Foundry Approach Leeds

172 addresses across 10 postcodes (LS8,LS9), about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 23009052.

  • Energy: 110 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 18, D: 54, E: 34, F: 3).
  • Flood: 9 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 Leeds costs £2,284 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 64% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Cross Gates, about 3.2 km (2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 900 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 52 to 83 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 28 of its 172 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bellbrooke Surgery, about 580 m (0.4 miles) away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,610 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 34% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 165 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.

110 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 52 m². Most common: Flat (84); House, semi-detached (17); House, mid-terrace (5). Built: 1950-1966 (76); 1967-1975 (12); 2007-2011 (11). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (53); owner-occupied (15); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (82 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Leeds in 2026-27: Band D £2,284 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,522£1,776£2,030£2,284£2,791£3,299£3,806£4,567

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (80% of about 1,780 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 2 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: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): A4D01.
  • Tree preservation orders: 2 protected trees on or by this street.
  • 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 6 April 2027 to 18 April 2027: YORKSHIRE WATER, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (standard works, permit applied for)

Finished in the last three months

  • 5 August 2026 to 11 August 2026: YORKSHIRE WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (immediate - urgent 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, 7 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 3 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
LS9 6BZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LS9 6SUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LS8 3LJnot in 2 or 3 2 / 2 / 2 unlikely
LS8 3TRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LS8 3JTnot in 2 or 3 5 / 0 / 1 unlikely
LS8 3NEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LS8 3NRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LS8 3TPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LS9 6SSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LS9 6SYnot 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 172 addresses are between 52 m and 83 m above sea level (73 m on average); the ground rises about 31 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
LS8 3JT100%100%100%0%
LS8 3LJ100%100%100%0%
LS8 3NE100%100%100%0%
LS8 3NR100%100%100%0%
LS8 3TP100%64%64%0%
LS8 3TR100%100%100%0%
LS9 6BZ100%100%100%0%
LS9 6SS100%100%100%0%
LS9 6SU100%100%100%0%
LS9 6SY100%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 stationsCross Gates 474,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Leeds 27 million journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Burley Park 756,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 35 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest North Farm Road Gipton70 m
Bus or coach stationSeacroft Bus Station2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Car parksBeckett Street Car Park1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station770 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA12.2 km (7.6 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bellbrooke Surgery580 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies15 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Harehills Pharmacy580 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery700 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalSt James' Hospital1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationKillingbeck Police Station2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Misha Food & Wine Cashzone470 m (0.3 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 gardenUnnamed 41 ha900 m (0.6 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 290 m²260 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 11 ha170 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Foundry Avenue Allotments 1.8 ha290 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of the Epiphany, a listed building (Grade I), 500 m (0.3 miles) east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of the EpiphanyListed building, Grade I500 m (0.3 miles) east
Beckett Street CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Late prehistoric enclosed settlements in Gipton Wood, at the southern end of Oakwood DriveScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north
Roundhay ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II3 km (1.9 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gipton WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Gledhow Valley WoodsWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
The LakeLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Waterloo LakeLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) north
The GorgeValley3.6 km (2.2 miles) north
Miles HillHill4 km (2.5 miles) north-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)13.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

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 6920
60 to 64100
55 to 59160
Under 55144172

28 of the street's 172 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 Leeds: see them on the Leeds 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
Co-op Academy OakwoodPrimary3–11190 m Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Co-op Academy WoodlandsPrimary3–11430 m (0.3 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11550 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Nicholas Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11640 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wykebeck Primary SchoolPrimary2–11790 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hovingham Primary SchoolPrimary2–11830 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Harehills Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Co-op Academy NightingalePrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Co-op Academy BrownhillPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Victoria Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Patrick Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Bankside Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Requires improvement

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
Harehills Park Bowling Club LS9 6NETakeaway/sandwich shop190 mAwaiting inspection
Oak Tree Lodge LS9 6BTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good15 Jul 2025
Gipton Convenience Store LS8 3LURetailers - other370 m5 Very good12 May 2016
Lidl (Gipton) LS9 6SPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Feb 2026
Leeds South And East Food Bank LS9 6SWRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Cooperative Academy Woodlands LS9 6DASchool/college/university460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Jan 2026
T Chippy LTD LS9 6QERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good10 Mar 2026
Misha Food And Wine LS9 6BLRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good10 Nov 2014
Jade Palace LS9 6QETakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good14 Aug 2025
Gipton Working Mens Club LS9 6QEPub/bar/nightclub490 m (0.3 miles)4 Good14 Feb 2016

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.

165 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences79
Other theft20
Anti-social behaviour17
Burglary12
Public order9
Criminal damage and arson8
Vehicle crime7
Drugs7
Robbery2
Other crime2
Bicycle theft1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Briarsdale Mews (46); On or near Briarsdale Garth (35); On or near Oak Tree Grove (28); On or near Thorn View (12); On or near Gipton Gate East (12).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 5 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,608 residents in 652 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3840
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)34%61%
Owned outright7%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented52%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)11%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus19%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)79%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)28%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)79%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 2 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.

  • LS9 6BZ: 63 addresses
  • LS9 6SU: 62 addresses of 65 in the postcode
  • LS8 3LJ: 30 addresses of 33 in the postcode
  • LS8 3TR: 11 addresses of 12 in the postcode
  • LS8 3JT: 1 address of 29 in the postcode
  • LS8 3NE: 1 address of 49 in the postcode
  • LS8 3NR: 1 address of 24 in the postcode
  • LS8 3TP: 1 address of 28 in the postcode
  • LS9 6SS: 1 address of 49 in the postcode
  • LS9 6SY: 1 address of 17 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Gipton Gate East · Thorn Drive · Briarsdale Croft · Briarsdale Garth · Oak Tree Grove · Thorn View · Foundry Approach · Briarsdale Mews · Thorn Drive · Oak Tree Crescent · Thorn Crescent · Thorn Walk

All the streets in LS8, LS9 and across Leeds.

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.