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On Poplar Street, in Stanley West & Annfield Plain
What it's like at DH9 7AX: every home that has sold on Poplar Street since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
4 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Poplar Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
16 of the 64 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Poplar StreetTerraced | Sept 2015 | £19,000 | 70 m² | £271/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Poplar StreetTerraced · company-owned | Aug 2022 | £35,000 | 70 m² | £500/m² | 2 |
| 3, Poplar StreetTerraced | Dec 2021 | £48,000 | 54 m² | £889/m² | 3 |
| 5, Poplar StreetTerraced | May 2008 | £70,000 | 67 m² | £1,045/m² | 6 |
| 6, Poplar StreetTerraced | Dec 2010 | £43,500 | 76 m² | £572/m² | 2 |
| 7, Poplar StreetTerraced | Sept 2021 | £53,000 | 69 m² | £768/m² | 4 |
| 9, Poplar StreetTerraced | Nov 2005 | £46,000 | 67 m² | £687/m² | 1 |
| 10, Poplar StreetTerraced | Jun 2007 | £53,000 | 76 m² | £697/m² | 2 |
| 11, Poplar StreetTerraced | Apr 2026 | £60,000 | 58 m² | £1,034/m² | 5 |
| 12, Poplar StreetTerraced · company-owned | Sept 2020 | £37,000 | 86 m² | £430/m² | 2 |
| 13, Poplar StreetTerraced | Aug 2024 | £39,500 | 62 m² | £637/m² | 6 |
| 15, Poplar StreetTerraced · company-owned | Jul 2023 | £42,000 | 75 m² | £560/m² | 1 |
| 16, Poplar StreetTerraced · company-owned | Jul 2023 | £40,000 | 70 m² | £571/m² | 3 |
| 21, Poplar StreetTerraced | Jun 2026 | £78,999 | 73 m² | £1,082/m² | 5 |
| 22, Poplar StreetTerraced | Mar 2022 | £30,750 | 72 m² | £427/m² | 5 |
| 23, Poplar StreetTerraced | Dec 2021 | £52,000 | 86 m² | £605/m² | 3 |
| 24, Poplar StreetTerraced | Dec 2004 | £37,750 | 74 m² | £510/m² | 1 |
| 25, Poplar StreetTerraced | Jul 2014 | £27,500 | 70 m² | £393/m² | 4 |
| 77, Poplar StreetTerraced | Jul 2001 | £10,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 78, Poplar StreetTerraced · company-owned | Sept 2022 | £45,000 | 78 m² | £577/m² | 3 |
| 79, Poplar StreetTerraced | May 2006 | £60,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 81, Poplar StreetTerraced · company-owned | Oct 2022 | £39,950 | 78 m² | £512/m² | 3 |
| 83, Poplar StreetTerraced | Nov 2022 | £112,600 | 84 m² | £1,340/m² | 3 |
| 84, Poplar StreetTerraced · company-owned | Feb 2025 | £28,500 | 80 m² | £356/m² | 3 |
| 86, Poplar StreetTerraced | Jun 2023 | £60,000 | 82 m² | £732/m² | 4 |
| 90, Poplar StreetTerraced | May 2011 | £49,000 | 78 m² | £628/m² | 2 |
| 92, Poplar StreetTerraced | Sept 2002 | £14,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 93, Poplar StreetTerraced · company-owned | Oct 2020 | £34,000 | 81 m² | £420/m² | 2 |
| 94, Poplar StreetTerraced | Oct 2003 | £29,000 | 83 m² | £349/m² | 1 |
| 97, Poplar StreetTerraced · company-owned | Apr 2025 | £65,000 | 78 m² | £833/m² | 5 |
| 98, Poplar StreetTerraced | Oct 2022 | £52,500 | 77 m² | £682/m² | 2 |
| 99, Poplar StreetTerraced | Aug 2025 | £47,500 | 84 m² | £565/m² | 3 |
| 101, Poplar StreetTerraced · company-owned | Jul 2021 | £25,000 | 81 m² | £309/m² | 6 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Chester-le-Street, a drive away (8.2 km), with 232k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Newcastle.
The nearest bus stop is Poplar Street, 100 m away, with a bus about every 10 minutes on weekdays (routes 30, 16A, 6, SB9); 40 departures an hour from the 13 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 44 minutes away by public transport (21 by car).
The nearest primary school is Greenland Community Primary School, a few minutes' walk (350 m); 75% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is North Durham Academy, 1.7 km away; Attainment 8: 39.8 · 4.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Asda, 950 m away, with Isha's Mini Store closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Tanfield View Medical Group (1.2 km), with Taylors Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (200 m).
For a haircut, S.D Hairdressing is 100 m away.
The nearest full A&E is University Hospital North Durham, 11 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 59% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 8 restaurants and cafés, 8 pubs and bars.
Quaking Houses Village Hall is the closest café or restaurant (900 m), and South Moor Excelsior Club & Institute the nearest pub (100 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (12 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 173 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 6% flats and 10% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 57% were built before 1919.
It's growing: about 106 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Memorial Park, 400 m away; for exercise, The Louisa Centre (1.0 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.4 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Newcastle is 20 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 171 km.
Most households own their home, 29% rent privately.
17 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
North Durham constituency: Luke Akehurst MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 5,873 (14.1%), turnout 57%. Vote shares: Labour 40%, Reform UK 26%, Conservative 16%, Liberal Democrat 10%.
5 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near DH9 7AX →
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
On this street: 0 of 57 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.3% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.5% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 97.8% | 93.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.3% | 2.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.4% | 2.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 64 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
Nearest: Seaham Beach · about 32 min
Nearest: Haltwhistle Swimming & Leisure Centre · about 53 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.