Lothian Close Spennymoor, County Durham

5 addresses across 1 postcode (DL16), about 50 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 33910600.

  • Sales: 4 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £145,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 2 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in County Durham costs £2,622 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bishop Auckland, about 6.1 km (3.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Victoria Jubilee Park, is about 510 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 133 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bishops Close Medical Practice, about 840 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 162 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
20211£145,000£145,000£145,000
20081£150,000£150,000£150,000
20051£182,000£182,000£182,000
19971£59,000£59,000£59,000
Most recent sales (4)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
8 Jan 20211 DL16 7SXSemi-detached£145,000
19 Nov 20082 DL16 7SXSemi-detached£150,000
25 Nov 20054 DL16 7SXSemi-detached£182,000
22 Sep 19973 DL16 7SXSemi-detached£59,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from November 2025 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 100 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (2). Built: 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (2).

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.

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£1,748£2,039£2,331£2,622£3,205£3,788£4,370£5,244

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (71% of about 770 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 neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) 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 31 October 2026.

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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

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

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 133 m above sea level.

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
DL16 7SX100%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 stationsBishop Auckland 169,000 journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Shildon 60,000 journeys in 2024–257.8 km (4.9 miles)
Newton Aycliffe 78,000 journeys in 2024–259.1 km (5.6 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Whitworth Terrace Spennymoor60 m
Bus or coach stationHigh Street Spennymoor650 m (0.4 miles)
Car parksAsda Spennymoor Car Park870 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mer660 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsTeesside International Airport MME23.7 km (15 miles)
Nearest large airportNewcastle International Airport NCL38.6 km (24 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bishops Close Medical Practice840 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Miller Pharmacy860 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Avenue - Clyde Terrace290 m
HospitalBishop Auckland Hospital6.2 km (3.9 miles)
Police stationSpennymoor Police Station650 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM650 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 Victoria Jubilee Park 7.7 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 220 m²130 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,690 m²120 m
Allotments8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Eden Road Allotments 6,880 m²210 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 7.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Durham Castle and Cathedral, a World Heritage Site, 9 km (5.6 miles) north. 4 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 km (5.6 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cow PlantationWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Black PlantationWood1.7 km (1 mile) north
Trotter WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Fox CovertWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Claxburn WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
Etty HillHill2.9 km (1.8 miles) south

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)5.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)9.84015

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
Under 5555

None of the street's 5 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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
Rosa Street Primary and Nursery AcademyPrimary2–11310 m Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whitworth Park AcademySecondary11–16350 m Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Middlestone Moor AcademyPrimary2–11390 m Report card (Feb 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: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
King Street Primary SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
North Park Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Springmoor Grange SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Charles' Catholic Primary School, Tudhoe Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Tudhoe Moor Nursery SchoolNursery0–51.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

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
Premier - Campbells News Food & Wine DL16 7SGRetailers - other60 m4 Good25 Jul 2024
One Stop DL16 7LFRetailers - other130 m5 Very good4 Dec 2023
The Cafe @ St Pauls Centre DL16 7LRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good20 May 2026
Clems Fish Restaurant DL16 7SERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good3 Feb 2026
Kandy Kaye DL16 7SERetailers - other290 m3 Generally satisfactory21 Jan 2026
The Crown Takeaway DL16 7LDTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m4 Good22 Jan 2025
Sunrise DL16 7SETakeaway/sandwich shop320 m4 Good27 May 2025
The K G H Club DL16 7LDPub/bar/nightclub350 m4 Good20 Jun 2018
The Railway DL16 7SEPub/bar/nightclub380 m5 Very good16 Nov 2021
Hung Hay Chop Suey House DL16 7LDTakeaway/sandwich shop390 m3 Generally satisfactory7 May 2025
Happy Valley DL16 6DDTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 May 2025
Quinns Inn DL16 6DDPub/bar/nightclub490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Sep 2019

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.

162 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences55
Criminal damage and arson32
Anti-social behaviour23
Vehicle crime9
Shoplifting9
Burglary8
Public order7
Other theft6
Other crime5
Drugs3
Robbery2
Possession of weapons2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Craddock Street (20); On or near Villa Street (18); On or near Ash Grove (14); On or near Belle Vue Villas (13); On or near Robert Street (12).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 282 residents in 124 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 age4640
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van69%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)50%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is 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.

  • DL16 7SX: 5 addresses of 6 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Victoria Street · Villa Street · Hillingdon Close · Chestnut Avenue · Osborne Road · Victoria Gardens · Belle Vue Street · Robert Street · Whitworth Terrace · St Paul's Street · Poplar Drive · St Paul's Gardens

All the streets in DL16 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.