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On Rowan Drive, in Ponteland
What it's like at NE20 9QL: every home that has sold on Rowan Drive 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.
5 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Rowan Drive; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 44 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 6, Rowan DriveSemi-detached | Aug 2012 | £150,000 | 73 m² | £2,055/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8, Rowan DriveSemi-detached | Jan 2017 | £193,000 | 85 m² | £2,271/m² | 2 |
| 10, Rowan DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2020 | £227,500 | 102 m² | £2,230/m² | 4 |
| 12, Rowan DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2007 | £215,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 16, Rowan DriveTerraced | Jan 2026 | £385,000 | 89 m² | £4,326/m² | 2 |
| 18, Rowan DriveSemi-detached | Mar 2019 | £176,000 | 76 m² | £2,316/m² | 1 |
| 22, Rowan DriveTerraced | Nov 2000 | £86,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 26, Rowan DriveTerraced | Mar 1998 | £60,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 28, Rowan DriveSemi-detached | Nov 2023 | £340,000 | 95 m² | £3,579/m² | 3 |
| 30, Rowan DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2010 | £160,000 | 75 m² | £2,133/m² | 3 |
| 32, Rowan DriveTerraced | Oct 2001 | £87,500 | 125 m² | £700/m² | 1 |
| 34, Rowan DriveSemi-detached | Dec 2020 | £275,500 | 103 m² | £2,675/m² | 4 |
| 36, Rowan DriveSemi-detached | Jul 2023 | £265,000 | 86 m² | £3,081/m² | 2 |
| 42, Rowan DriveTerraced | Aug 2013 | £178,000 | 124 m² | £1,435/m² | 2 |
| 50, Rowan DriveSemi-detached | May 2008 | £163,000 | 74 m² | £2,203/m² | 1 |
| 54, Rowan DriveSemi-detached | Jul 2015 | £205,678 | 134 m² | £1,535/m² | 2 |
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 40% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Newcastle Airport Metro station, a drive away (3.0 km). The nearest rail station is Wylam, 9.9 km away, with 111k journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Berwick Court, 150 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route X79); 5 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 42 minutes away by public transport (20 by car).
The nearest primary school is Richard Coates Church of England Primary School, a few minutes' walk (300 m); 67% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Darras Hall Primary School (2 km).
The nearest secondary is Ponteland High School, 750 m away; Attainment 8: 53 · 16.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Waitrose, 600 m away, with Parklands Chemists closer still (500 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Npc Ponteland (500 m), with Parklands Chemists the closest pharmacy (550 m).
For a haircut, Level 2 Hair and Beauty is 500 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Victoria Infirmary, 12 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: 24 restaurants and cafés, 8 pubs and bars.
Mogul Raj Tandoori is the closest café or restaurant (500 m), and The Blackbird the nearest pub (350 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 49 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 61 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 48% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
Bungalow country: 20% of homes are bungalows.
It's growing: about 103 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Ponteland Park, 900 m away; for exercise, Laings (600 m).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.1 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Newcastle is 4.1 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 192 km.
37 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.
Hexham constituency: Joe Morris MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 3,713 (7.2%), turnout 68%. Vote shares: Labour 46%, Conservative 39%, Green Party 5%, Liberal Democrat 5%.
9 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 NE20 9QL →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 51% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 31% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 45% of adults have a degree.
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 36 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% | 1.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.1% | 1.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 85.8% | 81.8% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 3.4% | 10.4% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 9.6% | 4.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.1% | 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 44 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Haltwhistle Swimming & Leisure Centre · about 43 min
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