Selset Close Startforth, County Durham

17 addresses across 1 postcode (DL12), about 230 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 11601272.

18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £225,000 across 1 sale. 16 homes have an energy certificate (B: 16). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in County Durham costs £2,622 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. 167 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
20251£225,000£225,000£225,000
20246£209,620£165,296£308,745
20239£235,995£166,250£326,995
20222£211,495£154,995£267,995
Most recent sales (18)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 Dec 202528 DL12 9BXSemi-detached£225,000
26 Sep 202431 DL12 9BXSemi-detached£170,995New build.
18 Apr 202433 DL12 9BXSemi-detached£165,296New build.
28 Mar 202428 DL12 9BXSemi-detached£214,995New build.
28 Mar 202427 DL12 9BXSemi-detached£204,245New build.
18 Mar 202429 DL12 9BXSemi-detached£214,995New build.
9 Feb 202420 DL12 9BXDetached£308,745New build.
21 Dec 202332 DL12 9BXSemi-detached£166,250New build.
31 Aug 202326 DL12 9BXSemi-detached£235,995New build.
31 Jul 202322 DL12 9BXSemi-detached£185,995New build.
30 Jun 202321 DL12 9BXDetached£326,995New build.
31 May 202323 DL12 9BXSemi-detached£185,995New build.
31 May 202324 DL12 9BXSemi-detached£181,995New build.
31 Mar 202316 DL12 9BXDetached£304,995New build.
30 Mar 202317 DL12 9BXDetached£309,995New build.
30 Mar 202318 DL12 9BXDetached£264,995New build.
22 Dec 20223 DL12 9BXDetached£267,995New build.
22 Dec 202215 DL12 9BXSemi-detached£154,995New build.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2022 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 64 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (13); House, detached (3). Built: 2023 (8); 2022 (8).

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (26% of about 1,280 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 1.0 km

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

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
DL12 9BX100%100%100%0%

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 31 October 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 Mary's Catholic Primary School, Barnard Castle Roman CatholicPrimary3–11890 m Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Montalbo Nursery & Primary SchoolPrimary3–11920 m Outstanding (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Teesdale School and Sixth FormSecondary11–181.5 km No published inspection
Green Lane Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 31 October 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m of the middle of the street.

No rated food businesses within 500 m.

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.

167 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences75
Other crime69
Public order9
Drugs5
Criminal damage and arson5
Anti-social behaviour2
Other theft1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Burnhope Way (156); On or near Hisehope Close (3); On or near Tunstall Walk (3); On or near Flaxfield (3); On or near Grassholme Way (2).

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.

  • DL12 9BX: 17 addresses of 34 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Tunstall Walk · Grassholme Way · Deepdale Gardens · Hisehope Close · Burnhope Way · Bowes Way · Flaxfield · Startforth View · Deerbolt Bank · The Sills · Ullathorne Rise · Low Startforth Road

All the streets in DL12 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.
  • Anything about planning applications, roadworks, noise, air quality or council tax yet.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.