Kestrel Close Easington Lane, Sunderland

15 addresses across 3 postcodes (DH5), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 38736275.

  • Sales: 33 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £165,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9).
  • Flood: 8 addresses on its postcodes are 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 Sunderland costs £2,197 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Seaham, about 6.8 km (4.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 140 m away, and Hetton Lyons Country Park (54 hectares) is about 630 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 107 to 110 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 15 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hetton Group Practice, about 1.7 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 1,110 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 44% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 107 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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
20251£165,000£165,000£165,000
20242£118,000£96,000£140,000
20231£98,000£98,000£98,000
20221£195,000£195,000£195,000
20211£129,000£129,000£129,000
20201£156,000£156,000£156,000
20192£144,975£89,950£200,000
20181£129,950£129,950£129,950
20171£170,000£170,000£170,000
20141£92,000£92,000£92,000
20135£139,995£99,995£139,995
201210£174,995£139,995£184,995
Most recent sales (33)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Mar 202518 DH5 0GLTerraced£165,000
23 Aug 202419 DH5 0GLTerraced£96,000
31 May 202420 DH5 0GLTerraced£140,000
26 Oct 202323 DH5 0GLTerraced£98,000
15 Dec 202212 DH5 0GLDetached£195,000
26 Apr 20211 DH5 0GLSemi-detached£129,000
23 Oct 202010 DH5 0GLDetached£156,000
19 Dec 20199 DH5 0GLDetached£200,000
13 Sep 201923 DH5 0GLTerraced£89,950
15 Jun 201820 DH5 0GLTerraced£129,950
27 Jan 20178 DH5 0GLDetached£170,000
24 Oct 201423 DH5 0GLTerraced£92,000
28 Jun 201321 DH5 0GLTerraced£139,995New build.
28 Jun 201323 DH5 0GLTerraced£99,995New build.
3 May 201319 DH5 0GLTerraced£99,995New build.
28 Mar 201320 DH5 0GLTerraced£139,995New build.
21 Feb 201322 DH5 0GLTerraced£139,995New build.
30 Nov 201218 DH5 0GLTerraced£139,995New build.
31 Aug 201214 DH5 0GLDetached£174,995New build.
17 Aug 201211 DH5 0GLDetached£174,995New build.
29 Jun 201215 DH5 0GLDetached£174,995New build.
29 Jun 201216 DH5 0GLDetached£169,995New build.
22 Jun 201217 DH5 0GLDetached£139,995New build.
31 May 201212 DH5 0GLDetached£169,995New build.
15 Mar 20125 DH5 0GLDetached£174,995New build.
9 Mar 20128 DH5 0GLDetached£184,995New build.
19 Jan 20129 DH5 0GLDetached£179,995New build.
22 Dec 20117 DH5 0GLDetached£139,995New build.
22 Dec 20111 DH5 0GLSemi-detached£129,995New build.
21 Dec 20116 DH5 0GLDetached£169,995New build.
21 Dec 20112 DH5 0GLSemi-detached£100,000New build.
21 Dec 20113 DH5 0GLSemi-detached£100,000New build.
20 Dec 20114 DH5 0GLSemi-detached£110,000New build.

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 November 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 100 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (3); House, detached (3); House, mid-terrace (3). Built: 2011 (3); 2012 onwards (3); 2012-2021 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in Sunderland in 2026-27: Band D £2,197 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,465£1,709£1,953£2,197£2,685£3,174£3,662£4,394

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (66% of about 2,090 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: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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

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

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, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 9 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
DH5 0GLnot in 2 or 3 1 / 2 / 1 unlikely
DH5 0GJnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 2 unlikely
DH5 0GEnot in 2 or 3 3 / 0 / 6 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 15 addresses are between 107 m and 110 m above sea level (109 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
DH5 0GE100%100%100%0%
DH5 0GJ100%100%100%0%
DH5 0GL100%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 stationsSeaham 165,000 journeys in 2024–256.8 km (4.2 miles)
Durham 2.8 million journeys in 2024–259.8 km (6.1 miles)
Horden 165,000 journeys in 2024–259.9 km (6.2 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pemberton Bank-Blindy Lane Easington Lane170 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Hetton-le-Hole1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Barnes Street Car Park1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL29.9 km (19 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 surgeriesHetton Group Practice1.7 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest R Whitfield Limited230 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery210 m
HospitalCherry Knowle Hospital7.4 km (4.6 miles)
Police stationHoughton le Spring Police Station4 km (2.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone400 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 Unnamed 2,850 m²140 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Hetton Lyons Country Park 54 ha630 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 870 m²120 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,460 m²80 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 54 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Durham Castle and Cathedral, a World Heritage Site, 9.7 km (6 miles) south-west. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Durham Castle and CathedralWorld Heritage Site9.7 km (6 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
White HillHill550 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Stephenson LakeLake or reservoir780 m (0.5 miles) north
Elemore ValeValley790 m (0.5 miles) south
Grotto PlantationWood820 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Blossom PondLake or reservoir940 m (0.6 miles) north
Orchard HillHill940 m (0.6 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)5.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

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
55 to 5910
Under 551415

1 of the street's 15 addresses is 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 Sunderland: see them on the Sunderland 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
Easington Lane Primary SchoolPrimary2–11620 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Hetton Lyons Primary SchoolPrimary4–11860 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hetton Lyons Nursery SchoolNursery1–4870 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Hetton Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Hetton AcademySecondary11–161.5 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
Panda Chinese DH5 0JNTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m5 Very good13 Dec 2025
Best One DH5 0JHRetailers - other210 m4 Good20 Feb 2025
Easington Lane Convenience Store & P.O. DH5 0JRRetailers - other230 m5 Very good13 Jan 2020
Easington Lane W M C DH5 0JRPub/bar/nightclub230 m4 Good20 Feb 2019
The Energy Bar DH5 0JNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good20 Feb 2025
Nazifas Bengal Bistro DH5 0JNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 mAwaiting inspection
Canton Diner DH5 0JNTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m5 Very good24 Oct 2024
Margie's Fish & Chips DH5 0JNTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m4 Good12 Feb 2026
Easington Lane Community Access Point DH5 0LEOther catering premises330 m5 Very good14 Jan 2019
ELCAP - Luncheon Club DH5 0LEOther catering premises330 m5 Very good26 Feb 2024
Super Pizza DH5 0JSTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m4 Good22 Aug 2024
Premier DH5 0JSRetailers - other380 m5 Very good13 Jan 2020
Clish News & Deli DH5 0JSRetailers - other380 m4 Good19 May 2026
Premier - Lane Stores DH5 0JSRetailers - other380 m5 Very good18 Jul 2019
Bonnie Pit Lad DH5 0JSPub/bar/nightclub380 m5 Very good10 Jan 2024

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.

107 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences28
Anti-social behaviour22
Criminal damage and arson17
Other theft9
Vehicle crime8
Public order7
Other crime5
Burglary4
Drugs3
Possession of weapons3
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hartside Gardens (24); On or near Gelt Crescent (14); On or near Lawson Terrace (10); On or near Blindy Lane (10); On or near Hornsey Terrace (8).

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: 1,109 residents in 416 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 age3140
Children under 1528%17%
Aged 65 and over3%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright13%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work86%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)6%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)45%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)44%34%
No qualifications5%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 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

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.

  • DH5 0GL: 9 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • DH5 0GJ: 5 addresses of 33 in the postcode
  • DH5 0GE: 1 address of 70 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lyons Lane · Whitethroat Close · Neil Street · Hornsey Crescent · Hornsey Terrace · Pemberton Bank · Redshank Drive · Blackcap Close · Churchside Gardens · Girven Terrace · Bowes Avenue · Pemberton Bank

All the streets in DH5 and across Sunderland.

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.