The Spinney Easington, County Durham

40 addresses across 2 postcodes (SR8), about 200 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 11935125.

80 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £158,950 across 1 sale. 23 homes have an energy certificate (C: 12, D: 10, E: 1). No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in County Durham costs £2,622 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Horden, about 3.9 km away in a straight line. There is a small park or garden about 190 m away, and Oak Road Neighbourhood Park (2.7 hectares) is about 790 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 126 to 135 m above sea level. None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Southdene Medical Centre, about 3.1 km away. About 480 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 86% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 49 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£158,950£158,950£158,950
20232£192,500£165,000£220,000
20221£305,000£305,000£305,000
20211£185,000£185,000£185,000
20201£164,000£164,000£164,000
20193£182,500£157,000£249,950
20181£170,000£170,000£170,000
20152£186,250£155,000£217,500
20141£200,000£200,000£200,000
20131£180,000£180,000£180,000
20122£190,125£172,500£207,750
20112£149,000£135,000£163,000
Most recent sales (80)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 Apr 202411 SR8 3NXSemi-detached£158,950
29 Aug 202316 SR8 3NXDetached£170,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Apr 202323 SR8 3NXDetached£220,000
17 Mar 202310 SR8 3NXSemi-detached£165,000
30 Jun 202234 SR8 3NXDetached£305,000
19 Feb 202112 SR8 3NXDetached£185,000
20 Mar 202019 SR8 3NXDetached£164,000
1 Nov 20193 SR8 3NXDetached£249,950
2 Aug 201912 SR8 3NXDetached£182,500
16 Apr 20196 SR8 3NXDetached£157,000
27 Apr 20181 SR8 3NXDetached£170,000
19 Jun 20152 SR8 3NXDetached£155,000
22 May 201525 SR8 3NXDetached£217,500
11 Jul 201417 SR8 3NXDetached£200,000
13 Dec 201324 SR8 3NXDetached£180,000
23 Nov 201222 SR8 3NXDetached£207,750
1 Jun 20128 SR8 3NXDetached£172,500
24 Jun 201119 SR8 3NXDetached£163,000
6 May 201120 SR8 3NXSemi-detached£135,000
19 Nov 201030 SR8 3NXDetached£215,000
3 Sep 201012 SR8 3NXDetached£163,500
6 Aug 200922 SR8 3NXDetached£220,000
20 Dec 200723 SR8 3NXDetached£190,000
14 Dec 200724 SR8 3NXDetached£225,000
24 Aug 200713 SR8 3NXDetached£234,950
31 May 20072 SR8 3NXDetached£185,000
12 Jan 200725 SR8 3NXDetached£243,000
22 Sep 200610 SR8 3NXSemi-detached£152,000
19 May 200629 SR8 3NXSemi-detached£148,000
16 Dec 20058 SR8 3NXDetached£182,000
12 Nov 200432 SR8 3NXSemi-detached£148,500
10 Sep 200413 SR8 3NXDetached£193,000
24 Jun 200430 SR8 3NXDetached£199,950
30 Apr 200427 SR8 3NXDetached£154,000
16 Apr 20044 SR8 3NXDetached£160,000
7 Nov 200319 SR8 3NXDetached£130,000
12 Sep 200332 SR8 3NXSemi-detached£118,000
14 Feb 200337 SR8 3NXDetached£117,500
18 Oct 20023 SR8 3NXDetached£170,000
16 Oct 20029 SR8 3NXDetached£90,000
20 Sep 200223 SR8 3NXDetached£113,000
26 Jul 200224 SR8 3NXDetached£114,950New build.
10 Jun 20026 SR8 3NXDetached£105,000
28 Feb 200238 SR8 3NXDetached£129,950New build.
28 Feb 200213 SR8 3NXDetached£112,950New build.
22 Feb 200222 SR8 3NXDetached£118,950New build.
7 Dec 200117 SR8 3NXDetached£114,950New build.
14 Nov 20018 SR8 3NXDetached£89,950New build.
12 Nov 200119 SR8 3NXDetached£84,950New build.
2 Nov 200121 SR8 3NXDetached£72,950New build.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from January 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

23 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 99 m². Most common: House, detached (18); House, semi-detached (3); Bungalow, detached (2). Built: 1996-2002 (15); 2003-2006 (6); 1991-1995 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in County Durham in 2026-27: Band D £2,622 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,748£2,039£2,331£2,622£3,205£3,788£4,370£5,244

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (25% of about 890 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 22 August 2026: BT, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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, 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
SR8 3NXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SR8 3FDnot 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 40 addresses are between 126 m and 135 m above sea level (131 m on average); the ground rises about 10 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
SR8 3FD100%100%100%0%
SR8 3NX100%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 stationsHorden 165,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km
Seaham 165,000 journeys in 2024–256.0 km
Sunderland 709,000 journeys in 2024–2513.4 km
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m, 19 within 800 m; nearest Church Easington Village130 m
Bus or coach stationPeterlee Bus Station Stand A3.2 km
Car parksNFS 360 Connect - Depot Parking1.4 km
EV charging pointsMer2.5 km
Airport with scheduled flightsTeesside International Airport MME31.1 km
Nearest large airportNewcastle International Airport NCL35.3 km

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 surgeriesSouthdene Medical Centre3.1 km
PharmaciesEasington Pharmacy1.8 km
NHS dentistsDental Surgery1.8 km
HospitalPeterlee Community Hospital3.8 km
Police stationDurham Police - Easington Police Office910 m
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest ATM230 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 garden3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha190 m
Largest park within 800 mOak Road Neighbourhood Park 2.7 ha790 m
Play area1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 670 m²250 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 8,310 m²550 m
Allotments3 within 800 m; nearest Sunderland Road Allotments 2.2 ha350 m

Within 800 m: 3 parks and gardens, 4.3 hectares in all.

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)6.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
Under 554040

None of the street's 40 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road or rail traffic.

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
Rosemary Lane Nursery SchoolNursery2–5110 m Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Easington CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11270 m Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Easington AcademySecondary11–16500 m No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Easington Colliery Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Go Local Extra Easington SR8 3ATRetailers - other190 m3 Generally satisfactory18 Mar 2026
The Miners Lamp SR8 3ASRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good21 Jan 2026
Premier - Easington Village Convenience Store SR8 3AURetailers - other230 m5 Very good30 Jun 2025
Half Moon Inn SR8 3AZPub/bar/nightclub310 m4 Good6 Oct 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.

49 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences20
Anti-social behaviour13
Other theft6
Public order4
Criminal damage and arson2
Robbery2
Burglary1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Sunderland Road (20); On or near The Spinney (9); On or near Rosemary Lane (6); On or near Fennel Grove (6); On or near Church Walk (3).

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: 483 residents in 204 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 age4040
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)86%61%
Owned outright36%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)43%65%
Work 30 km or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)38%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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

Cadwell Lane · Rosemary Lane · Essyn Court · Cliff Terrace · Church Walk · Parsley Close · Parsley Close · Victoria Mews · Sunderland Road · South Side · Kings Mews · Clappersgate

All the streets in SR8 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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

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