Mount Close Barnsley

13 addresses across 1 postcode (S70), about 20 m long. USRN 1802189.

  • Sales: 1 recorded sales since 1995; in 2011 the median was £95,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, B: 3, C: 1, D: 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 Barnsley costs £2,326 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barnsley, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 270 m away, and Swanee Fields (23 hectares) is about 590 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 161 to 165 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 13 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Kakoty Practice, about 570 m (0.4 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 240 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 14% of households owned their home and 11% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 160 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
20111£95,000£95,000£95,000
Most recent sales (1)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
2 Dec 20119 S70 4EEDetached£95,000

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

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 63 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (3); Bungalow, end-terrace (1); Bungalow, semi-detached (1). Built: 2009 (2); 2007 onwards (1); 2012 onwards (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (2).

Council tax

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

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (91% of about 640 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 13 addresses are between 161 m and 165 m above sea level (162 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
S70 4EE100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsBarnsley 1.5 million journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Dodworth 48,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.3 miles)
Wombwell 224,000 journeys in 2024–254.9 km (3 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 39 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Highstone Road/Dickinson Road Worsbrough Common90 m
Bus or coach stationBarnsley Interchange/A1 Barnsley Town Centre1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Car parksBurleigh Street West Commuter Car Park840 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station850 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA38.1 km (24 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Kakoty Practice570 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cohens Chemist630 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Warren House Surgery470 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalMount Vernon Hospital600 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationBarnsley Police Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Highstone Style280 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.6 ha270 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Swanee Fields 23 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 150 m²80 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.2 ha80 m
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Highstone Lane Allotments 1.3 ha380 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 48 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Locke Park Tower Locke Park, a listed building (Grade II*), 510 m (0.3 miles) west. 17 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Locke Park Tower Locke ParkListed building, Grade II*510 m (0.3 miles) west
Locke ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II780 m (0.5 miles) west
Church of St Peter Including Attached Wall and Gateway to South WestListed building, Grade II*830 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Castle HillHill200 m south-west
Highstone PlantationWood370 m south
Darley Cliff PlantationWood810 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Worsbrough ReservoirLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
Keeper's PondWetland3.8 km (2.3 miles) south-west
Falthwaite BottomsValley4.2 km (2.6 miles) south-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)9.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5930
Under 551013

3 of the street's 13 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Barnsley: see them on the Barnsley page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 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
Worsbrough Common Primary SchoolPrimary3–11110 m Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ward Green Primary SchoolPrimary3–11790 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Oakwell Rise Primary AcademyPrimary3–11860 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Barnsley College16 plus14–991.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
The Mill AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Queens Road AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
The Forest AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Shawlands Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Joseph Locke Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Holy Rood Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Trinity Academy St. Edwards Church of EnglandSecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bank End Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong 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

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
Premier Express S70 4EJRetailers - other110 m4 Good23 Jul 2025
Worsbrough Common Rising Stars S70 4EBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m5 Very good7 Jul 2025
Worsbrough Common Primary School S70 4EBSchool/college/university110 mAwaiting inspection
Highstone Road W M C S70 4DXPub/bar/nightclub200 m5 Very good26 Jun 2024
Highstone Mews Care Home S70 4DXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 m5 Very good7 Jan 2026
LIfe Style Express S70 4DDRetailers - other300 m5 Very good20 Nov 2024
Lumi Restaurant & Gardens S70 4DARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m3 Generally satisfactory4 Jun 2026
Shaftsbury House S70 4DJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good18 Sep 2025
Upper Sheffield Road Service Station S70 4PJRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Sep 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.

160 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences90
Criminal damage and arson18
Anti-social behaviour13
Public order11
Other theft7
Burglary6
Other crime5
Vehicle crime5
Possession of weapons3
Drugs2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Highstone View (38); On or near Kenworthy Road (19); On or near Lockwood Lane (14); On or near Bruce Avenue (13); On or near Vernon Close (11).

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: 243 residents in 132 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 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)14%61%
Owned outright6%33%
Shared ownership5%1%
Social rented62%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work39%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)12%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)17%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)10%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)11%34%
No qualifications40%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

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

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

What has changed

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

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

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

  • S70 4EE: 13 addresses of 14 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lockwood Lane · Vernon Close · Stoneleigh Croft · Thornhill Drive · Dickinson Road · Mount Vernon Avenue · Dickinson Place · Highstone Court · Howard Street · Bedford Street · Warren Crescent · Dillington Square

All the streets in S70 and across Barnsley.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.