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On Woolsington Road, in New York
What it's like at NE29 8RU: every home that has sold on Woolsington 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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1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Woolsington Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
3 of the 36 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 4, Woolsington RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2022 | £103,000 | 82 m² | £1,256/m² | 1 |
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| 5, Woolsington RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2012 | £98,000 | 81 m² | £1,210/m² | 2 |
| 9, Woolsington RoadSemi-detached | Dec 1996 | £31,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 10, Woolsington RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2017 | £134,000 | 83 m² | £1,614/m² | 2 |
| 12, Woolsington RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2020 | £100,000 | 90 m² | £1,111/m² | 1 |
| 14, Woolsington RoadSemi-detached · company-owned | Jul 2021 | £100,000 | 89 m² | £1,124/m² | 2 |
| 19, Woolsington RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2016 | £107,000 | 80 m² | £1,338/m² | 1 |
| 21, Woolsington RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2011 | £115,000 | 84 m² | £1,369/m² | 1 |
| 22, Woolsington RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2010 | £114,000 | 78 m² | £1,462/m² | 2 |
| 26, Woolsington RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2013 | £120,000 | 78 m² | £1,538/m² | 2 |
| 28, Woolsington RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2020 | £187,500 | 141 m² | £1,330/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Percy Main Metro station, a short drive or bike ride (1.7 km). The nearest rail station is Northumberland Park (Tyne & Wear), 3.2 km away, with 1.1m journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Norham Road North-Formica, 100 m away, with a bus about every 21 minutes on weekdays (routes 307, 660); 25 departures an hour from the 7 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 10-minute walk (850 m); 79% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is St Thomas More Catholic High School, 550 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, 350 m away; B\& M Bargains (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Redburn Park Medical Centre (1.5 km), with Tesco Instore Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, Trends Hair & Beauty is 650 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.
Cafe Pausa (Dunelm Soft Furnishings Ltd) is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and Tynemouth And District Motor Club the nearest pub (550 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, 1.1 km away; for exercise, Team Ferguson Gym (1.1 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).
18 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%.
21 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 8RU →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
For holidays, Newcastle is 13 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 192 km.
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.
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 36 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 1 of 31 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.