Dale Close Ossett, Wakefield

11 addresses across 2 postcodes (WF5), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41801044.

  • Sales: 26 recorded sales since 1995; in 2020 the median was £108,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 4).
  • Flood: 3 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 Dewsbury, about 3.8 km (2.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 380 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 95 to 96 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 11 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ossett Surgery, about 420 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 43 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
20202£108,000£104,000£112,000
20181£128,000£128,000£128,000
20171£139,000£139,000£139,000
20161£110,000£110,000£110,000
20151£124,500£124,500£124,500
20132£110,000£105,000£115,000
20071£124,000£124,000£124,000
20061£118,500£118,500£118,500
20052£116,500£113,000£120,000
20044£98,500£90,000£106,950
20031£90,000£90,000£90,000
20022£63,750£60,000£67,500
Most recent sales (26)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
23 Sep 202219 WF5 9JPSemi-detached£167,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Jun 20207 WF5 9JPSemi-detached£112,000
1 Apr 20205 WF5 9JPTerraced£104,000
9 Mar 201819 WF5 9JPSemi-detached£128,000
26 May 20171 WF5 9JPSemi-detached£139,000
8 Jul 201617 WF5 9JPTerraced£110,000
20 Nov 20153 WF5 9JPTerraced£124,500
8 Jul 201315 WF5 9JPTerraced£105,000
7 May 20133 WF5 9JPSemi-detached£115,000
30 Apr 200719 WF5 9JPSemi-detached£124,000
13 Apr 200613 WF5 9JPTerraced£118,500
28 Oct 200515 WF5 9JPTerraced£113,000
17 May 200519 WF5 9JPSemi-detached£120,000
2 Jul 200415 WF5 9JPTerraced£90,000
18 May 20043 WF5 9JPSemi-detached£97,000
23 Apr 20041 WF5 9JPSemi-detached£106,950
5 Apr 200419 WF5 9JPSemi-detached£100,000
28 Feb 200319 WF5 9JPSemi-detached£90,000
29 Apr 200213 WF5 9JPTerraced£67,500
22 Mar 200217 WF5 9JPTerraced£60,000
24 Aug 200113 WF5 9JPTerraced£57,000
19 Mar 19991 WF5 9JPSemi-detached£53,000
25 Sep 199819 WF5 9JPSemi-detached£53,000
25 Jul 19977 WF5 9JPSemi-detached£54,000
2 Feb 199611 WF5 9JPTerraced£46,000
23 Jun 199519 WF5 9JPSemi-detached£53,000

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 May 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 74 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (6); House, mid-terrace (4). Built: 1967-1975 (5); 1976-1982 (4); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (5); owner-occupied (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 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 (44% of about 700 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 24 August 2026 to 26 August 2026: NORTHERN POWERGRID (YORKSHIRE) PLC, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway, carriageway (immediate - urgent works)

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, 2 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
WF5 9JPnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 1 unlikely
WF5 9HNnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 4 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 11 addresses are between 95 m and 96 m above sea level (96 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
WF5 9HN100%100%100%0%
WF5 9JP100%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 stationsDewsbury 947,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.4 miles)
Batley 227,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Wakefield Westgate 2.3 million journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 58 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dale St Fire Station Ossett20 m
Bus or coach stationOssett Bus Station280 m
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Towngate Car Park320 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge350 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA21.1 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ossett Surgery420 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Giles & Ward Pharmacy270 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ossett Dental Care490 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalDewsbury & District Hospital-Combined Elective Surgical Hub5.4 km (3.3 miles)
Police stationOssett Police Station600 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Ossett, Dale Street Cashzone270 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 (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,860 m²380 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 430 m²170 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.6 ha140 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,080 m²110 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 1.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of the Holy Trinity, a listed building (Grade II*), 470 m (0.3 miles) north-west. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of the Holy TrinityListed building, Grade II*470 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lodge HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Holme Leas CloughValley1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Giggal HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Storrs HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Long CutLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Spring WoodWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) 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)11.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.34015

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
65 to 6910
60 to 6430
55 to 5920
Under 55511

6 of the street's 11 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), 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
Ossett Holy Trinity CofE VA Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11190 m No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Towngate Primary AcademyPrimary3–11550 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Ossett Southdale Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior SchoolPrimary7–11820 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Ossett Flushdyke Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Dimple Well Infant School and NurseryPrimary3–71 km (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ossett South Parade PrimaryPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
South Ossett Infant AcademyPrimary3–71.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gawthorpe Community AcademyPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ossett Academy and Sixth Form CollegeSecondary11–191.5 km (1 mile) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Ignatius Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Orchard Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
The Mews Hotel WF5 9HNPub/bar/nightclub60 m4 Good20 Apr 2026
The Recycle Yard WF5 9HQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 mAwaiting inspection
Ossett United Afc Social Club WF5 9HLRetailers - other180 m5 Very good24 Feb 2025
Spurr's Quality Butchers WF5 9HERetailers - other180 m5 Very good24 Jun 2025
Bobby's Salt & Pepper WF5 9HETakeaway/sandwich shop200 m5 Very good6 Aug 2024
Chicken Hut WF5 9HLTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good18 Feb 2026
Breakfast Club WF5 9DGSchool/college/university240 m5 Very good29 Sep 2025
Dolce WF5 9DGSchool/college/university240 mAwaiting inspection
Horse & Jockey WF5 9BTPub/bar/nightclub270 m5 Very good2 Jan 2018
Hitch Newsagents WF5 9BTRetailers - other270 m5 Very good5 Feb 2014
B & M Retail Ltd WF5 9BTRetailers - other270 m5 Very good19 Aug 2026
Co-op WF5 9DBRetailers - other270 m5 Very good26 Jan 2026
Nikoz WF5 9DBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m4 Good30 Sep 2025
A & M Sandwich Bar WF5 9DBRetailers - other270 m4 Good28 Jan 2025
FGF WF5 9DBTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good10 Aug 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.

43 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences13
Anti-social behaviour12
Public order4
Other theft4
Vehicle crime4
Criminal damage and arson3
Drugs1
Robbery1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Dale Close (10); On or near Ings Mill (9); On or near Carlton Court (6); On or near Milton Place (5); On or near Albion Croft (3).

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: 601 residents in 275 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 age3840
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)66%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented28%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%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)29%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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

Eastwood Terrace · Dale Street · Binks Yard · Gordon Avenue · Brammer Close · Albion Croft · Carlton Court · Tealls Croft · Cromwell Place · Milton Place · Knoll Close · Gunson Crescent

All the streets in WF5 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.