Malham Drive Batley, Kirklees

20 addresses across 2 postcodes (WF17), about 170 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 19409217.

  • Sales: 14 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £152,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (C: 10, D: 4, E: 1).
  • 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 A; Band D in Kirklees costs £2,441 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Batley, about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Jessop Park, is about 190 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 109 to 123 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 10 of its 20 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Cherry Tree Surgery, about 780 m (0.5 miles) away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 500 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 17% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 123 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£152,500£145,000£160,000
20232£136,500£123,000£150,000
20211£65,000£65,000£65,000
20091£135,000£135,000£135,000
20071£90,000£90,000£90,000
20044£48,650£15,800£71,500
20011£31,600£31,600£31,600
20001£31,000£31,000£31,000
Most recent sales (14)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 Aug 202526 WF17 7SLSemi-detached£145,000
11 Jul 202524 WF17 7SLTerraced£160,000
23 Aug 202324 WF17 7SLTerraced£150,000
2 Jun 20234 WF17 7SLTerraced£123,000
21 May 20212 WF17 7SLTerraced£65,000
12 May 201724 WF17 7SLTerraced£64,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Feb 200926 WF17 7SLSemi-detached£135,000
30 Jan 20078 WF17 7SLTerraced£90,000
16 Jul 200426 WF17 7SLSemi-detached£71,500
16 Jul 200424 WF17 7SLTerraced£61,000
17 May 20048 WF17 7SLTerraced£36,300
8 Mar 20046 WF17 7SLTerraced£15,800
14 Dec 200124 WF17 7SLTerraced£31,600
1 Sep 200026 WF17 7SLSemi-detached£31,000

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 April 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 79 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (6); House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (4). Built: 1930-1949 (10); 2012 onwards (4); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (8); owner-occupied (6).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Kirklees in 2026-27: Band D £2,441 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,627£1,899£2,170£2,441£2,984£3,526£4,068£4,882

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (64% of about 970 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 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 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
WF17 7SLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WF17 7HZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 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 20 addresses are between 109 m and 123 m above sea level (118 m on average); the ground rises about 15 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
WF17 7HZ100%100%100%0%
WF17 7SL100%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 stationsBatley 227,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Dewsbury 947,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.6 miles)
Ravensthorpe 31,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 54 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Healey Lane Batley90 m
Bus or coach stationBatley Bus Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Car parksCliffe Street Car Park2.5 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station860 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA17 km (11 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cherry Tree Surgery780 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mileusnic Chemist780 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Locala CIC Dental Care810 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalDewsbury & District Hospital-Combined Elective Surgical Hub1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationHeckmondwike Police Station1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Local Express Cashzone760 m (0.5 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 Jessop Park 1.7 ha190 m
Play area10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 320 m²110 m
Playing field5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,170 m²380 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,020 m²260 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 2.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of All Saints, a listed building (Grade I), 870 m (0.5 miles) east. 27 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade I870 m (0.5 miles) east
Crow Nest ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.7 km (1.7 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Little WoodWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Ridings WoodWood2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Cliff WoodWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Castle HillHill2.5 km (1.5 miles) west
Dewsbury Flood Relief ChannelLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.2 miles) south
Spen Valley BottomsValley4 km (2.5 miles) 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)12.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

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

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 6430
55 to 5970
Under 551020

10 of the street's 20 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 Kirklees: see them on the Kirklees 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
St Mary's Catholic Primary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11560 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Manorfield Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–7560 m (0.3 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
Healey Junior Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–11570 m (0.4 miles) Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Staincliffe Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior SchoolPrimary7–11650 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Batley Parish CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary3–11810 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Purlwell Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7830 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Carlinghow AcademyPrimary2–11840 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Batley Grammar SchoolAll-through3–161.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Upper Batley High SchoolSecondary11–161.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Hyrstmount Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Heckmondwike Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Inadequate (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Field Lane Junior Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Sep 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
Healey Express WF17 7SURetailers - other260 m4 Good27 Nov 2024
The George Inn WF17 8BHPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good5 Jun 2024
Bulzy's Ltd WF17 8BPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Jan 2025
Healey Junior Infants And Nursery School WF17 8BNSchool/college/university450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Jan 2025
Healey News WF17 8BNRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Jul 2018
Zam Zam Bakery WF17 7SEManufacturers/packers460 m (0.3 miles)4 Good4 Aug 2026
Healey Pre School WF17 7ELSchool/college/university460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Sep 2024
Healey Mini Market WF17 8BSRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Sep 2019

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.

123 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences53
Vehicle crime13
Public order12
Anti-social behaviour11
Criminal damage and arson10
Burglary7
Other crime7
Other theft6
Drugs3
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Towngate Road (30); On or near Burnsall Avenue (15); On or near Malham Drive (14); On or near West Park Grove (13); On or near Barden Close (10).

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: 504 residents in 171 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 age2740
Children under 1535%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)17%61%
Owned outright7%33%
Shared ownership8%1%
Social rented72%17%
Private rented4%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work41%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)11%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)11%32%
Travel to work by car or van67%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)74%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)17%34%
No qualifications36%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, end-terrace (lodged 23 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

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.

  • WF17 7SL: 19 addresses of 20 in the postcode
  • WF17 7HZ: 1 address of 39 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Aysgarth Road · Healey Lane · Healey Lane · Linton Avenue · Burnsall Avenue · Alder Mews · Hayburn Road · Towngate Road · Arncliffe Road · Arncliffe Road · West Park Road · Prospect Terrace

All the streets in WF17 and across Kirklees.

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.