LS2 8BB Leeds

Streets

• Wade Lane, Leeds: 5 addresses
• Cookridge Street, Leeds: 1 address

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.

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band A (47% of about 6,380 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: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
• Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 7.
• Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): A4D01.
• Tree preservation orders: 2 protected trees within 100 m of this postcode.
• Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

• 21, QUEEN SQUARE, grade II
• 22, QUEEN SQUARE, grade II
• 23, QUEEN SQUARE, grade II
• 24, 25 AND 26, QUEEN SQUARE, grade II
• COBOURG PUBLIC HOUSE LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, grade II
• GAS LAMP POST ON PAVEMENT BETWEEN NUMBERS 21 AND 22, grade II
• No. 43 Woodhouse Lane, grade II

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

• 18 Queen Square, Leeds, LS2: up to 4 homes, permissioned (110 m)
• 67 - 83 Cookridge Street, Leeds, LS2 3AW: up to 96 homes, permissioned (140 m)
• 2 Great George Street, Leeds: up to 83 homes, permissioned (180 m)
• Leonardo Building & Thoresby House, 2 Rossington Street: up to 196 homes, permissioned (190 m)
• Portland Crescent LS1: up to 50 homes, not permissioned (200 m)
• Zicon House, Wade Lane, Leeds, LS2 8NL: up to 79 homes, permissioned (210 m)
• Podium Buildings & Arena Point , Merrion Way: up to 301 homes, permissioned (220 m)
• Fairfax House, Wade Lane: up to 176 homes, permissioned (300 m)

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

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this postcode yet.

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.

Broadband

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