Rocket Way Longbenton, North Tyneside

120 addresses across 4 postcodes (NE12), about 530 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 28302205.

  • Sales: 31 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £159,950 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 91 homes have an energy certificate (C: 25, D: 63, E: 2, F: 1).
  • Flood: 22 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 North Tyneside costs £2,462 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Seaton Delaval, about 6 km (3.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 260 m away, and Springfield Park (2.7 hectares) is about 650 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 60 to 62 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 120 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Stephenson Park Health Group, about 920 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 820 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 54% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 144 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£159,950£159,950£159,950
20251£110,000£110,000£110,000
20241£135,000£135,000£135,000
20231£126,500£126,500£126,500
20221£85,000£85,000£85,000
20212£80,750£79,500£82,000
20192£97,500£95,000£100,000
20182£91,000£85,000£97,000
20171£75,000£75,000£75,000
20161£78,000£78,000£78,000
20111£50,000£50,000£50,000
20091£67,000£67,000£67,000
Most recent sales (31)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Jun 202687 NE12 9RJSemi-detached£90,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Jan 202638 NE12 9RLSemi-detached£159,950
4 Jul 202574 NE12 9RLTerraced£110,000
27 Jun 202449 NE12 9RJTerraced£113,750Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Feb 202442 NE12 9RLSemi-detached£135,000
31 Jul 20236 NE12 9RLTerraced£126,500
25 Feb 202231 NE12 9RJTerraced£85,000
15 Nov 202174 NE12 9RLTerraced£79,500
11 Mar 202137 NE12 9RJSemi-detached£82,000
21 Mar 201942 NE12 9RLSemi-detached£95,000
20 Mar 201966 NE12 9RLSemi-detached£100,000
20 Sep 201868 NE12 9RLTerraced£85,000
11 May 20186 NE12 9RLTerraced£97,000
4 Dec 201797 NE12 9RJSemi-detached£75,000
25 Aug 201666 NE12 9RLSemi-detached£78,000
10 Jul 201510 NE12 9RLSemi-detached£70,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Dec 201338 NE12 9RLSemi-detached£59,950Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Dec 2011109 NE12 9RJSemi-detached£50,000
1 Apr 200968 NE12 9RLTerraced£67,000
13 Mar 2008109 NE12 9RJSemi-detached£69,000
5 Jul 200749 NE12 9RJTerraced£80,000
16 Oct 2006103 NE12 9RJTerraced£75,000
10 Feb 200324 NE12 9RLSemi-detached£13,500
31 Jan 2003103 NE12 9RJTerraced£35,000
1 Aug 200297 NE12 9RJSemi-detached£38,950
31 May 200210 NE12 9RLSemi-detached£31,000
22 Nov 200187 NE12 9RJSemi-detached£34,000
13 Apr 200049 NE12 9RJTerraced£29,950
26 Jul 199951 NE12 9RJSemi-detached£32,500
16 Jun 199944 NE12 9RLSemi-detached£32,500
6 Dec 1996135 NE12 9RJTerraced£26,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

91 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 74 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (39); House, end-terrace (26); House, mid-terrace (26). Built: 1950-1966 (56); 1930-1949 (34); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (57); owner-occupied (19); rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (50 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in North Tyneside in 2026-27: Band D £2,462 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,641£1,915£2,188£2,462£3,009£3,556£4,103£4,924

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (73% of about 740 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 7 September 2026 to 8 September 2026: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 4 August 2026: NORTH TYNESIDE COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (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, 16 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 22 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
NE12 9RJnot in 2 or 3 12 / 5 / 13 unlikely
NE12 9RLnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 2 unlikely
NE12 9APnot in 2 or 3 2 / 1 / 6 unlikely
NE12 9RPnot 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 120 addresses are between 60 m and 62 m above sea level (61 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
NE12 9AP100%100%100%0%
NE12 9RJ100%100%100%0%
NE12 9RL100%100%100%0%
NE12 9RP100%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 stationsSeaton Delaval 73,000 journeys in 2024–256 km (3.7 miles)
Manors 64,000 journeys in 2024–256.4 km (4 miles)
Newcastle 11 million journeys in 2024–257.2 km (4.5 miles)
Underground, metro or tramPalmersville (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)830 m (0.5 miles)
Benton (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Meadway-Otterburn Close Forest Hall130 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Killingworth1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Ferry terminalNorth Shields Ferry Terminal7.2 km (4.5 miles)
Car parksKillingworth Car Park1.9 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL8.9 km (5.5 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 Stephenson Park Health Group920 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots820 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentistsUnit 20-211.8 km (1.1 miles)
HospitalEndoscopy Cobalt Hospital2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationWallsend Police Station3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM430 m (0.3 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 1.3 ha260 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Springfield Park 2.7 ha650 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,160 m²190 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7.6 ha140 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Clousden Drive Allotments 1.1 ha470 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 3.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
CamperdownHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) north
Wallsend DeneValley3.1 km (1.9 miles) south-east
Gosforth WoodWood3.2 km (2 miles) north-west
Gosforth LakeLake or reservoir3.3 km (2 miles) west
Black PlantationWood3.7 km (2.3 miles) west
Willington GutTidal water4.5 km (2.8 miles) south-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)11.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.1205
Particles (PM10)9.44015

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, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59100
Under 55119120120

1 of the street's 120 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 North Tyneside: see them on the North Tyneside 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
Forest Hall Primary SchoolPrimary3–11240 m Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Marys Catholic Primary School, Forest Hall Roman CatholicPrimary4–11870 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Benton Dene Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Longbenton High SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Westmoor Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
George Stephenson High SchoolSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Bartholomew's Church of England Primary School (Aided)Primary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Stephen's Catholic Primary School, Newcastle Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Holystone Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Redesdale Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Amberley Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Wallsend Jubilee Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 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
Forest Hall Primary School NE12 9APSchool/college/university180 m5 Very good22 Jun 2026
Premier Meadway News NE12 9RPRetailers - other180 m5 Very good3 Jun 2026
Park View Care Home NE12 9QNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m5 Very good26 Aug 2025
Aldi NE12 9EWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Jun 2026
Nugents News And Nosh NE12 9ESRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Jun 2026
Palmersville Chippy NE12 9EYTakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good13 Aug 2025
Pearl Chinese Takeaway NE12 9EYTakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good17 Feb 2026
Ashfield Court NE12 9DHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Jul 2026
Forest Hall Ex Servicemen Institute NE12 9ARPub/bar/nightclub430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Jan 2026
Dhikshika Convenience Store NE12 9DJRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Apr 2025
Meet And Eat NE12 9SZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Mar 2026
Sprinkled Retailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Feb 2025
Belta Butties Mobile caterer480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Mar 2025
Parm-O-Rama NE12 9SZOther catering premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Mar 2026
The Big Banh NE12 9SZMobile caterer480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Oct 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.

144 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences43
Anti-social behaviour33
Public order18
Criminal damage and arson15
Burglary11
Other crime6
Vehicle crime5
Other theft5
Drugs3
Possession of weapons2
Shoplifting1
Robbery1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Otterburn Close (40); On or near Rocket Way (30); On or near Farne Road (19); On or near Mead Court (16); On or near Mead Way (13).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 823 residents in 362 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 age4040
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)54%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented36%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus11%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)84%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%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.

  • NE12 9RJ: 79 addresses of 80 in the postcode
  • NE12 9RL: 38 addresses of 39 in the postcode
  • NE12 9AP: 2 addresses of 53 in the postcode
  • NE12 9RP: 1 address of 41 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lilac Avenue · Otterburn Close · Boston Court · Mead Crescent · Elsdon Drive · Meadway Drive · Mead Court · Felton Drive · Mead Way · Beal Drive · Park Drive · Amble Place

All the streets in NE12 and across North Tyneside.

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.