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On Whickham Street, in Peterlee East
What it's like at SR8 3DJ: every home that has sold on Whickham 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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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 Whickham Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 13 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Whickham StreetTerraced | Jan 2007 | £69,500 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Whickham StreetTerraced | Aug 2024 | £62,000 | 70 m² | £886/m² | 3 |
| 4, Whickham StreetTerraced · company-owned | Feb 2024 | £30,750 | 79 m² | £389/m² | 3 |
| 5, Whickham StreetTerraced | Dec 2014 | £46,000 | 84 m² | £548/m² | 2 |
| 6, Whickham StreetTerraced | Sept 2005 | £70,000 | 80 m² | £875/m² | 1 |
| 7, Whickham StreetTerraced | Apr 2016 | £64,000 | 81 m² | £790/m² | 3 |
| 9, Whickham StreetTerraced | Dec 1999 | £18,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 10, Whickham StreetTerraced | Nov 2024 | £82,000 | 66 m² | £1,242/m² | 4 |
| 11, Whickham StreetTerraced | Dec 2025 | £42,000 | 46 m² | £913/m² | 3 |
| 12, Whickham StreetTerraced | Mar 2020 | £55,500 | 73 m² | £760/m² | 2 |
| 14, Whickham StreetSemi-detached | Jan 2001 | £55,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 17, Whickham StreetSemi-detached | Jul 2022 | £106,500 | 92 m² | £1,158/m² | 2 |
| 18, Whickham StreetSemi-detached | Jun 2017 | £69,000 | 87 m² | £793/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Horden, a drive away (3.4 km), with 165k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Newcastle.
The nearest bus stop is Glebe Terrace, 50 m away, with a bus about every 32 minutes on weekdays (routes 22, X62); 23 departures an hour from the 15 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Easington Colliery Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 72% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Easington Academy, 1.2 km away; Attainment 8: 51.8 · 11.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: The Academy at Shotton Hall (2.6 km).
It's a family area: 20% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is The Co-Operative Food, 750 m away, with The Crescent Mini Market closer still (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Arbroath House Surgery (1.0 km), with Easington Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (750 m).
For a haircut, Monty Blue’s Barber Shop is 850 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Sunderland Royal Hospital, 16 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 7 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Age Concern Tea Room is the closest café or restaurant (700 m), and Easington Colliery WMC and Institute the nearest pub (300 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 164 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 6% flats and 10% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
It's growing: about 155 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Wood House Park, 3.1 km away; for exercise, MyoMuscle Gym (2.6 km).
A swim is a short trip away: Crimdon, 7.1 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.1 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Teesside is 30 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 169 km.
Most households own their home, 18% rent privately.
9 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%.
2 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 SR8 3DJ →
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.
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 13 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Helmsley Recreation Ground · about 64 min
Nearest: Newham Grange Leisure Farm · 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.
On this street: 0 of 10 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 | 1.1% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 0.5% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 97.4% | 93.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 2.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 0.7% | 2.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.5% | 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.
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