Meadow Close Wakefield

23 addresses across 1 postcode (WF1), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41802603.

  • Sales: 28 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £227,750 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 9, F: 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 D; 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 Outwood, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 80 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 50 to 56 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 23 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Stanley, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 240 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 91% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 30 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
20232£227,750£183,000£272,500
20191£148,500£148,500£148,500
20171£120,000£120,000£120,000
20164£175,750£165,000£201,000
20121£146,000£146,000£146,000
20112£157,500£145,000£170,000
20091£220,000£220,000£220,000
20071£100,000£100,000£100,000
20062£130,000£130,000£130,000
20051£203,950£203,950£203,950
20033£92,950£90,000£190,000
20011£105,500£105,500£105,500
Most recent sales (28)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Dec 202315 WF1 3TBSemi-detached£183,000
14 Apr 202322 WF1 3TBDetached£272,500
6 Sep 201918 WF1 3TBSemi-detached£148,500
7 Apr 201718 WF1 3TBSemi-detached£120,000
29 Jul 20169 WF1 3TBSemi-detached£201,000
29 Jul 20167 WF1 3TBSemi-detached£172,000
4 Mar 20166 WF1 3TBSemi-detached£165,000
29 Jan 201620 WF1 3TBDetached£179,500
27 Apr 20127 WF1 3TBSemi-detached£146,000
11 Mar 201110 WF1 3TBSemi-detached£145,000
14 Jan 201122 WF1 3TBDetached£170,000
6 Feb 200923 WF1 3TBDetached£220,000
10 Oct 200718 WF1 3TBSemi-detached£100,000
22 May 200615 WF1 3TBSemi-detached£130,000
10 Feb 200616 WF1 3TBSemi-detached£130,000
7 Mar 20054 WF1 3TBDetached£203,950
1 Aug 200311 WF1 3TBDetached£190,000
28 Mar 20038 WF1 3TBSemi-detached£92,950
21 Mar 200315 WF1 3TBSemi-detached£90,000
14 Sep 20014 WF1 3TBDetached£105,500
1 Dec 199816 WF1 3TBSemi-detached£49,500
4 Nov 19984 WF1 3TBDetached£80,000
23 Oct 199823 WF1 3TBDetached£70,000
18 Sep 199822 WF1 3TBDetached£59,950
17 Oct 199711 WF1 3TBDetached£80,000
3 Dec 19962 WF1 3TBDetached£64,500
17 Jun 199623 WF1 3TBDetached£67,500
13 Mar 19965 WF1 3TBSemi-detached£49,950

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 October 2008 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 91 m². Most common: House, detached (6); House, semi-detached (5); Bungalow, detached (2). Built: 1983-1990 (10); 1991-1995 (2); 1996-2002 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (1).

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 D (34% of about 560 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 3 February 2027 to 11 February 2027: NORTHERN POWERGRID (YORKSHIRE) PLC, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (standard works)

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 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 23 addresses are between 50 m and 56 m above sea level (53 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
WF1 3TB100%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 stationsOutwood 310,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Wakefield Westgate 2.3 million journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Wakefield Kirkgate 612,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 44 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Broadmeadows Sheridan Street Lofthouse Gate80 m
Bus or coach stationWakefield Bus Station Wakefield City Centre3.1 km (1.9 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA20.2 km (13 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 Stanley1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Outwood Pharmacy1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Outwood Dental Care750 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalFieldhead Hospital1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationWest Yorkshire Police Federation2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Outwood, Outwood Cashzone310 m

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 1.7 ha80 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 1.9 ha340 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 70 m²450 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Alford Recreation Ground 1.3 ha420 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsStanley Grove Allotment Gardens 4,980 m²1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 3.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Canal HillHill760 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Lofthouse HillHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Robin Hood HillHill1.7 km (1 mile) west
Bushy Cliffe WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north
Calder CutLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Stennard IslandIsland4.3 km (2.6 miles) south

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)12.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

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
55 to 5910
Under 552223

1 of the street's 23 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), 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
Outwood Primary Academy Lofthouse GatePrimary3–11350 m Outstanding (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rooks Nest AcademyPrimary2–11600 m (0.4 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Outwood Primary Academy Ledger LanePrimary3–11900 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Stanley St Peters Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected 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
Stanley Grove Primary and Nursery AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Outwood Grange AcademySecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Newton Hill Community SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Rodillian AcademySecondary11–182 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
Slimming World WF1 3EGRetailers - other250 mExempt
Cooperative Group Retail WF1 3TRRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets310 m5 Very good22 Feb 2024
Catering @ Bevin Community Centre WF1 3ETOther catering premises320 m5 Very good14 Jan 2025
Lofthouse Gate Sports & Social Club WF3 3HNPub/bar/nightclub320 m4 Good2 Mar 2015
Sun Kong WF3 3HJTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m5 Very good23 Apr 2026
Sahota's WF3 3HWRetailers - other390 m4 Good15 Apr 2014
The Sun WF3 3HFPub/bar/nightclub410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Mar 2026
Valentinos WF3 3HGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Apr 2026
Outwood Express WF1 2LURetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Mar 2017
Ashby Lodge WF1 2LUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good1 Oct 2026
Woodman Inn WF1 2LUPub/bar/nightclub470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Jul 2024
Kirklands Hotel WF1 2LUPub/bar/nightclub470 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Tony's Of Outwood Fish & Chips WF1 2LUTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 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.

30 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences12
Shoplifting11
Anti-social behaviour2
Burglary2
Other theft1
Public order1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Holly Court (17); On or near Langdale Avenue (5); On or near Meadow Croft (3); On or near Belfry Court (2); On or near Meadow Close (1).

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: 238 residents in 108 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 age5440
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over29%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)91%61%
Owned outright55%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)35%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)47%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)80%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)40%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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, detached (lodged 22 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Ashby Lodge (hospitals/childcare/caring premises, WF1 2LU) now 4 Good, was 5 Very good (rated 1 October 2026) found 30 October 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.

  • WF1 3TB: 23 addresses of 24 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Broadmeadows · The Hawthorns · Meadow Vale · Belfry Court · Whisperwood Road · Hazelwood Road · Anaheim Drive · Meadow Croft · Briarwood Close · Holly Court · Ringwood Court · Sheridan Street

All the streets in WF1 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.