Common Lane Upton, Wakefield

48 addresses across 5 postcodes (WF9), about 700 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 41806017.

  • Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £130,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 32 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 9, D: 20, E: 2).
  • Flood: 17 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 Wakefield costs £2,297 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Moorthorpe, about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 800 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 60 to 67 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 27 of its 48 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is White Rose Surgery, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,590 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 69% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 16 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£130,000£130,000£130,000
20231£250,000£250,000£250,000
20221£288,000£288,000£288,000
20212£228,750£210,000£247,500
20191£144,000£144,000£144,000
20171£128,000£128,000£128,000
20161£152,000£152,000£152,000
20141£195,000£195,000£195,000
20131£125,000£125,000£125,000
20101£135,000£135,000£135,000
20031£83,000£83,000£83,000
20022£69,475£64,000£74,950
Most recent sales (23)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Feb 2025TRENTHAM WF9 1DESemi-detached£130,000
14 Aug 2023ASH LYNNE WF9 1DFSemi-detached£250,000
18 Feb 2022THULA BUNGALOW WF9 1DFDetached£288,000
6 Dec 2021ASH LYNNE WF9 1DFSemi-detached£210,000
9 Aug 2021TRENTHOLME WF9 1DFDetached£247,500
29 Apr 2019VICKLEE WF9 1DETerraced£144,000
20 Oct 2017LEYS COTTAGE WF9 1DEOther£160,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Mar 2017ASH LYNNE WF9 1DFSemi-detached£128,000
15 Jul 2016VALDENE WF9 1DESemi-detached£152,000
30 Jun 2014BOLNEY LODGE WF9 1DEDetached£195,000
20 Feb 2013SHIMARA WF9 1DESemi-detached£125,000
9 Jul 2010BOLNEY WF9 1DESemi-detached£135,000
5 Dec 2003BOLNEY WF9 1DETerraced£83,000
19 Jul 2002LEYS COTTAGE WF9 1DESemi-detached£64,000
2 May 2002SHEMARA WF9 1DEDetached£74,950
21 Jan 2000TRENTHOLME WF9 1DFDetached£85,000
5 Nov 1998VICKLEE WF9 1DETerraced£27,700
10 Jul 1998BOLNEY WF9 1DETerraced£62,000
28 Nov 1997VICKLEE WF9 1DETerraced£15,000
26 Sep 1997LA CHANTURRESS WF9 1DFDetached£46,000
30 May 1997LEYS COTTAGE WF9 1DESemi-detached£46,000
15 Dec 1995BEACON VIEW WF9 1DESemi-detached£51,500
19 Jun 1995VICKLEE WF9 1DETerraced£48,000

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

32 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 63 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (17); Flat (5); House, semi-detached (5). Built: 1930-1949 (20); 1967-1975 (6); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (15); owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (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 (40% of about 750 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.

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

Started, not reported finished by 30 September 2026

  • 29 September 2026 to 6 October 2026: NORTHERN POWERGRID (YORKSHIRE) PLC, Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (immediate - urgent works)

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, 16 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 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
WF9 1DFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WF9 1DYnot in 2 or 3 14 / 1 / 1 unlikely
WF9 1DEnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WF9 1FJnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WF9 1NDnot 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 48 addresses are between 60 m and 67 m above sea level (64 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
WF9 1DE100%100%100%0%
WF9 1DF100%100%100%0%
WF9 1DY100%100%100%0%
WF9 1FJ100%100%100%0%
WF9 1ND100%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 stationsMoorthorpe 208,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
South Elmsall 289,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Fitzwilliam 273,000 journeys in 2024–255.6 km (3.5 miles)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 16 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Thistle Drive Upton250 m
Bus or coach stationSouth Elmsall Bus Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging pointsAckworth Car Park GeniePoint4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA36.9 km (23 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 surgeriesWhite Rose Surgery2.1 km (1.3 miles)
PharmaciesLo's Pharmacy1.9 km (1.2 miles)
NHS dentistsMarket Place2.2 km (1.3 miles)
HospitalPontefract General Infirmary8.5 km (5.3 miles)
Police stationWest Yorkshire Police2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food New Upton, Upton Cashzone1.6 km (1 mile)

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 1,820 m²800 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 870 m²520 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.4 ha370 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.4 ha1.8 km (1.1 miles)

Landmarks

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

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Long PlantationWood310 m west
Upton BeaconHill1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Beacon CovertWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Coal Pit PlantationWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
South Kirkby MarshWetland1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
The BeckLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.6 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)7.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)12.74015

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
70 to 7410
55 to 59260
Under 552148

27 of the street's 48 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
Minsthorpe Community CollegeSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Upton Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Badsworth Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Ash Grove Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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.

16 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences5
Anti-social behaviour3
Vehicle crime3
Criminal damage and arson2
Public order2
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Daisy Fold (6); On or near Buttercup Close (5); On or near Moor Lane (5).

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: 1,591 residents in 637 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 age4040
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)69%61%
Owned outright31%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented21%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van72%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)48%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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

Buttercup Close · Ivory Walk · Bluebell Way · Moor Lane · Diamond Drive · Daisy Fold · Thistle Drive · Ruby Lane · Rose Avenue · Penarth Terrace · Pearl Court · Clover Walk

All the streets in WF9 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.