Chester Place Gateshead

25 addresses across 2 postcodes (NE8), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14905290.

  • Sales: 26 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £97,116 across 1 sale.
  • 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: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 4, E: 2).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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: 2 of its postcodes are in a coal mining high risk area; ask for a coal mining search.
  • Storm overflows: 6 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 136 times (327 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 2 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Responsive Engineering, Scotswood Road - Solar Panels, is 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Gateshead costs £2,716 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 86% to 90% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Newcastle, about 1.4 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 70 m away, and Windmill Hills (3.5 hectares) is about 260 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 72 to 77 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 19 of its 25 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Second Street Surgery, about 370 m away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 530 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 34% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 265 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 11 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 4 of them fatal or serious; 5 involved a pedestrian.

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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
20231£97,116£97,116£97,116
20221£94,500£94,500£94,500
20211£95,000£95,000£95,000
20201£82,000£82,000£82,000
20161£75,000£75,000£75,000
20081£90,000£90,000£90,000
20071£80,000£80,000£80,000
20063£90,000£85,000£105,000
20041£69,950£69,950£69,950
20033£70,000£64,000£86,500
20022£52,750£42,500£63,000
20013£35,000£34,000£42,000
Most recent sales (26)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 May 202318 NE8 1QBTerraced£97,116
22 May 202326 NE8 1QBTerraced£100,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Feb 202210 NE8 1QBTerraced£94,500
26 Oct 202124 NE8 1QBTerraced£95,000
28 Feb 20204 NE8 1QBTerraced£82,000
21 Jan 201610 NE8 1QBTerraced£75,000
28 Mar 20148 NE8 1QBTerraced£89,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Oct 200820 NE8 1QBTerraced£90,000
2 Feb 200732 NE8 1QBFlat or maisonette£80,000
16 Nov 200630 NE8 1QBTerraced£105,000
26 Jul 200624 NE8 1QBTerraced£90,000
3 Feb 200614 NE8 1QBTerraced£85,000
30 Sep 20042 NE8 1QBTerraced£69,950
24 Oct 20034 NE8 1QBTerraced£86,500
21 Aug 200314 NE8 1QBTerraced£70,000
30 May 20038 NE8 1QBTerraced£64,000
12 Dec 200220 NE8 1QBTerraced£63,000
24 Jun 20026 NE8 1QBTerraced£42,500
2 Oct 200130 NE8 1QBTerraced£35,000
24 Aug 200124 NE8 1QBTerraced£34,000
31 Jul 20018 NE8 1QBTerraced£42,000
29 Sep 20004 NE8 1QBTerraced£37,200
11 Dec 199832 NE8 1QBFlat or maisonette£16,000
19 Dec 199720 NE8 1QBTerraced£13,000
16 Dec 199736 NE8 1QBTerraced£2,000
4 Jun 199628 NE8 1QBTerraced£15,550

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 March 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 77 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (10); Flat (1); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1900-1929 (10); before 1900 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (6); owner-occupied (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (12 addresses)

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (76% of about 1,720 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 2 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: 1.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 2 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Responsive Engineering, Scotswood Road - Solar Panels Newcastle upon Tyne 2025/0303/01/NPV Solar farm 1 MW Permission granted, not yet built Apr 2025 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Albany Road - Solar Array Gateshead DC/21/01206/FUL Solar farm 2 MW Permission granted, not yet built Dec 2021 1.6 km (1 mile)

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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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

6 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 136 times, for 327 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Tyne, Tyne Estuary.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Riversdale Road Cso Northumbrian Water River Tyne 2 0 640 m (0.4 miles)
Rose Street Cso Northumbrian Water River Tyne 23 67 740 m (0.5 miles)
Teams Cso Johnson Street E17-105 Northumbrian Water River Tyne 0 0 790 m (0.5 miles)
Teams Cso Johnson Street E17-105 Northumbrian Water River Tyne 48 143 790 m (0.5 miles)
Cso Redheugh Bridge Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary 46 102 860 m (0.5 miles)
Cso Forth Banks Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary 17 15 930 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

2 of the street's 2 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.

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 25 addresses are between 72 m and 77 m above sea level (74 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
NE8 1QB100%90%90%0%
NE8 1UR100%86%86%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 stationsNewcastle 11 million journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.8 miles)
Manors 64,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Dunston 51,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Underground, metro or tramGateshead (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)660 m (0.4 miles)
Central Station (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Gateshead Stadium (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 57 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coatsworth Road-Poplar Crescent Bensham130 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Gateshead610 m (0.4 miles)
Ferry terminalNewcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays11.1 km (6.9 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Civic Centre Car Park500 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fastned Charging Station400 m (0.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL10.3 km (6.4 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Second Street Surgery Good Nov 2016370 m
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bensham Pharmacy220 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Denmark Street Dental Practice Limited550 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalBensham Hospital1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Care homes11 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alderwood Good Feb 2026180 m
Police stationGateshead Police Station650 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine Jackson House 24-26 Jackson Street Halifax780 m (0.5 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 garden9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 380 m²70 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Windmill Hills 3.5 ha260 m
Play area8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 490 m²270 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.1 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 660 m²510 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 9 parks and gardens, 8.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 1-15 Walker Terrace, a listed building (Grade II*), 570 m (0.4 miles) north-east. 32 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
1-15 Walker TerraceListed building, Grade II*570 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Church of St ChadListed building, Grade II*840 m (0.5 miles) south
Chapel of St Edmund and Trinity CentreListed building, Grade I900 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Newcastle upon Tyne town defences: section of curtain wall including Closegate and Water TowerScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Newcastle Swing BridgeScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Newcastle upon Tyne town defences: section of curtain wall and town ditch between Forth Street and Hanover StreetScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north
Saltwell ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Westgate Hill CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Team GutTidal water1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Saltwell Park GroveWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Quarry PlantationWood1.9 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Millers HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Ouseburn ValleyValley2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-east
St Anthony's PointWetland3.8 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)14.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.14015

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

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, 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
65 to 6910
60 to 6420
55 to 59160
Under 55625

19 of the street's 25 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 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead Roman CatholicPrimary4–11490 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Brighton Avenue Primary SchoolPrimary3–11550 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Caedmon Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11590 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bensham Grove Nursery SchoolNursery0–5640 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Aidan's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School, Gateshead Roman CatholicPrimary3–11880 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kelvin Grove Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11930 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
South Street Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11930 m (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
North East Futures UTCSecondary14–191.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Gateshead College16 plus16–991.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
NCG16 plus14–991.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Our Lady and St Anne's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 620 m (0.4 miles); the nearest is 380 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Ashreinu NE8 1TU Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 380 m
Kol Bonayich NE8 4DR Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 400 m (0.2 miles)
Gateshead Childcare-Keser NE8 1NR Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 430 m (0.3 miles)
Shira Daycare NE8 1RP Full day care 50 Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 430 m (0.3 miles)
Golden Beginnings Day-Care NE8 4EB Sessional day care 27 Not inspected yet 490 m (0.3 miles)
Tots and Toddlers 2 NE8 1XL Sessional day care 15 Not inspected yet 520 m (0.3 miles)
Keser Torah Early Years NE8 4EA Full day care 140 Apr 2026: Strong standard in 3 areas, Expected standard in 3 530 m (0.3 miles)
Bensham Grove Nursery School NE8 2XD Full day care 98 Outstanding (Jul 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 570 m (0.4 miles)
Kip McGrath Gateshead East NE8 1LU Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 590 m (0.4 miles)
Bridges Nursery and Out Of School Club NE8 2EL Full day care 137 Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 620 m (0.4 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
The Windmill Hills Centre NE8 1QBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m4 Good28 Jan 2026
Curry Garden NE8 1QLTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Oct 2025
Bhaz Kitchen NE8 1QLTakeaway/sandwich shop110 mAwaiting inspection
Persian Taste NE8 1QLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good11 Nov 2025
The Big Vape Gateshead Coffee House NE8 1SQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good10 Apr 2025
Ayan Superstore NE8 1SQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets170 mAwaiting inspection
Coatsworth Road Convenience Store NE8 1SQRetailers - other170 m5 Very good11 Nov 2025
Bensham Wines NE8 1URRetailers - other190 m4 Good14 May 2025
Hazel Blossom Florist & Cafe NE8 1QPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m4 Good11 Nov 2025
Kaka vape shop/Mario Coffee Shop NE8 1QPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 mAwaiting inspection
Adam's Continental Foods NE8 1SQRetailers - other200 m3 Generally satisfactory5 Mar 2025
Gateshead Halal Store NE8 1SQRetailers - other200 m1 Major improvement necessary20 Feb 2025
Shawarma NE8 1SQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m4 Good2 Nov 2025
Nanthan Superstores Ltd NE8 1SQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets200 m4 Good11 Nov 2025
Zizzi Pizza NE8 1SQTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m4 Good12 Aug 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.

265 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences63
Anti-social behaviour51
Criminal damage and arson37
Shoplifting23
Public order17
Other theft15
Other crime14
Vehicle crime13
Drugs13
Burglary9
Robbery6
Bicycle theft2
Possession of weapons1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Coatsworth Court (59); On or near The Mill (41); On or near Villa Place (40); On or near Havelock Terrace (21); On or near Bensham Road (15).

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.

11 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 4 serious and 7 slight, in which 5 people were seriously hurt. 5 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a motorcyclist. 27% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202230
202332
202421
202521
The most recent 10 of 11
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
18 Mar 2025 14:00 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
24 Feb 2025 22:53 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian B601, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
31 May 2024 18:08 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
15 May 2024 15:54 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian B601, 30 mph Daylight
6 Oct 2023 20:20 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian B601, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
22 Sep 2023 07:50 Slight 1 person B601, 30 mph Daylight
2 Sep 2023 20:03 Serious 2 people B601, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
6 May 2022 08:30 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
3 Mar 2022 12:32 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian B601, 30 mph Daylight
17 Jan 2022 13:45 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

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

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

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: 530 residents in 251 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 159%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)34%61%
Owned outright20%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented31%17%
Private rented36%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)12%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)11%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van43%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)80%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)25%34%
No qualifications32%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 2 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Today Shawrma (takeaway/sandwich shop, NE8 1SQ) now 3 Generally satisfactory, was 4 Good (rated 19 June 2026) found 4 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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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.

Nearby streets

Barrington Place · Osborne Terrace · Hillfield Street · Poplar Crescent · Back Woodbine Street · Back Woodbine Street · Windmill Way · Coatsworth Road · Claremont Street · Cotfield Walk · Back Woodbine Street · Bensham Road

All the streets in NE8 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.