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On Lawe Road, in South Shields East
What it's like at NE33 2JN: every home that has sold on Lawe 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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Lawe Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
3 of the 63 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 3 - 4, Lawe RoadOther | Dec 2024 | £110,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, Lawe RoadOther | Oct 2016 | £150,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 5a, Lawe RoadOther · company-owned | Jul 2016 | £170,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 6a, Lawe RoadTerraced | Oct 2003 | £150,000 | 124 m² | £1,210/m² | 2 |
| 7a, Lawe RoadFlat · company-owned | Aug 2019 | £60,000 | 74 m² | £811/m² | 5 |
| 8, Lawe RoadTerraced | Sept 2002 | £90,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 9 - 9a, Lawe RoadTerraced | Sept 2020 | £190,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 10, Lawe RoadTerraced · company-owned | Nov 2020 | £212,500 | 290 m² | £733/m² | 2 |
| 11, Lawe RoadTerraced | May 2006 | £125,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 12a, Lawe RoadFlat | Sept 2023 | £112,500 | 76 m² | £1,480/m² | 3 |
| 13, Lawe RoadTerraced | Sept 2018 | £255,000 | 276 m² | £924/m² | 1 |
| 14, Lawe RoadFlat | Apr 2006 | £36,000 | 149 m² | £242/m² | 1 |
| 15a, Lawe RoadFlat | Nov 2005 | £86,666 | 78 m² | £1,111/m² | 1 |
| 15b, Lawe RoadFlat | Nov 2005 | £86,666 | 121 m² | £716/m² | 1 |
| 15c, Lawe RoadFlat | Nov 2005 | £86,666 | 137 m² | £633/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is South Shields Metro station, about a 5-minute walk (600 m). The nearest rail station is Brockley Whins, 5.2 km away.
The nearest bus stop is Lawe Road-George Scott Street, under 50 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 13); 6 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 43 minutes away by public transport (21 by car).
The nearest primary school is Marine Park Primary School, a few minutes' walk (400 m).
The closest top-rated primary is St Bede's Catholic Primary School, South Shields (0.6 km).
The nearest secondary is Kings Priory School, 1.9 km away; Attainment 8: 57.1 · 21.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: St Wilfrid's RC College (2.3 km).
The nearest supermarket is Wm Morrison, 500 m away, with Mr Blues House closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Imery Street Surgery (1.4 km), with Flagg Court Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Scissor Guys is 400 m away.
The nearest full A&E is South Tyneside District Hospital, 3.0 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: 38 restaurants and cafés and 21 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
The Clifton Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and The Marine Public House the nearest pub (100 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (22 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 234 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 31 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 45% flats and 2% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 52% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is North Marine Park, 250 m away; for exercise, Haven Point (250 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: South Shields, 1.1 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.1 µg/m³).
For holidays, Newcastle is 17 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 191 km.
47 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Jubilee Memorial | II | 160 m |
| Lifeboat | II | 170 m |
| Canopy Over Lifeboat | II | 180 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
South Shields constituency: Emma Lewell MP (Labour), since May 2013. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 6,653 (18.1%), turnout 54%. Vote shares: Labour 41%, Reform UK 23%, Green Party 15%, Conservative 11%.
24 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 NE33 2JN →
Most households own their home, 24% 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: 0 of 44 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 13 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.4% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.1% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.7% | 96.8% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.9% | 2.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 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.
Nearest: Haltwhistle Swimming & Leisure Centre · about 66 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 63 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.