Villa Close Millfield, Sunderland

31 addresses across 2 postcodes (SR4), about 60 m long. USRN 38768850.

  • Energy: 29 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 28).
  • 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 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Sunderland, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Diamond Hall Pocket Park, is about 410 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 44 to 45 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 18 of its 31 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Wearside Medical Practice, about 460 m (0.3 miles) away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 410 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 38% of households owned their home and 51% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 163 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 October 2009 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 45 m². Most common: Flat (29). Built: 1991-1995 (17); 1983-1990 (12). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (26).

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.

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (77% of about 750 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 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.

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 31 addresses are between 44 m and 45 m above sea level (44 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
SR4 7AX100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsSunderland 709,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Seaham 165,000 journeys in 2024–258.4 km (5.2 miles)
Heworth 46,000 journeys in 2024–2510.7 km (6.6 miles)
Underground, metro or tramMillfield (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)610 m (0.4 miles)
Pallion (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1 km (0.6 miles)
University (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 58 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Royal Hospital Hylton Road H Millfield70 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Sunderland1.6 km (1 mile)
Ferry terminalNewcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays10.1 km (6.3 miles)
Car parksSt Mary's Car Park1.7 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mer500 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL23.2 km (14 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wearside Medical Practice460 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Million Pharmacy250 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Dept320 m
HospitalSunderland Royal Hospital320 m
Police stationGillbridge Police Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest HJ Stores, Pallion Cashzone450 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Diamond Hall Pocket Park 7,410 m²410 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 3.4 ha540 m (0.3 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,510 m²460 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.6 ha420 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,830 m²500 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 4.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Mountain Daisy Public House, a listed building (Grade II*), 490 m (0.3 miles) east. 18 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Mountain Daisy Public HouseListed building, Grade II*490 m (0.3 miles) east
Defended settlement on Humbledon HillScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south
Mowbray ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2 km (1.2 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Humbledon HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) south
Thirlwell BankCliff or slope1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Building HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
Baron's Quay WoodWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) west
Potato GarthBeach2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-east
Polka HoleWetland3.3 km (2.1 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)10.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.1205
Particles (PM10)9.54015

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 6420
55 to 59160
Under 551331

18 of the street's 31 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Sunderland: see them on the Sunderland page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Diamond Hall Junior AcademyPrimary7–11190 m No published inspection
Diamond Hall Infant AcademyPrimary2–7210 m No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland Roman CatholicPrimary3–11280 m No published inspection
Barnes Infant AcademyPrimary3–7900 m (0.6 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Barnes Junior SchoolPrimary7–11930 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Highfield AcademyPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Richard Avenue Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Anthony's Girls' Catholic Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
City of Sunderland College16 plus16–991.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Thornhill AcademySecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Broadway Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.7 km (1 mile) 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
Meat U There SR4 6LQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good1 Feb 2025
Hylton Chop Suey House SR4 7XATakeaway/sandwich shop140 m1 Major improvement necessary12 Dec 2024
Premier - No.1 Filling Station SR4 6LSRetailers - other140 m5 Very good2 Feb 2017
Deptford & Millfield Comm Cent SR4 7XJOther catering premises160 m5 Very good4 Mar 2020
Deli Two Twenty SR4 7UZTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m4 Good10 Jun 2026
Diamond Hall Infant Academy Breakfast/Afterschool Club SR4 6JFSchool/college/university190 m5 Very good24 Mar 2025
Sir John Short Raob Club SR4 6HXPub/bar/nightclub190 m5 Very good19 May 2017
Miraflores Cafe SR4 6LTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m3 Generally satisfactory20 Nov 2024
Mr Scrumptious SR4 7TNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 mAwaiting inspection
S & J Hot And Cold Food SR4 7SNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good13 Dec 2025
Hamdoz SR4 7YETakeaway/sandwich shop220 m3 Generally satisfactory18 Mar 2024
Manhattan 2GO SR4 7YETakeaway/sandwich shop220 mAwaiting inspection
AFRO-NAIJA SUPERMART SR4 7YBRetailers - other240 mAwaiting inspection
Just Booze \& Nisa SR4 7YERetailers - other270 m5 Very good15 Mar 2023
VAR Daily SR4 7TNRetailers - other280 mAwaiting inspection

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.

163 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences56
Other theft23
Burglary17
Public order15
Criminal damage and arson13
Anti-social behaviour10
Shoplifting8
Drugs6
Vehicle crime5
Other crime4
Robbery3
Bicycle theft2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hospital (36); On or near Petrol Station (30); On or near Kimberley Street (22); On or near Washington Street (9); On or near Willmore Street (9).

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: 413 residents in 134 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 age3340
Children under 156%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)38%61%
Owned outright24%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented28%17%
Private rented34%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work39%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)29%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%32%
Travel to work by car or van35%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram11%4%
By any public transport, including bus22%8%
On foot or by bicycle28%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)51%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)74%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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.

  • SR4 7AX: 30 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • SR4 6UH: 1 address of 41 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Bell Street · Wilson Street · Washington Street · Wilber Court · Wilber Street · Walpole Court · Blackett Terrace · Pallion Road · Pallion Road · Willmore Street · Hylton Road · Peacock Street West

All the streets in SR4 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.