Meadowgate Ossett, Wakefield

14 addresses across 2 postcodes (WF5), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41802629.

  • Sales: 14 recorded sales since 1995; in 2020 the median was £188,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (D: 8).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 C; 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 Dewsbury, about 3 km (1.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 580 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 107 to 110 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 14 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ossett Surgery, about 900 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 92% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 81 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
20201£188,000£188,000£188,000
20191£185,000£185,000£185,000
20162£164,250£160,000£168,500
20142£180,000£170,000£190,000
20071£177,000£177,000£177,000
20061£140,000£140,000£140,000
20052£132,500£120,000£145,000
20031£105,000£105,000£105,000
20021£88,950£88,950£88,950
20001£110,000£110,000£110,000
19991£65,000£65,000£65,000
Most recent sales (14)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Feb 2020NEWHAVEN WF5 8EESemi-detached£188,000
8 May 2019RENMUIR WF5 8EESemi-detached£185,000
19 Aug 2016LEIGHTON HOUSE WF5 8EESemi-detached£168,500
8 Jul 2016GLEN ROSA WF5 8EESemi-detached£160,000
31 Jul 2014MEADOW HOUSE WF5 8EESemi-detached£170,000
4 Jul 2014POLPERRO WF5 8EESemi-detached£190,000
29 Oct 2007LINDEN WF5 8EESemi-detached£177,000
3 May 2006ROMAINE WF5 8EESemi-detached£140,000
29 Jul 2005RENMUIR WF5 8EESemi-detached£145,000
4 May 2005ROMAINE WF5 8EESemi-detached£120,000
1 Oct 2003WINGARD WF5 8EESemi-detached£105,000
28 Mar 2002POLPERRO WF5 8EESemi-detached£88,950
14 Jun 20001 WF5 8EEDetached£110,000
5 Nov 1999LINDEN WF5 8EESemi-detached£65,000

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 July 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 92 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (8). Built: 1930-1949 (6); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 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 C (40% of about 650 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

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

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 5 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
WF5 8EEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
WF5 8EDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 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 14 addresses are between 107 m and 110 m above sea level (109 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
WF5 8ED100%100%100%0%
WF5 8EE100%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 stationsDewsbury 947,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Batley 227,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2 miles)
Ravensthorpe 31,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 47 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Deneside Ossett130 m
Bus or coach stationOssett Bus Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Car parksTowngate Car Park1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA20.3 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ossett Surgery900 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Giles & Ward Pharmacy830 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ossett Dental Care1.2 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalDewsbury & District Hospital-Combined Elective Surgical Hub4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Police stationOssett Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM360 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,170 m²580 m (0.4 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 3,860 m²680 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 160 m²470 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,800 m²460 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,080 m²840 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 0.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of the Holy Trinity, a listed building (Grade II*), 480 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of the Holy TrinityListed building, Grade II*480 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Holme Leas CloughValley310 m west
Lodge HillHill1.2 km (0.8 miles) east
Dogloitch WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
Giggal HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Long CutLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Spring WoodWood2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-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)11.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

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
65 to 6910
55 to 5910
Under 551214

2 of the street's 14 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 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
Gawthorpe Community AcademyPrimary3–11590 m (0.4 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ossett Holy Trinity CofE VA Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Orchard Primary AcademyPrimary2–11870 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Towngate Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Earlsheaton Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.5 km (1 mile) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ossett Southdale Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.6 km (1 mile) 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
Ossett Flushdyke Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Dimple Well Infant School and NurseryPrimary3–71.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bywell Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Manor Croft AcademySecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Nov 2022, 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
Slimming World WF5 8BURetailers - other160 mExempt
Hammer & Stithy WF5 9PEPub/bar/nightclub160 m5 Very good15 Oct 2015
Munchies Sandwich Bar WF5 9PETakeaway/sandwich shop160 m2 Improvement necessary28 Apr 2026
Chickin WF5 9PETakeaway/sandwich shop160 m4 Good18 Feb 2025
Babylon Pizza WF5 9PETakeaway/sandwich shop160 m4 Good11 Mar 2025
Sea Urchin WF5 9PETakeaway/sandwich shop160 m5 Very good23 Sep 2026
Ossett Chinese WF5 9PATakeaway/sandwich shop190 m5 Very good21 Mar 2026
Nisa Local WF5 9PARetailers - other190 m5 Very good3 Jun 2024
Paxman's Bakery WF5 9DTRetailers - other250 m5 Very good4 Feb 2026
Blooming Butterflies WF5 9PLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises270 mAwaiting inspection
Ossett Childcare Pre-School WF5 9QFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good13 Jun 2025
Tesco WF5 9NQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets390 m5 Very good14 Feb 2024
Red Lion WF5 9NQPub/bar/nightclub390 m5 Very good17 Jan 2024
White Rose Pool And Snooker Club WF5 9QJPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 May 2026
KP Osset Premier WF5 9QJRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 Sep 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

81 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences42
Anti-social behaviour11
Vehicle crime6
Criminal damage and arson4
Burglary4
Other theft3
Public order3
Robbery3
Other crime2
Possession of weapons1
Bicycle theft1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Naylor Street (18); On or near Meadow Court (14); On or near Hirstlands Avenue (8); On or near Kings Lea (7); On or near George Street (7).

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: 255 residents in 105 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4640
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)92%61%
Owned outright47%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented1%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)50%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Hirstlands Drive · Kingsway Close · Kingsway Court · Kingsmead · Clifton Terrace · Lady Close · Hirstlands Avenue · Kingsway Gardens · Kingsway Gardens · Deneside · George Street · Kings Lea

All the streets in WF5 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.