Brook Crescent Wakefield

38 addresses across 2 postcodes (WF1), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41806583.

  • Sales: 12 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £250,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 36 homes have an energy certificate (B: 6, C: 30).
  • 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 Wakefield costs £2,297 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 25% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Sandal and Agbrigg, about 490 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Castle Grove Park, is about 260 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 26 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 33 of its 38 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Maybush Medical Centre, about 460 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 480 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 47% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 224 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
20231£250,000£250,000£250,000
20221£70,000£70,000£70,000
20191£216,500£216,500£216,500
20162£242,500£240,000£245,000
20092£242,500£240,000£245,000
20084£51,667£51,667£128,950
Most recent sales (12)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Feb 20232 WF1 5PBTerraced£250,000
29 Apr 202233, BROOK LODGE WF1 5PBFlat or maisonette£70,000Leasehold.
20 Dec 20196 WF1 5PBTerraced£216,500
19 Dec 20196 WF1 5PBTerraced£220,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Oct 20163 WF1 5PBTerraced£245,000
18 Mar 20166 WF1 5PBTerraced£240,000New build.
31 Jul 20092 WF1 5PBTerraced£240,000New build.
10 Jul 20093 WF1 5PBTerraced£245,000New build.
20 Nov 200815, BROOK LODGE WF1 5PBFlat or maisonette£51,667New build. Leasehold.
20 Nov 200824, BROOK LODGE WF1 5PBFlat or maisonette£51,667New build. Leasehold.
20 Nov 200833, BROOK LODGE WF1 5PBFlat or maisonette£51,667New build. Leasehold.
9 Sep 200810, BROOK LODGE WF1 5PBFlat or maisonette£128,950New build. Leasehold.

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

36 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 57 m². Most common: Flat (27); House, mid-terrace (7); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 2007-2011 (33); 2007 onwards (2); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (32); owner-occupied (1); rented (social) (1).

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 A (46% of about 1,070 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 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.

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

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 30 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
WF1 5PBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 27 unlikely
WF1 5NUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 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 addresses are about 26 m above sea level.

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
WF1 5NU100%100%100%0%
WF1 5PB100%25%25%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 stationsSandal and Agbrigg 202,000 journeys in 2024–25490 m (0.3 miles)
Wakefield Kirkgate 612,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.8 miles)
Wakefield Westgate 2.3 million journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 41 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sandal Church Agbrigg70 m
Bus or coach stationPeterson Road Wakefield1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Car parksStorage King Wakefield Car Park1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station930 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA25 km (16 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 Maybush Medical Centre460 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well60 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Space Dental1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalPinderfields Hospital2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationPolice & Crime Commissioner for West Yorkshire1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machinesATM1.5 km (0.9 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Castle Grove Park 6.6 ha260 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 240 m²250 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha190 m
Allotments5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha130 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 6.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Helen, a listed building (Grade II*), 850 m (0.5 miles) south. 23 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St HelenListed building, Grade II*850 m (0.5 miles) south
Calder and Hebble Navigation Warehouse on River Calder Opposite Thornes Lane Wharf Grid Ref Se 3368 1988Listed building, Grade II*930 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Sandal CastleListed building, Grade II*940 m (0.6 miles) south
Sandal Castle: motte and bailey castle and shell keep castleScheduled monument940 m (0.6 miles) south
Wakefield BridgeScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Lowe Hill motte and bailey castleScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Thornes ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fall Ings CutLake or reservoir780 m (0.5 miles) north
Castle HillHill930 m (0.6 miles) south
Stennard IslandIsland1 km (0.6 miles) north
Old CutLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) north
Calder IslandIsland1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Old Hall WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) north-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)11.04010
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
70 to 7410
65 to 69270
60 to 6410
55 to 5940
Under 55538

33 of the street's 38 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
The Castle Nursery SchoolNursery2–5110 m No published inspection
Sandal Magna Community AcademyPrimary3–11210 m Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas à Becket Catholic Secondary School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–16660 m (0.4 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School: With Communication ResourcePrimary3–11940 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Sandal Castle VA Community Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Good
Wakefield St Marys Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) 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 Brookhouse Ltd WF1 5NUPub/bar/nightclub60 m5 Very good9 Apr 2025
Tesco WF1 5NURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets60 m5 Very good30 Mar 2026
The Castle Nursery School WF1 5NUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises60 m4 Good5 Jun 2014
Childcare @ Sandal WF1 5NUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises60 m5 Very good29 Jun 2026
Aagrah Restaurant WF1 5NXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m1 Major improvement necessary6 Jan 2026
H Hofmann & Sons Ltd WF1 5NXRetailers - other90 m5 Very good14 Feb 2024
William Noble Butchers Limited WF1 5NXRetailers - other90 m4 Good6 Jun 2025
Sandals News WF1 5NURetailers - other90 m5 Very good1 Dec 2016
Well Pharmacy WF1 5NURetailers - other100 mExempt
Sandal Chippy Woods WF1 5LWTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good5 Jan 2024
Brocs Voyage Care WF1 5NJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good25 Mar 2026
The Hepworth Gallery Cafe WF1 5AWOther catering premises160 m5 Very good8 Sep 2026
The Hepworth Garden Cafe WF1 5AWOther catering premises160 m5 Very good28 Feb 2025
Fogo Grill Ltd WF1 5NPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good21 Jul 2026
The Crate Escape WF2 6AHRetailers - other200 m4 Good26 Mar 2025

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.

224 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences100
Shoplifting27
Criminal damage and arson18
Anti-social behaviour18
Public order17
Vehicle crime10
Other crime8
Other theft8
Burglary7
Drugs6
Robbery3
Possession of weapons1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Brook Crescent (50); On or near Sparable Lane (49); On or near Burkill Street (27); On or near Ashdown Road (25); On or near Manygates Crescent (23).

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: 478 residents in 177 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 age3540
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)47%61%
Owned outright34%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented45%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications35%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)78%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all8%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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

Willow Grove · Willow Drive · Princess Street · Oakland Road · Woodcock Street · Burkill Street · Ashdown Road · Crystal Croft · Woodlands Village · Sugar Lane · Woodcock Street · Manygates Avenue

All the streets in WF1 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.