Front Street Fishburn, County Durham

75 addresses across 9 postcodes (TS21), about 600 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 33909251.

  • Sales: 46 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £120,000 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.
  • Energy: 28 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 18, E: 5, F: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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: 2 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Fishburn Colliery, is 30 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 9 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 130 times (390 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 2 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, PFF Packaging, Salters Lane Industrial Estate, Sedgefield - Solar PV Panels, is 900 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • 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 12.3 km (7.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, The Green, is about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 97 to 121 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 58 of its 75 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Skerne Medical Group, about 3.3 km (2.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 890 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 28 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 10 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious; 3 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
20261£120,000£120,000£120,000
20253£154,000£91,500£222,000
20231£138,000£138,000£138,000
20223£85,000£72,000£85,000
20212£198,500£98,000£299,000
20191£450,000£450,000£450,000
20181£62,500£62,500£62,500
20171£187,950£187,950£187,950
20151£20,000£20,000£20,000
20141£90,000£90,000£90,000
20131£325,000£325,000£325,000
20121£52,000£52,000£52,000
All 46 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Dec 2004FLAT, 1 TS21 4ANFlat or maisonette£48,000Leasehold.
17 Feb 1998FLAT, 1 TS21 4ANFlat or maisonette£10,000Leasehold.
3 Jul 19972 TS21 4ANTerraced£36,000
30 Jun 20103 TS21 4ANTerraced£60,000
1 Aug 20033 TS21 4ANTerraced£20,500
17 Mar 19973 TS21 4ANTerraced£14,500
21 Oct 20024 TS21 4ANTerraced£17,950
28 Mar 20026 TS21 4ANTerraced£39,600
30 Sep 19986 TS21 4ANTerraced£36,000
4 Apr 19956 TS21 4ANTerraced£16,000
27 Jan 20259 TS21 4ANTerraced£91,500
16 Apr 20159 TS21 4ANTerraced£20,000
18 Dec 19989 TS21 4ANTerraced£27,500
30 Mar 201210 TS21 4ANTerraced£52,000
25 Jul 202511 TS21 4ANTerraced£154,000
28 Jan 202211 TS21 4ANTerraced£85,000
16 Mar 202612 TS21 4ANTerraced£120,000
17 Sep 202112 TS21 4ANTerraced£98,000
1 Mar 201012 TS21 4ANTerraced£85,000
30 Aug 200018 TS21 4ANTerraced£37,500
8 Jun 201819 TS21 4ANTerraced£62,500
30 Jun 201020 TS21 4ANTerraced£78,000
7 Feb 199620 TS21 4ANTerraced£41,750
20 Jun 202521 TS21 4ANTerraced£222,000
25 Apr 200521 TS21 4ANTerraced£135,500
26 Apr 200221 TS21 4ANTerraced£68,000
25 Sep 200021 TS21 4ANTerraced£59,950
14 Mar 199621 TS21 3ATDetached£151,000
12 Apr 201923 - 25 TS21 3ATTerraced£450,000
19 May 201724 TS21 4ANTerraced£187,950
24 Jul 200724 TS21 4ANTerraced£197,000
4 May 200725 TS21 4ANSemi-detached£183,000New build.
28 Jun 199627 TS21 3ATFlat or maisonette£57,500
27 Oct 201528 TS21 4AATerraced£100,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Apr 200728 TS21 4AATerraced£107,500
14 Dec 200628 TS21 4AATerraced£118,000
13 Jan 202329 TS21 4AATerraced£138,000
29 Apr 202232 TS21 4AATerraced£72,000
7 Jan 202233 TS21 4AATerraced£85,000
10 Sep 201333 TS21 3ATTerraced£325,000
19 Feb 201434 TS21 4AATerraced£90,000
14 Jan 202138 TS21 4AADetached£299,000
22 Apr 2024ELDERBERRY HALL TS21 4ABOther£475,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 May 2023ELDERBERRY HALL TS21 4ABOther£385,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Jan 2014HOPE INN TS21 3ATOther£188,800Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Aug 20032 BUNGALOW, TOWN FARM TS21 4AWSemi-detached£100,000

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 dates from February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

28 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (14); Flat (5); House, end-terrace (4). Built: before 1900 (10); 1900-1929 (6); 1950-1966 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (19); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (28 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 12,576 kWh of it on average in 2024, about the same as the district, and 2,504 kWh of electricity, 26% less than the district's 3,366 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
TS21 4AN251,754 kWh 2111,939 kWh
TS21 4AA132,073 kWh 129,393 kWh
TS21 4DE212,218 kWh 219,974 kWh
TS21 3AT82,094 kWh 1319,234 kWh
TS21 4AE142,425 kWh 139,302 kWh
TS21 4BN382,423 kWh 3912,706 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 TS21.

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 (31% of about 1,640 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: yes, Sedgefield. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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

Energy projects nearby

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

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
PFF Packaging, Salters Lane Industrial Estate, Sedgefield - Solar PV Panels County Durham DM/25/00776/PN56 Solar farm 1 MW Planning application made Mar 2025 900 m (0.6 miles)
West House Farm, Fishburn - Solar Farm County Durham DM/22/03757/FPA Solar farm 41.4 MW Permission granted, not yet built Apr 2024 2 km (1.2 miles)
Butterwick Moor County Durham 7/2006/0796/DM Wind 10 turbines 20.5 MW Operational Apr 2011 3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Walkway Wind 7 turbines 14 MW Operational May 2008 3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Trimdon Grange Wind 4 turbines 5.2 MW Operational Jul 2008 4 km (2.5 miles)
Southern Law County Durham 4/04/958 Wind 4 turbines 5.2 MW Operational Jul 2008 4.2 km (2.6 miles)

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

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

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 21 October 2026 to 28 October 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (standard works)
  • 12 October 2026 to 14 October 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway, verge (minor works)
  • 1 October 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)
  • 25 September 2026 to 30 September 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (standard 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 6 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
TS21 4ANnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TS21 4AAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
TS21 4AWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TS21 4ADnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
TS21 4DEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TS21 3ATnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TS21 4ABnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TS21 4AEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
TS21 4BNnot in 2 or 3 1 / 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

9 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 130 times, for 390 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Skerne(Tributary), Tributary of Redcar Beck, Trib of River Skerne, Redcar Beck and others.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Fishburn Tce Sso Northumbrian Water Skerne(Tributary) 0 0 470 m (0.3 miles)
East End Cso (Se 026) Northumbrian Water Tributary of Redcar Beck 26 26 520 m (0.3 miles)
Fishburn Stw Northumbrian Water Trib of River Skerne 16 66 570 m (0.4 miles)
Fishburn Stw Northumbrian Water Trib of River Skerne 13 119 590 m (0.4 miles)
Beacon Avenue Sps Northumbrian Water Redcar Beck 1 6 610 m (0.4 miles)
The Meadows Cso (Se 022) Northumbrian Water Unnamed Trib of Shotton Beck 4 3 660 m (0.4 miles)
Fishburn Bridge Cso Northumbrian Water River Skerne 27 48 810 m (0.5 miles)
Stockton Road Cso (Se 024) Northumbrian Water Shotton Beck 28 45 930 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

8 of the street's 9 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; the rest are outside the coalfield.

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

2 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 30 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Fishburn Colliery Front Street, Fishburn, Durham, County Durham 1988 to 1992 Inert 30 m
Fishburn Colliery Reclamation Front Street, Fishburn, Durham, County Durham 1988 to 1992 Inert 40 m

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 75 addresses are between 97 m and 121 m above sea level (115 m on average); the ground rises about 24 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
TS21 3AT100%0%0%0%
TS21 4AA100%80%87%0%
TS21 4AB100%0%0%0%
TS21 4AD100%0%0%0%
TS21 4AE100%94%94%0%
TS21 4AN100%96%96%0%
TS21 4AW100%0%0%0%
TS21 4BN100%92%100%0%
TS21 4DE100%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 2024–2512.3 km (7.6 miles)
Newton Aycliffe 78,000 journeys in 2024–2512.4 km (7.7 miles)
Heighington 37,000 journeys in 2024–2513.3 km (8.3 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Front Street Fishburn70 m
Bus or coach stationCemetery Road Allotments Wheatley Hill6.3 km (3.9 miles)
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsTeesside International Airport MME19.4 km (12 miles)
Nearest large airportNewcastle International Airport NCL42.6 km (26 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 surgeriesSkerne Medical Group Good Apr 20183.3 km (2.1 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Life Chemist Fishburn190 m
NHS dentistsDental Surgery1.7 km (1 mile)
HospitalSedgefield Community Hospital2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Care homes1 home within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Willowdene Care Home Good Feb 2020900 m (0.6 miles)
Police stationSedgefield Police Office3.3 km (2 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Go Local Cashzone210 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or gardenThe Green 9,160 m²2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,150 m²250 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.0 ha390 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fishburn Allotment Gardens 3.2 ha70 m

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Carr Side CovertWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Holdforth PlantationWood1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Harap HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Firtree HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Serpentine LakeLake or reservoir3.6 km (2.2 miles) south-west
Swallow BanksValley4.1 km (2.5 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)5.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.4205
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
65 to 6930
60 to 64200
55 to 59350
Under 551775

58 of the street's 75 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
Fishburn Primary SchoolPrimary2–11270 m Requires improvement (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 45% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 47% in 2023)
St William's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 86% in 2024 and 72% in 2023)
Bluebell Meadow Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 58% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)

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

Nurseries and childcare

1 nursery, pre-school or club within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 270 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Ribbon Daycare Fishburn TS21 4AU Full day care 39 Jan 2026: Expected standard in 6 areas 270 m

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
Harley's Sweet Treats TS21 4ANTakeaway/sandwich shop150 m5 Very good17 Apr 2024
Fishburn Pizza TS21 4ANTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m3 Generally satisfactory6 Aug 2026
Phillips & Wright TS21 4BURetailers - other190 mExempt
Hendersons Fish Shop TS21 4BUTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m5 Very good14 Nov 2024
Beehive Superstore TS21 4ASRetailers - other190 m4 Good19 Aug 2025
Alhambra Curry House TS21 4BUTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m3 Generally satisfactory13 Aug 2026
CAFE 14 TS21 4BYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good22 Jun 2026
Fishburn Convenience Store TS21 4BXRetailers - other220 m4 Good22 Jul 2026
Ella Pizza TS21 4DQTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m1 Major improvement necessary12 Aug 2026
The Co-Operative Food TS21 4APRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets280 m5 Very good20 May 2026
Wo Ping TS21 4DGTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m3 Generally satisfactory2 Oct 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.

28 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences9
Anti-social behaviour8
Criminal damage and arson4
Burglary4
Vehicle crime1
Other crime1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Salters Lane (9); On or near South View (7); On or near Front Street (3); On or near Harbinson Close (3); On or near Glebe Close (2).

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.

10 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 8 slight, in which 4 people were seriously hurt. 3 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a motorcyclist; 2 involved a child under 16. 50% happened in the dark, and 50% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202120
202261
202310
202400
202511
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
30 May 2025 20:16 Serious 3 people: 3 motorcyclists, 3 children B1278, 30 mph Daylight
8 Dec 2023 12:15 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child B1278, 30 mph Daylight
18 Nov 2022 16:00 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
17 Nov 2022 18:45 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian B1278, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
10 Sep 2022 16:41 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
9 Jul 2022 23:15 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights off
10 May 2022 19:11 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
11 Jan 2022 18:04 Slight 1 person B1278, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
15 Dec 2021 16:15 Slight 3 people B1278, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
12 Mar 2021 19:15 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on

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 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 893 residents in 414 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 age5140
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)27%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 7 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: BT: Utility repair and maintenance works, 9 October 2026 to 14 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Utility repair and maintenance works, 21 October 2026 to 28 October 2026 (two-way signals) 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.

Nearby streets

Harbinson Close · South View · Hardwick Court · Elderberry Mews · Salters Lane · Glebe Close · Maughan Terrace · St Bede Avenue · St Catherine Close · Maughan Terrace · Walden Terrace · Salters Lane

All the streets in TS21 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.