Woolwich Close Sunderland

10 addresses across 1 postcode (SR5), about 20 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 38774370.

  • Energy: 3 homes have an energy certificate (D: 2, E: 1).
  • 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 3.4 km (2.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 770 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 48 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 10 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Red House Medical Centre, about 880 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 40% of households owned their home and 14% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 118 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
Most recent sales (1)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Sep 20201 SR5 5SEOther£325,000Not 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 dates from June 2020 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

3 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 85 m². Most common: Flat (3). Built: 1967-1975 (2); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (2); rented (private) (1).

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (85% of about 620 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 15 September 2026 to 16 September 2026: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the 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

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 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 addresses are about 48 m above sea level.

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
SR5 5SE100%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 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Heworth 46,000 journeys in 2024–259.5 km (5.9 miles)
Seaham 165,000 journeys in 2024–2511 km (6.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tramSeaburn (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.7 km (1 mile)
Pallion (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.9 km (1.2 miles)
East Boldon (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wiltshire Road Witherwack70 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Sunderland3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Ferry terminalNewcastle International Ferry Terminal Royal Quays7.4 km (4.6 miles)
Car parksThe Magnum Hotel Car Park (Reservation)1.6 km (1 mile)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Retford Road1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL21.4 km (13 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 Red House Medical Centre880 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Redhouse Pharmacy880 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Green Dental Surgery1.2 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalMonkwearmouth Hospital1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationSouthwick Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM30 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha770 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,170 m²290 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Marley Potts Playing Fields 4.0 ha280 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Marley Potts Allotments 6.2 ha290 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is First World War early warning acoustic mirror on Namey Hill, 570m north of Carley Hill Cricket Ground, a scheduled monument, 1.2 km (0.7 miles) east.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
First World War early warning acoustic mirror on Namey Hill, 570m north of Carley Hill Cricket GroundScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Roker ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.8 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Namey HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Thirlwell BankCliff or slope1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Quarry HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Long Swan PlantationWood3 km (1.9 miles) south-west
Roker BeachBeach3.2 km (2 miles) east
Polka HoleWetland3.5 km (2.2 miles) south-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)9.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.1205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 55910

1 of the street's 10 addresses is 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
Red House AcademySecondary11–16560 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Willow Wood Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11630 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School, Sunderland Roman CatholicPrimary3–11670 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Southwick Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Northern Saints Church of England AcademyPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hylton Red House Nursery SchoolNursery3–51.4 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jul 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
Monkwearmouth AcademySecondary11–191.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Seaburn Dene Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Grange Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Naga Noodles Express SR5 5SETakeaway/sandwich shop20 mAwaiting inspection
Mann Stores - Best One SR5 5SERetailers - other30 m4 Good27 Nov 2025
Willow Fields Community Primary School Breakfast Club SR5 5RZSchool/college/university170 m5 Very good8 Sep 2025
Maple Lodge Care Home SR5 5SFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
Highcliffe Care Centre SR5 5SXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m5 Very good23 Jan 2025
The Salvation Army SR5 5BSMobile caterer500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Oct 2026

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.

118 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences36
Anti-social behaviour27
Criminal damage and arson27
Other crime10
Other theft4
Public order4
Burglary4
Vehicle crime3
Shoplifting2
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Westport Close (37); On or near Wentbridge (14); On or near Woodford Close (9); On or near Waterlow Close (8); On or near Westerham Close (8).

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: 283 residents in 114 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 age3440
Children under 1526%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)40%61%
Owned outright28%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented33%17%
Private rented28%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work41%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)10%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)84%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)14%34%
No qualifications38%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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.

  • SR5 5SE: 10 addresses of 11 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Rothley Court · Westport Close · Wessex Close · Fontburn Court · Wiltshire Road · Waterlow Close · Whitchurch Close · Wimbledon Close · Watford Close · Woodford Close · Whitchurch Road · Winslow Close

All the streets in SR5 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.