Spire View Humbledon, Sunderland

5 addresses across 1 postcode (SR3), about 290 m long. USRN 38762386.

  • Sales: 5 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £660,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (B: 4).
  • 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 C; Band D in Sunderland costs £2,197 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Sunderland, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Barnes Park, is about 340 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 84 to 89 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 5 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Broadway Medical Practice, about 780 m (0.5 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 29 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
20241£660,000£660,000£660,000
20212£535,000£450,000£620,000
20201£625,000£625,000£625,000
20181£225,000£225,000£225,000
Most recent sales (5)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Nov 20244 SR3 1AEDetached£660,000
12 Feb 20211 SR3 1AEDetached£450,000
12 Jan 20216 SR3 1AEDetached£620,000
23 Jun 20202 SR3 1AEDetached£625,000
21 Aug 20187 SR3 1AEDetached£225,000

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 August 2020 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 214 m². Most common: House, detached (4). Built: 2019 (1); 2023 (1); 2020 (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Sunderland in 2026-27: Band D £2,197 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,465£1,709£1,953£2,197£2,685£3,174£3,662£4,394

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (65% of about 630 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.

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.

© 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 5 addresses are between 84 m and 89 m above sea level (85 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
SR3 1AE100%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 stationsSunderland 709,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Seaham 165,000 journeys in 2024–257.1 km (4.4 miles)
Chester-Le-Street 232,000 journeys in 2024–2511.5 km (7.1 miles)
Underground, metro or tramUniversity (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Millfield (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 50 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Durham Road-Bede Centre Barnes Park90 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Sunderland2 km (1.3 miles)
Ferry terminalNewcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays11.6 km (7.2 miles)
Car parksSt Mary's Car Park2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Smart Charge Charging Station720 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL24.3 km (15 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 The Broadway Medical Practice780 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dixons Pharmacy830 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Westmount Dental Surgery910 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalSunderland Royal Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationGillbridge Police Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone560 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barnes Park 17 ha340 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Barnes Park 44 ha350 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,060 m²480 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.6 ha1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Canal Farm Allotments 3.3 ha430 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 63 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Defended settlement on Humbledon Hill, a scheduled monument, 60 m south-east. 14 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Defended settlement on Humbledon HillScheduled monument60 m south-east
Mowbray ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Humbledon HillHill110 m east
Newport DeneValley1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Newport HillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Gilleylaw PlantationWood1.6 km (1 mile) south
Potato GarthBeach3.8 km (2.4 miles) north-east
Polka HoleWetland4.2 km (2.6 miles) north-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)9.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.0205
Particles (PM10)9.64015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 5920
Under 5525

3 of the street's 5 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 Sunderland: see them on the Sunderland 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
City of Sunderland College16 plus16–99190 m No published inspection
Plains Farm AcademyPrimary3–11300 m No published inspection
Barnes Junior SchoolPrimary7–11680 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Barnes Infant AcademyPrimary3–7710 m (0.4 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Richard Avenue Primary SchoolPrimary3–11710 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Broadway Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Sandhill View AcademySecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Thornhill AcademySecondary11–161.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thorney Close Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Aidan's Catholic Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 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

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
Bede Campus, Sunderland College SR3 4AHSchool/college/university190 m5 Very good21 Mar 2024
Humbledon Fisheries SR3 4AWTakeaway/sandwich shop220 m5 Very good14 Feb 2024
Nawaab SR3 4AWTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m4 Good24 Jun 2025
Happy Valley SR3 4AWTakeaway/sandwich shop250 m5 Very good4 Dec 2025
Kids Planet Ettrick Grove SR3 4AWSchool/college/university250 m5 Very good30 Aug 2024
Plains Farm Academy Breakfast/After School Club SR3 1SUSchool/college/university300 m5 Very good14 May 2018
Plains Farm Academy SR3 1SUSchool/college/university300 m5 Very good29 Sep 2026
Apple Blossom Day Nursery - Durham Road SR3 4AGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m5 Very good17 Jun 2025
Humbledon And Plains Farm Club SR3 1SYPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)4 Good19 Jan 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.

29 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences10
Criminal damage and arson6
Public order3
Burglary3
Other crime3
Anti-social behaviour2
Shoplifting1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Sacriston Avenue (10); On or near Portland Square (6); On or near Tudor Grove (6); On or near Saxon Crescent (5); On or near Alpine Way (1).

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: 282 residents in 111 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 age4540
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)41%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)39%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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.

  • SR3 1AE: 5 addresses of 14 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Durham Road · Saxon Crescent · Alpine Way · Portland Square · Sacriston Avenue · Thomas Hawksley Park · Montrose Gardens · Horsley Grove · Stamford Avenue · Seaforth Road · Shaftesbury Crescent · Albyn Gardens

All the streets in SR3 and across Sunderland.

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.