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On Percy Road, in Whitley Bay Promenade
What it's like at NE26 2AY: every home that has sold on Percy 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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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). 3 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 Percy Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 56 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 34, Percy RoadTerraced · company-owned | Mar 2021 | £230,000 | – | – | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36, Percy RoadTerraced | Jan 2019 | £235,000 | 163 m² | £1,442/m² | 4 |
| 37, Percy RoadTerraced | May 2019 | £255,000 | 139 m² | £1,835/m² | 3 |
| 38, Percy RoadTerraced | May 2023 | £295,000 | 160 m² | £1,844/m² | 3 |
| 39, Percy RoadTerraced | Apr 2003 | £119,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 41, Percy RoadTerraced | Mar 2009 | £157,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 42, Percy RoadTerraced | Jun 2019 | £250,000 | 164 m² | £1,524/m² | 2 |
| 44, Percy RoadTerraced | Jul 2019 | £265,000 | 151 m² | £1,755/m² | 2 |
| 45, Percy RoadTerraced | Feb 2019 | £237,000 | 134 m² | £1,769/m² | 2 |
| 46, Percy RoadTerraced | Aug 2002 | £102,000 | 195 m² | £523/m² | 2 |
| 47, Percy RoadTerraced | Mar 2014 | £183,000 | 159 m² | £1,151/m² | 3 |
| 48, Percy RoadTerraced | Feb 2017 | £249,950 | 157 m² | £1,592/m² | 3 |
| 49, Percy RoadTerraced | Sept 2021 | £345,000 | 161 m² | £2,143/m² | 3 |
| 50, Percy RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2001 | £87,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 51, Percy RoadTerraced | Aug 2017 | £188,000 | 143 m² | £1,315/m² | 1 |
| 53, Percy RoadTerraced | Jun 2011 | £173,000 | 180 m² | £961/m² | 5 |
| 57, Percy RoadTerraced | Sept 2020 | £352,000 | 178 m² | £1,978/m² | 5 |
| 58, Percy RoadTerraced | Aug 2018 | £230,000 | 178 m² | £1,292/m² | 3 |
| 59, Percy RoadSemi-detached | Apr 1997 | £35,000 | 195 m² | £179/m² | 1 |
| 60, Percy RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2017 | £215,000 | 170 m² | £1,265/m² | 3 |
| 61, Percy RoadTerraced | Feb 2012 | £175,000 | 166 m² | £1,054/m² | 3 |
| 62, Percy RoadTerraced | Sept 2021 | £375,000 | 152 m² | £2,467/m² | 3 |
| 63, Percy RoadTerraced | Jun 2024 | £385,000 | 156 m² | £2,468/m² | 2 |
| 64, Percy RoadTerraced | Jan 2022 | £375,000 | 162 m² | £2,315/m² | 3 |
| 65, Percy RoadTerraced | Jan 2024 | £410,000 | 185 m² | £2,216/m² | 2 |
| 66a, Percy RoadFlat | Feb 2004 | £68,000 | 50 m² | £1,360/m² | 1 |
| 66b, Percy RoadFlat | Jul 2001 | £19,000 | 45 m² | £422/m² | 1 |
| 66c, Percy RoadFlat | Jul 2002 | £24,250 | 56 m² | £433/m² | 1 |
| 67, Percy RoadTerraced | Apr 2012 | £135,000 | 190 m² | £711/m² | 1 |
| 69, Percy RoadTerraced | Nov 2018 | £262,500 | 191 m² | £1,374/m² | 2 |
| 71, Percy RoadFlat | Dec 2001 | £20,000 | 100 m² | £200/m² | 2 |
| 71a, Percy RoadFlat | Dec 2001 | £20,000 | – | – | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 42% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Whitley Bay Metro station, a few minutes' walk (400 m). The nearest rail station is Northumberland Park (Tyne & Wear), 5.2 km away, with 1.1m journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Whitley Road-Victoria Avenue, 200 m away, with a bus about every 21 minutes on weekdays (routes 301, 674); 25 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Rockcliffe First School, about a 5-minute walk (500 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Marden Bridge Middle School, 900 m away.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Whitley Bay High School (1.7 km).
The nearest supermarket is Sainsburys Local, 500 m away, with Hardy's Premier closer still (under 50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Whitley Bay Health Centre (200 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Tony's Barber Shop is 150 m away.
The nearest full A&E is South Tyneside District Hospital, 7.8 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 60% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 75% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 10 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 39 restaurants and cafés and 17 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
La Casetta is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and Oxygenic the nearest pub (250 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (15 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 143 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 35% flats and 1% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 66% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is Whitley Park, 600 m away; for exercise, Sands - Ladies Only (200 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Whitley Bay, 900 m away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, Newcastle is 16 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 195 km.
Most households own their home, 22% rent privately.
57 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.
Tynemouth constituency: Sir Alan Campbell MP (Labour), since May 1997. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 15,455 (31.9%), turnout 66%. Vote shares: Labour 51%, Conservative 19%, Reform UK 15%, Green Party 7%.
3 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 NE26 2AY →
It's highly educated: 48% 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 42 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 | 0.4% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.3% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 95.3% | 94.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.3% | 4.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.9% | 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.
Nearest: Haltwhistle Swimming & Leisure Centre · about 58 min
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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 56 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.