better; progress average
Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11290 m Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 74% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 51% in 2023)
Howletch Lane Primary SchoolPrimary2–11520 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 44% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 25% in 2024 and 34% in 2023)
Acre Rigg Infant SchoolPrimary2–7780 m (0.5 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met None published
Acre Rigg AcademyPrimary7–11800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 47% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 54% in 2024 and 32% in 2023)
Shotton Hall Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 64% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 22% at the higher standard (2025; 58% in 2024 and 69% in 2023)
The Academy at Shotton HallSecondary11–161.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 55.0 (52.2 in 2025 and 51.7 in 2024); 56.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
Dene House Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 59% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 50% in 2024 and 65% in 2023)
Dene AcademySecondary11–161.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 41.2 (41.4 in 2025 and 40.2 in 2024); 32.7% grade 5+ in English and maths

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

5 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 520 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Howletch & Shotton Primary Childcare SR8 2NQ Full day care 40 Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 520 m (0.3 miles)
Positive Steps Nursery SR8 2RN Full day care 58 Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 520 m (0.3 miles)
The Sunshine Day Nursery SR8 5UD Full day care 66 Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
The Sunshine Day Nursery @ Seascape Children's Centre SR8 5NJ Full day care 30 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Playology Forest School Castle Eden Dene SR8 1NJ Sessional day care 12 Jan 2026: Strong standard in 6 areas 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 167 childminders and 16 home childcarers (nannies) in Durham. 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
St Bede's Catholic School 4693 SR8 1DESchool/college/university280 m5 Very good26 Mar 2025
Positive Steps Nursery SR8 2RNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good9 Apr 2026
The Grove Bistro at East Durham College SR8 2RNSchool/college/university290 m5 Very good17 Sep 2024
East Durham College SR8 2RNSchool/college/university290 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Jun 2026
One Stop SR8 2BLRetailers - other330 m5 Very good10 Feb 2026
KFC SR8 5ARRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Jun 2026
Lidl SR8 5ARRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Apr 2026
Home Bargains SR8 5ARRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Sep 2026
Starbucks Coffee Company SR8 5ARRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 May 2026
Stone Fired SR8 2BLTakeaway/sandwich shop490 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

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.

21 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences8
Anti-social behaviour4
Criminal damage and arson3
Other crime2
Robbery1
Vehicle crime1
Public order1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Springbank (16); On or near Burnhope Way (3); On or near Stainton Way (1); On or near Woodfield (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.

15 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 3 serious and 12 slight, in which 4 people were seriously hurt. 5 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 4 involved a child under 16. 27% happened in the dark, and 20% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202131
202251
202310
202421
202540
The most recent 10 of 15
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
21 Oct 2025 08:05 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist, 1 child B1320, 30 mph Daylight
20 Oct 2025 15:23 Slight 1 person B1320, 30 mph Wet road
12 Oct 2025 18:23 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian B1320, 40 mph Dark, street lights on
26 Mar 2025 15:20 Slight 1 person A19, 70 mph Daylight
31 Dec 2024 22:30 Serious 2 people B1320, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
29 Jun 2024 14:00 Slight 2 people: 1 child Minor road, 40 mph Daylight
21 Jun 2023 17:54 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
11 Oct 2022 15:45 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
28 Aug 2022 10:50 Slight 1 person B1320, 30 mph Daylight
23 Jul 2022 04:15 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road

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 A19 between A19(T) and A19(T), with 50,802 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 330 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A19 A19(T) to B1320 5,732 estimated; counted 2005 2% -1% since 2015 180 m
A19 B1320 to A19(T) 5,732 estimated; counted 2005 2% -1% since 2015 200 m
A19 A19(T) to B1320 3,205 estimated; counted 2005 6% +6% since 2015 280 m
A19 B1320 to A19(T) 3,421 estimated; counted 2005 5% +21% since 2015 320 m
A19 A19(T) to A19(T) 50,802 counted 2025 6% 330 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 7 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 2,067 residents in 915 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 age4240
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)60%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented22%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)55%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications22%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 6 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 2 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, 5 October 2026 to 26 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS: Utility repair and maintenance works, 9 October 2026 to 27 November 2026 (lane closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: DURHAM COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway improvement works, 28 October 2026 (two-way signals) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Utility repair and maintenance works, 29 October 2026 to 2 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.

  • SR8 1BT: 11 addresses of 13 in the postcode
  • SR8 2EL: 5 addresses of 60 in the postcode
  • SR8 2HW: 5 addresses
  • SR8 5AR: 5 addresses of 17 in the postcode
  • SR8 2BJ: 4 addresses of 57 in the postcode
  • SR8 2PF: 4 addresses of 45 in the postcode
  • SR8 1BU: 3 addresses of 14 in the postcode
  • SR8 1NT: 3 addresses
  • DL17 9DJ: 1 address of 6 in the postcode
  • SR8 1BS: 1 address of 16 in the postcode
  • SR8 1BX: 1 address of 12 in the postcode
  • SR8 1FA: 1 address of 62 in the postcode
  • SR8 2RN: 1 address of 50 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Stainton Way · Springbank · Neville Road · Woodfield · Montfalcon Close · Westway · Spire Hollin · Tweed Close · Burnside · Hulme Court · Weston View · Gilbert Road

All the streets in DL17, SR8 and across County Durham.

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.