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On St Helens Drive, in Seaham Central & South
What it's like at SR7 7PU: every home that has sold on St Helens 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 St Helens Drive; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 60 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Aug 2005 | £105,995 | 77 m² | £1,377/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Nov 2020 | £115,000 | 58 m² | £1,983/m² | 5 |
| 3, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Dec 2023 | £116,000 | 58 m² | £2,000/m² | 2 |
| 4, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2014 | £124,500 | 88 m² | £1,415/m² | 2 |
| 5, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Nov 2022 | £120,000 | 68 m² | £1,765/m² | 2 |
| 6, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Nov 2024 | £140,000 | 68 m² | £2,059/m² | 4 |
| 7, St Helens DriveDetached | Dec 2011 | £146,000 | 100 m² | £1,460/m² | 2 |
| 8, St Helens DriveDetached | May 2006 | £124,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 9, St Helens DriveDetached | Jan 2014 | £163,000 | 103 m² | £1,583/m² | 2 |
| 10, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Jun 2006 | £106,995 | 66 m² | £1,621/m² | 1 |
| 11, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | May 2018 | £122,500 | 66 m² | £1,856/m² | 3 |
| 12, St Helens DriveDetached | Sept 2024 | £210,000 | 74 m² | £2,838/m² | 3 |
| 14, St Helens DriveDetached | Jan 2008 | £149,995 | – | – | 2 |
| 15, St Helens DriveDetached | Jul 2006 | £162,995 | 131 m² | £1,244/m² | 1 |
| 16, St Helens DriveDetached | Dec 2022 | £219,950 | 102 m² | £2,156/m² | 2 |
| 17, St Helens DriveDetached | Jan 2025 | £250,000 | 106 m² | £2,358/m² | 3 |
| 18, St Helens DriveDetached | Sept 2022 | £230,000 | 97 m² | £2,371/m² | 3 |
| 19, St Helens DriveDetached | Sept 2006 | £167,995 | 108 m² | £1,556/m² | 1 |
| 20, St Helens DriveDetached | Sept 2006 | £149,995 | 104 m² | £1,442/m² | 1 |
| 21, St Helens DriveDetached | Oct 2020 | £165,000 | 70 m² | £2,357/m² | 3 |
| 22, St Helens DriveDetached | Jan 2014 | £158,000 | 105 m² | £1,505/m² | 2 |
| 23, St Helens DriveDetached | Jul 2010 | £133,500 | 85 m² | £1,571/m² | 2 |
| 24, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Dec 2006 | £109,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 25, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Apr 2015 | £93,000 | 57 m² | £1,632/m² | 2 |
| 26, St Helens DriveDetached | Feb 2021 | £175,000 | 73 m² | £2,397/m² | 3 |
| 27, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | May 2026 | £135,000 | 56 m² | £2,411/m² | 2 |
| 28, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2018 | £130,000 | 65 m² | £2,000/m² | 2 |
| 29, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | May 2019 | £103,000 | 56 m² | £1,839/m² | 2 |
| 30, St Helens DriveDetached | Mar 2007 | £116,995 | 65 m² | £1,800/m² | 1 |
| 31, St Helens DriveTerraced | Nov 2019 | £106,500 | 55 m² | £1,936/m² | 4 |
| 32, St Helens DriveTerraced | May 2009 | £113,000 | 68 m² | £1,662/m² | 2 |
| 33, St Helens DriveTerraced | Feb 2007 | £107,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 34, St Helens DriveTerraced | Aug 2025 | £130,000 | 65 m² | £2,000/m² | 4 |
| 35, St Helens DriveTerraced | Jun 2025 | £55,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 36, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Feb 2007 | £117,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 37, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Feb 2021 | £118,000 | 70 m² | £1,686/m² | 4 |
| 38, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2012 | £103,000 | 59 m² | £1,746/m² | 2 |
| 39, St Helens DriveDetached | Jul 2016 | £132,000 | 75 m² | £1,760/m² | 2 |
| 40, St Helens DriveDetached | Nov 2006 | £133,995 | 91 m² | £1,472/m² | 1 |
| 41, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | May 2025 | £135,000 | 58 m² | £2,328/m² | 3 |
| 42, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Mar 2021 | £148,000 | 69 m² | £2,145/m² | 2 |
| 43, St Helens DriveDetached | Oct 2022 | £240,000 | 112 m² | £2,143/m² | 2 |
| 44, St Helens DriveDetached | Oct 2006 | £133,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 45, St Helens DriveDetached | Jul 2021 | £235,000 | 120 m² | £1,958/m² | 2 |
| 46, St Helens DriveDetached | Nov 2025 | £240,000 | 103 m² | £2,330/m² | 2 |
| 47, St Helens DriveDetached | Oct 2006 | £164,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 48, St Helens DriveDetached | Oct 2015 | £182,000 | 102 m² | £1,784/m² | 2 |
| 49, St Helens DriveDetached | Oct 2006 | £129,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 50, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Mar 2012 | £124,950 | 65 m² | £1,922/m² | 3 |
| 51, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Sept 2006 | £101,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 52, St Helens DriveDetached | May 2007 | £139,995 | 125 m² | £1,120/m² | 1 |
| 53, St Helens DriveDetached | Feb 2023 | £195,000 | 117 m² | £1,667/m² | 5 |
| 54, St Helens DriveDetached | Feb 2015 | £139,950 | 117 m² | £1,196/m² | 2 |
| 55, St Helens DriveDetached | May 2007 | £120,995 | 98 m² | £1,235/m² | 1 |
| 56, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Jul 2026 | £190,000 | 71 m² | £2,676/m² | 3 |
| 57, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Nov 2020 | £110,000 | 55 m² | £2,000/m² | 3 |
| 58, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Nov 2018 | £100,000 | 55 m² | £1,818/m² | 4 |
| 59, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Jun 2019 | £102,000 | 66 m² | £1,545/m² | 2 |
| 60, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Mar 2007 | £120,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 61, St Helens DriveSemi-detached | Jan 2018 | £89,450 | 55 m² | £1,626/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Seaham, a short drive or bike ride (1.7 km), with 165k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Newcastle.
The nearest bus stop is Hill Crescent, 150 m away, with a bus about every 16 minutes on weekdays (route 60); 35 departures an hour from the 9 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Ropery Walk Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (650 m); 68% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Seaham High School, 2.6 km away; Attainment 8: 45.8 · 11.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is B&M Retail, 950 m away, with The Bread and Butter Thing closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Marlborough Surgery (950 m), with Kaila Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (950 m).
For a haircut, Long Locks is 2.0 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Sunderland Royal Hospital, 8.7 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: 33 restaurants and cafés and 22 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Beau Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and Dawdon Welfare Cricket Club the nearest pub (500 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (19 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 172 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 10 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 13% flats and 11% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1919-1929.
The nearest park is Dawdon Park, 400 m away; for exercise, East Coast Fitness (1.2 km).
The beach is on your doorstep: Seaham Beach, 1.3 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.3 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Newcastle is 32 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 176 km.
Most households own their home, 22% 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.
20 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.
Easington constituency: Grahame Morris MP (Labour), since May 2010. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 6,542 (19.1%), turnout 50%. Vote shares: Labour 49%, Reform UK 30%, Conservative 11%, The North East Party 5%.
14 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 SR7 7PU →
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in County Durham since 2011.
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 60 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
On this street: 1 of 49 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 | 0.2% | 0.5% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 98.8% | 93.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 2.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 0.6% | 2.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.0% | 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 63 min
Nearest: Spanish City · about 31 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.