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On Shakespeare Street, in Southwick
What it's like at SR5 2JF: every home that has sold on Shakespeare Street 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.
Sales and extensions on Shakespeare Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
4 of the 20 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 3, Shakespeare StreetTerraced | Jun 2018 | £60,000 | 47 m² | £1,277/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Shakespeare StreetTerraced | Feb 2003 | £18,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 6, Shakespeare StreetTerraced | May 2015 | £55,000 | 87 m² | £632/m² | 1 |
| 8, Shakespeare StreetTerraced · company-owned | Jan 2023 | £70,000 | 85 m² | £824/m² | 3 |
| 9, Shakespeare StreetTerraced · company-owned | Mar 2025 | £42,000 | 74 m² | £568/m² | 1 |
| 10, Shakespeare StreetTerraced | Apr 2017 | £51,000 | 82 m² | £622/m² | 1 |
| 12, Shakespeare StreetTerraced | Jun 1995 | £25,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 14, Shakespeare StreetTerraced | Jul 1998 | £27,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 15, Shakespeare StreetTerraced · company-owned | Jan 2022 | £50,000 | 71 m² | £704/m² | 3 |
| 16, Shakespeare StreetTerraced · company-owned | Jan 2023 | £525,000 | 91 m² | £5,769/m² | 3 |
| 19, Shakespeare StreetTerraced | Oct 2004 | £42,000 | – | – | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Stadium Of Light Metro station, about a 15-minute walk (1.2 km). The nearest rail station is Seaburn, 1.4 km away.
The nearest bus stop is Thompson Road-The Kings Road, 50 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 594); 100 departures an hour from the 12 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 12 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
43% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Southwick Community Primary School, a few minutes' walk (250 m); 51% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Red House Academy, 1.6 km away; Attainment 8: 44.8 · 14.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Iceland, 50 m away; Bidem Afriventure (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Bridge View Medical Group (100 m), with Cohens Chemist the closest pharmacy (50 m).
For a haircut, Southwick Barber Shop is 150 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Sunderland Royal Hospital, 2.0 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 16 restaurants and cafés, 4 pubs and bars.
Pie With It \& Mr Crumble is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and Hogans the nearest pub (200 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (18 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 175 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 14 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 13% flats and 6% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1919-1929.
Bungalow country: 30% of homes are bungalows.
It's growing: about 153 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Southwick Green, 100 m away; for exercise, Sunderland Aquatic Centre (900 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Roker - Sunderland, 2.6 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.8 µg/m³).
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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| War Memorial at East End | II | 60 m |
| Thompson Memorial in Centre of Green, with Posts to North and South | II | 100 m |
| the Tramcar Inn | II | 190 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.
Sunderland Central constituency: Lewis Atkinson MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 6,073 (15.2%), turnout 53%. Vote shares: Labour 42%, Reform UK 27%, Conservative 14%, Liberal Democrat 9%.
7 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 SR5 2JF →
For holidays, Newcastle is 23 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 183 km.
Most households own their home, 20% rent privately.
The nearest university is University of Sunderland, 1.9 km away (TEF Silver).
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.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
On this street: 1 of 15 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 | 0.6% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 97.8% | 95.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.5% | 3.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.2% | 0.5% | 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 57 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 20 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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