Springfield Park Durham

40 addresses across 3 postcodes (DH1), about 340 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 11713369.

  • Sales: 30 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £390,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 5, E: 3).
  • Flood: 4 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 D; Band D in County Durham costs £2,622 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 3% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Durham, about 940 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Wharton Park, is about 750 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 84 to 105 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 17 of its 40 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Chastleton Medical Group, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 700 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 68% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 5 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often burglary.

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£390,000£390,000£390,000
20232£600,750£506,500£695,000
20201£490,000£490,000£490,000
20191£355,000£355,000£355,000
20182£389,875£317,250£462,500
20161£360,000£360,000£360,000
20121£267,500£267,500£267,500
20111£249,950£249,950£249,950
20081£350,000£350,000£350,000
20071£290,000£290,000£290,000
20062£315,000£295,000£335,000
20053£310,000£26,500£325,000
Most recent sales (30)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
8 Jan 202421 DH1 4LSDetached£390,000
2 Jun 2023WELLSPRINGS, 4 DH1 4LSDetached£695,000
28 Apr 20237 DH1 4LSDetached£506,500
24 Nov 2020FERNLEA DH1 4LSDetached£490,000
19 Dec 20198 DH1 4LSDetached£355,000
13 Jul 20182 DH1 4LSDetached£317,250
15 Jun 2018SPRINGFIELD DH1 4LSSemi-detached£462,500
30 Sep 2016PETTYFOGGERS, 6 DH1 4LSDetached£360,000
17 Feb 2012WELLSPRINGS, 4 DH1 4LSDetached£267,500
1 Jul 201120 DH1 4LSDetached£249,950
18 Jan 20089 DH1 4LSDetached£350,000
3 Oct 200715 DH1 4LSDetached£290,000
13 Apr 2006EAST VIEW DH1 4LSDetached£335,000
13 Apr 20069 DH1 4LSDetached£295,000
28 Sep 2005GREENWOOD DH1 4LSDetached£325,000
26 Sep 200515 DH1 4LSDetached£26,500
8 Aug 20055 DH1 4LSDetached£310,000
18 Nov 20041 DH1 4LSDetached£295,000
14 Jun 200420 DH1 4LSDetached£270,000
15 Mar 20041 DH1 4LSDetached£304,950
16 Aug 2002EAST VIEW DH1 4LSDetached£225,000
14 Jun 20026 DH1 4LSDetached£195,000
15 Aug 20017 DH1 4LSDetached£185,000
17 Mar 200017 DH1 4LSDetached£150,000
21 Dec 199918 DH1 4LSDetached£120,000
24 Aug 1999ACORN HOUSE DH1 4LSDetached£155,850
30 Jun 19994 DH1 4LSDetached£149,000
31 Mar 1999HILLCREST DH1 4LSDetached£249,500
19 Dec 199621 DH1 4LSDetached£130,000
23 Jul 1996DUNELM GARTH DH1 4LSDetached£182,500

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

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 176 m². Most common: House, detached (11); Bungalow, detached (3). Built: 1967-1975 (7); 1950-1966 (3); 1991-1995 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (28% of about 2,340 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 8 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
DH1 4LSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
DH1 4HSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DH1 4LRnot in 2 or 3 1 / 3 / 7 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 40 addresses are between 84 m and 105 m above sea level (91 m on average); the ground rises about 21 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
DH1 4HS100%100%100%0%
DH1 4LR100%100%100%0%
DH1 4LS100%3%3%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 stationsDurham 2.8 million journeys in 2024–25940 m (0.6 miles)
Chester-Le-Street 232,000 journeys in 2024–258 km (5 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Whitesmocks Durham130 m
Bus or coach stationJohnston School Bus Park Crossgate Moor550 m (0.3 miles)
Car parksNational Car Parks1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station780 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL29 km (18 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 Chastleton Medical Group1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots1.4 km (0.9 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Castle View Surgery LTD1.2 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalUniversity Hospital Of North Durham550 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationDurham Constabulary Headquarters1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Durham Framwellgate Moor, Framwellgate Moor Cashzone1 km (0.6 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wharton Park 5.0 ha750 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,030 m²760 m (0.5 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 4.2 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,820 m²300 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 5.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Maiden's Bower round cairn, a scheduled monument, 600 m (0.4 miles) south-east. 20 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Maiden's Bower round cairnScheduled monument600 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Aykley HeadsListed building, Grade II*670 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Redhills Durham Miners HallListed building, Grade II*820 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Battle of Neville's Cross 1346Registered battlefield900 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Railway Viaduct and Drinking Fountain AttachedListed building, Grade II*930 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Neville's CrossScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) south
Aldin Grange (or Bearpark) BridgeScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Durham Castle and CathedralWorld Heritage Site1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Old Durham GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Flass ValeWood410 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Crossgate MoorWood560 m (0.3 miles) south
Shaw WoodWood630 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Windy HillHill750 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Count's CornerLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Deerness ValleyValley2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-west

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)8.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)8.94015

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
70 to 7440
65 to 6940
60 to 6420
55 to 5970
Under 552340

17 of the street's 40 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 County Durham: see them on the County Durham 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
Durham Johnston Comprehensive SchoolSecondary11–18470 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Leonard's Catholic School, Durham Roman CatholicSecondary11–18490 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Neville's Cross Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
New College Durham16 plus16–991.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Margaret's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Durham Sixth Form Centre16 plus16–191.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Framwellgate Moor Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Framwellgate School DurhamSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
St Godric's Catholic Primary School, Durham Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Nov 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Durham Newton Hall Infants' SchoolPrimary3–71.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Blue Coat CofE (Aided) Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–112 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
HC-One No 2 Ltd - Melbury Court DH1 5SEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good10 Nov 2025
Durham Johnston School 4200 DH1 4SUSchool/college/university450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Dec 2025

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.

5 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Burglary3
Vehicle crime1
Violence and sexual offences1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Springfield Park (2); On or near Bishops Gate (1); On or near Springwell Avenue (1); On or near Fieldhouse Lane (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 704 residents in 286 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 age4440
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright48%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)48%32%
Travel to work by car or van37%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)40%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)68%34%
No qualifications5%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 neighbourhoods around this street are all 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.

  • DH1 4LS: 34 addresses
  • DH1 4HS: 5 addresses of 21 in the postcode
  • DH1 4LR: 1 address of 42 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Springwell Road · Club Lane · Fieldhouse Lane · Newcastle Road · Whitesmocks Avenue · Flassburn Road · Whitesmocks · The Grove · Bishops Gate · Springwell Avenue · Beechways · Larches Road

All the streets in DH1 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.
  • 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.