Harecroft Road Otley, Leeds

46 addresses across 3 postcodes (LS21), about 390 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 23022200.

  • Sales: 38 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £425,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 20 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 14, E: 4).
  • 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 C; Band D in Leeds costs £2,284 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Menston, about 3.8 km (2.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Wharfemeadows Park, is about 290 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 62 to 73 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 46 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Chevin Medical Practice, about 810 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 570 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 73% of households owned their home and 34% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 68 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
20261£425,000£425,000£425,000
20251£535,000£535,000£535,000
20233£410,000£350,000£510,000
20221£362,000£362,000£362,000
20211£324,000£324,000£324,000
20201£450,000£450,000£450,000
20191£270,000£270,000£270,000
20181£220,000£220,000£220,000
20172£344,000£338,000£350,000
20162£237,500£235,000£240,000
20141£192,500£192,500£192,500
20121£215,000£215,000£215,000
Most recent sales (38)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 Jul 202624 LS21 2BQSemi-detached£425,000
15 Aug 202527 LS21 2BGSemi-detached£535,000
29 Aug 202311 LS21 2BGSemi-detached£410,000
27 Apr 202314 LS21 2BQDetached£510,000
8 Mar 202322 LS21 2BQDetached£350,000
4 Mar 202223 LS21 2BGDetached£362,000
15 Apr 202149 LS21 2BGSemi-detached£324,000
20 Nov 202021 LS21 2BGSemi-detached£450,000
20 Mar 202049 LS21 2BGSemi-detached£245,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Feb 201941 LS21 2BGSemi-detached£270,000
28 Sep 20187 LS21 2BGSemi-detached£220,000
22 Jun 201728 LS21 2BQDetached£350,000
9 Jun 201715 LS21 2BGDetached£338,000
30 Sep 20161 LS21 2BGSemi-detached£235,000
12 Feb 201643 LS21 2BGSemi-detached£240,000
25 Jul 20149 LS21 2BGSemi-detached£192,500
13 Dec 20126 LS21 2BQDetached£215,000
30 Jun 201020 LS21 2BQSemi-detached£209,950
20 Mar 200926 LS21 2BQSemi-detached£174,950
31 Oct 200722 LS21 2BQDetached£245,000
31 May 200725 LS21 2BGDetached£239,000
23 Jun 200618 LS21 2BQSemi-detached£218,000
2 Mar 200616A LS21 2BQDetached£249,999
10 Dec 200421 LS21 2BGSemi-detached£206,000
7 Apr 200329 LS21 2BGSemi-detached£200,000
1 Jul 200216 LS21 2BQDetached£165,000
26 Jul 200022 LS21 2BQDetached£80,000
28 Jan 200011 LS21 2BGSemi-detached£106,950
11 Jun 199951 LS21 2BGSemi-detached£100,000
29 Jan 199927 LS21 2BGSemi-detached£99,000
2 Nov 199845 LS21 2BGSemi-detached£93,000
20 May 199813 LS21 2BGSemi-detached£112,000
27 Mar 199832 LS21 2BQDetached£66,000
27 Feb 19984 LS21 2BQDetached£77,000
16 Aug 199634 LS21 2BQSemi-detached£68,500
2 Aug 199629 LS21 2BGSemi-detached£82,000
27 Jul 199527 LS21 2BGSemi-detached£86,000
7 Jun 199539 LS21 2BGDetached£90,000

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 September 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

20 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 100 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (9); House, detached (5); Bungalow, semi-detached (3). Built: 1930-1949 (11); 1950-1966 (5); 1900-1929 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 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 C (32% of about 1,410 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: 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 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
LS21 2BGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LS21 2BQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
LS21 2BHnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 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 46 addresses are between 62 m and 73 m above sea level (69 m on average); the ground rises about 11 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
LS21 2BG100%100%100%0%
LS21 2BH100%100%100%0%
LS21 2BQ100%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 stationsMenston 658,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.3 miles)
Burley-In-Wharfedale 607,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.6 miles)
Guiseley 1.0 million journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chippendale Rise Newall80 m
Bus or coach stationOtley Bus Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Car parksCourthouse Street Car Park850 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wyca North Parade, Otley GeniePoint730 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA5.7 km (3.6 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chevin Medical Practice810 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cohens Chemist810 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery810 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalWharfedale Hospital590 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationOtley Police Station780 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machinesTorino 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wharfemeadows Park 4.9 ha290 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,750 m²360 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha600 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 970 m²150 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 6.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Cup and ring marked rock in Wharfemeadows Park, 280m west of Newall Hall, a scheduled monument, 300 m south. 88 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cup and ring marked rock in Wharfemeadows Park, 280m west of Newall HallScheduled monument300 m south
Otley BridgeScheduled monument640 m (0.4 miles) south
16 Manor SquareListed building, Grade II*860 m (0.5 miles) south
The Old HallListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Otley PlantationWood930 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Copmanroyd PlantationWood1 km (0.6 miles) north
Thornberry HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Pool ScarValley2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
The LakeLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.5 miles) west
Guiseley WellsWetland4.4 km (2.8 miles) south

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)7.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)9.34015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 5920
Under 554346

3 of the street's 46 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
Otley Prince Henry's Grammar School Specialist Language CollegeSecondary11–18200 m No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Otley the Whartons Primary SchoolPrimary5–11430 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Otley Roman CatholicPrimary4–11890 m (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ashfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Westgate Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Otley All Saints CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 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
Prince Henrys Grammar School LS21 2BBSchool/college/university210 m4 Good8 Oct 2025
Wrenbeck News LS21 2BPRetailers - other320 m4 Good10 Nov 2016
Catering Leeds (Otley The Whartons Primary) LS21 2BSSchool/college/university330 m5 Very good7 Oct 2024
Riverside Cafe LS21 2BARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m4 Good2 Jul 2025
The Gills News LS21 2AHRetailers - other350 m5 Very good18 Feb 2015
The Famous Wooden Hut Fish Shop LS21 2AUTakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Aug 2024
Buon Apps River Lounge & Italian Restaurant LS21 1FERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Aug 2024
The Whartons After School Club LS21 2BSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Oct 2022
The Cottage Store LS21 2AURetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good10 Jul 2014
Yew Tree Inn LS21 2AUPub/bar/nightclub440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good2 Sep 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.

68 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences36
Anti-social behaviour8
Burglary7
Other crime5
Vehicle crime4
Criminal damage and arson3
Other theft2
Drugs1
Possession of weapons1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Crossways (16); On or near Prince Henry Road (14); On or near Turner Crescent (9); On or near Farnley Lane (6); On or near The Gills (5).

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: 565 residents in 228 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 age4140
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)73%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented20%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)52%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)34%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all 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

Chippendale Rise · Prince Henry Road · The Crossways · Athelstan Lane · Turner Crescent · Wrenbeck Close · Wrenbeck Avenue · Wrenbeck Drive · Riverside Park · Riverside Park · The Gills · Riverside Crescent

All the streets in LS21 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.