Chesters Close Gateshead

3 addresses across 2 postcodes (NE9), about 40 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 14905295.

  • Sales: 1 recorded sales since 1995; in 1995 the median was £190,000 across 1 sale.
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 C; Band D in Gateshead costs £2,716 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 25% to 50% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Dunston, about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Draughts' Garden, is about 200 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 83 to 84 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 3 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Fell Cottage Surgery, about 430 m (0.3 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 710 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 42% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 27 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
19951£190,000£190,000£190,000
Most recent sales (1)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Jul 19951 NE9 5PBDetached£190,000

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.

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.

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£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 C (30% of about 1,660 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: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 21 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

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

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

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

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

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.

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 3 addresses are between 83 m and 84 m above sea level (83 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
NE9 5BG100%25%25%0%
NE9 5PB100%50%50%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 stationsDunston 51,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Heworth 46,000 journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Newcastle 11 million journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 40 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Durham Road-Musgrave School Low Fell90 m
Bus or coach stationMarquisway - Kingsway South Team Valley2 km (1.3 miles)
Ferry terminalNewcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays11.3 km (7 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cross Keys Lane Car Park440 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station1.7 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL12.3 km (7.6 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fell Cottage Surgery430 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well350 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 323 Durham Road Dental Practice300 m
HospitalBensham Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationGateshead Police Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Low Fell, Low Fell400 m (0.2 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Draughts' Garden 27 ha200 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,400 m²520 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.3 ha430 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,420 m²220 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 34 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Helen, a listed building (Grade II*), 380 m south-west. 34 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St HelenListed building, Grade II*380 m south-west
UnderhillListed building, Grade II*520 m (0.3 miles) east
Saltwell ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II550 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Saltwell Park GroveWood300 m west
Sheriff HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Team GutTidal water2.5 km (1.6 miles) north-west
Longacre DeneValley3.5 km (2.2 miles) south
St Anthony's PointWetland3.8 km (2.4 miles) north-east
Bowes LakeLake or reservoir4.4 km (2.7 miles) south-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)12.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.74015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 5910
Under 5513

2 of the street's 3 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), 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
St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Low Fell Roman CatholicPrimary4–11340 m Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kells Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–11460 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Glynwood Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11860 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Kelvin Grove Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 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
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School, Gateshead Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oakfield Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Carr Hill Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Grace CollegeSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Oakfield Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
South Street Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Caedmon Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brighton Avenue Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) 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

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
Roslin Social And Residential Home NE9 5PBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises20 m5 Very good1 Jul 2026
Morrisons NE25 8HJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets100 m5 Very good5 Mar 2026
The Coffee Bean NE26 1TQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good11 Nov 2025
Kids 1st - Low Fell NE9 5ATHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m5 Very good19 Aug 2026
Little Willows Kindergarten NE9 5ATHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m5 Very good20 Aug 2026
The Chesters NE9 5AJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises140 m5 Very good4 Nov 2025
Northbourne House NE9 5ARHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m4 Good19 Mar 2026
Grove House NE9 5AXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m5 Very good21 Nov 2025
Saltwell Towers Tea Room NE9 5AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good20 Aug 2026
Denewell Avenue Social and Residential Home NE9 5HDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m4 Good19 Feb 2025
Oli & Joes NE9 5ANRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 mAwaiting inspection
O & J Coffee Shop NE9 5ANRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good14 Oct 2025
Gilbert & Smiths NE9 5ANPub/bar/nightclub290 m4 Good20 Sep 2023
The Cannon, Gateshead NE9 5ANPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good15 Oct 2026
A Bit of a Treat Limited NE9 5ANRetailers - other300 m5 Very good14 Feb 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.

27 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour8
Violence and sexual offences7
Public order5
Criminal damage and arson4
Vehicle crime2
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Joicey Road (10); On or near Chesters Park (9); On or near Heathfield Place (4); On or near Cleasby Gardens (2); On or near Chesters Close (1).

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: 712 residents in 295 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 age4940
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright44%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)32%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)45%32%
Travel to work by car or van40%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)42%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 8 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

Chesters Park · Telford Close · Anderson Green · Hawthorn Gardens · Joicey Road · Fern Gardens · Heathfield Place · Heathfield Road · Durham Road · Cleasby Gardens · Holly Gardens · Lavender Gardens

All the streets in NE9 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.
  • 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.