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On New Road, in Gorseinon
What it's like at SA4 4WE: every home that has sold on New 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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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on New Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 30 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, New RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2005 | £60,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, New RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2024 | £157,000 | 96 m² | £1,635/m² | 1 |
| 5, New RoadTerraced | Mar 2024 | £228,000 | 108 m² | £2,111/m² | 2 |
| 6, New RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2013 | £119,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 7, New RoadTerraced | Jul 2005 | £49,400 | – | – | 1 |
| 7a, New RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2022 | £50,000 | 43 m² | £1,163/m² | 2 |
| 7b, New RoadTerraced | Jul 2005 | £49,400 | 48 m² | £1,029/m² | 1 |
| 8, New RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2000 | £45,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 9, New RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2006 | £145,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 11, New RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2011 | £80,000 | 92 m² | £870/m² | 2 |
| 13, New RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2025 | £220,000 | 93 m² | £2,366/m² | 2 |
| 14, New RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2000 | £54,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 15, New RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2019 | £156,000 | 105 m² | £1,486/m² | 4 |
| 16, New RoadSemi-detached | May 2022 | £174,000 | 86 m² | £2,023/m² | 5 |
| 17, New RoadSemi-detached | May 2007 | £93,000 | 84 m² | £1,107/m² | 3 |
| 18, New RoadSemi-detached | Dec 1999 | £25,000 | 99 m² | £253/m² | 1 |
| 19, New RoadSemi-detached | May 2021 | £112,300 | 83 m² | £1,353/m² | 3 |
| 21, New RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2017 | £144,950 | 89 m² | £1,629/m² | 2 |
| 23, New RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2011 | £75,000 | 93 m² | £806/m² | 1 |
| 24, New RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2001 | £52,500 | – | – | 4 |
| 25, New RoadTerraced | Dec 2006 | £125,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 27, New RoadSemi-detached | May 2023 | £185,000 | 105 m² | £1,762/m² | 5 |
| 28, New RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2009 | £115,000 | 94 m² | £1,223/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Llangennech, a short drive or bike ride (2.9 km), with 4k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Swansea.
The nearest bus stop is New Road, 50 m away, with a bus about every 60 minutes on weekdays (route 16); 9 departures an hour from the 9 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Pengelli Primary, a few minutes' walk (150 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Penyrheol Comprehensive School, 1.5 km away.
The nearest supermarket is Nisa Extra, 2.0 km away, with Slimming World Grovesend closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Ty'R Felin Surgery (1.9 km), with Tyr Felin Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.9 km).
For a haircut, The Cross Barber Shop is 2.1 km away.
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 18 restaurants and cafés, 11 pubs and bars.
Freedom Leisure is the closest café or restaurant (1.5 km), and Bryn Lliw the nearest pub (150 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (20 of them).
Crime is around the national middle: about 70 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 16% flats and 24% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 227 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Melin Mynach Park, 1.6 km away; for exercise, Penyrheol Leisure Centre (1.5 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.3 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Cardiff is 57 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 97 km.
Most households own their home, 15% 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.
4 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.
Gower constituency: Tonia Antoniazzi MP (Labour), since June 2017. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 11,567 (24.5%), turnout 62%. Vote shares: Labour 43%, Conservative 19%, Reform UK 18%, Plaid Cymru 8%.
11 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 SA4 4WE →
On this street: 1 of 21 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 2 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.0% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.1% | 0.5% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 89.8% | 89.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 1.1% | 2.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.9% | 7.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.2% | 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.
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 30 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.