Half Fields Road Blaydon, Gateshead

32 addresses across 5 postcodes (NE21), about 250 m long, classed as a minor road. USRN 14912920.

  • Sales: 14 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £210,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 8, E: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Gateshead costs £2,716 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Blaydon, about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Hallgarth Hall Park, is about 240 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 121 to 127 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 21 of its 32 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Oldwell Surgery, about 320 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 860 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 252 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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£210,000£210,000£210,000
20242£127,750£118,500£137,000
20201£115,000£115,000£115,000
20181£98,000£98,000£98,000
20171£120,000£120,000£120,000
20161£119,000£119,000£119,000
20081£120,000£120,000£120,000
20051£99,950£99,950£99,950
20043£60,000£50,000£82,500
Most recent sales (14)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 May 20267 NE21 5RPSemi-detached£210,000
29 Nov 202424 NE21 5RRSemi-detached£137,000
28 Nov 202410 NE21 5RRSemi-detached£118,500
26 Jan 202424 NE21 5RRSemi-detached£90,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Jul 20207 NE21 5RPSemi-detached£115,000
24 Oct 201923 NE21 5RRSemi-detached£95,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jun 201822 NE21 5RRSemi-detached£98,000
1 Feb 20178 NE21 5RRSemi-detached£120,000
10 Nov 201612 NE21 5RRSemi-detached£119,000
29 Aug 200812 NE21 5RRSemi-detached£120,000
27 May 200514 NE21 5RRSemi-detached£99,950
8 Oct 200411 NE21 5RPSemi-detached£50,000
30 Jul 200416 NE21 5RRTerraced£60,000
17 Jun 20048 NE21 5RRSemi-detached£82,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from November 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 79 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (15). Built: 1950-1966 (10); 1930-1949 (4); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (social) (5).

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 (73% 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: 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: 22 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 1 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
NE21 5RRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE21 5RPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely
NE21 5AQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE21 5RWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE21 6ASnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 32 addresses are between 121 m and 127 m above sea level (125 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
NE21 5AQ100%0%0%0%
NE21 5RP100%100%100%0%
NE21 5RR100%100%100%0%
NE21 5RW100%33%33%0%
NE21 6AS67%67%67%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 stationsBlaydon 69,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
MetroCentre 632,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Dunston 51,000 journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops17 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 57 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Gibside View Winlaton60 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Winlaton220 m
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL9.8 km (6.1 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 Oldwell Surgery320 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest R W Wilson200 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Nanas Dental Surgery200 m
HospitalNewcastle General Hospital5.9 km (3.6 miles)
Police stationWhickham Police Station3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM130 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hallgarth Hall Park 7,030 m²240 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 910 m²220 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.3 ha180 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.6 ha800 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Winlaton Mill ironworks, south east of Winlaton Mill village, a scheduled monument, 1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Winlaton Mill ironworks, south east of Winlaton Mill villageScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Enclosures near Damhead Wood, WhickhamScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Battle of Newburn Ford 1640Registered battlefield3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lands WoodWood940 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Bewes HillHill1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Shibdon PondLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) east
CromwellTidal water2.4 km (1.5 miles) north
Lemington PointWetland2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-east
Sugley DeneValley2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-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)7.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.7205
Particles (PM10)8.54015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 59200
Under 551132

21 of the street's 32 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
West Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–11370 m Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Parkhead Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11620 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas More Catholic School, Blaydon Roman CatholicSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Blaydon Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Blaydon West Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Mary & St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School, Blaydon Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, 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
Sweet Petite NE21 6AWRetailers - other90 m5 Very good18 Aug 2026
Sunrise Authentic Asian Cuisine NE21 6AWTakeaway/sandwich shop100 mAwaiting inspection
Roma Pizza / Two Dragons / Burger Express NE21 6AWTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good27 Apr 2026
G&E Murgatroyd Spar Winlaton NE21 6AWRetailers - other100 m5 Very good15 Dec 2025
St Pauls Church Hall NE21 6PLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good10 Sep 2025
Galaxy Pizza NE21 6AETakeaway/sandwich shop170 m5 Very good20 May 2025
Vulcan Inn NE21 6AEPub/bar/nightclub170 m4 Good11 Jun 2025
The Highlander NE21 6AFPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good8 Oct 2025
Hilton & Son NE21 6AFRetailers - other180 m4 Good4 Feb 2026
New West End Social Club NE21 6PQPub/bar/nightclub190 m5 Very good26 Aug 2025
Moulin Pizza NE21 6DDTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m5 Very good26 Mar 2025
Galaxy Desserts NE21 6DURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 mAwaiting inspection
The Co-operative Group NE21 6DDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets200 m5 Very good13 Oct 2026
Premier NE21 6DDRetailers - other200 m5 Very good20 Nov 2024
Spice Garden NE21 6DDTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m3 Generally satisfactory27 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.

252 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting100
Anti-social behaviour70
Violence and sexual offences33
Criminal damage and arson13
Public order12
Vehicle crime9
Other crime4
Other theft4
Possession of weapons2
Burglary2
Bicycle theft2
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (136); On or near Back Street (46); On or near Waterloo Street (15); On or near Petrol Station (8); On or near Ambrose Court (8).

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: 858 residents in 406 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 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over29%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright46%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)32%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus13%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)73%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)21%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 4 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

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

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Rectory Lane · Cowen Street · Knowledge Hill · Church Street · Derwent View Court · Church Street · Ambrose Court · Sandhill Mews · Half Fields Close · Front Street · Gibside View · Caledonia

All the streets in NE21 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.