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On Chirton Hill Drive, in New York
What it's like at NE29 8BH: every home that has sold on Chirton Hill 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Chirton Hill Drive; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
3 of the 21 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Chirton Hill DriveSemi-detached | Nov 2002 | £75,700 | 80 m² | £946/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Chirton Hill DriveSemi-detached | Nov 2021 | £199,950 | 58 m² | £3,447/m² | 3 |
| 5, Chirton Hill DriveSemi-detached | Jun 2025 | £220,000 | 58 m² | £3,793/m² | 5 |
| 7, Chirton Hill DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2017 | £168,500 | 74 m² | £2,277/m² | 2 |
| 10, Chirton Hill DriveSemi-detached | Sept 2025 | £220,000 | 71 m² | £3,099/m² | 3 |
| 12, Chirton Hill DriveSemi-detached | Jun 2013 | £121,000 | 91 m² | £1,330/m² | 3 |
| 14, Chirton Hill DriveTerraced | Sept 2021 | £225,000 | 89 m² | £2,528/m² | 2 |
| 18, Chirton Hill DriveTerraced | Jun 1999 | £49,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 20, Chirton Hill DriveSemi-detached | Aug 2012 | £105,000 | 119 m² | £882/m² | 2 |
| 22, Chirton Hill DriveSemi-detached | Nov 2025 | £220,000 | 72 m² | £3,056/m² | 2 |
| 24, Chirton Hill DriveSemi-detached | Jan 2025 | £187,500 | 71 m² | £2,641/m² | 2 |
| 25, Chirton Hill DriveTerraced · company-owned | Mar 2023 | £125,000 | 97 m² | £1,289/m² | 2 |
| 33, Chirton Hill DriveFlat | Dec 2012 | £42,640 | 47 m² | £907/m² | 1 |
| 34, Chirton Hill DriveTerraced | Mar 2025 | £160,000 | 93 m² | £1,720/m² | 1 |
| 54, Chirton Hill DriveTerraced | Aug 2021 | £115,000 | 87 m² | £1,322/m² | 1 |
| 66, Chirton Hill DriveTerraced | Jun 2021 | £86,500 | 86 m² | £1,006/m² | 2 |
| 76, Chirton Hill DriveTerraced | Apr 2026 | £125,600 | 77 m² | £1,631/m² | 3 |
| 78, Chirton Hill DriveTerraced | Dec 2015 | £110,000 | 87 m² | £1,264/m² | 1 |
| 82, Chirton Hill DriveTerraced · company-owned | Jul 2024 | £135,000 | 96 m² | £1,406/m² | 2 |
| 92, Chirton Hill DriveTerraced | Oct 2017 | £73,500 | 98 m² | £750/m² | 1 |
| 96, Chirton Hill DriveTerraced · company-owned | Apr 2019 | £87,000 | 91 m² | £956/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Meadow Well Metro station, a short drive or bike ride (2.0 km). The nearest rail station is Northumberland Park (Tyne & Wear), 3.1 km away, with 1.1m journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Chirton Industrial Estate, 300 m away, with a bus about every 21 minutes on weekdays (routes 307, 686); 19 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 11 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
The nearest primary school is New York Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (550 m); 79% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is St Thomas More Catholic High School, 300 m away; Attainment 8: 49.6 · 14.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Whitley Bay High School (3.4 km) and St Wilfrid's RC College (5.9 km).
It's a family area: 20% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 650 m away, with One Stop closer still (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Collingwood Health Group (1.7 km), with Tesco Instore Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (650 m).
For a haircut, Oasis Hair Design is 350 m away.
The nearest full A&E is South Tyneside District Hospital, 6.5 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 16 restaurants and cafés, 0 pubs and bars.
My Shanghai is the closest café or restaurant (600 m), and Tynemouth And District Motor Club the nearest pub (500 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (11 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 154 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 21% flats and 7% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Hilltop Millennium Green, 900 m away; for exercise, Team Ferguson Gym (1.4 km).
A swim is a short trip away: Tynemouth Long Sands North, 3.8 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, Newcastle is 13 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 192 km.
19 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%.
20 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 NE29 8BH →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
Most households own their home, 13% 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.
On this street: 1 of 19 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 | 2.6% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.3% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 96.6% | 94.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.2% | 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 52 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 21 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.