Old School Lane Huddersfield, Kirklees

16 addresses across 2 postcodes (HD5), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 19420307.

  • Sales: 29 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £207,500 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Kirklees cost £208,427 in August 2026 (+5.1% on a year); private rents averaged £784 a month.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 6, E: 1).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • 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 Huddersfield, about 3 km (1.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Fernside Park, is about 860 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 157 to 165 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 16 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Almondbury Surgery, about 190 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 530 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 53% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 70 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious.

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House 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
20242£207,500£190,000£225,000
20221£200,000£200,000£200,000
20211£155,000£155,000£155,000
20191£137,500£137,500£137,500
20182£176,500£163,000£190,000
20132£159,000£155,000£163,000
20121£153,000£153,000£153,000
20101£168,500£168,500£168,500
20072£159,975£158,950£161,000
20054£156,750£135,000£179,950
20033£110,000£110,000£160,000
20012£86,750£80,000£93,500
All 29 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Apr 20181 HD5 8HQTerraced£163,000
19 Dec 19971 HD5 8HQTerraced£62,500New build.
11 Jul 20243 HD5 8HQTerraced£225,000
31 Aug 20073 HD5 8HQTerraced£158,950
24 Aug 20053 HD5 8HQTerraced£158,500
30 Apr 19983 HD5 8HQTerraced£65,000New build.
13 Dec 20197 HD5 8HQSemi-detached£137,500
13 Dec 20197 HD5 8HQOther£137,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Sep 20037 HD5 8HQSemi-detached£110,000
28 Oct 20228 HD5 8HQTerraced£200,000
11 Jun 20219 HD5 8HQTerraced£155,000Leasehold.
26 Mar 201210 HD5 8HQTerraced£153,000Leasehold.
15 Jan 200710 HD5 8HQSemi-detached£161,000Leasehold.
29 Jul 200510 HD5 8HQSemi-detached£179,950Leasehold.
12 Apr 200110 HD5 8HQSemi-detached£80,000Leasehold.
17 Mar 200010 HD5 8HQSemi-detached£69,995Leasehold.
5 Jul 202411 HD5 8HQTerraced£190,000Leasehold.
20 Aug 201811 HD5 8HQTerraced£190,000Leasehold.
20 Aug 201811 HD5 8HQOther£190,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Jul 201011 HD5 8HQTerraced£168,500Leasehold.
9 Dec 200512 HD5 8HQTerraced£135,000Leasehold.
25 Nov 200312 HD5 8HQTerraced£110,000Leasehold.
19 Jun 199912 HD5 8HQTerraced£54,995Leasehold.
11 Dec 201314 HD5 8HQTerraced£163,000Leasehold.
5 Dec 200314 HD5 8HQDetached£160,000Leasehold.
31 Oct 201315 HD5 8HQFlat or maisonette£155,000Leasehold.
28 Jan 200515 HD5 8HQDetached£155,000Leasehold.
19 Jul 200115 HD5 8HQDetached£93,500Leasehold.
14 Jul 200015 HD5 8HQDetached£79,950Leasehold.

House prices and rents in Kirklees

A typical home in Kirklees cost £208,427 in August 2026, 5.1% more than a year before. That is 24% more than five years earlier and 54% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£352,682
Semi-detached£221,599
Terraced£168,142
Flat or maisonette£118,345
Bought by a first-time buyer£179,924

Private renters in Kirklees paid £784 a month on average in September 2026, 12.5% more than a year before. That is 38% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£585
Two bedrooms£714
Three bedrooms£869
Four or more bedrooms£1,234

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 80 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (8); House, end-terrace (4); Bungalow, end-terrace (1). Built: 1996-2002 (5); 1900-1929 (3); before 1900 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 8,183 kWh of it on average in 2024, 28% less than the district's 11,352 kWh, and 2,430 kWh of electricity, 18% less than the district's 2,957 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
HD5 8HQ142,134 kWh 148,220 kWh
HD5 8US252,483 kWh 307,277 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is HD5.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (62% of about 1,330 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: yes, Almondbury (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 2.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Vine Street EfW Energy from waste (incinerator) 9.5 MW Operational Jan 2000 3.3 km (2.1 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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, 2 at medium risk and 1 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
HD5 8HQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
HD5 8USnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 1 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

2 of the street's 2 postcodes are in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 16 addresses are between 157 m and 165 m above sea level (164 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
HD5 8HQ100%100%100%0%
HD5 8US100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 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 stationsHuddersfield 3.1 million journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Berry Brow 27,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Honley 45,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Almondbury Terminus110 m
Bus or coach stationHuddersfield Bus Station Huddersfield Town Centre2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Car parksTrinity Street Car Park3 km (1.9 miles)
EV charging pointsOldgate Car Park GeniePoint2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA26.7 km (17 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Almondbury Surgery Good Jul 2018190 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy210 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Almondbury Dental Practice580 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalSt Luke's Hospital4.1 km (2.5 miles)
Care homes7 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Southfield Court Care Home Requires improvement May 2023320 m
Police stationHuddersfield Police Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cashpoint® 1 Westgate Lloyds Bank160 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 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 gardenFernside Park 3.3 ha860 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 240 m²80 m
Playing field5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha70 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 820 m²150 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of All Hallows, a listed building (Grade I), 110 m east. 92 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of All HallowsListed building, Grade I110 m east
Wormalls HallListed building, Grade II*140 m south-east
42-46, TownendListed building, Grade II*490 m (0.3 miles) north
Thorpe Farm BarnListed building, Grade II*850 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Castle Hill: slight univallate hillfort, small multivallate hillfort, motte and bailey castle and deserted villageScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Benholmley HillHill450 m (0.3 miles) west
Wheat Royd WoodWood620 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Birks WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Penny Spring WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Aspley BasinLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Sawgates CloughValley2.8 km (1.8 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)8.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)10.34015

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
60 to 6410
Under 551516

1 of the street's 16 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 Kirklees: see them on the Kirklees page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 14 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
King James's SchoolSecondary11–16490 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 43.3 (48.5 in 2025 and 46.8 in 2024); 37% grade 5+ in English and maths
Hill View AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 64% in 2023)
Lowerhouses CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 61% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 59% in 2024 and 40% in 2023)
Moldgreen Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 55% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 42% in 2023)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 61% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 45% in 2024 and 47% in 2023)
Dalton SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 52% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 54% in 2024 and 54% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

9 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 190 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Almondbury Playgroup HD5 8XW Sessional day care 20 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 190 m
Doodles Out of School Club HD5 8XW Out-of-school day care 24 Not inspected yet 190 m
1st Steps Nursery & Preschool HD5 8RY Full day care 69 Not inspected yet 390 m
The Mulberry Bush Pre-School HD5 8TD Sessional day care 52 Not inspected yet 450 m (0.3 miles)
InPALS Out of School Club CIC HD5 8UD Out-of-school day care 10 Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Kids Planet Longley HD5 8JZ Full day care 142 Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
The Academy at Almondbury HD5 8RJ Full day care 43 Good (Jun 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Almond House Nursery HD5 8EU Full day care 50 Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Happy Feet Day Care Limited HD5 8PU Full day care 42 Good (Feb 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 163 childminders and 8 home childcarers (nannies) in Kirklees. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 14 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
Taste Fine Wine HD5 8XFRetailers - other140 m4 Good29 Dec 2021
Almondbury Conservative Club HD5 8XFPub/bar/nightclub140 m4 Good11 Jun 2021
The Woolpack HD5 8XFPub/bar/nightclub140 m5 Very good14 Oct 2026
Radcliffe Arms HD5 8XFPub/bar/nightclub140 m5 Very good5 Aug 2022
Northern Bites HD5 8USRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m4 Good21 Jan 2026
Rowleys Newsagents HD5 8USRetailers - other140 mExempt
Dysons Meats Ltd HD5 8USRetailers - other140 m4 Good18 Aug 2026
Top Chef HD5 8XQTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m3 Generally satisfactory5 Mar 2026
Bengal Aroma HD5 8UURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m4 Good24 Feb 2025
Luncheon Club HD5 8XJOther catering premises150 m5 Very good7 Jul 2025
Sôlt Kitchen Coffee Bar HD5 8RXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m3 Generally satisfactory11 Feb 2026
Almondbury Bowling Club HD5 8XNPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good27 Jul 2026
The Village Bakery And Cafe HD5 8RXRetailers - other220 m5 Very good23 Sep 2026
All Hallows CE Infant & Nursery HD5 8XWSchool/college/university240 m5 Very good8 Jul 2026
Almondbury Playgroup HD5 8XWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m4 Good8 Jan 2016

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.

70 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences28
Anti-social behaviour20
Criminal damage and arson7
Public order5
Drugs3
Vehicle crime3
Other theft3
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (10); On or near Old School Lane (9); On or near Northgate (9); On or near Vale Close (8); On or near Cromwell Court (7).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 1 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a cyclist. 50% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 20 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202111
202200
202300
202400
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
4 Sep 2025 17:50 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
17 Jan 2021 19:10 Serious 1 person Minor road, 20 mph Dark, street lights on

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 526 residents in 270 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 age4740
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)53%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented30%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 5 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Dynasty (takeaway/sandwich shop, HD5 8RY) now 4 Good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 8 October 2026) found 13 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The Lollipop Tree Sweet Shop (retailers - other, HD5 8US) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 4 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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Postcodes on this street

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

  • HD5 8HQ: 15 addresses of 20 in the postcode
  • HD5 8US: 1 address of 45 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Hallows Court · Old School Lane · Old Clergy House · Stocks Walk · Wormald Street · Westgate · Northgate · Westgate · Westgate · Westgate · Westgate · Northgate

All the streets in HD5 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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.