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On Plessey Road, in Blyth Town
What it's like at NE24 3LB: every home that has sold on Plessey Road 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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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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.
11 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Plessey Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
43 of the 311 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 165, Plessey RoadTerraced | Mar 2016 | £82,000 | 87 m² | £943/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 169, Plessey RoadTerraced | Nov 2025 | £75,500 | 85 m² | £888/m² | 4 |
| 171, Plessey RoadTerraced | Dec 2017 | £106,500 | 122 m² | £873/m² | 1 |
| 177, Plessey RoadTerraced | Mar 1995 | £26,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 183, Plessey RoadTerraced | Oct 2008 | £48,000 | 90 m² | £533/m² | 1 |
| 185, Plessey RoadTerraced | Mar 2002 | £19,600 | – | – | 1 |
| 187, Plessey RoadTerraced | Feb 2023 | £102,000 | 87 m² | £1,172/m² | 1 |
| 189, Plessey RoadTerraced | Jul 2025 | £80,000 | 89 m² | £899/m² | 2 |
| 191, Plessey RoadTerraced · company-owned | Jun 2026 | £69,750 | 93 m² | £750/m² | 1 |
| 193, Plessey RoadTerraced | Dec 2016 | £79,000 | 94 m² | £840/m² | 6 |
| 195, Plessey RoadTerraced | Aug 2020 | £90,000 | 93 m² | £968/m² | 3 |
| 197, Plessey RoadTerraced | Sept 2001 | £45,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 201, Plessey RoadTerraced | Jan 1997 | £27,500 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Newsham, a short drive or bike ride (2.0 km), with 16k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Newcastle.
The nearest bus stop is Croft Park, 100 m away, with a bus about every 21 minutes on weekdays (routes X7, X30); 37 departures an hour from the 8 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 (20 by car).
The nearest primary school is Croftway Academy, a few minutes' walk (350 m); 67% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is Bede Academy, 700 m away; Attainment 8: 48.9 · 13.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Iceland, 800 m away, with Plessey News closer still (under 50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Plessey Centre (850 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (800 m).
For a haircut, The Beauty Gardens is 350 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, 6.8 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 79% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 84% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 10 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 27 restaurants and cafés and 23 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Mrs Sheila Weir @ Bader House is the closest café or restaurant (450 m), and Blyth Spartans Social Club the nearest pub (50 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (29 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 205 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 24 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 27% flats and 11% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1930s.
The nearest park is Crofton Park, 400 m away; for exercise, LJ’s Gym (550 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Blyth South Beach, 1.9 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.4 µg/m³).
For holidays, Newcastle is 15 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 203 km.
Most households own their home, 26% 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.
24 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.
Blyth and Ashington constituency: Ian Lavery MP (Labour), since May 2010. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 9,173 (22.7%), turnout 53%. Vote shares: Labour 50%, Reform UK 27%, Conservative 15%, Green Party 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 NE24 3LB →
Nearest: Haltwhistle Swimming & Leisure Centre · about 56 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 234 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.6% | 1.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 1.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 97.7% | 81.8% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 10.4% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.8% | 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 311 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.