The Watermark Blaydon, Gateshead

85 addresses across 4 postcodes (NE11), about 460 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 14929495.

  • 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 Gateshead costs £2,716 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 95% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is MetroCentre, about 690 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 380 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 1 to 6 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 40 of its 85 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Holmside Medical Group, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 530 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 41% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 12 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
Most recent sales (13)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Feb 2025UNIT 2, KEEL ROW NE11 9SZOther£285,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 May 2023UNIT 11, KEEL ROW NE11 9SZOther£768,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Dec 2020UNIT 3, KEEL ROW NE11 9SZOther£365,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Sep 2020UNIT 4, KEEL ROW NE11 9SZOther£230,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Mar 2019H M C HOUSE, UNIT 12 KEEL ROW NE11 9SZOther£564,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Sep 2018TELEVISION HOUSE NE11 9SZOther£137,358Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Feb 2018UNIT 3, KEEL ROW NE11 9SZOther£285,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Dec 2017UNIT 13, KEEL ROW NE11 9SZOther£720,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Sep 2017TYNE RIVER HOUSE NE11 9SZOther£2,544,285Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Jun 2017RICHMOND HOUSE NE11 9SZOther£3,559,250Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Mar 2017RICHMOND HOUSE NE11 9SZOther£1,170,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Mar 2017TELEVISION HOUSE NE11 9SZOther£1,470,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Jun 2014UNIT 7, KEEL ROW NE11 9SZOther£270,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Gateshead in 2026-27: Band D £2,716 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,811£2,112£2,414£2,716£3,319£3,923£4,526£5,432

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (74% of about 1,830 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 5 October 2026 to 7 October 2026: NORTHERN POWERGRID (NORTHEAST) PLC, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway, footpath (immediate - urgent works)

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
NE11 9SYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE11 9SZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
NE11 9SNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE11 9NHnot 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 85 addresses are between 1 m and 6 m above sea level (4 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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
NE11 9NH0%0%0%100%
NE11 9SN60%60%60%40%
NE11 9SY86%86%86%4%
NE11 9SZ95%95%95%5%

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 stationsMetroCentre 632,000 journeys in 2024–25690 m (0.4 miles)
Dunston 51,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.5 miles)
Blaydon 69,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.6 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Derwenthaugh Bridge Approach Metrocentre140 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Metrocentre690 m (0.4 miles)
Ferry terminalNewcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays14.7 km (9.2 miles)
Car parksTurkish Community Association Car Park1.8 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ionity Charging Station490 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL8.4 km (5.2 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Holmside Medical Group1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Asda Pharmacy420 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whickham View Dental Surgery1.2 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalNewcastle General Hospital2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationNorthumbria Police810 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest *Deposit & Withdrawal*Asda Gateshead, Gibside Way Cashzone330 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9.5 ha380 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,380 m²750 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.7 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2.4 ha1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 19 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is St John's Cemetery, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.6 km (1 mile) east.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
St John's CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.6 km (1 mile) east
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 6, Condercum Roman fort, BenwellScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) north
Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 5, sections of wall in playing field of Rutherford SchoolScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Hadrian's Wall vallum in wall mile 6, Benwell length of vallum of Hadrian's Wall in grounds of St Cuthbert's SchoolScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Westgate Hill CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km (1.8 miles) east
Battle of Newburn Ford 1640Registered battlefield4.9 km (3 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Derwent GutTidal water900 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Shibdon PondLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) west
Dunston HillHill2 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Lemington PointWetland2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Sugley DeneValley2.5 km (1.6 miles) north-west
Damhead WoodWood2.7 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)11.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.0205
Particles (PM10)9.94015

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 64110
55 to 59296
Under 554579

40 of the street's 85 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 6 from railways, 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 Gateshead: see them on the Gateshead 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
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Benwell Roman CatholicPrimary3–11860 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Bridgewater Primary SchoolPrimary3–11920 m (0.6 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
Atkinson Road Primary AcademyPrimary2–11940 m (0.6 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
West Newcastle AcademyPrimary3–111.1 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
St Johns Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Swalwell Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Canning Street Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Trinity Solutions Academy16 plus16–191.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Excelsior AcademyAll-through3–191.7 km (1 mile) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Cuthbert's High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Front Street Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Kingsmeadow Community SchoolSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Jan 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; Post-16 provision: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Cafe Meo's NE11 9SZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m4 Good21 Jul 2026
Padel Up - Tyneside NE11 9DJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 mAwaiting inspection
Ikea NE11 9XSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good18 Nov 2025
Aldi NE11 9XSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets290 m5 Very good30 May 2024
Buzz Bingo NE11 9XURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good13 Mar 2026
McDonalds NE11 9XURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good3 Feb 2025
Pizza Hut Restaurants - Dine In NE11 9XURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good30 Sep 2026
Krispy Kreme NE11 9XUTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good9 Oct 2024
BattleKart NE11 9DJPub/bar/nightclub350 m5 Very good25 Jun 2025
Greggs NE11 9BTRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good29 Jan 2025
The Range NE11 9BTRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Sep 2024
Team Sport NE15 6UXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Jun 2024
Panku Streetfood NE11 9YATakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Oct 2025
Costa Coffee NE11 9YARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 May 2026
Asda Stores Limited NE11 9YARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Apr 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.

12 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour6
Other theft2
Vehicle crime2
Criminal damage and arson1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Watermark (5); On or near Petrol Station (4); On or near Riverside Way (3).

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: 534 residents in 264 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 age3940
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)41%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented44%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)12%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)13%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van41%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: NORTHERN POWERGRID (NORTHEAST) PLC: Utility repair and maintenance works, 5 October 2026 to 9 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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.

  • NE11 9SY: 38 addresses of 43 in the postcode
  • NE11 9SZ: 32 addresses of 36 in the postcode
  • NE11 9SN: 14 addresses of 16 in the postcode
  • NE11 9NH: 1 address of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

The Watermark · Bankside · Scotswood View · Metro Retail Park · Gibside Way · Riverside Way · Delta Bank Road · Delta Bank Road

All the streets in NE11 and across Gateshead.

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.