Junction Close Featherstone, Wakefield
3 addresses across 2 postcodes (WF7), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41806349.
- Flood: 2 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 0% to 7% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Featherstone, about 730 m away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden, Featherstone Memorial Gardens, is about 710 m away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 46 to 49 m above sea level.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Station Lane, about 730 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km.
- People: About 670 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 55% of households owned their home and 16% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Crime: 4 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often vehicle crime.
Sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Oct 2024 | ICON OFFICE DESIGN LTD WF7 6ER | Other | £1,500,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 9 Mar 2023 | ICON OFFICE DESIGN LTD WF7 6ER | Other | £900,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
Energy performance certificates
No certificates found for addresses on this street.
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.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,531 | £1,786 | £2,042 | £2,297 | £2,807 | £3,318 | £3,828 | £4,594 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (53% of about 2,170 homes).
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 1.0 km
- Adj 2 Post office Road (Site B), Featherstone, permissioned (860 m)
- REAR OF 36 GREEN LANE, FEATHERSTONE: up to 8 homes, not permissioned (930 m)
Roadworks
No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 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.
| Postcode | Planning zone | Addresses at high / medium / low risk | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
| WF7 6ER | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| WF7 6EP | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 2 / 1 | unlikely |
Height above sea level
The street's 3 addresses are between 46 m and 49 m above sea level (48 m on average).
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WF7 6EP | 100% | 7% | 7% | 0% |
| WF7 6ER | 50% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Featherstone 86,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 730 m |
| Streethouse 26,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 2.1 km | |
| Pontefract Tanshelf 99,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 3.7 km | |
| Bus stops | 0 stops within 400 m, 25 within 800 m; nearest Wentworth Road Featherstone | 450 m |
| Bus or coach station | Pontefract Bus Station | 4.3 km |
| EV charging points | Aspire in the Park Charger 2 GeniePoint | 3.6 km |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Leeds Bradford Airport LBA | 28.3 km |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | 2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Station Lane | 730 m |
| Pharmacies | 3 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Healthnet Homecare | 130 m |
| NHS dentists | 1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dental Surgery | 750 m |
| Hospital | Pontefract General Infirmary | 4.2 km |
| Police station | Normanton Police Station | 2.4 km |
| Cash machines | 2 machines within 800 m; nearest ATM | 730 m |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | 1 within 800 m; nearest Featherstone Memorial Gardens 1,370 m² | 710 m |
| Play area | Unnamed 730 m² | 890 m |
| Playing field | 2 within 800 m; nearest Mill Pond Stadium 4.6 ha | 480 m |
| Allotments | 2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2.3 ha | 500 m |
Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 0.1 hectares in all.
Landmarks
2 listed buildings are within 1.0 km.
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Ackton Pond Wood | Wood | 1.3 km north-east |
| Quarry Plantation | Wood | 1.6 km north |
| Strawberry Hill | Hill | 1.6 km north-east |
| Joe's Wood | Wood | 1.9 km south |
| Colcar Ing Wood | Wood | 2.3 km south-west |
| Lower Lake | Lake or reservoir | 2.9 km south-west |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 10.9 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 7.9 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 13.2 | 40 | 15 |
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
Noise figures are still being loaded.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Featherstone Purston St Thomas Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School | Primary | 7–11 | 810 m | Requires improvement (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) |
| Featherstone Girnhill Infant School | Primary | 3–7 | 1.0 km | No published inspection |
| Featherstone Purston Infant School | Primary | 3–7 | 1.2 km | Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) |
| Featherstone North Featherstone Junior and Infant School | Primary | 3–11 | 1.4 km | No published inspection |
| Featherstone All Saints CofE Academy Church of England | Primary | 3–11 | 1.8 km | No published inspection |
| The Featherstone Academy | Secondary | 11–16 | 1.8 km | No published inspection |
| St Wilfrid's Catholic High School & Sixth Form College: A Voluntary Academy Roman Catholic | Secondary | 11–18 | 1.9 km | Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met |
Food hygiene ratings nearby
| Business | Type | Distance | Rating | Rated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Lee Fine Cheeses Ltd WF7 6FE | Manufacturers/packers | 80 m | 5 Very good | 16 Sep 2024 |
| Wakefield Road Service Station WF7 5BP | Retailers - other | 450 m | 4 Good | 23 Sep 2025 |
| Featherstone Lions ARLFC WF7 5BP | Pub/bar/nightclub | 480 m | 5 Very good | 6 May 2026 |
| Mill Pond Service Station Ltd WF7 5HL | Retailers - other | 490 m | 5 Very good | 8 Dec 2025 |
Crime within 250 m
| Category | Crimes |
|---|---|
| Vehicle crime | 2 |
| Other theft | 1 |
| Public order | 1 |
Most of these are attached to: On or near Warren Road (2); On or near Phoenix Avenue (1); On or near Lister Park (1).
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 43 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 15% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 18% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 55% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 27% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 1% | 1% |
| Social rented | 21% | 17% |
| Private rented | 23% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 57% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 6% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 21% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 5% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 15% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 64% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 2% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 5% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 9% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work) | 71% | 65% |
| Work 30 km or more away | 4% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 16% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 31% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 6% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 97% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | under 1% | 2% |
Deprivation
The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 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.
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.
Postcodes on this street
Nearby streets
Lister Park · Phoenix Avenue · Innovation Square · Warren Road · Green Lane · Boothroyds Way
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.