The Galleries Town Centre, Sunderland

293 addresses across 15 postcodes (NE38), about 630 m (0.4 miles) long. USRN 38726010.

  • Sales: 6 recorded sales since 1995; in 2001 the median was £99,950 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 29 homes have an energy certificate (B: 9, C: 16, D: 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 A; Band D in Sunderland costs £2,197 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Heworth, about 5.9 km (3.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 470 m (0.3 miles) away, and The Princess Anne Park (43 hectares) is about 610 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 57 to 65 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 55 of its 300 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Galleries Medical Practice, about 260 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 550 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 39% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 150 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20011£99,950£99,950£99,950
19981£72,000£72,000£72,000
19961£62,500£62,500£62,500
Most recent sales (6)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
8 Mar 2024GALA CLUBS NE38 7SBOther£2,500,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jan 2022SAINSBURYS SUPERMARKET NE38 7RUOther£26,757,316Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Dec 2014GALA CLUBS NE38 7SBOther£6,710,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Jul 200136 NE38 7SBFlat or maisonette£99,950Leasehold.
20 Mar 199836 NE38 7SBFlat or maisonette£72,000Leasehold.
22 Mar 199636 NE38 7SBFlat or maisonette£62,500Leasehold.

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 2022 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

29 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 24 m². Most common: Flat (29). Built: 1976-1982 (23); 1967-1975 (3); 1983-1990 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (29).

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (42% of about 1,420 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 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 1 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
NE38 7RTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE38 7SAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE38 7SDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE38 7STnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE38 7RRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE38 7SBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE38 7NFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE38 7RUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE38 7RWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE38 7NQnot in 2 or 3
NE38 7RXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE38 7RYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
NE38 7RZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE38 7SHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE38 7SQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 300 addresses are between 57 m and 65 m above sea level (60 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
NE38 7NF0%0%0%0%
NE38 7NQ0%0%0%100%
NE38 7RR0%0%0%67%
NE38 7RT0%0%0%81%
NE38 7RU33%0%0%33%
NE38 7RW21%0%0%64%
NE38 7RX0%0%0%100%
NE38 7RY0%0%0%100%
NE38 7RZ0%0%0%100%
NE38 7SA0%0%0%100%
NE38 7SB0%0%0%100%
NE38 7SD0%0%0%91%
NE38 7SH0%0%0%100%
NE38 7SQ0%0%0%100%
NE38 7ST0%0%0%100%

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 stationsHeworth 46,000 journeys in 2024–255.9 km (3.6 miles)
Chester-Le-Street 232,000 journeys in 2024–256 km (3.7 miles)
Dunston 51,000 journeys in 2024–259 km (5.6 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sainsbury's Car Park B Washington50 m
Bus or coach stationGalleries Bus Station Washington290 m
Ferry terminalNewcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays11.4 km (7.1 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Galleries Shopping Centre Car Park410 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge400 m (0.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL18.3 km (11 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Galleries Medical Practice260 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots220 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Galleries Health Centre260 m
HospitalSpire Washington Hospital3 km (1.9 miles)
Police stationWashington Police Station270 m
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine The Galleries Halifax160 m

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 8.5 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)The Princess Anne Park 43 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 480 m²480 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha460 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,300 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 57 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Lodge to West of Washington Old Hall, a listed building (Grade I), 870 m (0.5 miles) east. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lodge to West of Washington Old HallListed building, Grade I870 m (0.5 miles) east
Washington Old HallListed building, Grade I900 m (0.6 miles) east
Colliery engine house at Washington F Pit, AlbanyScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cube PlantationWood1.6 km (1 mile) west
Match IslandIsland2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Lookout LakeLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Bowes LakeLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Sheddon's HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Longacre DeneValley3.8 km (2.4 miles) 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)10.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)10.24015

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 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 64330
55 to 59220
Under 55245300

55 of the street's 300 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), 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
Wessington Primary SchoolPrimary2–11370 m No published inspection
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Washington Roman CatholicPrimary3–11670 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Biddick Primary SchoolPrimary3–11720 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John Boste Catholic Primary School, Washington Roman CatholicPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Albany Village Primary SchoolPrimary3–11860 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Oxclose Primary AcademyPrimary4–11920 m (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oxclose Nursery SchoolNursery2–41 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
Washington AcademySecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Oxclose Community AcademySecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
John F Kennedy Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; 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
Blackfell Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Feb 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: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Lambton Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 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
Tim Horton's NE38 7RWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good21 Nov 2025
Sainsbury's NE38 7RURetailers - other160 m5 Very good26 Apr 2017
Boots NE38 7RTRetailers - other190 mAwaiting inspection
McDonalds NE38 7SBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good21 Nov 2025
Cooplands NE38 7SARetailers - other190 m5 Very good20 Nov 2024
Asda NE38 7NFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets190 m4 Good9 Feb 2026
Sainsbury's NE38 7RURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets190 m5 Very good7 Jul 2026
Iceland NE38 7SARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets190 m5 Very good26 Apr 2024
Savers Drugstores NE38 7SARetailers - other190 mExempt
Buzz Bingo NE38 7SBPub/bar/nightclub190 m5 Very good4 Dec 2024
Hollywood Bowl Washington NE38 7SBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good10 Sep 2026
Aldi Foodstores Ltd. NE38 7RWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets190 m5 Very good28 Jan 2020
Gillies Restaurant Wash Ltd NE38 7SARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good10 Oct 2025
Holland & Barrett NE38 7SARetailers - other190 mExempt
Muffin Break NE38 7RTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m3 Generally satisfactory9 Jun 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.

150 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour45
Violence and sexual offences39
Criminal damage and arson19
Shoplifting17
Other theft10
Public order6
Vehicle crime5
Other crime4
Drugs2
Burglary1
Theft from the person1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Newstead Court (54); On or near Petrol Station (28); On or near Talley Court (23); On or near Parking Area (21); On or near Thornton Court (18).

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: 551 residents in 278 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 age4640
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over29%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)39%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented38%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)85%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 4 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.

Nearby streets

Thornton Court · Talley Court · Byland Court · The Galleries Retail Park · Princess Anne Court · Cleeve Court · Lanercost · Princess Anne Court · Parkway · Gertrude Court · Bede Crescent · Dene Court

All the streets in NE38 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.