Laxton Road Barnsley

30 addresses across 2 postcodes (S71), about 250 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 1800219.

  • Sales: 26 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £180,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (B: 6, C: 2, D: 5, E: 1).
  • Flood: 12 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 Barnsley costs £2,326 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barnsley, about 3.4 km (2.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 660 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 84 to 87 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 30 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St George's Medical Centre Pms Practice, about 720 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 690 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 38% of households owned their home and 15% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 134 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
20252£180,000£170,000£190,000
20241£150,000£150,000£150,000
20233£135,000£132,500£150,000
20211£150,000£150,000£150,000
20204£132,500£85,000£135,000
20195£133,000£89,950£134,950
20071£96,500£96,500£96,500
20043£70,000£68,500£75,000
19991£30,000£30,000£30,000
19962£30,475£26,000£34,950
Most recent sales (26)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
17 Nov 20259 S71 3DHSemi-detached£190,000
25 Apr 202524 S71 3DHSemi-detached£170,000
8 May 202414 S71 3DHSemi-detached£150,000
17 Nov 20236 S71 3DHSemi-detached£150,000
29 Sep 202318 S71 3DHSemi-detached£135,000
28 Jul 20238 S71 3DHSemi-detached£132,500
20 Sep 202111 S71 3DHSemi-detached£150,000
1 Jun 20209 S71 3DHSemi-detached£135,000New build.
3 Mar 202024 S71 3DHSemi-detached£130,000
7 Feb 20207 S71 3DHSemi-detached£135,000New build.
31 Jan 202014 S71 3DHSemi-detached£85,000
6 Dec 201915 S71 3DHSemi-detached£134,950New build.
6 Dec 201911 S71 3DHSemi-detached£130,000New build.
27 Sep 201919 S71 3DHSemi-detached£133,000New build.
16 Aug 201917 S71 3DHSemi-detached£133,000New build.
9 Jan 201918 S71 3DHSemi-detached£89,950
7 Jan 201912 S71 3DHTerraced£75,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Jan 201819 S71 3DHOther£96,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Aug 20168 S71 3DHSemi-detached£73,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Dec 200714 S71 3DHSemi-detached£96,500
4 Jun 200414 S71 3DHSemi-detached£70,000
1 Apr 200424 S71 3DHSemi-detached£75,000
22 Mar 20046 S71 3DHSemi-detached£68,500
26 Feb 199914 S71 3DHSemi-detached£30,000
16 Dec 199614 S71 3DHSemi-detached£34,950
30 Aug 19962 S71 3DHSemi-detached£26,000

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 February 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 86 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (14). Built: 2018 (6); 1950-1966 (6); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (social) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (10 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Barnsley in 2026-27: Band D £2,326 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,551£1,809£2,068£2,326£2,843£3,360£3,877£4,652

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (98% of about 1,310 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, 6 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 23 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
S71 3DHnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 3 unlikely
S71 3DGnot in 2 or 3 5 / 6 / 20 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 30 addresses are between 84 m and 87 m above sea level (85 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
S71 3DG100%100%100%0%
S71 3DH100%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 stationsBarnsley 1.5 million journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Darton 121,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Dodworth 48,000 journeys in 2024–255.7 km (3.6 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ollerton Road/Egmanton Road Athersley North80 m
Bus or coach stationBarnsley Interchange/A24 Barnsley Town Centre3.4 km (2.1 miles)
EV charging pointsevyve Charging Station3 km (1.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA33.5 km (21 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St George's Medical Centre Pms Practice720 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well760 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest R S Nicholson Dental Surgery610 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalBarnsley District Hospital3.2 km (2 miles)
Police stationSouth Yorkshire Police3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM610 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 14 ha660 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,590 m²130 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.0 ha190 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Newstead Road Allotments 3,530 m²120 m

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

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is East Gawber Hall colliery fanhouse, 800m north east of Croft Farm, a scheduled monument, 1.3 km (0.8 miles) south. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
East Gawber Hall colliery fanhouse, 800m north east of Croft FarmScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Wayside cross known as Kirk CrossScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Late prehistoric settlement in Notton Park, 650m north west of Lee Lane FarmScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Muscle HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) north
Blacker HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Stand HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Standhill WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
The FleetsLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Applehaigh CloughValley2.5 km (1.5 miles) north

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)8.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

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
55 to 5920
Under 552830

2 of the street's 30 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 Barnsley: see them on the Barnsley 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
Athersley North Primary SchoolPrimary3–11260 m Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Laithes Primary SchoolPrimary3–11700 m (0.4 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Athersley South Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Mapplewell Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Trinity Catholic and Church of England School Church of England/Roman CatholicAll-through3–161.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Wellgate Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Lift MeadsteadPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
The Muscle Unit S71 3DHRetailers - other40 m5 Very good29 Apr 2024
Gasmark 10 Official Ltd S71 3DHDistributors/Transporters40 m5 Very good15 Nov 2025
Caterlink @ Newstead Academy S71 3NASchool/college/university180 m5 Very good26 Nov 2024
Athersley Community Association and Football Club S71 3DPPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good17 Jan 2026
Community Shop Ltd S71 3DQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good5 May 2026
Nisa Local S71 3DGRetailers - other240 m5 Very good11 Sep 2026
Athersley North Primary School S71 3NBSchool/college/university310 m5 Very good1 Dec 2025
Lindhurst Lodge S71 3DDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m4 Good6 May 2026
Mansfield Road Stores S71 3BQRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Jul 2026

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.

134 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences56
Criminal damage and arson21
Vehicle crime11
Anti-social behaviour10
Other theft10
Public order9
Other crime7
Burglary6
Possession of weapons2
Drugs2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Laxton Road (19); On or near Beeston Square (18); On or near Pit Field Close (14); On or near Stoney Royd (14); On or near Egmanton Road (13).

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: 694 residents in 282 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 age3340
Children under 1525%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)38%61%
Owned outright19%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented57%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)9%32%
Travel to work by car or van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)15%34%
No qualifications31%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 1 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.

  • S71 3DH: 28 addresses of 29 in the postcode
  • S71 3DG: 2 addresses of 48 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Egmanton Road · Pit Field Close · Recreation Avenue · Raven Royd · Beeston Square · North Royds Wood · Stoney Royd · Trowell Way · Fountain Court · Chilwell Gardens · Carr Furlong · Chilwell Close

All the streets in S71 and across Barnsley.

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.