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On Melrose Avenue, in South Murton & South Hetton
What it's like at SR7 9SA: every home that has sold on Melrose Avenue 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 Melrose Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 39 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Melrose AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2026 | £125,000 | 85 m² | £1,471/m² | 1 |
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| 2, Melrose AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2023 | £120,000 | 79 m² | £1,519/m² | 1 |
| 4, Melrose AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2018 | £144,000 | 85 m² | £1,694/m² | 3 |
| 8, Melrose AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2023 | £105,000 | 75 m² | £1,400/m² | 1 |
| 9, Melrose AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2013 | £95,000 | 75 m² | £1,267/m² | 1 |
| 10, Melrose AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2022 | £135,000 | 63 m² | £2,143/m² | 3 |
| 12, Melrose AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2014 | £149,995 | 100 m² | £1,500/m² | 1 |
| 13, Melrose AvenueTerraced | Jul 2024 | £112,000 | 68 m² | £1,647/m² | 2 |
| 14, Melrose AvenueTerraced | Sept 2006 | £113,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 15, Melrose AvenueTerraced | Oct 2014 | £100,000 | 65 m² | £1,538/m² | 1 |
| 16, Melrose AvenueTerraced | Oct 2014 | £85,000 | 69 m² | £1,232/m² | 1 |
| 19, Melrose AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 1995 | £42,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 21, Melrose AvenueTerraced | May 2026 | £146,000 | 83 m² | £1,759/m² | 5 |
| 22, Melrose AvenueTerraced | Jul 2022 | £113,500 | 92 m² | £1,234/m² | 5 |
| 23, Melrose AvenueTerraced | Mar 2004 | £78,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 25, Melrose AvenueTerraced | May 2020 | £90,000 | 75 m² | £1,200/m² | 1 |
| 26, Melrose AvenueTerraced | Jul 1997 | £46,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 30, Melrose AvenueTerraced | May 2023 | £96,000 | 64 m² | £1,500/m² | 1 |
| 31, Melrose AvenueTerraced | Sept 2021 | £100,000 | 66 m² | £1,515/m² | 4 |
| 32, Melrose AvenueTerraced | Dec 2017 | £90,000 | 68 m² | £1,324/m² | 1 |
| 33, Melrose AvenueTerraced | Jul 2015 | £143,000 | 100 m² | £1,430/m² | 3 |
| 34, Melrose AvenueTerraced | Jul 2015 | £114,000 | 68 m² | £1,676/m² | 3 |
| 35, Melrose AvenueTerraced | Mar 2016 | £68,000 | 71 m² | £958/m² | 1 |
| 36, Melrose AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2011 | £120,000 | 81 m² | £1,481/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 drive away (4.6 km), with 165k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Newcastle.
The nearest bus stop is Station Road South, 150 m away, with a bus about every 12 minutes on weekdays (routes 61, X1A, 861); 30 departures an hour from the 9 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 45 minutes away by public transport (17 by car).
The nearest primary school is St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Murton, about a 10-minute walk (1.0 km); 71% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Hetton Academy, 3.5 km away; Attainment 8: 51.8 · 14.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is The Co-Operative Food, 1.3 km away, with Premier - George and Sons closer still (550 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Murton Medical Centre (1.4 km), with Foster Morton Healthcare the closest pharmacy (1.4 km).
For a haircut, Cover Beauty is 2.0 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Sunderland Royal Hospital, 10 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: 15 restaurants and cafés, 5 pubs and bars.
Tj's Diner is the closest café or restaurant (1.4 km), and Village Inn the nearest pub (400 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (10 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 165 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 4% flats and 15% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
It's growing: about 101 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is South Hetton Welfare Park, 1.9 km away; for exercise, Glebe Centre (1.6 km).
A swim is a short trip away: Seaham Beach, 5.5 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.4 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Newcastle is 32 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 172 km.
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.
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%.
9 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 9SA →
Most households own their home, 20% 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.
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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 39 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 30 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.7% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.9% | 0.5% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 95.4% | 93.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 2.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.4% | 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 61 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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