Riverside Row Gateshead

12 addresses across 3 postcodes (NE8), about 140 m long. USRN 14923654.

  • Sales: 16 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £305,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4).
  • Flood: 5 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 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 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 80 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 4 to 6 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 12 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Second Street Surgery, about 860 m (0.5 miles) away, with 9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 50% of households owned their home and 67% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 79 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20231£305,000£305,000£305,000
20182£243,975£238,000£249,950
20171£245,000£245,000£245,000
20151£230,000£230,000£230,000
20141£232,000£232,000£232,000
20096£208,000£196,500£215,000
20084£224,998£200,000£230,000
Most recent sales (16)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Aug 20234 NE8 2GXTerraced£305,000Leasehold.
10 Aug 20189 NE8 2GXTerraced£238,000Leasehold.
15 Jun 20187 NE8 2GXTerraced£249,950Leasehold.
23 Jun 20175 NE8 2GXTerraced£245,000Leasehold.
27 Nov 20154 NE8 2GXTerraced£230,000Leasehold.
16 Apr 20141 NE8 2GXTerraced£232,000Leasehold.
12 Dec 20098 NE8 2GXTerraced£210,000New build. Leasehold.
28 Nov 20097 NE8 2GXTerraced£210,000New build. Leasehold.
12 Mar 200910 NE8 2GXSemi-detached£215,000New build. Leasehold.
27 Feb 20096 NE8 2GXTerraced£205,000New build. Leasehold.
27 Feb 20091 NE8 2GXTerraced£196,500New build. Leasehold.
10 Feb 20095 NE8 2GXTerraced£206,000New build. Leasehold.
19 Dec 20082 NE8 2GXTerraced£200,000New build. Leasehold.
30 Oct 20083 NE8 2GXTerraced£219,995New build. Leasehold.
26 Sep 20089 NE8 2GXTerraced£230,000New build. Leasehold.
23 Sep 20084 NE8 2GXTerraced£230,000New build. Leasehold.

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 May 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 132 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (3); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 2007-2011 (2); 1991-1995 (1); 2007 onwards (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (2); rented (private) (1).

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 (47% of about 1,200 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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, 5 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
NE8 2GXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
NE8 2GWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 5 / 0 unlikely
NE8 2GYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 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 12 addresses are between 4 m and 6 m above sea level (5 m on average).

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 2GW100%100%100%0%
NE8 2GX100%100%100%0%
NE8 2GY100%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 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Dunston 51,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Manors 64,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Underground, metro or tramCentral Station (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Gateshead (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.5 km (0.9 miles)
St James (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 45 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rose Street Teams190 m
Bus or coach stationNewcastle Coach Station Newcastle upon Tyne1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Ferry terminalNewcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays12 km (7.4 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Skinnerburn Road Car Park260 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fastned Charging Station650 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL9.7 km (6 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 surgeries9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Second Street Surgery860 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Allied Pharmacy Teams390 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bensham Dental Practice1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalBensham Hospital1.7 km (1 mile)
Police stationNorthumbria Police - Forth Banks Police Station1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machinesATM870 m (0.5 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,440 m²80 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 2.2 ha750 m (0.5 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 160 m²160 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.1 ha360 m
AllotmentsSandown Allotments 2.0 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 3.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Dunston Staiths, a scheduled monument, 430 m (0.3 miles) west. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Dunston StaithsScheduled monument430 m (0.3 miles) west
Newcastle upon Tyne town defences: section of curtain wall including Closegate and Water TowerScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Newcastle upon Tyne town defences: section of curtain wall and town ditch between Forth Street and Hanover StreetScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Westgate Hill CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
St John's CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Team GutTidal water740 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Saltwell Park GroveWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Dunston HillHill2.5 km (1.6 miles) south-west
Ouseburn ValleyValley2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-east
Shibdon PondLake or reservoir4.5 km (2.8 miles) west
St Anthony's PointWetland4.8 km (3 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)12.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.1205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

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
55 to 5910
Under 551112

1 of the street's 12 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 Aidan's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11610 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
NCG16 plus14–99900 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Bensham Grove Nursery SchoolNursery0–5910 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Philip Neri Catholic Primary School, Dunston Roman CatholicPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Brighton Avenue Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 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 Michael's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Riverside Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
North East Futures UTCSecondary14–191.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Our Lady and St Anne's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Paul's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Hawthorn Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Ashfield Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jun 2024, 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
Staiths Cafe Bar NE8 2BZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good26 Aug 2025
Big Local Gateshead NE8 2LSRetailers - other360 m5 Very good10 Feb 2025
The Masters Gateshead NE8 2PWTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good25 Oct 2025
Teams Super Save Off License & Grocery NE8 2PWRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good16 Mar 2026
Teams Life Centre Cafe NE8 2PWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good28 Nov 2024

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.

79 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour36
Violence and sexual offences15
Criminal damage and arson11
Vehicle crime4
Public order4
Other crime3
Other theft2
Burglary1
Drugs1
Theft from the person1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Rose Street (29); On or near North West Side (18); On or near Autumn Drive (16); On or near Tynemouth Pass (7); On or near Fall Pass (5).

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: 304 residents in 189 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 159%17%
Aged 65 and over2%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)50%61%
Owned outright14%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented45%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work84%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)3%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van41%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)67%34%
No qualifications4%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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 2GX: 10 addresses
  • NE8 2GW: 1 address of 78 in the postcode
  • NE8 2GY: 1 address of 25 in the postcode

Nearby streets

North West Side · Christmas Place · Tynemouth Pass · Chrismas Place · Autumn Drive · North Side · Rose Street · Rose Street · Fall Pass · Summers Pass · Fleming Court · Duke Walk

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.