Foreman Road Wakefield

38 addresses across 2 postcodes (WF2), about 280 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41806802.

  • Sales: 60 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £232,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 36 homes have an energy certificate (B: 14, C: 22).
  • Flood: 4 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 Wakefield Westgate, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 120 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 73 to 77 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 22 of its 38 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Lupset Health Centre, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,030 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 51% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 121 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£232,000£232,000£232,000
20241£190,000£190,000£190,000
20231£340,000£340,000£340,000
20213£241,500£172,500£295,000
20204£191,750£158,000£225,000
20191£235,000£235,000£235,000
20185£238,000£173,000£275,000
20174£187,498£137,000£299,995
20161£246,000£246,000£246,000
201432£163,995£84,995£379,995
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 60)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Dec 20257 WF2 9AZDetached£300,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Oct 202531 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£203,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Jun 202531 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£225,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Feb 202533 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£232,000
31 Oct 202457 WF2 9AZTerraced£190,000
18 Sep 20235 WF2 9AZDetached£340,000
16 Sep 202131 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£172,500
6 Aug 202147 WF2 9AZDetached£241,500
16 Jun 202117 WF2 9AZDetached£295,000
6 Nov 202061 WF2 9AZTerraced£160,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Jul 202011 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£225,000
25 Jun 202065 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£217,500
27 Mar 202043 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£158,000
24 Feb 202021 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£166,000
16 Aug 20193 WF2 9AZDetached£235,000
21 Dec 20183 WF2 9AZDetached£270,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Oct 201839 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£173,000
15 Jun 20187 WF2 9AZDetached£238,000
15 Jun 20189 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£178,000
28 Feb 20185 WF2 9AZDetached£275,000
19 Jan 201815 WF2 9AZDetached£265,000
15 Dec 20171 WF2 9AZDetached£209,995New build.
1 Dec 201749 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£165,000
30 Jun 20172 WF2 9BBDetached£299,995New build.
24 Feb 201755 WF2 9AZTerraced£137,000
16 Dec 201655 WF2 9AZTerraced£146,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Aug 201645 WF2 9AZDetached£246,000
19 Dec 201465 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£189,995New build.
19 Dec 201463 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£163,995
19 Dec 201461 WF2 9AZTerraced£149,995New build.
19 Dec 201457 WF2 9AZTerraced£147,995New build.
19 Dec 201459 WF2 9AZFlat or maisonette£84,995New build.
8 Dec 201410 WF2 9BBDetached£370,000New build.
28 Nov 201455 WF2 9AZTerraced£163,995New build.
21 Nov 201453 WF2 9AZDetached£214,995New build.
23 Oct 20148 WF2 9BBDetached£324,995New build.
10 Oct 201431 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£159,995New build.
7 Oct 20146 WF2 9BBDetached£269,995New build.
26 Sep 201447 WF2 9AZDetached£219,995New build.
26 Sep 201435 WF2 9AZDetached£213,500New build.
26 Sep 201433 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£159,995New build.
19 Sep 201451 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£164,995New build.
18 Sep 201449 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£164,995
29 Aug 20144 WF2 9BBDetached£379,995New build.
27 Jun 201445 WF2 9AZDetached£249,995New build.
27 Jun 201417 WF2 9AZDetached£240,995New build.
27 Jun 201439 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£161,995New build.
27 Jun 201443 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£154,995New build.
27 Jun 201441 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£149,995New build.
20 Jun 201425 WF2 9AZSemi-detached£159,995New build.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from May 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

36 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 77 m². Most common: House, detached (14); House, semi-detached (11); House, end-terrace (6). Built: 2014 (27); 2012 onwards (3); 2012-2021 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (35).

Each home's certificates and sales (29 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 (48% of about 1,120 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

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

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 24 September 2026 to 29 September 2026: Electricity Network Company Limited, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - emergency works)
  • 24 September 2026 to 29 September 2026: Electricity Network Company Limited, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - emergency works)
  • 3 September 2026 to 14 September 2026: Electricity Network Company Limited, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - emergency works)

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 6 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
WF2 9AZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 3 / 6 unlikely
WF2 9BBnot in 2 or 3 1 / 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 38 addresses are between 73 m and 77 m above sea level (74 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
WF2 9AZ100%100%100%0%
WF2 9BB100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsWakefield Westgate 2.3 million journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Wakefield Kirkgate 612,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Outwood 310,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.7 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Foreman Road Lupset120 m
Bus or coach stationOssett Bus Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Car parksMorrisons Car park-Wakefield1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest evyve Charging Station - Silkwood Business Park, Wakefield.400 m (0.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA22.1 km (14 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lupset Health Centre1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wakefield Pharmacy500 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.4 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalFieldhead Hospital3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Police stationNational Police Air Service HQ2 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ossett Service Station, Ossett Cashzone260 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,620 m²120 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 15 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 120 m²140 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Thornes Junior Football Club 5.1 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.0 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Thornes Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.2 km (1.4 miles) east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Thornes ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.2 km (1.4 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lindale HillHill2 km (1.3 miles) north
Lodge HillHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Thornes CutLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Spring WoodWood3 km (1.8 miles) north-west
Calder IslandIsland3 km (1.9 miles) south-east
Holme Leas CloughValley3.5 km (2.2 miles) west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)11.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 6930
60 to 6430
55 to 59160
Under 551638

22 of the street's 38 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), 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
English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11760 m (0.5 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's CofE Academy Church of EnglandPrimary2–11920 m (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wakefield Snapethorpe Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wakefield Flanshaw Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Alverthorpe St Paul's CofE (VA) School 3-11yrs Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ossett Flushdyke Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Ossett South Parade PrimaryPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Towngate Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
The Mount Junior Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Nov 2022, 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
Abduls WF2 8AUTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good25 Mar 2025
Victoria Sandwich WF2 8AUTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m4 Good17 Sep 2026
Three Flames WF5 9ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good1 Apr 2026
Costa Coffee WF5 9THRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good26 Jan 2026
Greggs WF5 9THOther catering premises340 m5 Very good25 Nov 2025
Shell Deli 2 Go @ WF5 9ADRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)4 Good30 Mar 2018
Farmhouse Kitchen WF5 9TRPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 May 2025
Silkwood Private Day Nursery WF5 9TJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Feb 2026
Ramada Hotel WF5 9TJHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Oct 2026
Total Fitness Club Cafe WF5 9TJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)4 Good10 Mar 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.

121 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences61
Anti-social behaviour24
Criminal damage and arson7
Drugs6
Public order6
Vehicle crime6
Other crime5
Burglary3
Other theft3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Corbett Drive (46); On or near Neville Road (19); On or near Haggs Lane (18); On or near Moxon Place (17); On or near Tyson Grove (6).

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: 1,025 residents in 384 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 age3540
Children under 1525%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)51%61%
Owned outright18%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented40%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

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

Frazier Avenue · Clay Close · Johnson Road · Tyson Grove · Dempsey Close · Neville Road · Sullivan Avenue · Dewsbury Road · Corbett Drive · Moxon Place · St Oswald Road · Woodland Road

All the streets in WF2 and across Wakefield.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.