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On Garden Croft, in Holystone & Benton
What it's like at NE12 9LT: every home that has sold on Garden Croft 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.
Sales and extensions on Garden Croft; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 17 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 3, Garden CroftSemi-detached | Aug 2001 | £50,000 | – | – | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, Garden CroftSemi-detached | Oct 2025 | £189,000 | 64 m² | £2,953/m² | 7 |
| 6, Garden CroftSemi-detached | Jun 1999 | £53,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 9, Garden CroftSemi-detached | Mar 1997 | £48,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 11, Garden CroftSemi-detached | Nov 2005 | £113,188 | – | – | 4 |
| 12, Garden CroftSemi-detached | Jun 2025 | £175,000 | 63 m² | £2,778/m² | 4 |
| 15, Garden CroftSemi-detached | Dec 2007 | £139,950 | – | – | 3 |
| 16, Garden CroftSemi-detached | Sept 2001 | £65,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 17, Garden CroftSemi-detached | Feb 2008 | £119,000 | 62 m² | £1,919/m² | 3 |
| 18, Garden CroftSemi-detached | Nov 2024 | £163,000 | 62 m² | £2,629/m² | 4 |
| 20, Garden CroftSemi-detached | Mar 2019 | £130,000 | 62 m² | £2,097/m² | 3 |
| 21, Garden CroftSemi-detached | Apr 1995 | £47,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 22, Garden CroftSemi-detached | Jun 1997 | £50,000 | 83 m² | £602/m² | 1 |
| 23, Garden CroftSemi-detached | Jun 2011 | £134,000 | 93 m² | £1,441/m² | 4 |
| 24, Garden CroftSemi-detached | Sept 2007 | £130,000 | 71 m² | £1,831/m² | 1 |
| 25, Garden CroftSemi-detached · company-owned | Oct 1999 | £25,000 | 62 m² | £403/m² | 1 |
| 26, Garden CroftSemi-detached | Dec 2022 | £150,000 | 62 m² | £2,419/m² | 4 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Benton Metro station, about a 10-minute walk (850 m). The nearest rail station is Northumberland Park (Tyne & Wear), 3.0 km away, with 1.1m journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Forest Hall Road-Crescent Road North, 300 m away, with a bus about every 6 minutes on weekdays (routes 63, 38, 342, 353); 43 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Forest Hall Primary School, a few minutes' walk (400 m); 62% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Benton Dene Primary School (1.1 km).
The nearest secondary is Longbenton High School, 1.0 km away; Attainment 8: 41.7 · 9.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: St Mary's Catholic School (2.7 km).
The nearest supermarket is Heron Foods, 350 m away; Premier Meadway News (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Stephenson Park Health Group (450 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (400 m).
For a haircut, Lemongrass And Ginger is 250 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Victoria Infirmary, 5.8 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 56% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 73% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 11 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 19 restaurants and cafés, 6 pubs and bars.
Hedley & Springfield is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and Forest Hall Constitutional And Unionist Club the nearest pub (200 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 73 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 15% flats and 29% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Springfield Park, 250 m away; for exercise, Aqua School NE (700 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Whitley Bay, 7.9 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 11.7 µg/m³).
For holidays, Newcastle is 8.9 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 191 km.
Most households own their home, 11% rent privately.
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.
36 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.
Newcastle upon Tyne North constituency: Catherine McKinnell MP (Labour), since May 2010. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 17,762 (36.5%), turnout 65%. Vote shares: Labour 50%, Conservative 14%, Liberal Democrat 12%, Reform UK 12%.
27 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 NE12 9LT →
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.
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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 17 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 10 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 | 0.8% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.3% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 91.5% | 94.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 8.3% | 4.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.3% | 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.