Playground Leeds

29 addresses across 2 postcodes (LS12), about 230 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 23009656.

  • Sales: 43 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £170,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 22 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 14, E: 4).
  • 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 C; Band D in Leeds costs £2,284 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Cottingley, about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, New Farnley Park, is about 40 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 110 to 116 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 29 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Whitehall Surgery, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 510 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 68% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 169 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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
20251£170,000£170,000£170,000
20241£165,000£165,000£165,000
20231£171,000£171,000£171,000
20212£133,498£129,000£137,995
20201£126,500£126,500£126,500
20191£146,000£146,000£146,000
20182£125,500£116,000£135,000
20171£97,500£97,500£97,500
20161£149,995£149,995£149,995
20143£123,000£105,000£124,000
20132£130,212£123,428£136,995
20111£119,000£119,000£119,000
Most recent sales (43)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Oct 20258 LS12 5DYTerraced£170,000
28 May 202419 LS12 5DYTerraced£165,000
3 Nov 202320 LS12 5DYTerraced£171,000
21 Jul 20236 LS12 5DYTerraced£135,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 May 20215 LS12 5DYTerraced£129,000
22 Jan 202112 LS12 5DYTerraced£137,995
23 Jul 20208 LS12 5DYTerraced£126,500
19 Jul 201921 LS12 5DYTerraced£146,000
5 Jun 201819 LS12 5DYTerraced£135,000
11 May 20188 LS12 5DYTerraced£116,000
28 Oct 201716 LS12 5DYTerraced£125,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jun 20172 LS12 5DYTerraced£97,500
6 Jun 201610 LS12 5DYTerraced£149,995
18 Dec 201427 LS12 5DYTerraced£105,000
4 Apr 201420 LS12 5DYTerraced£123,000
7 Mar 201425 LS12 5DYTerraced£124,000
29 Nov 201310 LS12 5DYTerraced£136,995
27 Mar 201313 LS12 5DYTerraced£123,428
21 Nov 201113 LS12 5DYTerraced£119,000
1 Oct 201020 LS12 5DYTerraced£90,000
6 Jun 20081 LS12 5DYTerraced£150,000
30 Apr 200819 LS12 5DYTerraced£115,000
30 Nov 200721 LS12 5DYTerraced£140,000
25 Aug 20066 LS12 5DYTerraced£120,000
18 Nov 200523 LS12 5DYTerraced£122,000
9 Nov 20055 LS12 5DYTerraced£45,000
28 Oct 20058 LS12 5DYTerraced£119,995
23 Jun 20051 LS12 5DYTerraced£123,500
31 Mar 200519 LS12 5DYTerraced£109,000
5 May 200416 LS12 5DYTerraced£125,000
1 Aug 20038 LS12 5DYTerraced£89,950
28 Jul 200321 LS12 5DYTerraced£77,500
20 Feb 200328 LS12 5DYTerraced£85,000
5 Mar 200111 LS12 5DYTerraced£19,440
12 Feb 200117 LS12 5DYTerraced£56,950
27 Oct 200025 LS12 5DYTerraced£53,000
30 Jun 20006 LS12 5DYTerraced£55,000
9 Dec 199912 LS12 5DYTerraced£52,500
24 Sep 199916 LS12 5DYTerraced£50,000
5 Mar 19998 LS12 5DYTerraced£41,000
30 Nov 199815 LS12 5DYTerraced£54,950
8 Mar 199613 LS12 5DYTerraced£44,000
24 Feb 19951 LS12 5DYTerraced£45,750

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 2011 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 66 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (21); House, end-terrace (1). Built: before 1900 (16); 1900-1929 (5); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (4); rented (social) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Leeds in 2026-27: Band D £2,284 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,522£1,776£2,030£2,284£2,791£3,299£3,806£4,567

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (30% of about 1,410 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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.

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 11 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
LS12 5DYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 5 unlikely
LS12 5DZnot in 2 or 3 2 / 1 / 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 29 addresses are between 110 m and 116 m above sea level (113 m on average); the ground rises about 6 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
LS12 5DY100%100%100%0%
LS12 5DZ100%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 stationsCottingley 53,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Bramley (West Yorkshire) 336,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2 miles)
Morley 274,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 16 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Low Moorside Crt Lawns Lane New Farnley240 m
Bus or coach stationPudsey Bus Station3.2 km (2 miles)
Car parksParking Space to rent Leeds2.7 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA10.2 km (6.3 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 surgeriesWhitehall Surgery1.8 km (1.1 miles)
PharmaciesTong Road Pharmacy1.7 km (1.1 miles)
NHS dentistsHq Dental2.2 km (1.3 miles)
HospitalSt Mary's Hospital2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationElland Road Police Station3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Low Moorside, New Farnley Cashzone130 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 New Farnley Park 9,890 m²40 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Farnley Park 15 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 250 m²70 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.1 ha800 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 6,510 m²840 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 16 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Battle of Adwalton Moor 1643, a registered battlefield, 3.9 km (2.4 miles) south-west. 20 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Battle of Adwalton Moor 1643Registered battlefield3.9 km (2.4 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sykes WoodWood900 m (0.6 miles) west
Little WoodWood950 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Nan Whins WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Barker HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Cockers DaleValley1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Helicon PondLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) 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)11.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.24015

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

Road and rail noise

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

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 552829

1 of the street's 29 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 Leeds: see them on the Leeds 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
The Farnley AcademySecondary11–18860 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lawns Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cobden Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Inadequate
Ryecroft AcademyPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Lower Wortley Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement

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
Late Shop (Co-op Food) LS12 5EARetailers - other130 m5 Very good27 Jan 2009
New Farnley And District Community Association LS12 5EAPub/bar/nightclub130 m4 Good16 Mar 2017
Craven's Of New Farnley LS12 5EATakeaway/sandwich shop130 m5 Very good12 Sep 2024
New Farnley Cafe And Dining LS12 5ESRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good4 May 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.

169 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting95
Violence and sexual offences38
Anti-social behaviour9
Burglary7
Vehicle crime6
Other theft4
Criminal damage and arson4
Other crime3
Possession of weapons2
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (99); On or near Lawns Mount (16); On or near Playground (13); On or near Holme Farm Court (9); On or near Castle Ings Gardens (5).

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: 513 residents in 248 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 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)68%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented18%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)83%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more awayunder 1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%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 6 to 7 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.

  • LS12 5DY: 28 addresses of 31 in the postcode
  • LS12 5DZ: 1 address of 21 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Lawns Terrace · Lawns Mount · Low Moor Side · Newton Square · Lawns Close · Holme Farm Court · West End · Lawns Crescent · Lawns Drive · Beechfield · Castle Ings Close · School Close

All the streets in LS12 and across Leeds.

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.