Leazes Lane Durham

32 addresses across 5 postcodes (DH1), about 250 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 11713598.

  • Energy: 2 homes have an energy certificate (E: 2).
  • Flood: 11 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 B; 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 Durham, about 930 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 570 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 34 to 65 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 19 of its 32 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Claypath & University Medical Group, about 100 m away.
  • People: About 1,430 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 38% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 39 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 September 2017 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

2 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 215 m². Most common: House, detached (1); Flat (1). Built: before 1900 (1); 1900-1929 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (2 addresses)

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 B (35% of about 4,230 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 4 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, Durham City. 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.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 22 September 2026 to 23 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the verge (minor works)

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, 11 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 17 homes the Environment Agency counts, 10 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 0 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
DH1 1TBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH1 1SZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH1 1TAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH1 3DAzone 3 10 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH1 1JHnot in 2 or 3 1 / 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 34 m and 65 m above sea level (54 m on average); the ground rises about 31 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
DH1 1JH100%98%98%0%
DH1 1SZ100%100%100%0%
DH1 1TA100%0%0%0%
DH1 1TB100%100%100%0%
DH1 3DA100%91%91%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 stationsDurham 2.8 million journeys in 2024–25930 m (0.6 miles)
Chester-Le-Street 232,000 journeys in 2024–258.6 km (5.3 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 33 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hild-Bede College Durham50 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Stand L Durham910 m (0.6 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Prince Bishops Car Park410 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station340 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL30 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Claypath & University Medical Group100 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well100 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Claypath Dental Practice260 m
HospitalUniversity Hospital Of North Durham2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Police stationDurham Constabulary450 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cashpoint® 19 Market Place Lloyds Bank570 m (0.4 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,410 m²570 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 210 m²160 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 4.3 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,900 m²750 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 47, 48 and 49, Old Elvet, a listed building (Grade II*), 320 m south-west. 396 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 40 of them Grade I and 22 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
47, 48 and 49, Old ElvetListed building, Grade II*320 m south-west
Elvet BridgeScheduled monument430 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Elvet BridgeListed building, Grade I430 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Crown CourtListed building, Grade II*430 m (0.3 miles) south
Chapel of St Mary MagdaleneListed building, Grade I440 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Chapel of St Mary MagdaleneScheduled monument450 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Kepier HospitalScheduled monument690 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Durham Castle and CathedralWorld Heritage Site740 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Old Durham GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Battle of Neville's Cross 1346Registered battlefield2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pelaw WoodWood690 m (0.4 miles) east
Whinney HillHill890 m (0.6 miles) south
Maiden Castle WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) south
Windy HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Count's CornerLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Deerness ValleyValley4.1 km (2.5 miles) west

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)9.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)9.24015

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
70 to 7410
65 to 6920
60 to 64110
55 to 5950
Under 551332

19 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 County Durham: see them on the County Durham page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Durham Sixth Form Centre16 plus16–19440 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Oswald's Church of England Aided Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–11810 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Laurel Avenue Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gilesgate Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Leonard's Catholic School, Durham Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 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
St Margaret's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Durham Gilesgate Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Hild's College Church of England Primary School, DurhamPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Durham Johnston Comprehensive SchoolSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Neville's Cross Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Woodman Inn DH1 1QWPub/bar/nightclub110 m3 Generally satisfactory9 Feb 2026
Well Pharmacy DH1 1QWRetailers - other120 mExempt
Durham University Day Nursery DH1 1TAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good15 May 2026
Claypath Delicatessen DH1 1QSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m4 Good21 May 2025
The Capital DH1 1QTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good6 Oct 2026
Korean Kitchen DH1 1QTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 mAwaiting inspection
Bistro Italiano DH1 1QTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m4 Good22 Oct 2024
Sense Chinese Restaurant DH1 1QTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m3 Generally satisfactory21 Jan 2026
Tea Talk DH1 1QTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 mAwaiting inspection
Durham Masonic Hall DH1 3HNPub/bar/nightclub310 m5 Very good28 Apr 2025
The Dun Cow DH1 3HNPub/bar/nightclub310 m5 Very good27 Feb 2025
Dunelm Club DH1 3HNPub/bar/nightclub340 m5 Very good1 Dec 2025
Mr Flynn's No 83 Claypath DH1 1RGPub/bar/nightclub340 m5 Very good1 Apr 2026
Delta Hotels by Marriott Durham Royal County Hotel DH1 3JNHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house350 m5 Very good9 Jan 2025
Hotel Indigo Durham DH1 3HLHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house350 m4 Good22 Sep 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

39 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences12
Anti-social behaviour9
Other theft7
Public order4
Criminal damage and arson2
Vehicle crime2
Other crime1
Bicycle theft1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Gilesgate Close (10); On or near Leazes Place (5); On or near Bakehouse Lane (4); On or near Leazes Lane (4); On or near Hillcrest (3).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,430 residents in 297 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 age2140
Children under 152%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)38%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented54%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work20%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)14%6%
Retired (of adults)6%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)48%32%
Travel to work by car or van31%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)53%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away20%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications5%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualificationunder 1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 4 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 10 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.

  • DH1 1TB: 13 addresses
  • DH1 1SZ: 12 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • DH1 1TA: 4 addresses of 6 in the postcode
  • DH1 3DA: 2 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • DH1 1JH: 1 address of 44 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Gilesgate Close · Ravensworth Terrace · Leazes Road · Kepier Terrace · Bakehouse Lane · St Hilds Lane · Kepier Villas · Bakehouse Lane · Mayorswell Street · St Hild's Lane · Mayorswell Field · Wear View

All the streets in DH1 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.
  • 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.