Lyon Road Pontefract, Wakefield

52 addresses across 3 postcodes (WF8), about 330 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41802458.

  • Sales: 38 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £212,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 31 homes have an energy certificate (C: 17, D: 12, E: 1, G: 1).
  • 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 B; Band D in Wakefield costs £2,297 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Pontefract Baghill, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 460 m (0.3 miles) away, and Carleton Green (1.1 hectares) is about 730 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 54 to 59 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 52 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Friarwood Surgery, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 800 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 28 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£212,500£180,000£245,000
20242£220,000£210,000£230,000
20231£120,000£120,000£120,000
20222£185,250£148,500£222,000
20212£152,500£150,000£155,000
20202£184,000£182,000£186,000
20192£134,250£98,500£170,000
20182£172,500£170,000£175,000
20171£145,000£145,000£145,000
20161£109,000£109,000£109,000
20152£130,000£120,000£140,000
20123£111,000£84,950£117,500
Most recent sales (38)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 May 202549 WF8 3PLSemi-detached£245,000
20 Jan 20253 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£180,000
12 Apr 202412 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£230,000
1 Mar 202438 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£210,000
31 Aug 20235 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£120,000
9 Dec 202216 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£222,000
14 Oct 202244 WF8 3PLSemi-detached£148,500
6 Aug 202128 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£150,000
10 Feb 202138 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£155,000
27 Nov 20206 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£186,000
4 Sep 202049 WF8 3PLSemi-detached£182,000
31 Jul 201955 WF8 3PLTerraced£98,500
21 Jun 201920 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£170,000
24 Aug 201849 WF8 3PLSemi-detached£175,000
26 Jan 20182 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£170,000
5 May 20176 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£145,000
1 Jun 201640 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£109,000
30 Sep 201538 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£140,000
23 Jul 201525 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£120,000Leasehold.
31 Jul 20126 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£84,950
27 Jul 201242 WF8 3PLSemi-detached£117,500
1 Jun 201249 WF8 3PLSemi-detached£111,000
24 Oct 200852 WF8 3PLSemi-detached£101,600
16 Mar 200738 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£133,000
2 Feb 200720 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£135,000
20 Dec 200636 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£112,000
28 Apr 200642 WF8 3PLSemi-detached£116,500
25 Jan 200627 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£140,000
20 Jun 200527 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£95,000
27 May 20051 WF8 3PJDetached£139,500
29 Nov 200220 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£75,000
21 Nov 20028 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£76,000
18 Aug 200052 WF8 3PLSemi-detached£48,000
30 Sep 199948 WF8 3PLSemi-detached£39,000
30 Apr 199934 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£40,000
26 Jun 199827 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£40,000
11 Mar 199818 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£49,600
26 Jul 199611 WF8 3PJSemi-detached£48,000

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 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

31 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (29); Bungalow, semi-detached (2). Built: 1950-1966 (16); 1930-1949 (6); 2003-2006 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14); rented (social) (11); rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

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.

ABCDEFGH
£1,531£1,786£2,042£2,297£2,807£3,318£3,828£4,594

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (44% of about 640 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.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 9 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
WF8 3PJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
WF8 3PLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WF8 3QRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 6 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 52 addresses are between 54 m and 59 m above sea level (56 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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
WF8 3PJ100%100%100%0%
WF8 3PL100%100%100%0%
WF8 3QR100%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 stationsPontefract Baghill 18,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Pontefract Tanshelf 99,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Pontefract Monkhill 229,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.3 miles)
Bus stops19 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 58 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sides Road Carleton90 m
Bus or coach stationPontefract Bus Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Car parksMarket Place Upper Car Park1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Stuart Road Car Park GeniePoint1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA31 km (19 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Friarwood Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Friarwood Pharmacy1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ropergate Dental Practice1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalPontefract General Infirmary1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationWest Yorkshire Police1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machinesYorkshire Bank1.2 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,470 m²460 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Carleton Green 1.1 ha730 m (0.5 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 980 m²430 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.6 ha580 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,400 m²890 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 2.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Friarwood Valley Gardens, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1 km (0.6 miles) north. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Friarwood Valley GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) north
Pontefract Castle: part of late Saxon cemetery and town ditch, Norman motte and bailey castle and later medieval enclosure castleScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Friar Wood HillHill840 m (0.5 miles) north
Priory WoodWood930 m (0.6 miles) north
Bates HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Fox CovertWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
Stony HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Thorp MarshWetland4.4 km (2.7 miles) south-east

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)8.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)12.54015

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
65 to 6910
Under 555152

1 of the street's 52 addresses is 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 Wakefield: see them on the Wakefield 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
Ark Carleton Park Primary SchoolPrimary4–11130 m No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Ark Larks Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–11670 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Ark Carleton High SchoolSecondary11–16680 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Ark The King's SchoolSecondary11–16750 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ark The Rookeries Carleton Primary SchoolPrimary3–11890 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Pontefract Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ark De Lacy Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ark Halfpenny Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Harewood Centre Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Giles C of E Academy Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
New College Pontefract16 plus16–191.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Cherry Tree AcademyPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Requires improvement (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Carleton WF8 3PQPub/bar/nightclub160 m5 Very good18 Nov 2024
Taylor Shaw WF8 3PTSchool/college/university160 m5 Very good16 Sep 2025
Shop N Drive WF8 3QHRetailers - other190 m5 Very good11 Aug 2026
Carleton Fisheries WF8 3PRTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good16 Dec 2025
Slimming World WF8 3PPRetailers - other310 mExempt
Pontefract Masonic Hall Company Limited WF8 3PAPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good23 Jun 2026
Carleton Self Service Store WF8 2SERetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jan 2018
Fortune House WF8 2SETakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Oct 2024
Tuck In at Swanhill WF8 2SETakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Apr 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.

28 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences14
Criminal damage and arson3
Public order3
Other theft2
Other crime2
Anti-social behaviour2
Bicycle theft1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Lancaster Close (6); On or near Carleton Park Road (5); On or near Moxon Close (4); On or near Petrol Station (3); On or near Robson Close (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 796 residents in 343 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 age4440
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)59%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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.

  • WF8 3PJ: 36 addresses
  • WF8 3PL: 15 addresses of 16 in the postcode
  • WF8 3QR: 1 address of 13 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lancaster Close · Maple Drive · Rutland Avenue · Moxon Close · Robson Close · Maple Grove · Sides Road · Sides Road · Barnswick Close · Carleton Park Road · Rhodes Crescent · Maple Avenue

All the streets in WF8 and across Wakefield.

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.