Ashley Close Wakefield

20 addresses across 2 postcodes (WF2), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41800142.

  • Sales: 21 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £260,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 6, E: 2).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Wakefield costs £2,297 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Outwood, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 310 m away, and Wrenthorpe Park (24 hectares) is about 420 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 58 to 61 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 20 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Outwood Park Medical Centre, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 35 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20252£260,000£245,000£275,000
20232£233,956£215,000£252,912
20211£214,000£214,000£214,000
20191£162,000£162,000£162,000
20181£190,000£190,000£190,000
20141£147,000£147,000£147,000
20111£117,000£117,000£117,000
20101£132,000£132,000£132,000
20072£150,500£146,000£155,000
20042£147,450£124,950£169,950
20031£125,000£125,000£125,000
20013£67,000£65,000£69,000
Most recent sales (21)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Jun 20252 WF2 0JUDetached£245,000
24 Feb 202511 WF2 0JUDetached£275,000
27 Sep 202411 WF2 0JUDetached£315,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Oct 202311 WF2 0JUDetached£252,912
24 Oct 20234 WF2 0JUSemi-detached£215,000
18 Nov 202112 WF2 0JUDetached£214,000
4 Oct 201916 WF2 0JUSemi-detached£162,000
5 Sep 20185 WF2 0JUSemi-detached£190,000
28 Aug 20148 WF2 0JUSemi-detached£147,000
7 Jan 201120 WF2 0JUSemi-detached£117,000
16 Jul 201018 WF2 0JUSemi-detached£132,000
6 Jul 200710 WF2 0JUSemi-detached£146,000
27 Apr 200719 WF2 0JUSemi-detached£155,000
8 Apr 200414 WF2 0JUDetached£169,950
23 Jan 200410 WF2 0JUSemi-detached£124,950
5 Nov 20038 WF2 0JUSemi-detached£125,000
16 Jul 200119 WF2 0JUSemi-detached£65,000
12 Jul 20015 WF2 0JUSemi-detached£69,000
15 Jun 200110 WF2 0JUSemi-detached£67,000
30 Oct 20003 WF2 0JUSemi-detached£55,000
27 Jan 19958 WF2 0JUSemi-detached£55,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (6); House, detached (3). Built: 1967-1975 (5); 1950-1966 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Wakefield in 2026-27: Band D £2,297 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,531£1,786£2,042£2,297£2,807£3,318£3,828£4,594

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (27% of about 630 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 street; 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 street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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 on or by this street. 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
WF2 0JUnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WF2 0JSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

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.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 20 addresses are between 58 m and 61 m above sea level (60 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

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
WF2 0JS100%100%100%0%
WF2 0JU100%100%100%0%

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 middle of the street, 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 stationsOutwood 310,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Wakefield Westgate 2.3 million journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Wakefield Kirkgate 612,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 47 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rishworth Close Wrenthorpe60 m
Bus or coach stationWakefield Bus Station Wakefield City Centre2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Car parksFormer Pub Car Park - 5 mins from Westgag1.9 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA20.5 km (13 miles)

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 middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Outwood Park Medical Centre1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy210 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wrenthorpe Dental Care190 m
HospitalFieldhead Hospital2 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationNational Police Air Service HQ540 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM310 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 middle of the street 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,020 m²310 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Wrenthorpe Park 24 ha420 m (0.3 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 240 m²310 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,700 m²290 m
AllotmentsSt Johns Allotment Gardens 7,690 m²1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 25 hectares in all.

Landmarks

2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Snow HillHill550 m (0.3 miles) east
Quarry HillHill760 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Stoney Lane PlantationWood1.7 km (1 mile) north-west
Ardsley ReservoirLake or reservoir3.3 km (2 miles) north-west
Stennard IslandIsland3.7 km (2.3 miles) south-east
Holme Leas CloughValley4.7 km (2.9 miles) west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). 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 middle of the street. 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)11.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

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, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: 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, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, 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, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
55 to 5910
Under 551820

2 of the street's 20 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Wakefield: see them on the Wakefield page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Wrenthorpe AcademyPrimary4–11230 m No published inspection
Jerry Clay AcademyPrimary4–11400 m (0.2 miles) No published inspection
Alverthorpe St Paul's CofE (VA) School 3-11yrs Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Outwood Grange AcademySecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Newton Hill Community SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Wakefield St Johns Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Wakefield Flanshaw Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Outwood Primary Academy Ledger LanePrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Outwood Primary Academy KirkhamgatePrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Heart of Yorkshire Education Group16 plus16–991.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
New Wheel Inn WF2 0JNPub/bar/nightclub150 m4 Good14 Mar 2023
Little Wrens Nursery And Pre School WF2 0NLSchool/college/university190 m5 Very good23 Sep 2025
Patel's Convenience Store WF2 0LPRetailers - other210 m5 Very good13 Jan 2025
Wrenthorpe Methodist Church WF2 0JROther catering premises210 m4 Good1 Mar 2023
New Pot Oil WF2 0JGPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good28 Jul 2026
Wrenthorpe Pre School WF2 0LWSchool/college/university240 m5 Very good29 Jun 2026
ISS Facilities Services WF2 0LWSchool/college/university240 m5 Very good9 Jun 2025
Caterlink WF2 0LWSchool/college/university240 m5 Very good19 Nov 2024
Wrenthorpe & Kirkhamgate Assist WF2 0JROther catering premises240 m5 Very good28 Jan 2026
The Wren Cafe WF2 0NEOther catering premises260 m5 Very good6 Mar 2025
Wrenthorpe Post Office WF2 0HRRetailers - other320 m4 Good28 May 2025
Wrenthorpe Sports And Social Club WF2 0LPPub/bar/nightclub380 m5 Very good16 Jun 2014
Hallcliffe Primary School WF2 0QBSchool/college/university410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Mar 2026
Wheel Inn WF2 0LYPub/bar/nightclub490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 Sep 2021

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

35 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences12
Public order4
Anti-social behaviour4
Shoplifting3
Burglary2
Drugs2
Vehicle crime2
Other theft2
Criminal damage and arson2
Other crime1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bunkers Hill (11); On or near Towlerton Lane (6); On or near School Lane (5); On or near Rodger Lane (4); On or near Wrenthorpe Road (4).

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 street's postcodes are in: 268 residents in 125 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 streetEngland
Median age5640
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over38%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright58%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)42%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Bowling Lane · Rodger Lane · Rishworth Close · Dean Close · Bunkers Hill · Lyndale Drive · Greenfield Way · School Lane · Towlerton Lane · Greenfield Close · Woodside Drive · Imperial Avenue

All the streets in WF2 and across Wakefield.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.