Fir Tree Drive Wales, Rotherham

48 addresses across 2 postcodes (S26), about 280 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32600525.

  • Sales: 74 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £251,750 across 4 sales.
  • Energy: 38 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 5, D: 22, E: 8, F: 2).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 Rotherham costs £2,382 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Kiveton Bridge, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Village Green, is about 660 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 102 to 117 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 24 of its 48 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Kiveton Park Medical Practice, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 230 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 92% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 19 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
20254£251,750£227,500£280,000
20241£235,000£235,000£235,000
20233£230,000£205,000£270,000
20221£235,000£235,000£235,000
20211£225,000£225,000£225,000
20203£194,000£130,500£210,000
20196£147,500£118,000£175,000
20181£165,000£165,000£165,000
20172£168,000£156,000£180,000
20162£160,000£140,000£180,000
20151£115,000£115,000£115,000
20142£138,000£130,000£146,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 74)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 Nov 202527 S26 5LZSemi-detached£227,500Leasehold.
25 Sep 202539 S26 5LZSemi-detached£280,000Leasehold.
31 Mar 202516 S26 5LZDetached£262,000Leasehold.
24 Mar 202543 S26 5LZSemi-detached£241,500Leasehold.
2 Dec 202427 S26 5LZSemi-detached£120,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Apr 202410 S26 5LZDetached£235,000
14 Jul 202343 S26 5LZSemi-detached£230,000Leasehold.
31 Mar 20238 S26 5LZDetached£205,000Leasehold.
10 Feb 20231 S26 5LZSemi-detached£270,000Leasehold.
29 Apr 20229 S26 5LZDetached£235,000Leasehold.
30 Jun 202126 S26 5LZDetached£225,000Leasehold.
25 Sep 20205 S26 5LZSemi-detached£130,500Leasehold.
17 Sep 20204 S26 5LZDetached£160,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Aug 202016 S26 5LZDetached£210,000Leasehold.
8 Jun 202040 S26 5LZDetached£194,000Leasehold.
25 Oct 201911 S26 5LZDetached£161,000Leasehold.
8 Oct 201916 S26 5LZDetached£138,500Leasehold.
13 Sep 201930 S26 5LZDetached£145,000
18 Jun 201928 S26 5LZDetached£175,000Leasehold.
7 Jun 201926 S26 5LZDetached£150,000Leasehold.
7 Mar 201916 S26 5LZDetached£118,000Leasehold.
24 May 201845 S26 5LZSemi-detached£165,000Leasehold.
30 Apr 20183 S26 5LZSemi-detached£195,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Jul 201736 S26 5LZDetached£180,000Leasehold.
4 Jan 201713 S26 5LZDetached£156,000
10 Jun 20161 S26 5LZSemi-detached£180,000Leasehold.
21 Mar 201640 S26 5LZDetached£140,000Leasehold.
7 Sep 201521 S26 5LZSemi-detached£115,000Leasehold.
4 Sep 201521 S26 5LZSemi-detached£115,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Nov 201425 S26 5LZSemi-detached£100,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Oct 201444 S26 5LZDetached£130,000Leasehold.
12 Sep 201439 S26 5LZSemi-detached£146,000Leasehold.
27 Sep 201310 S26 5LZDetached£118,000
12 Apr 201332 S26 5LZDetached£144,000Leasehold.
18 Dec 201220 S26 5LZDetached£128,500Leasehold.
15 Jun 201214 S26 5LZDetached£100,000
15 Jun 201214 S26 5LZDetached£100,000Leasehold.
1 Jun 20123 S26 5LZSemi-detached£115,000Leasehold.
27 Jan 201242 S26 5LZTerraced£140,000Leasehold.
13 May 201121 S26 5LZSemi-detached£120,000Leasehold.
28 Oct 201028 S26 5LZDetached£119,995Leasehold.
1 Mar 201012 S26 5LZSemi-detached£145,000Leasehold.
17 Oct 200842 S26 5LZDetached£125,000Leasehold.
28 Sep 200724 S26 5LZDetached£174,000Leasehold.
16 Mar 20076 S26 5LZTerraced£180,000Leasehold.
28 Jul 20069 S26 5LZDetached£162,500Leasehold.
21 Jul 20062 S26 5LZSemi-detached£178,000Leasehold.
20 Jun 20066 S26 5LZTerraced£95,000Leasehold.
9 Jun 200612 S26 5LZSemi-detached£119,000Leasehold.
25 Jul 200234 S26 5LZDetached£90,000Leasehold.

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

38 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 89 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (18); Bungalow, detached (18); House, detached (2). Built: 1950-1966 (21); 1967-1975 (14); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (30); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (25 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Rotherham in 2026-27: Band D £2,382 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,588£1,852£2,117£2,382£2,911£3,440£3,969£4,763

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (27% of about 710 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Started, not reported finished by 31 October 2026

  • 27 October 2026 to 2 November 2026: NORTHERN POWERGRID (YORKSHIRE) PLC, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 7 October 2026 to 10 October 2026: NORTHERN POWERGRID (YORKSHIRE) PLC, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the footway (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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 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
S26 5LZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
S26 5LBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 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 48 addresses are between 102 m and 117 m above sea level (113 m on average); the ground rises about 15 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
S26 5LB100%100%100%0%
S26 5LZ100%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 stationsKiveton Bridge 69,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Kiveton Park 58,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Woodhouse 40,000 journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest School Road/Almond Tree Road Wales Bar110 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Eckington5.4 km (3.4 miles)
Car parksQ-Park UK2.5 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging pointsGridserve Charging Station2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA56.7 km (35 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 Kiveton Park Medical Practice1.6 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kiveton Pharmacy640 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.5 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalRotherham General Hospital8.8 km (5.5 miles)
Police stationKillamarsh and Eckington Police SNT2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Wales Road, Kiveton Park Cashzone1.1 km (0.7 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Village Green 910 m²660 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 350 m²350 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.2 ha240 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,090 m²130 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St John the Baptist, a listed building (Grade II*), 660 m (0.4 miles) east. 8 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 St John the BaptistListed building, Grade II*660 m (0.4 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wood HillHill100 m south
Wales CommonWood860 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Nor WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Rookery BottomValley1.2 km (0.8 miles) north
Hepworth PondLake or reservoir1.5 km (1 mile) north
Union PlantationWood1.6 km (1 mile) north

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)10.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)14.54015

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
60 to 6440
55 to 59200
Under 552448

24 of the street's 48 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Rotherham: see them on the Rotherham 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
Wales Primary SchoolPrimary4–11470 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Kiveton Park Meadows Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wales High SchoolSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Killamarsh Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Kiveton Park Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Killamarsh Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.8 km (1.1 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
Waters Edge Cafe S26 5PERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good19 Dec 2024

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.

19 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences10
Shoplifting2
Public order2
Anti-social behaviour2
Robbery1
Burglary1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near School Road (6); On or near Petrol Station (4); On or near Green Oak Drive (3); On or near Almond Tree Road (2); On or near Cherry Tree Road (2).

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: 228 residents in 108 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 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over37%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)92%61%
Owned outright59%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work41%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)46%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van69%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)46%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%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 6 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: NORTHERN POWERGRID (YORKSHIRE) PLC: Utility repair and maintenance works, 7 October 2026 to 13 October 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: NORTHERN POWERGRID (YORKSHIRE) PLC: Utility repair and maintenance works, 27 October 2026 to 2 November 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 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.

  • S26 5LZ: 47 addresses of 49 in the postcode
  • S26 5LB: 1 address of 27 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Green Oak Drive · School Road · Cherry Tree Road · Almond Tree Road · South Terrace · Cricket Field Lane · East Terrace

All the streets in S26 and across Rotherham.

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.