Laurel Close Elland, Calderdale

15 addresses across 1 postcode (HX5), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5306214.

  • Sales: 16 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £300,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (D: 4, E: 2).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 B; Band D in Calderdale costs £2,420 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Halifax, about 4.3 km (2.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, The Park, is about 100 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 122 to 125 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bankfield Surgery, about 740 m (0.5 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 74 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£300,000£300,000£300,000
20241£270,000£270,000£270,000
20231£212,500£212,500£212,500
20211£215,000£215,000£215,000
20201£150,000£150,000£150,000
20162£165,000£165,000£165,000
20131£197,500£197,500£197,500
20061£160,000£160,000£160,000
20031£135,000£135,000£135,000
20021£69,500£69,500£69,500
20001£61,500£61,500£61,500
19991£56,000£56,000£56,000
Most recent sales (16)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 Jul 202511 HX5 0QDSemi-detached£300,000
14 Jun 20246 HX5 0QDSemi-detached£270,000
6 Sep 20237 HX5 0QDSemi-detached£212,500
30 Apr 202116 HX5 0QDSemi-detached£215,000
31 Jan 20201 HX5 0QDSemi-detached£150,000
11 Feb 20165 HX5 0QDSemi-detached£165,000
21 Jan 20162 HX5 0QDSemi-detached£165,000
22 Nov 20136 HX5 0QDSemi-detached£197,500
13 Jun 20063 HX5 0QDSemi-detached£160,000
8 Dec 20034 HX5 0QDSemi-detached£135,000
23 May 20021 HX5 0QDSemi-detached£69,500
7 Jan 20006 HX5 0QDSemi-detached£61,500
6 Aug 19997 HX5 0QDSemi-detached£56,000
27 Mar 19972 HX5 0QDSemi-detached£53,000
15 Nov 19954 HX5 0QDSemi-detached£52,000
1 Sep 19953 HX5 0QDSemi-detached£64,500

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 February 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 81 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (3); House, semi-detached (3). Built: 1950-1966 (4); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Calderdale in 2026-27: Band D £2,420 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,613£1,882£2,151£2,420£2,958£3,496£4,034£4,840

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (29% of about 860 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 15 addresses are between 122 m and 125 m above sea level (124 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
HX5 0QD100%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 stationsHalifax 1.8 million journeys in 2024–254.3 km (2.6 miles)
Brighouse 388,000 journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.9 miles)
Sowerby Bridge 417,000 journeys in 2024–254.9 km (3.1 miles)
Bus stops33 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 73 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Melrose Court Elland80 m
Bus or coach stationHalifax Bus Station Halifax Town Centre4.7 km (2.9 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Timber Street Car Park GeniePoint640 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA23.7 km (15 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 Bankfield Surgery740 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ryburn Pharmacy510 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Elland Dental Surgery450 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSpire Hospital1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationManchester Police4.6 km (2.9 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM600 m (0.4 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Park 2.6 ha100 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 560 m²230 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.1 ha150 m
AllotmentsSpa Well Allotment Gardens 9,210 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 4.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Fleece Inn, a listed building (Grade II*), 340 m north-east. 38 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Fleece InnListed building, Grade II*340 m north-east
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*490 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade I630 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Clay HouseListed building, Grade II*930 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bank Bottom WoodWood520 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Ravenstone WoodWood920 m (0.6 miles) west
Ainley Round WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Hollins Hey CloughValley1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Kew HillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Sowerby CutLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 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)9.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

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
Under 551515

None of the street's 15 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Calderdale: see them on the Calderdale 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
The Brooksbank SchoolSecondary11–18330 m No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Cross Lane Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–11390 m Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Elland Church of England (Voluntary Aided) Junior, Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–11470 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
St Patrick's Catholic Primary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11600 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
West Vale AcademyPrimary4–11790 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): 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
Park Lane AcademySecondary11–161.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Inadequate; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Old Earth Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
The Greetland AcademyPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Holywell Green Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Mar 2023, 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
St Annes Community Services HX5 0QARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good23 Jun 2026
Willows Bistro HX5 0PLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good12 Jul 2024
Lyndhurst HX5 0QFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises160 m5 Very good15 Jan 2024
The Brooksbank School Sports College HX5 0QGSchool/college/university210 m5 Very good6 Nov 2025
Cross Lane Primary School HX5 0LPSchool/college/university250 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Sep 2026
Br Food And Wine HX5 0LTRetailers - other290 m4 Good22 Jul 2026
Padres HX5 0ASMobile caterer300 m5 Very good8 Aug 2024
Norton House HX5 0LUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good20 Oct 2026
Westgate Fish Bar HX5 0BBTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m5 Very good19 Jan 2026
Eagle Care Home Ltd HX5 0QFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises390 m5 Very good4 Jun 2026
Creative Learning Childcare Ltd HX5 0BBSchool/college/university400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good18 Mar 2025
Ryburn Pharmacy HX5 0JHRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
The Kais HX5 0ABTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)1 Major improvement necessary15 Sep 2026
The Fleece Inn HX5 0BBPub/bar/nightclub470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Jan 2026
Nozzy Offlicence HX5 0JERetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good3 Feb 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.

74 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences27
Anti-social behaviour15
Criminal damage and arson12
Vehicle crime5
Public order4
Other crime4
Burglary3
Other theft3
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Linden Road (30); On or near Park Avenue (11); On or near Recreation Lane (6); On or near Rufford Road (5); On or near Crestfield Avenue (4).

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: 382 residents in 156 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 age4640
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright53%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%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)32%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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

Elsinore Court · Melrose Court · Kensington Gardens · Recreation Lane · Kelvin Road · Oakfield Close · Town Fields Road · Back Cross Lane · Napier Road · Victoria Crescent · Rufford Road · Crestfield Avenue

All the streets in HX5 and across Calderdale.

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.