Newton Close Wakefield

41 addresses across 3 postcodes (WF1), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41802876.

  • Sales: 34 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £187,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 22 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 17).
  • Flood: 3 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 Wakefield Westgate, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 270 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 63 to 68 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 16 of its 41 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is New Southgate Surgery, about 310 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 550 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 79% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 27 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
20261£187,500£187,500£187,500
20252£220,000£200,000£240,000
20242£197,500£190,000£205,000
20212£176,750£148,000£205,500
20202£210,000£185,000£235,000
20192£170,500£155,000£186,000
20172£155,250£145,500£165,000
20152£119,250£115,000£123,500
20081£190,000£190,000£190,000
20074£146,998£134,500£172,950
20064£163,225£125,000£189,995
20041£146,000£146,000£146,000
Most recent sales (34)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 Mar 202626 WF1 2QGSemi-detached£187,500
20 Oct 202539 WF1 2QQSemi-detached£240,000
24 Jan 202522 WF1 2QGSemi-detached£200,000
4 Apr 20242 WF1 2QGSemi-detached£205,000
11 Jan 202427 WF1 2QGSemi-detached£190,000
20 Dec 202237 WF1 2QQSemi-detached£210,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Sep 202116 WF1 2QGSemi-detached£205,500
27 Aug 20218 WF1 2QGSemi-detached£148,000
6 Nov 202029 WF1 2QGSemi-detached£235,000
11 Jun 20207 WF1 2QGSemi-detached£185,000
21 Oct 201935 WF1 2QQSemi-detached£186,000
29 Apr 201939 WF1 2QQSemi-detached£155,000
7 Jul 201747 WF1 2QQSemi-detached£165,000
31 Mar 201716 WF1 2QGSemi-detached£145,500
27 Feb 201516 WF1 2QGSemi-detached£123,500
13 Feb 201547 WF1 2QQSemi-detached£115,000
18 Apr 200827 WF1 2QGSemi-detached£190,000
23 Nov 200712 WF1 2QGSemi-detached£134,500
19 Oct 20074 WF1 2QGSemi-detached£149,995
31 Aug 20073 WF1 2QGSemi-detached£144,000
6 Jul 200735 WF1 2QQSemi-detached£172,950
29 Sep 200627 WF1 2QGSemi-detached£182,950
1 Jun 200651 WF1 2QQSemi-detached£189,995
1 Jun 200635 WF1 2QQSemi-detached£143,500
26 May 200618 WF1 2QGSemi-detached£125,000
4 Feb 200451 WF1 2QQSemi-detached£146,000
2 Apr 200151 WF1 2QQSemi-detached£79,500
31 Mar 200051 WF1 2QQSemi-detached£75,950
15 Oct 199917 WF1 2QGSemi-detached£40,000
11 Jul 199723 WF1 2QGSemi-detached£59,950
31 Jan 199735 WF1 2QQSemi-detached£55,800
29 Nov 199645 WF1 2QQSemi-detached£54,950
24 Nov 199515 WF1 2QGSemi-detached£49,950
28 Jul 199541 WF1 2QQSemi-detached£21,000

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 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

22 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 69 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (22). Built: 1967-1975 (12); 1950-1966 (6); 1976-1982 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15); rented (private) (7).

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (29% of about 2,560 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 11 August 2026: YORKSHIRE WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 6 August 2026: YORKSHIRE WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 6 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
WF1 2QGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WF1 2QQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WF1 2PSnot in 2 or 3 1 / 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 41 addresses are between 63 m and 68 m above sea level (65 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
WF1 2PS100%100%100%0%
WF1 2QG100%100%100%0%
WF1 2QQ100%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 stationsWakefield Westgate 2.3 million journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Wakefield Kirkgate 612,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Outwood 310,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 36 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bar Lane Newton Hill60 m
Bus or coach stationWakefield Bus Station Wakefield City Centre1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Car parksFormer Pub Car Park - 5 mins from Westgag1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station370 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA21.7 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 New Southgate Surgery310 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well310 m
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Smile Design Studio570 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalFieldhead Hospital580 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationBishopgarth West Yorkshire Police Training & Development Centre530 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machinesPayzone1.1 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha270 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 1.6 ha790 m (0.5 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 330 m²340 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.6 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,150 m²290 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 2.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 2-24 St John's North, a listed building (Grade II*), 720 m (0.4 miles) south. 25 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
2-24 St John's NorthListed building, Grade II*720 m (0.4 miles) south
Church of St John the BaptistListed building, Grade II*800 m (0.5 miles) south
Thornes ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.5 km (1.6 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Snow HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Robin Hood HillHill1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Park HillHill2 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Old CutLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Stennard IslandIsland2.5 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Low WoodWood2.9 km (1.8 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)11.34010
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
70 to 7410
65 to 6910
60 to 6450
55 to 5990
Under 552541

16 of the street's 41 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), 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
Newton Hill Community SchoolPrimary3–11430 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Wakefield St Johns Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary4–11590 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Heart of Yorkshire Education Group16 plus16–991 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Wakefield Pinders Primary (JIN) SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Austin's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Wrenthorpe AcademyPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Outwood Primary Academy GreenhillPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
CAPA College16 plus16–191.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Rooks Nest AcademyPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Outwood Grange AcademySecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Outwood Primary Academy Ledger LanePrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Outwood Primary Academy Park HillPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Sep 2022, 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
Cinnabon WF1 2GSRetailers - other140 m5 Very good15 Apr 2025
Sbarro WF1 2GSTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good17 Sep 2026
Snow Hill Service Station Store WF1 2GSRetailers - other140 m5 Very good8 Jul 2025
Snowhill Spud Bros WF1 2GSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good10 Jun 2026
Starbucks WF1 2GSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Aug 2026
Popeyes WF1 2GSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good25 Aug 2026
Cafe Capri Lounge WF1 2QFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good16 Jan 2026
Capri Home Dining WF1 2QFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good20 May 2026
Capri WF1 2QFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good21 Nov 2024
McDonalds Restaurant WF1 2UZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good29 Oct 2024
Costa Coffee WF1 2UZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m4 Good22 Oct 2024
Greggs WF1 2UZTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m5 Very good19 Aug 2026
Subway WF1 2UZTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m5 Very good7 Feb 2025
Aldi WF1 2UZRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets360 m5 Very good8 Apr 2025
The Butchers Shop WF1 2UZRetailers - other380 m5 Very good28 Jan 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.

27 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences13
Vehicle crime4
Other theft2
Shoplifting2
Public order2
Anti-social behaviour1
Possession of weapons1
Drugs1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (16); On or near Newton Gardens (3); On or near Newton Close (3); On or near Newton Green (2); On or near Headingley Mews (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 552 residents in 212 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 age3640
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)79%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownership4%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work74%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%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)64%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 qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 9 to 10 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

Newton Gardens · Newton Green · Headingley Mews · The Oval · Boundary Drive · Snowfield Avenue · Bowlers Court · Bar Lane · Leeds Road · Spinners Avenue · Trent Bridge Way · Harrison Close

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.