Crown Gardens Wakefield

5 addresses across 2 postcodes (WF2), about 60 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 41807521.

  • Sales: 4 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £307,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (B: 4).
  • 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 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wakefield Westgate, about 2 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Alverthorpe Meadows, is about 360 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 44 to 48 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 5 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Alverthorpe, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 840 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 46% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 91 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£307,000£307,000£307,000
20222£328,500£325,000£332,000
Most recent sales (4)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 Sep 20233 WF2 0GWSemi-detached£307,000
26 May 20234 WF2 0GWSemi-detached£315,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Dec 20221 WF2 0GWSemi-detached£325,000
2 Dec 20222 WF2 0GWSemi-detached£332,000New build.

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 November 2022 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 120 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (4). Built: 2022 (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

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 (43% of about 880 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 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 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
WF2 0GWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WF2 0AHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 5 addresses are between 44 m and 48 m above sea level (45 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
WF2 0AH100%100%100%0%
WF2 0GW100%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 stationsWakefield Westgate 2.3 million journeys in 2024–252 km (1.3 miles)
Outwood 310,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Wakefield Kirkgate 612,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 32 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Pauls Drive Alverthorpe20 m
Bus or coach stationWakefield Bus Station Wakefield City Centre2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Car parksMorrisons Car park-Wakefield1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest evyve Charging Station - Silkwood Business Park, Wakefield.1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA21.2 km (13 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 Alverthorpe1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wrenthorpe Dental Care1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalFieldhead Hospital2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationNational Police Air Service HQ740 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machinesATM1 km (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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Alverthorpe Meadows 20 ha360 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Wrenthorpe Park 24 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 470 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.5 ha490 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsSt Johns Allotment Gardens 7,690 m²1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 45 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Thornes Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.5 km (1.5 miles) south-east. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Thornes ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.5 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lindale HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Snow HillHill1.7 km (1 mile) north-east
Spring WoodWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Thornes CutLake or reservoir3.3 km (2 miles) south
Calder IslandIsland3.5 km (2.2 miles) south-east
Holme Leas CloughValley3.9 km (2.4 miles) west

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)11.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.54015

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
55 to 5910
Under 5545

1 of the street's 5 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 Wakefield: see them on the Wakefield page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
Alverthorpe St Paul's CofE (VA) School 3-11yrs Church of EnglandPrimary3–11150 m Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wakefield Flanshaw Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary3–11900 m (0.6 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Jerry Clay AcademyPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Michael's CofE Academy Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wrenthorpe AcademyPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Outwood Primary Academy KirkhamgatePrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Wakefield St Johns Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Heart of Yorkshire Education Group16 plus16–991.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Batley Road Pre School WF2 0AHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises10 m5 Very good4 Feb 2020
Kowloon Wakefield Ltd WF2 0AHTakeaway/sandwich shop10 m5 Very good8 May 2025
St Pauls United WF2 0BTSchool/college/university150 m5 Very good28 Apr 2015
Compass Group Uk WF2 0BTSchool/college/university150 m5 Very good6 Mar 2025
Blue Marlin WF2 0AHTakeaway/sandwich shop220 m5 Very good12 Feb 2026
Blue Marlin on Wheels WF2 0AHMobile caterer220 m5 Very good11 Apr 2024
Battered Hall Over, Blue Marlin WF2 0AHMobile caterer220 m5 Very good12 Feb 2026
Alverthorpe Conservative Club WF2 9ABRetailers - other230 m5 Very good9 Jan 2020
Alverthorpe Parochial Church Council WF2 0BTOther catering premises230 m5 Very good9 Feb 2023
Ferrara Takeaway WF2 0AJTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good27 Oct 2026
Mill View Stores WF2 9JHRetailers - other310 m4 Good28 Nov 2017
The New Albion WF2 9JHPub/bar/nightclub310 m5 Very good5 Feb 2020
Pizzalino WF2 0AGTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m3 Generally satisfactory1 Apr 2026
Al Fresco WF2 9AATakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)3 Generally satisfactory28 Jan 2026
Sun Bo WF2 0AGTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 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.

91 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences55
Anti-social behaviour10
Criminal damage and arson8
Other theft6
Public order5
Other crime2
Vehicle crime2
Burglary1
Bicycle theft1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Marion Avenue (16); On or near Allan Haigh Close (16); On or near Marion Grove (11); On or near Batley Road (10); On or near St Paul'S Drive (9).

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: 843 residents in 365 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 age4240
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)46%61%
Owned outright12%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented34%17%
Private rented19%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)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)74%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%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

  • Food hygiene ratings Ferrara Takeaway (takeaway/sandwich shop, WF2 0AJ) now 5 Very good, was 1 Major improvement necessary (rated 27 October 2026) found 3 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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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

Charles Cotton Close · Allan Haigh Close · Armitage Road · St Clair Green · Marion Grove · West View Terrace · Billingham Close · Geary Close · Gelder Croft · Marion Avenue · Geary Drive · Mill View

All the streets in WF2 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.