Birk Green Barnsley

7 addresses across 2 postcodes (S70), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 1800137.

  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 5).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barnsley, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Kendray Park, is about 390 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 78 to 81 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 7 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ashville Medical Centre Pms Practice, about 690 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 810 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 48% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 167 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 January 2023 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (6). Built: 1950-1966 (5); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (5); owner-occupied (1).

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 (72% of about 1,510 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 2 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: 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 31 October 2026.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 5 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
S70 3JBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
S70 3JGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 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 7 addresses are between 78 m and 81 m above sea level (79 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
S70 3JB100%100%100%0%
S70 3JG100%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 stationsBarnsley 1.5 million journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Wombwell 224,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Elsecar 196,000 journeys in 2024–255.1 km (3.1 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Neville Avenue/Ash Grove Kendray170 m
Bus or coach stationBarnsley Interchange/A1 Barnsley Town Centre2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Car parksBurleigh Street West Commuter Car Park2.3 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA38.6 km (24 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ashville Medical Centre Pms Practice690 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lo's Pharmacy690 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lynton House Dental Surgery410 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalKendray Hospital720 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationBarnsley Police Station2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM250 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kendray Park 2.7 ha390 m
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,060 m²90 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kendray Recreation Ground 8.8 ha550 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hunningley Lane Allotments 2.2 ha180 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 2.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Monk Bretton Priory Cluniac and Benedictine monastery: monastic precinct and two fishponds, a scheduled monument, 1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Monk Bretton Priory Cluniac and Benedictine monastery: monastic precinct and two fishpondsScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Locke ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.7 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Measborough HillHill740 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Lockeaflash HillHill760 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Swaithe WoodWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Oaks PlantationWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) east
Worsbrough BasinLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Jump ValleyValley4.5 km (2.8 miles) south

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)9.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.64015

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
55 to 5910
Under 5567

1 of the street's 7 addresses is 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
Hunningley Primary AcademyPrimary3–11240 m Outstanding (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Forest AcademyPrimary3–11670 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Barnsley Academy ChristianSecondary11–16820 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oakhill Primary AcademyPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Bank End Primary AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Mill AcademyPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Oakwell Rise Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Outwood Primary Academy Littleworth GrangePrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 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
Hunningley Primary School S70 3DTSchool/college/university80 m5 Very good30 Sep 2025
Barnsley Central W.M.C. S70 3ALPub/bar/nightclub240 m5 Very good21 Feb 2026
Premier Kendray Convenience Store S70 3AJRetailers - other240 m5 Very good15 Jan 2026
Butterbeanz S70 3ALRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good14 Aug 2025
Sweety Pies S70 3ALTakeaway/sandwich shop250 m5 Very good28 Jul 2026
Elma Spuds S70 3ALTakeaway/sandwich shop250 mAwaiting inspection
Spar S70 3AHRetailers - other270 m5 Very good30 Oct 2025
Ells Kitchen S70 3FGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good18 Sep 2026
BFS Ltd S70 3PADistributors/Transporters370 mExempt
Hunningley Grange Care Home S70 3PJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good29 Sep 2026
Neville Court Nursing Home S70 3HFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises390 m5 Very good7 Jan 2026
B & M Express S70 3HFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets390 m5 Very good20 Jul 2026
Go Local S70 3AQRetailers - other390 m3 Generally satisfactory28 May 2026
Stairfoot & Ardsley Cons Club S70 3PWPub/bar/nightclub410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Feb 2026
Divino Pizza S70 3PWTakeaway/sandwich shop410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 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.

167 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences58
Anti-social behaviour47
Criminal damage and arson22
Public order8
Burglary6
Vehicle crime6
Robbery5
Other theft4
Possession of weapons3
Other crime3
Drugs2
Theft from the person1
Shoplifting1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ash Grove (36); On or near Don Drive (23); On or near Neville Close (19); On or near Calder Crescent (18); On or near Birch Road (18).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 807 residents in 299 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 age3240
Children under 1527%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)48%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented34%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)14%32%
Travel to work by car or van69%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications31%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)88%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 1 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

Laurel Avenue · Sheaf Court · Birch Road · Calder Crescent · Don Drive · Birk House Lane · Philip Road · Ash Grove · Neville Close · Leslie Road · Reginald Road · Darton Street

All the streets in S70 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.