Doncaster Road Wakefield

262 addresses across 16 postcodes (WF1,WF2), about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 41800032.

  • Energy: 90 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 20, D: 43, E: 22, F: 2, G: 1).
  • Flood: 8 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 67% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Sandal and Agbrigg, about 120 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Castle Grove Park, is about 110 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 23 to 31 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 236 of its 262 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Maybush Medical Centre, about 930 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 2,810 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 47% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 35 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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

90 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 93 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (37); House, semi-detached (20); House, end-terrace (15). Built: 1900-1929 (49); 1930-1949 (14); before 1900 (11). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (43); rented (private) (29); rented (social) (7).

Each home's certificates and sales (56 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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (48% of about 3,690 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 4 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: 4.
  • 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 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

Started, not reported finished by 31 October 2026

  • 26 September 2026 to 31 January 2027: NETWORK RAIL, Works for Rail Purposes, road closure, on the footway, carriageway (major works)

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 8 November 2026 to 30 January 2027: NETWORK RAIL, Works for Rail Purposes, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (major works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 29 October 2026: NETWORK RAIL, Works for Rail Purposes, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)
  • 17 September 2026: CITY OF WAKEFIELD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 9 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, stop/go boards, on the footway (immediate - emergency 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, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 16 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 14 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 4 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
WF1 5APnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WF1 5ABnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
WF1 5BUzone 2 3 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WF1 5BLzone 2 1 / 0 / 2 unlikely
WF1 5AQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 0 unlikely
WF1 5AUzone 2 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
WF2 6AAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WF1 5BYzone 2 0 / 1 / 2 unlikely
WF1 5AEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WF1 5ASnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WF2 6AFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WF1 5BNzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WF2 6ABnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WF1 5AYzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WF1 5BTnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 3 unlikely
WF2 6EFnot 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.

© 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 263 addresses are between 23 m and 31 m above sea level (25 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
WF1 5AB100%96%96%0%
WF1 5AE100%100%100%0%
WF1 5AP100%92%92%0%
WF1 5AQ100%100%100%0%
WF1 5AS100%100%100%0%
WF1 5AU100%100%100%0%
WF1 5AY100%100%100%0%
WF1 5BL100%100%100%0%
WF1 5BN100%100%100%0%
WF1 5BT100%100%100%0%
WF1 5BU100%100%100%0%
WF1 5BY100%100%100%0%
WF2 6AA100%100%100%0%
WF2 6AB83%67%67%0%
WF2 6AF100%100%100%0%
WF2 6EF100%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 stationsSandal and Agbrigg 202,000 journeys in 2024–25120 m
Wakefield Kirkgate 612,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Wakefield Westgate 2.3 million journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 36 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sandal & Agbrigg Station50 m
Bus or coach stationPeterson Road Wakefield2.2 km (1.3 miles)
Car parksStorage King Wakefield Car Park1.9 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA25.5 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Maybush Medical Centre930 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well520 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentistsSandal Dental Care1.7 km (1.1 miles)
HospitalPinderfields Hospital3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Police stationPolice & Crime Commissioner for West Yorkshire2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machinesATM2 km (1.2 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Castle Grove Park 6.6 ha110 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 920 m²340 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.0 ha100 m
Allotments6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,470 m²230 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 7.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Helen, a listed building (Grade II*), 380 m south. 21 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St HelenListed building, Grade II*380 m south
Sandal Castle: motte and bailey castle and shell keep castleScheduled monument670 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Sandal CastleListed building, Grade II*680 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Wakefield BridgeScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north
Lowe Hill motte and bailey castleScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Thornes ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.2 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Castle HillHill690 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Fall Ings CutLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.8 miles) north
Stennard IslandIsland1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Old CutLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Oakenshaw WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Calder IslandIsland1.5 km (0.9 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)9.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

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 7420
65 to 6982
60 to 641608
55 to 596612
Under 5526240

236 of the street's 262 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 22 from railways, 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
St Thomas à Becket Catholic Secondary School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–16200 m Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Castle Nursery SchoolNursery2–5370 m No published inspection
Sandal Magna Community AcademyPrimary3–11390 m Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sandal Castle VA Community Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11780 m (0.5 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
Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School: With Communication ResourcePrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection

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
Sandal Cricket Club WF2 6EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good7 Aug 2015
Sandal Post Office WF2 6EGRetailers - other140 m5 Very good21 Mar 2023
The Spring Community Shop & Cafe WF2 6EGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good8 Jan 2026
Top Shop WF1 5AQRetailers - other190 m1 Major improvement necessary22 Apr 2026
Dolce WF2 6EQSchool/college/university190 mAwaiting inspection
GTB Agbrigg Convenience Store WF1 5ABRetailers - other290 m3 Generally satisfactory23 May 2025
The Crate Escape WF2 6AHRetailers - other300 m4 Good26 Mar 2025
Heathcotes Sandal WF1 5NFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good13 Jan 2025
Heathcotes Agbrigg WF1 5NFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good13 Jan 2025
Sandal Magna Community Academy Catering WF1 5NFSchool/college/university400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good24 Apr 2025
Agbrigg Off Licence WF1 5APRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)1 Major improvement necessary24 Feb 2026
Luma WF1 5APTakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Mr Happy WF1 5ASTakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good11 Mar 2026
Euro Fresh Foods WF1 5ASRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Nov 2023
Aagrah Restaurant WF1 5NXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)1 Major improvement necessary6 Jan 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.

35 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences16
Burglary7
Criminal damage and arson4
Other theft2
Drugs2
Anti-social behaviour1
Vehicle crime1
Public order1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Station Street (11); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (9); On or near Sandal Avenue (8); On or near Agbrigg Grove (5); On or near Sandal And Agbrigg (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 8 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 2,811 residents in 1,092 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 age3340
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)47%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented40%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)13%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 van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus13%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications29%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)76%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all8%2%

Deprivation

The 4 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 8 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: NETWORK RAIL: Works for Rail Purposes, 29 October 2026 (multi-way signals) found 3 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, mid-terrace (lodged 27 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

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.

  • WF1 5AP: 41 addresses of 42 in the postcode
  • WF1 5AB: 37 addresses of 39 in the postcode
  • WF1 5BU: 33 addresses of 34 in the postcode
  • WF1 5BL: 27 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • WF1 5AQ: 24 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • WF1 5AU: 21 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • WF2 6AA: 20 addresses
  • WF1 5BY: 14 addresses
  • WF1 5AE: 10 addresses
  • WF1 5AS: 9 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • WF2 6AF: 8 addresses
  • WF1 5BN: 6 addresses of 7 in the postcode
  • WF2 6AB: 6 addresses
  • WF1 5AY: 4 addresses of 5 in the postcode
  • WF1 5BT: 1 address of 41 in the postcode
  • WF2 6EF: 1 address of 19 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Duncan Avenue · Agbrigg Grove · Station Street · Newland Court · Avenue Road · Newland Street · Harlock Street · Orchard Road · Pinfold Grove · Woodcroft · Church View · Back Church View

All the streets in WF1, 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.