Cheapside Wakefield

61 addresses across 3 postcodes (WF1), about 200 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41800737.

  • Sales: 26 recorded sales since 1995; in 2017 the median was £250,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (B: 6, C: 4, D: 1, E: 3, F: 1, G: 1).
  • 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 10% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wakefield Westgate, about 310 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Coronation Gardens, is about 260 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 46 to 52 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 52 of its 61 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Trinity Medical Centre, about 530 m away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 480 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 16% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 828 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
20171£250,000£250,000£250,000
20161£85,000£85,000£85,000
20101£58,000£58,000£58,000
20081£190,000£190,000£190,000
20061£96,000£96,000£96,000
20051£340,000£340,000£340,000
20041£230,000£230,000£230,000
20031£120,000£120,000£120,000
20002£95,500£30,000£161,000
19992£74,250£58,500£90,000
19981£100,000£100,000£100,000
19971£27,440£27,440£27,440
Most recent sales (26)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Mar 202619 WF1 2SDOther£482,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Mar 202324 WF1 2TFOther£295,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Oct 20224 WF1 2SDOther£220,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Jan 202111 WF1 2SDOther£120,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Dec 20209 WF1 2SDOther£300,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Dec 2020CHEAPSIDE CHAMBERS, 7 - 9 WF1 2SDOther£300,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Aug 201919A WF1 2SDOther£265,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Jun 20178 WF1 2SDOther£135,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Jan 201724 WF1 2TFTerraced£250,000
5 Jan 201711 WF1 2SDTerraced£125,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Oct 201615 - 17 WF1 2SDOther£131,603Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Feb 201623 WF1 2TFTerraced£85,000
30 Sep 201520 - 22 WF1 2TFOther£280,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Jul 201513 WF1 2SDOther£70,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Jan 20104A WF1 2SDTerraced£58,000
31 Mar 200821 WF1 2TFSemi-detached£190,000
1 Sep 200623 WF1 2TFTerraced£96,000
27 May 20056 WF1 2SDDetached£340,000
30 Jan 200426 WF1 2TFSemi-detached£230,000
8 Aug 200311 WF1 2SDTerraced£120,000
29 Sep 2000CHEAPSIDE CHAMBERS, 7 - 9 WF1 2SDTerraced£30,000
3 Jul 200030 WF1 2TFTerraced£161,000
15 Oct 199926 WF1 2TFSemi-detached£90,000
14 May 199923 WF1 2TFTerraced£58,500
9 Jul 199824 WF1 2TFTerraced£100,000
3 Jul 1997CHEAPSIDE CHAMBERS, 7 - 9 WF1 2SDTerraced£27,440

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from January 2017 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 66 m². Most common: Flat (14); Maisonette, mid-terrace (2). Built: 2023 (6); 2016 (4); before 1900 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (5); owner-occupied (5).

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 (45% of about 1,170 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: 18.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

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 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
WF1 2SDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WF1 2TFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WF1 1XQnot 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 61 addresses are between 46 m and 52 m above sea level (50 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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
WF1 1XQ10%10%10%0%
WF1 2SD100%100%100%0%
WF1 2TF90%90%90%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 stationsWakefield Westgate 2.3 million journeys in 2024–25310 m
Wakefield Kirkgate 612,000 journeys in 2024–251.0 km
Sandal and Agbrigg 202,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m, 53 within 800 m; nearest Westgate Wakefield City Centre40 m
Bus or coach stationWakefield Bus Station Wakefield City Centre390 m
Car parks5 within 800 m; nearest Car Park270 m
EV charging points9 within 1.6 km; nearest The Granary Car Park GeniePoint40 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA22.9 km

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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Trinity Medical Centre530 m
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Boots360 m
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Queen Street (Dental Surgery)100 m
HospitalPinderfields Hospital1.4 km
Police stationWest Yorkshire Police Authority230 m
Cash machines9 machines within 800 m; nearest Wakefield City NatWest50 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; nearest Coronation Gardens 1,700 m²260 m
Largest park within 800 mBalne Lane Fields 7.6 ha690 m
Play area1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 650 m²550 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 3.0 ha1.0 km
AllotmentsUnnamed 7,510 m²810 m

Within 800 m: 4 parks and gardens, 8.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Theatre Royal, a listed building (Grade II*), 90 m south-west. 134 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 3 of them Grade I and 13 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Theatre RoyalListed building, Grade II*90 m south-west
York HouseListed building, Grade II*100 m west
Town HallListed building, Grade I140 m north
Former City MuseumListed building, Grade II*140 m north
Wakefield BridgeScheduled monument1.0 km south-east
Lowe Hill motte and bailey castleScheduled monument1.1 km south
Thornes ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km south-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Park HillHill1.2 km east
Old CutLake or reservoir1.3 km south-east
Stennard IslandIsland1.3 km south-east
Fall Ings CutLake or reservoir1.4 km south-east
Calder IslandIsland2.1 km south
Old Hall WoodWood2.2 km east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)14.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
70 to 7410
60 to 6480
55 to 59430
Under 55961

52 of the street's 61 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
CAPA College16 plus16–19110 m No published inspection
Heart of Yorkshire Education Group16 plus16–99530 m No published inspection
Wakefield Lawefield Primary SchoolPrimary3–11700 m No published inspection
St Austin's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11870 m No published inspection
Wakefield St Johns Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary4–11930 m No published inspection
Wakefield St Marys Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.0 km No published inspection
Wakefield Pinders Primary (JIN) SchoolPrimary3–111.0 km No published inspection
Outwood Primary Academy GreenhillPrimary3–111.1 km No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School: With Communication ResourcePrimary3–111.4 km No published inspection
Outwood Primary Academy Park HillPrimary3–111.5 km Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wakefield Flanshaw Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Trinity Academy Cathedral Church of EnglandSecondary11–161.7 km Report card (Jun 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; Safeguarding standards: Met

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Lala's WF1 1XQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good18 Aug 2026
Nocturno WF1 1XQPub/bar/nightclub40 mUnknown19 Jun 2026
Brick & Liquor WF1 1XQPub/bar/nightclub40 m5 Very good11 Jun 2021
Hadis Grill WF1 1XQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good17 Mar 2025
Jay Dee's WF1 1XQTakeaway/sandwich shop40 m5 Very good23 Jun 2025
Rafikees WF1 1XQTakeaway/sandwich shop40 m5 Very good11 Mar 2026
Icon WF1 1XHPub/bar/nightclub40 m5 Very good7 Aug 2020
Harrys WF1 1XHTakeaway/sandwich shop40 m5 Very good22 Apr 2025
Q Rooms Ltd @ 14 WF1 2SDPub/bar/nightclub60 m5 Very good29 Nov 2024
Pop World WF1 1BWPub/bar/nightclub60 m5 Very good4 Sep 2019
Hogarth's WF1 1BWPub/bar/nightclub60 m5 Very good4 Sep 2015
Cosa Nostra Lounge WF1 1BWPub/bar/nightclub60 m5 Very good10 Apr 2026
Union Bank Wakefield WF1 1BWPub/bar/nightclub60 m5 Very good30 Nov 2023
After Dark WF1 1BWPub/bar/nightclub60 m5 Very good16 Sep 2026
Newstand WF1 1UYRetailers - other80 m5 Very good10 Dec 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.

828 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences363
Anti-social behaviour89
Public order85
Drugs61
Other theft45
Criminal damage and arson43
Burglary37
Shoplifting25
Other crime24
Theft from the person18
Vehicle crime12
Possession of weapons11
Robbery8
Bicycle theft7

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (139); On or near Albion Court (122); On or near Cross Square (75); On or near Bank Street (68); On or near Carter Street (64).

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: 483 residents in 236 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 age3140
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over5%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)16%61%
Owned outright8%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented81%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)6%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van39%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle20%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)68%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all9%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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

Thompson's Yard · Woolpack's Yard · Carter Street · Barstow Square · Westgate · King Street · Market Street · Bank Street · Walker's Terrace · Albion Court · Crown Court · Chancery Lane

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside.

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