Milton Square Gateshead

1 address across 1 postcode (NE8), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14980510.

  • 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 Gateshead costs £2,716 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Newcastle, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 160 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 61 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bewick Road Surgery, about 320 m away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 400 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 30% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 216 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often other theft.

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (77% of about 820 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 8 February 2027 to 26 February 2027: NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footpath (major (paa) 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 5 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 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 address is about 61 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
NE8 3EW100%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 stationsNewcastle 11 million journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Manors 64,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Heworth 46,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Underground, metro or tramGateshead Stadium (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)580 m (0.4 miles)
Gateshead (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)720 m (0.4 miles)
Felling (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.7 km (1 mile)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 53 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Old Durham Road-Cemetery Road Gateshead90 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Gateshead740 m (0.5 miles)
Ferry terminalNewcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays10.3 km (6.4 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Civic Centre Car Park490 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station180 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL10.9 km (6.7 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bewick Road Surgery320 m
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest One Care Pharmacy320 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Denmark Street Dental Practice Limited340 m
HospitalBensham Hospital1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationGateshead Police Station420 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest MFG - Swallow Services Cashzone120 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 garden8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha160 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 3.1 ha600 m (0.4 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Argyle Estate Play Area 650 m²180 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.7 ha930 m (0.6 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 660 m²430 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 8 parks and gardens, 6.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Chapel of St Edmund and Trinity Centre, a listed building (Grade I), 680 m (0.4 miles) north. 25 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Chapel of St Edmund and Trinity CentreListed building, Grade I680 m (0.4 miles) north
1-15 Walker TerraceListed building, Grade II*740 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Newcastle Swing BridgeScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Saltwell ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Old Tyne Bridge (land arches)Scheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Newcastle upon Tyne town defences: section of curtain wall including Closegate and Water TowerScheduled monument1.5 km (1 mile) north-west
Westgate Hill CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Quarry PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Millers HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Saltwell Park GroveWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Ouseburn ValleyValley2 km (1.2 miles) north
Team GutTidal water2.4 km (1.5 miles) west
St Anthony's PointWetland2.9 km (1.8 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)14.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 6910
Under 5501

1 of the street's 1 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 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
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead Roman CatholicPrimary4–11420 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
South Street Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11430 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Caedmon Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11690 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bede Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11910 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Gateshead College16 plus16–991.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Brighton Avenue Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Kelvin Grove Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School, Gateshead Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bensham Grove Nursery SchoolNursery0–51.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Carr Hill Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Low Fell Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
The Globe NE8 3TRPub/bar/nightclub270 m5 Very good4 Nov 2025
The Globe Hotel NE8 3TRHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house270 m5 Very good4 Nov 2025
Yeshiva L'zeirem Tiferes Yaacov NE8 1PESchool/college/university270 m5 Very good29 Jan 2025
Gateshead Cost Shop NE8 1NARetailers - other270 mAwaiting inspection
CASTLE GRILL LTD NE8 4EJTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m4 Good11 Jun 2026
Danskys Mini Market Limited NE8 4DPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets280 m3 Generally satisfactory27 Feb 2026
Aldi Stores limited NE8 3LGRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets290 m5 Very good27 Jun 2024
Gateshead Indoor Bowling Centre (Cafe) NE8 4DYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good4 Feb 2026
Us Little Ones Ltd NE8 4DPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 mAwaiting inspection
Durham House Hotel NE8 4APHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house340 m5 Very good20 Jan 2026
Gateshead Youth Council NE8 4DYRetailers - other370 m5 Very good9 Sep 2025
Young Womens Outreach Project NE8 4DYRetailers - other370 m5 Very good6 Nov 2025
Embellish NE8 4DPOther catering premises380 mAwaiting inspection
Gateshead School Catering at South Street Primary School NE8 4BDSchool/college/university390 m5 Very good21 Nov 2025
Soka Superstore NE8 4BDRetailers - other390 m5 Very good12 May 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.

216 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Other theft48
Violence and sexual offences39
Anti-social behaviour37
Shoplifting17
Criminal damage and arson16
Public order16
Vehicle crime15
Burglary11
Drugs6
Robbery4
Other crime3
Theft from the person3
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near St Edmund'S Road (61); On or near King James Street (61); On or near Parking Area (39); On or near Milton Square (21); On or near Sutherland Street (11).

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: 397 residents in 232 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 age3340
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)30%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented15%17%
Private rented55%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work73%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van39%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram8%4%
By any public transport, including bus20%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)86%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)38%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%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.

  • NE8 3EW: 1 address of 14 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Sutherland Street · Masefield Place · Cemetery Road · Cemetery Road · Masefield Place · Milton Square · King James Street · Milton Square · Camilla Street · Marlowe Gardens · Milton Square · Malory Place

All the streets in NE8 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.