Passfield Way Peterlee, County Durham

31 addresses across 11 postcodes (SR8), about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 11908442.

  • Flood: 21 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 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 Horden, about 3.1 km (1.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 210 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 107 to 127 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 18 of its 31 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is William Brown Centre, about 1.5 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 2,110 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 68% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 37 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 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 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 A (64% of about 1,890 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 3 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: 2.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

Started, not reported finished by 30 September 2026

  • 28 August 2026 to 26 October 2026: NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway, verge, cycleway (major works)

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 17 August 2026 to 19 October 2026: NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway, verge (major (paa) works)
  • 1 September 2026 to 31 October 2026: DURHAM COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the verge (major (paa) works)
  • 1 October 2026: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway, verge, footpath (minor works)
  • 8 March 2027 to 30 March 2027: NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (major works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 28 August 2026: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER, Utility asset works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 10 August 2026 to 11 August 2026: DURHAM COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the carriageway, 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, 10 at medium risk and 23 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
SR8 1BFnot in 2 or 3
SR8 1AUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SR8 1NXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SR8 1EDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely
SR8 2NRnot in 2 or 3 9 / 4 / 8 unlikely
SR8 1HJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SR8 1QHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
SR8 1DEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SR8 1QLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SR8 1QPnot in 2 or 3 2 / 5 / 8 unlikely
SR8 2NJnot 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 31 addresses are between 107 m and 127 m above sea level (119 m on average); the ground rises about 20 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
SR8 1AU100%100%100%0%
SR8 1BF50%50%50%0%
SR8 1DE100%58%58%0%
SR8 1ED100%100%100%0%
SR8 1HJ100%89%89%0%
SR8 1NX100%50%50%0%
SR8 1QH100%100%100%0%
SR8 1QL100%100%100%0%
SR8 1QP100%100%100%0%
SR8 2NJ100%0%0%0%
SR8 2NR100%86%86%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 stationsHorden 165,000 journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Seaham 165,000 journeys in 2024–259.8 km (6.1 miles)
Hartlepool 714,000 journeys in 2024–2511.8 km (7.3 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 36 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shotton Hall School Peterlee30 m
Bus or coach stationPeterlee Bus Station Stand H1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Car parksNFS 360 Connect - Depot Parking2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station460 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsTeesside International Airport MME27.4 km (17 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest William Brown Centre1.5 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots1.5 km (0.9 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.4 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalPeterlee Community Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationPeterlee Police Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machinesATM1.5 km (0.9 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.1 ha210 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,700 m²470 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7.5 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 5,130 m²1.8 km (1.1 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 9.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Pasmore Pavilion, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 400 m (0.2 miles) east. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pasmore PavilionRegistered park or garden, Grade II400 m (0.2 miles) east
Apollo PavilionListed building, Grade II*440 m (0.3 miles) east
The Castle, Castle EdenRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Deserted medieval village, moated site, and early medieval timber building at Castle Eden, 200m south of The CastleScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Foolish HillHill580 m (0.4 miles) south
Gunner's PoolLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) south
Wapping PlantationWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Sunny BluntsValley1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Edderacres DeneValley1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Dene MouthBay4.3 km (2.7 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)6.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)10.84015

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
75 dB or more10
60 to 64130
55 to 5940
Under 551331

18 of the street's 31 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
Shotton Hall Primary SchoolPrimary4–11130 m No published inspection
The Academy at Shotton HallSecondary11–16180 m Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Bede's Catholic School and Byron Sixth Form College Roman CatholicSecondary11–18750 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Howletch Lane Primary SchoolPrimary2–11860 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11910 m (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
East Durham College16 plus14–991.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Acre Rigg Infant SchoolPrimary2–71.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Acre Rigg AcademyPrimary7–111.8 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
Shotton Hall Primary School SR8 1NXSchool/college/university80 m5 Very good26 Mar 2025
Shotton Hall SR8 2PHHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house320 m5 Very good28 Sep 2022
Hearts of Oak SR8 1EXPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Jul 2025
Sizzlers SR8 1EXTakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Mar 2026
Domino's Pizza SR8 1BFTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Mar 2025
Sainsbury's SR8 1BFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Nov 2025
Greggs SR8 1BFTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 May 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.

37 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences18
Anti-social behaviour5
Other crime5
Criminal damage and arson4
Public order4
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Lorimers Close (20); On or near Waveney Road (7); On or near Orwell Close (6); On or near Van Mildert Close (3); On or near Passfield Way (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 7 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 2,107 residents in 942 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 age4840
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)68%61%
Owned outright39%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)50%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 9 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.

  • SR8 1BF: 9 addresses
  • SR8 1AU: 4 addresses
  • SR8 1NX: 4 addresses of 8 in the postcode
  • SR8 1ED: 3 addresses of 17 in the postcode
  • SR8 2NR: 3 addresses of 53 in the postcode
  • SR8 1HJ: 2 addresses of 12 in the postcode
  • SR8 1QH: 2 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • SR8 1DE: 1 address of 27 in the postcode
  • SR8 1QL: 1 address of 7 in the postcode
  • SR8 1QP: 1 address of 59 in the postcode
  • SR8 2NJ: 1 address of 34 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lorimers Close · Waveney Road · Van Mildert Close · Pennine Drive · Orwell Close · Cherwell Road · Leven Walk · Skerne Close · Welland Close · Girton Close · Severn Close · Brecon Close

All the streets in SR8 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.