LS1 2SP Leeds

Live postcode, introduced January 1980. Ward: Little London & Woodhouse. Region: Yorkshire and The Humber.

Streets

Council tax

What each band costs in Leeds in 2026-27: Band D £2,284 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,522£1,776£2,030£2,284£2,791£3,299£3,806£4,567

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band A (29% of about 1,970 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, LEEDS CITY CENTRE (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 18.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): A4D01.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this postcode, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Height above sea level

The postcode's 232 addresses are between 33 m and 35 m above sea level (34 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 100%, gigabit 100% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsLeeds 27 million journeys in 2024–25390 m
Burley Park 756,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km
Headingley 391,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km
Bus stops26 stops within 400 m, 81 within 800 m; nearest Wellington Leeds City Centre110 m
Bus or coach stationDyer Street Leeds City Centre1.1 km
Car parks13 within 800 m; nearest Q-Park Wellington Street200 m
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km; nearest Apcoa Charging Station270 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA10.4 km

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km; nearest One Medicare LLP-The Light560 m
Pharmacies12 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Boots440 m
NHS dentists14 practices within 1.6 km; nearest The Dental Architect120 m
HospitalNuffield Health Leeds Hospital360 m
Police stationPolice Station2.4 km
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m; nearest Anglo Irish Bank270 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden7 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 6,220 m²140 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 6,300 m²730 m
Play area2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 50 m²330 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 8,990 m²620 m
AllotmentsWoodhouse Moor Allotment Gardens 1.2 ha1.5 km

Within 800 m: 7 parks and gardens, 2.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is St Paul's House and attached railings and gates, a listed building (Grade II*), 110 m north. 382 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 7 of them Grade I and 33 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
St Paul's House and attached railings and gatesListed building, Grade II*110 m north
Statue of the Black PrinceListed building, Grade II*380 m east
Town HallListed building, Grade I380 m north-east
Municipal Buildings Including City Museum, Public Library and Attached RailingsListed building, Grade II*410 m north-east
Beckett Street CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km north-east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Clarence DockLake or reservoir1.4 km south-east
Cunliff WoodWood2.2 km west
Knostrop CutLake or reservoir2.6 km south-east
Batty's WoodWood2.8 km north
Windmill HillHill3.1 km south-west
Gamble Hill ValeValley4.8 km west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)27.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.2205
Particles (PM10)13.24015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 59680
Under 55164232

68 of the postcode's 232 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 300 residents in 166 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age2440
Children under 151%17%
Aged 65 and over0%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)5%61%
Owned outright1%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented86%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work35%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)12%6%
Retired (of adults)0%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)48%32%
Travel to work by car or van17%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle26%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)79%65%
Work 30 km or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)49%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)60%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all11%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 5 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on Park Place.