Does NE29 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE29 district carry real flood risk: 12 of its 13 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE29 postcode district covers North Shields, Chirton & Percy Main, close to Cullercoats, Gosforth, Lamesley, and surrounding villages in Tyne and Wear.

13 postcodes in the NE29 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 12 high, 1 medium. A postcode not listed here has no properties in any recorded risk band (which is good news, but never proof it cannot flood).

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Which NE29 postcodes are at risk?

NE29 6BU up to High NE29 6BZ up to High NE29 6DY up to High NE29 6EA up to High NE29 6EH up to High NE29 6HF up to High NE29 6HU up to High NE29 6LE up to High NE29 6LF up to High NE29 6LG up to High NE29 6LQ up to High NE29 6LS up to High NE29 6EQ up to Medium

Rivers and flooding history near NE29

The rivers that matter here, each monitored live on FloodRadar:

152 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (76 at warning level or above), most recently 28 September 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

NE28 NE30 NE27 NE31 NE26 NE32 NE25 NE33

Band = the worst likelihood band of any property in that postcode (EA Risk of Flooding from Rivers & Sea, defence-adjusted, area-level). Check any postcode in detail — or get the full £19 property report — at the property flood-risk report. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH). © Crown Copyright and Database Rights 2025 OS AC0000807064. This product is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, the copyright in which is owned by Royal Mail Group Limited and/or Royal Mail Group plc. All rights reserved. Licence number AC0000807064.