Fair View Pontefract, Wakefield

60 addresses across 2 postcodes (WF8), about 580 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 41801324.

  • Sales: 56 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £270,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 28 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 17, E: 3, F: 1).
  • Flood: 7 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 C; Band D in Wakefield costs £2,297 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Pontefract Baghill, about 1.7 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Carleton Green, is about 160 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 36 to 38 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Friarwood Surgery, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 250 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 43% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 60 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£270,000£270,000£270,000
20241£275,000£275,000£275,000
20232£282,500£280,000£285,000
20224£272,500£249,970£287,000
20212£206,000£205,000£207,000
20191£220,000£220,000£220,000
20181£193,000£193,000£193,000
20172£186,000£181,500£190,500
20161£152,000£152,000£152,000
20152£185,000£185,000£185,000
20142£180,000£175,000£185,000
20133£183,000£183,000£200,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 56)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 May 20254 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£270,000
11 Oct 202461 WF8 3NUSemi-detached£275,000
27 Jul 202335 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£280,000
30 Jun 202314 WF8 3NTDetached£285,000
25 Nov 20225 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£287,000
20 Jun 202247 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£260,000
9 Mar 202216 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£285,000
28 Feb 202275 WF8 3NUSemi-detached£249,970
18 Feb 202171 WF8 3NUSemi-detached£205,000
5 Feb 20215 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£207,000
16 Aug 201977 WF8 3NUSemi-detached£220,000
2 Nov 201822 WF8 3NUSemi-detached£193,000
28 Apr 20176 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£190,500
23 Feb 201717 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£181,500
22 Jan 201665 WF8 3NUSemi-detached£152,000
19 Jun 20154 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£185,000
22 May 20156 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£185,000
6 Jun 201453 WF8 3NUSemi-detached£175,000
17 Apr 201428 WF8 3NUSemi-detached£185,000
19 Dec 20138 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£183,000
1 Nov 20131 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£183,000
11 Oct 201333 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£200,000
7 Jun 201145 WF8 3NTDetached£165,000
6 May 201123 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£172,000
1 Sep 201033 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£200,000
5 Nov 200911 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£175,000
13 Jun 200811 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£172,000
11 Mar 200861 WF8 3NUSemi-detached£195,000
21 Sep 200722 WF8 3NUSemi-detached£115,000
14 Sep 200745 WF8 3NTDetached£199,000
6 Jul 200733 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£209,950
29 Jun 200722 WF8 3NUSemi-detached£168,000
11 Jun 20074 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£189,000
23 Feb 200728 WF8 3NUSemi-detached£199,950
7 Dec 200620 WF8 3NUSemi-detached£170,000
21 Jan 200513 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£170,000
4 Jun 200477 WF8 3NUSemi-detached£145,000
16 Jan 200416 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£140,000
19 Nov 200328 WF8 3NUSemi-detached£120,000
24 Jan 20038 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£115,000
31 Jul 200228 WF8 3NUSemi-detached£105,500
31 May 200243 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£85,000
22 Apr 200214 WF8 3NTDetached£91,500
19 Oct 200137 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£95,250
9 Mar 200163 WF8 3NUSemi-detached£79,000
4 Aug 200028 WF8 3NUSemi-detached£73,950
20 Apr 200016 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£77,500
9 Jul 199963 WF8 3NUSemi-detached£74,000
30 Jun 19997 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£65,000
29 Sep 19985 WF8 3NTSemi-detached£72,000

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.

28 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 104 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (15); Bungalow, semi-detached (12); House, detached (1). Built: 1967-1975 (19); 1950-1966 (8); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (22); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (18 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 C (32% of about 650 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

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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 7 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
WF8 3NTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 3 unlikely
WF8 3NUnot in 2 or 3 3 / 3 / 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 60 addresses are between 36 m and 38 m above sea level (37 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
WF8 3NT97%0%0%0%
WF8 3NU100%0%0%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 stationsPontefract Baghill 18,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Pontefract Tanshelf 99,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.5 miles)
Pontefract Monkhill 229,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.5 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fair View Carleton160 m
Bus or coach stationPontefract Bus Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Car parksMarket Place Upper Car Park1.8 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station2 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA31.8 km (20 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 Friarwood Surgery1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chequerfield Pharmacy1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentistsRopergate Dental Practice1.7 km (1.1 miles)
HospitalPontefract General Infirmary1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationWest Yorkshire Police1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machinesATM1.6 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Carleton Green 1.1 ha160 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 780 m²510 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.6 ha330 m
AllotmentsRookhill Allotments 1.4 ha940 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Friarwood Valley Gardens, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.6 km (1 mile) north-west. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Friarwood Valley GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bates HillHill650 m (0.4 miles) east
Friar Wood HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Priory WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Thorp MarshWetland3.7 km (2.3 miles) south-east
BrockadaleValley4.8 km (3 miles) south-east
Willow IslandIsland5 km (3.1 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)8.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)12.64015

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
Under 556060

None of the street's 60 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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
Ark The Rookeries Carleton Primary SchoolPrimary3–11210 m Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ark Carleton High SchoolSecondary11–16230 m No published inspection
Ark Carleton Park Primary SchoolPrimary4–11910 m (0.6 miles) 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
Ark De Lacy Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ark Larks Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Harewood Centre Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Ark The King's SchoolSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cherry Tree AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Family and St Michael's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Pontefract Roman CatholicPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Apr 2024, 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Taylor Shaw WF8 3NWSchool/college/university120 m5 Very good20 Oct 2025
Breakfast Club WF8 3NPSchool/college/university150 m5 Very good15 May 2017
Taylor Shaw WF8 3NPSchool/college/university150 m5 Very good18 Jun 2025
The Grange Nursery WF8 3RJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises170 m5 Very good6 Jul 2026
Carleton Community Centre WF8 3RJPub/bar/nightclub170 m5 Very good27 Mar 2025
Carleton Court Residential Home WF8 3NQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good17 Apr 2025
Pontefract Rufc WF8 3RXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good12 Sep 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.

60 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences22
Anti-social behaviour18
Other crime9
Public order3
Burglary2
Criminal damage and arson2
Possession of weapons1
Other theft1
Robbery1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Green Lane (41); On or near Carleton Road (14); On or near West Close (2); On or near The Orchard (2); On or near Fair View (1).

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: 249 residents in 116 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 age5840
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over36%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright63%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented4%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)44%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)42%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)43%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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

West Close · East Close · Green Lane · Beechlands · Carleton Green · The Orchard · Carleton Green Close · Carleton Grange Stables · Churchbalk Lane · Church View · Holme Farm Way · Holme Farm Mews

All the streets in WF8 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.