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On Shaftesbury Avenue, in Whitley Sands
What it's like at NE26 3TF: every home that has sold on Shaftesbury Avenue 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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Shaftesbury Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 26 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 2, Shaftesbury AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2017 | £400,000 | 142 m² | £2,817/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Shaftesbury AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2015 | £277,500 | 123 m² | £2,256/m² | 1 |
| 6, Shaftesbury AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2014 | £365,000 | 168 m² | £2,173/m² | 2 |
| 10, Shaftesbury AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2017 | £325,000 | 104 m² | £3,125/m² | 2 |
| 12, Shaftesbury AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2007 | £266,000 | 123 m² | £2,163/m² | 1 |
| 14, Shaftesbury AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 2021 | £465,000 | 133 m² | £3,496/m² | 3 |
| 20, Shaftesbury AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2016 | £336,000 | 129 m² | £2,605/m² | 2 |
| 22, Shaftesbury AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2011 | £250,000 | 109 m² | £2,294/m² | 3 |
| 24, Shaftesbury AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2005 | £247,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 26, Shaftesbury AvenueDetached | Jun 2025 | £695,000 | 176 m² | £3,949/m² | 3 |
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: 44% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Monkseaton Metro station, about a 10-minute walk (900 m). The nearest rail station is Northumberland Park (Tyne & Wear), 4.3 km away, with 1.1m journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Claremont Road-Madeira Avenue, 200 m away, with a bus about every 23 minutes on weekdays (routes W2, 351, 673); 16 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Coquet Park First School, about a 5-minute walk (500 m).
The closest top-rated primary is Whitley Lodge First School (0.8 km).
The nearest secondary is Whitley Bay High School, 450 m away; Attainment 8: 54.2 · 18.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 450 m away; Boots Your Local Pharmacy (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Marine Avenue Medical Ctr (700 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, Taizen Skin Therapy Centre is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, 7.7 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 9 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Onda is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and The Kittiwake the nearest pub (450 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 34 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 11% flats and 8% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1919-1929.
The nearest park is Whitley Bay parkrun, 700 m away; for exercise, Waves (500 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Whitley Bay, 800 m away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, Newcastle is 15 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 196 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 46% of households own their home outright.
It's highly educated: 55% of adults have a degree.
35 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 3TF →
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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in North Tyneside since 2011.
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 26 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 21 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 | 0.7% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.3% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 97.2% | 94.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.3% | 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.
Nearest: Haltwhistle Swimming & Leisure Centre · about 58 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.