Milvain Close Gateshead

48 addresses across 2 postcodes (NE8), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14919145.

  • Energy: 37 homes have an energy certificate (C: 32, D: 5).
  • 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 94% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Newcastle, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 150 m away, and Draughts' Garden (27 hectares) is about 760 m (0.5 miles) 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: Its addresses are 76 to 84 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 27 of its 48 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bewick Road Surgery, about 480 m (0.3 miles) away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 190 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 16% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 197 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 November 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

37 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 55 m². Most common: Flat (36); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1983-1990 (20); 1967-1975 (11); 1976-1982 (6). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (32).

Each home's certificates and sales (24 addresses)

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

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, 0 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
NE8 3RSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE8 3RPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 48 addresses are between 76 m and 84 m above sea level (80 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
NE8 3RP100%100%100%0%
NE8 3RS100%94%94%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 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Manors 64,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Heworth 46,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Underground, metro or tramGateshead Stadium (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)700 m (0.4 miles)
Gateshead (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1 km (0.6 miles)
Felling (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.6 km (1 mile)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 54 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Old Durham Road-South Street Shipcote100 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Gateshead1 km (0.6 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 Park730 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station220 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL11.1 km (6.9 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 Surgery480 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest K & A Pharmacy340 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Old Durham Road (Dental Surgery)340 m
HospitalBensham Hospital1.5 km (1 mile)
Police stationGateshead Police Station700 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest MFG - Swallow Services Cashzone270 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 garden11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,900 m²150 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Draughts' Garden 27 ha760 m (0.5 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 130 m²340 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 7,350 m²930 m (0.6 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,450 m²370 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 11 parks and gardens, 43 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Chapel of St Edmund and Trinity Centre, a listed building (Grade I), 1 km (0.6 miles) north. 17 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Chapel of St Edmund and Trinity CentreListed building, Grade I1 km (0.6 miles) north
Saltwell ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Newcastle Swing BridgeScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Newcastle upon Tyne town defences: section of curtain wall including Closegate and Water TowerScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Old Tyne Bridge (land arches)Scheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Quarry PlantationWood1 km (0.6 miles) south
Saltwell Park GroveWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Millers HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
Ouseburn ValleyValley2.3 km (1.4 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 69150
60 to 6470
55 to 5950
Under 552148

27 of the street's 48 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
South Street Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11160 m Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Caedmon Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11590 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead Roman CatholicPrimary4–11630 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Bede Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Kelvin Grove Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 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 CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Carr Hill Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Brighton Avenue Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 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
St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Low Fell Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bensham Grove Nursery SchoolNursery0–51.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Gateshead College16 plus16–991.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

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/nightclub60 m5 Very good4 Nov 2025
The Globe Hotel NE8 3TRHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house60 m5 Very good4 Nov 2025
Gateshead School Catering at South Street Primary School NE8 4BDSchool/college/university90 m5 Very good21 Nov 2025
Soka Superstore NE8 4BDRetailers - other90 m5 Very good12 May 2026
Durham House Hotel NE8 4APHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house200 m5 Very good20 Jan 2026
CurrynChips NE8 4BPTakeaway/sandwich shop200 mAwaiting inspection
Hams Global Ltd NE8 4BPRetailers - other210 mAwaiting inspection
Greggs NE8 4BQRetailers - other270 m5 Very good19 Jul 2024
J M Stores NE8 3TTRetailers - other290 m5 Very good17 Sep 2025
St Marks Court NE8 3SAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good28 Sep 2026
CASTLE GRILL LTD NE8 4EJTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m4 Good11 Jun 2026
The Imperial Express NE8 3TSTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m4 Good12 Jan 2026
Happy Chef NE8 3TSTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m4 Good10 Dec 2024
RENWICK STORES NE8 4BQRetailers - other330 m5 Very good19 Jun 2024
K&A Pharmacy NE8 4BQRetailers - other330 m5 Very good12 Mar 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.

197 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences50
Other theft35
Anti-social behaviour34
Criminal damage and arson18
Shoplifting17
Public order15
Vehicle crime9
Burglary8
Drugs5
Other crime3
Possession of weapons2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near St Edmund'S Road (61); On or near Abbey Court (29); On or near Milvain Street (23); On or near Fife Street (21); On or near Jedburgh Close (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: 186 residents in 112 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 age5040
Children under 157%17%
Aged 65 and over31%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)16%61%
Owned outright7%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented64%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work40%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)16%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)12%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van43%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram6%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)90%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away0%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%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 3RS: 47 addresses of 49 in the postcode
  • NE8 3RP: 1 address of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Cross Street · Milvain Street · Milvain Street · Durham Place · Milvain Street · Abbey Court · Betjeman Mews · Fife Street · Cobden Terrace · Burney Villas · Richmond Court · Whitby Close

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.