Barnsley Road Platts Common, Barnsley

66 addresses across 6 postcodes (S74), about 480 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 1801782.

  • Sales: 56 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £350,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 33 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, B: 1, C: 13, D: 14, E: 3, G: 1).
  • Flood: 6 addresses on its postcodes are 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 A; Band D in Barnsley costs £2,326 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 65% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Elsecar, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 112 to 143 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 44 of its 67 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Walderslade Surgery, about 1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,210 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 55% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 100 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
20251£350,000£350,000£350,000
20242£270,000£150,000£390,000
20231£90,000£90,000£90,000
20211£385,000£385,000£385,000
20203£87,000£80,000£165,000
20191£97,000£97,000£97,000
20181£385,000£385,000£385,000
20174£60,000£41,000£90,000
20163£270,000£245,000£285,000
20152£252,750£93,000£412,500
20131£192,500£192,500£192,500
20123£90,000£70,000£125,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 56)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
23 Jan 20256, BLACKER GRANGE FARM S74 0RQDetached£350,000
16 Dec 20247, BLACKER GRANGE FARM S74 0RQDetached£390,000
25 Nov 2024225 S74 0QTTerraced£90,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Aug 202415 S74 0QNTerraced£150,000
25 Oct 202315 S74 0QNTerraced£80,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Sep 2023221 S74 0QTTerraced£90,000
5 Feb 20212, BLACKER GRANGE FARM S74 0RQDetached£385,000
8 Dec 202021 S74 0QNSemi-detached£165,000
23 Nov 2020199 S74 0QTSemi-detached£87,000
16 Oct 20209 S74 0QNSemi-detached£80,000
29 Mar 20193 S74 0QNSemi-detached£97,000
19 Jul 20187, BLACKER GRANGE FARM S74 0RQDetached£385,000
16 Oct 2017215 S74 0QTTerraced£65,000
24 Aug 20175 S74 0QNTerraced£90,000
11 Jul 2017223 S74 0QTTerraced£41,000
28 Mar 20172, BLACKER GRANGE FARM S74 0RQDetached£105,000New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Jan 2017221 S74 0QTTerraced£55,000
30 Sep 20166, BLACKER GRANGE FARM S74 0RQDetached£245,000
30 Sep 20166, BLACKER GRANGE FARM S74 0RQDetached£245,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Jan 20163, BLACKER GRANGE FARM S74 0RQSemi-detached£270,000New build.
8 Jan 20164, BLACKER GRANGE FARM S74 0RQDetached£285,000New build.
27 Nov 20155, BLACKER GRANGE FARM S74 0RQDetached£412,500
29 May 201569 S74 0QTSemi-detached£93,000
16 Aug 2013203 S74 0QTDetached£192,500
26 Sep 2012211 S74 0QTTerraced£70,000
19 Jul 2012229 S74 0QTTerraced£90,000
8 Feb 201221 S74 0QNSemi-detached£125,000
3 Nov 2011225 S74 0QTTerraced£60,000
1 Sep 20111, BLACKER GRANGE FARM S74 0RQDetached£400,000
13 May 201069 S74 0QTSemi-detached£72,000
6 Aug 200923 S74 0QNSemi-detached£107,000
19 Dec 200823 S74 0QNSemi-detached£121,500
10 Dec 2008 S74 0QNSemi-detached£107,000
31 Mar 20089 S74 0QNSemi-detached£94,000
24 May 200721 S74 0QNSemi-detached£136,000
14 May 200715 S74 0QNTerraced£72,000
13 Apr 2006209 S74 0QTTerraced£88,000
17 Aug 2005203 S74 0QTDetached£179,400
1 Apr 200573 S74 0QTSemi-detached£90,000
19 Dec 200365 S74 0QTSemi-detached£70,000
8 Dec 200369 S74 0QTSemi-detached£16,000
28 Jun 2002213 S74 0QTTerraced£20,000
12 Apr 2002225 S74 0QTTerraced£16,500
16 Nov 200121 S74 0QNSemi-detached£52,450New build.
15 Nov 200123 S74 0QNSemi-detached£57,950New build.
28 Sep 200119 S74 0QNSemi-detached£57,850
9 Aug 200125 S74 0QNSemi-detached£57,950New build.
21 Dec 2000203 S74 0QTDetached£59,950
7 Feb 20005 S74 0QNTerraced£37,500
12 Nov 199973 S74 0QTSemi-detached£39,000

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 September 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

33 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 80 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (17); House, mid-terrace (7); House, detached (5). Built: 1900-1929 (8); 1950-1966 (6); 1996-2002 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (18); rented (social) (5); rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (16 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Barnsley in 2026-27: Band D £2,326 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,551£1,809£2,068£2,326£2,843£3,360£3,877£4,652

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (69% of about 2,360 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 3 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: yes, Barnsley.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 22 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, New service connection, no carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 15 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
S74 0QTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
S74 0QNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
S74 0RQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
S74 9SGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
S74 0QPnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 9 unlikely
S74 9TLnot in 2 or 3 1 / 3 / 3 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 67 addresses are between 112 m and 143 m above sea level (138 m on average); the ground rises about 31 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
S74 0QN71%71%71%0%
S74 0QP100%100%100%0%
S74 0QT97%90%93%3%
S74 9SG93%93%93%7%
S74 9TL65%65%65%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 stationsElsecar 196,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Wombwell 224,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Chapeltown (South Yorkshire) 383,000 journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barnsley Road/Mason Way Platts Common30 m
Bus or coach stationBarnsley Interchange/A1 Barnsley Town Centre5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Car parksWombwell Station Park and Ride2 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station880 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA42.3 km (26 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 Walderslade Surgery1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cohens Chemist870 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalMount Vernon Hospital3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Police stationWombwell Police Station3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machinesSantander930 m (0.6 miles)

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 gardenUnnamed 2.4 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 570 m²550 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Miners Welfare Recreation Ground 2.1 ha160 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Roebuck Hill Allotments 4,460 m²710 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Romano-British settlements in Wombwell Wood, a scheduled monument, 1.7 km (1 mile) north. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Romano-British settlements in Wombwell WoodScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Roebuck HillHill610 m (0.4 miles) east
Blacker HillHill840 m (0.5 miles) north
Bank PlantationWood890 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Jump ValleyValley1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Gang WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Elsecar ReservoirLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east

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)9.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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
65 to 6920
60 to 64200
55 to 59220
Under 552367

44 of the street's 67 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 Barnsley: see them on the Barnsley page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Jump Primary AcademyPrimary3–11730 m (0.5 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kirk Balk AcademySecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Helen's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Greenfield Primary SchoolPrimary5–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
West Meadows Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hoyland Springwood Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
The Royal Oak S74 0QNPub/bar/nightclub40 m5 Very good5 Oct 2026
Corner Shop Food S74 9SQRetailers - other130 m4 Good19 Feb 2026
Triple H Chippy S74 9SJTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m5 Very good23 Jun 2026
Little Explorers Community Nursery S74 0QTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good29 Oct 2025
Hoyland Hall S74 0EXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 May 2025
Premier Hoyland Mini Market S74 9PQRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Jun 2025
Hoylands Haven S74 9PQTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Mar 2026

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.

100 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences25
Anti-social behaviour16
Criminal damage and arson11
Vehicle crime9
Other theft8
Public order7
Drugs6
Other crime5
Burglary4
Robbery4
Shoplifting3
Possession of weapons1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Guest Street (22); On or near Silkstone View (20); On or near Woodlands Road (20); On or near Wood Walk (14); On or near Pepper Street (14).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,214 residents in 536 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 age4440
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)55%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented26%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications26%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 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.

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.

  • S74 0QT: 28 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • S74 0QN: 26 addresses of 28 in the postcode
  • S74 0RQ: 8 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • S74 9SG: 2 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • S74 0QP: 1 address of 35 in the postcode
  • S74 9TL: 1 address of 24 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Woodlands Road · Silkstone View · Clayfield Road · Woodlands View · Pepper Street · Mason Way · Kingswood Crescent · Wood Walk · Guest Street · Barrowfield Road · Northumberland Avenue · Northumberland Avenue

All the streets in S74 and across Barnsley.

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.