Shield Court Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne

45 addresses across 2 postcodes (NE2), about 30 m long. USRN 8203672.

  • Energy: 42 homes have an energy certificate (B: 29, C: 13).
  • 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 Newcastle upon Tyne costs £2,542 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Manors, about 780 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 230 m away, and Ouseburn Park (2.3 hectares) is about 410 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 16.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 42 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 45 of its 45 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Saville Medical Group, about 680 m (0.4 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 16% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 188 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.

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 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

42 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 58 m². Most common: Flat (41); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 2016 (28); 1967-1975 (12); 2012 onwards (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (40 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Newcastle upon Tyne in 2026-27: Band D £2,542 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,695£1,977£2,260£2,542£3,107£3,672£4,237£5,084

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (60% of about 1,410 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): Jesmond and Heaton.
  • 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 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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 31 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
NE2 1XFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 30 unlikely
NE2 1YQnot 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 addresses are about 42 m above sea level.

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
NE2 1XF100%100%100%0%
NE2 1YQ100%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 stationsManors 64,000 journeys in 2024–25780 m (0.5 miles)
Newcastle 11 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Dunston 51,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Underground, metro or tramJesmond (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)510 m (0.3 miles)
Manors (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)650 m (0.4 miles)
Haymarket (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)870 m (0.5 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 54 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shield Street-Social Club Shieldfield30 m
Bus or coach stationHaymarket Bus Station Newcastle upon Tyne930 m (0.6 miles)
Ferry terminalNewcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays9.8 km (6.1 miles)
Car parks6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Osborne Terrace Car Park320 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apcoa Charging Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL8.6 km (5.4 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Saville Medical Group680 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shieldfield Pharmacy440 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists15 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Saville Dental Practice680 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalNuffield Hospital Newcastle Upon Tyne850 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationNewcastle Central Police Station870 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barclays ATM530 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 330 m²230 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Ouseburn Park 2.3 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,340 m²210 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.8 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chelmsford Grove Allotments 2,460 m²490 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 2.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is South Lodge, Gateway, Walls and Gates to Jesmond Cemetery, a listed building (Grade II*), 450 m (0.3 miles) north. 125 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 5 of them Grade I and 14 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
South Lodge, Gateway, Walls and Gates to Jesmond CemeteryListed building, Grade II*450 m (0.3 miles) north
Newcastle General CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II*460 m (0.3 miles) north
Christ Church and Hall AttachedListed building, Grade II*470 m (0.3 miles) south
Entrance Archway, Pair of Chapel Lodges, Walls and Gates to Jesmond CemeteryListed building, Grade II*510 m (0.3 miles) north
Church of St James With Hall, Sunday School and House AttachedListed building, Grade II*570 m (0.4 miles) west
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 4, sections of wall between Crawhall Road and Jubilee RoadScheduled monument710 m (0.4 miles) south
Newcastle upon Tyne town defences: section of curtain wall including Plummer Tower and a 17th century bastionScheduled monument780 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 2, Byker section of Hadrian's Wall and presumed site of milecastle 3 at Shields Road WestScheduled monument860 m (0.5 miles) south-east
St Andrews CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Jesmond ValeValley890 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Ouseburn ValleyValley920 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Millers HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Team GutTidal water3.6 km (2.2 miles) south-west
St Anthony's PointWetland3.8 km (2.4 miles) south-east
Quarry PlantationWood3.9 km (2.4 miles) south

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)16.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)11.04015

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, 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
65 to 69100
55 to 594400
Under 5504545

45 of the street's 45 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 Newcastle upon Tyne: see them on the Newcastle upon Tyne 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
Christ Church CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11480 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected 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
St Catherine's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11630 m (0.4 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
Hotspur Primary SchoolPrimary3–11640 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Heaton Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
West Jesmond Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Gateshead College16 plus16–991.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Byker Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Chillingham Road Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
North East Futures UTCSecondary14–191.7 km (1.1 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
St Lawrence's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Jesmond Park AcademySecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ravenswood Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 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
Shieldfield Community Nursery NE2 1ADSchool/college/university180 m5 Very good11 Mar 2025
Spar Sandyford NE2 1DDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets210 m2 Improvement necessary6 May 2026
Londis NE2 1DDRetailers - other230 m4 Good19 Jan 2026
Newtons coffee house NE2 1QURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good28 Apr 2026
Ai Fiori NE2 1QRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good22 Jun 2026
Cog and Wheel NE2 1QRPub/bar/nightclub260 m5 Very good6 Sep 2024
Morning cloud limited NE2 1QRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 mAwaiting inspection
Tesco NE2 1AARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets260 m5 Very good14 Aug 2025
Subway NE2 1AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 mAwaiting inspection
Agit NE2 1XURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good1 Sep 2026
Forum Cafe NE2 1XURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good13 Dec 2025
Dwellbeing Shieldfield @ the Forum Cafe Shieldfield NE2 1XURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good23 Jan 2026
Big River Bakery NE2 1XURetailers - other270 m5 Very good18 Nov 2025
Wretham plaice chippy NE2 1XUTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good13 Feb 2025
Master Chow Bakery NE2 1XURetailers - other270 mAwaiting inspection

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.

188 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour44
Violence and sexual offences40
Criminal damage and arson18
Vehicle crime16
Other theft16
Public order15
Burglary14
Shoplifting10
Other crime4
Bicycle theft3
Possession of weapons3
Drugs3
Robbery2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shield Street (37); On or near Sandyford Road (27); On or near Parking Area (24); On or near Coppice Way (23); On or near Byron Street (21).

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: 319 residents in 114 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 age2540
Children under 153%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)16%61%
Owned outright9%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented60%17%
Private rented24%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work36%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)22%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van36%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus17%8%
On foot or by bicycle26%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)86%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)30%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)83%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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.

  • NE2 1XF: 44 addresses of 45 in the postcode
  • NE2 1YQ: 1 address of 26 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Shield Street · Portland Road · Barker Street · Milton Close · Milton Green · Milton Place · Rosedale Terrace · Napier Street · Portland Mews · Gladstone Place · Helmsley Mews · Gladstone Terrace

All the streets in NE2 and across Newcastle upon Tyne.

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.