Sitka Close Royston, Barnsley

28 addresses across 1 postcode (S71), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 1802783.

  • Sales: 35 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £163,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, B: 1, C: 6, D: 8, E: 1).
  • Flood: 6 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 A; Band D in Barnsley costs £2,326 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 89% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barnsley, about 4.6 km (2.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, The Green, is about 390 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 56 to 58 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is High Street Practice, about 410 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 69% of households owned their home and 15% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 54 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
20241£163,000£163,000£163,000
20231£210,000£210,000£210,000
20221£105,000£105,000£105,000
20211£140,000£140,000£140,000
20181£129,000£129,000£129,000
20172£125,000£123,000£127,000
20162£155,000£85,000£225,000
20151£80,000£80,000£80,000
20103£75,000£74,995£75,000
20071£30,000£30,000£30,000
20061£122,500£122,500£122,500
20033£64,000£58,000£64,500
Most recent sales (35)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Apr 202419 S71 4NASemi-detached£163,000
28 Mar 202419 S71 4NASemi-detached£170,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Apr 202321 S71 4NADetached£210,000
26 Apr 20224 S71 4NASemi-detached£105,000
17 Aug 202110 S71 4NASemi-detached£140,000
10 Dec 20187 S71 4NASemi-detached£129,000
30 Nov 201722 S71 4NASemi-detached£123,000
10 Nov 20172 S71 4NADetached£127,000
5 Feb 20166 S71 4NASemi-detached£85,000
28 Jan 201625 S71 4NADetached£225,000
22 Dec 201513 S71 4NASemi-detached£80,000
13 Aug 20106 S71 4NASemi-detached£74,995
30 Jun 20106 S71 4NASemi-detached£75,000
23 Jun 20104 S71 4NASemi-detached£75,000
8 Jun 200711 S71 4NASemi-detached£30,000
28 Jul 200612 S71 4NASemi-detached£122,500
12 Sep 200313 S71 4NASemi-detached£64,500
7 Mar 200312 S71 4NASemi-detached£64,000
31 Jan 200315 S71 4NASemi-detached£58,000
1 Nov 200222 S71 4NASemi-detached£70,000
4 Oct 20026 S71 4NASemi-detached£50,000
10 May 200220 S71 4NASemi-detached£55,000
7 May 200215 S71 4NASemi-detached£42,000
27 Jul 20016 S71 4NASemi-detached£39,000
30 Jun 200012 S71 4NASemi-detached£40,000
27 Aug 199915 S71 4NASemi-detached£36,000
23 Apr 199917 S71 4NASemi-detached£40,000
18 Dec 199817 S71 4NASemi-detached£45,000
28 Aug 199814 S71 4NASemi-detached£43,000
30 Jun 19985 S71 4NASemi-detached£43,000
5 Jun 199813 S71 4NASemi-detached£33,000
29 Nov 199620 S71 4NASemi-detached£42,000
21 Nov 199613 S71 4NASemi-detached£33,000
28 Mar 19967 S71 4NASemi-detached£39,950
1 Sep 19954 S71 4NASemi-detached£36,000

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

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 69 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (12); House, detached (5). Built: 1976-1982 (8); 1983-1990 (3); 1991-1995 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

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 (85% of about 780 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

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

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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 4 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 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 28 addresses are between 56 m and 58 m above sea level (57 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
S71 4NA100%89%89%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 2024–254.6 km (2.9 miles)
Darton 121,000 journeys in 2024–254.9 km (3 miles)
Fitzwilliam 273,000 journeys in 2024–257 km (4.4 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest High Street/Redwood Avenue Royston410 m (0.3 miles)
Bus or coach stationBarnsley Interchange/A24 Barnsley Town Centre4.6 km (2.9 miles)
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station3.2 km (2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA33 km (21 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 High Street Practice410 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Weldricks Pharmacy410 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalBarnsley District Hospital4.8 km (3 miles)
Police stationSouth Yorkshire Police4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Royston - Yorks, Royston Cashzone410 m (0.3 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Green 4,720 m²390 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 32 ha760 m (0.5 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,490 m²160 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha170 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest West End Crescent Allotments 2.5 ha600 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 40 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Wayside cross known as Kirk Cross, a scheduled monument, 460 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wayside cross known as Kirk CrossScheduled monument460 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Church of St John the BaptistListed building, Grade I540 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Late prehistoric settlement in Notton Park, 650m north west of Lee Lane FarmScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Chapel HillHill590 m (0.4 miles) north
Cronk HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Windmill HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Applehaigh WoodWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Applehaigh CloughValley1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
The FleetsLake or reservoir3.6 km (2.2 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)7.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)12.44015

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
Under 552828

None of the street's 28 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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
Lift MeadsteadPrimary3–11400 m (0.2 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Parkside Primary AcademyPrimary3–11620 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Royston St John Baptist CE Primary Church of EnglandPrimary5–11650 m (0.4 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Summerfields Primary AcademyPrimary3–11920 m (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Outwood Academy CarltonSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Carlton Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Trinity Catholic and Church of England School Church of England/Roman CatholicAll-through3–161.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Athersley North Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected 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
Cool Kidz R Us S71 4JSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good11 Dec 2025
Aldi S71 4RFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good28 Aug 2024
H I Weldrick S71 4RFRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Co-operative S71 4RFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Jun 2026
McQuillans Family Butchers S71 4RARetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Feb 2025
Wells Post Office S71 4RARetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Rainbow Express S71 4RATakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Mar 2026
Impact Food Group t/a Hutchison Catering Ltd @ Meadstead Academy S71 4JSSchool/college/university460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Jan 2026
The Pack Horse S71 4QZPub/bar/nightclub470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Apr 2025
Homefarm Crafts S71 4RFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Aug 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.

54 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences26
Anti-social behaviour16
Public order5
Other crime3
Other theft2
Criminal damage and arson1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near West Pinfold (13); On or near Central Drive (12); On or near South Drive (11); On or near Hollycroft Avenue (6); On or near Pinfold Lane (6).

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: 332 residents in 139 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 age4140
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)69%61%
Owned outright36%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented18%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%32%
Travel to work by car or van73%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%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)15%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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.

  • S71 4NA: 28 addresses of 30 in the postcode

Nearby streets

White Wood Close · Whitewood Close · Spruce Avenue · West Pinfold · Wrelton Close · Central Drive · South Drive · Hollycroft Avenue · Cropton Road · Croft Avenue · East Pinfold · Field View

All the streets in S71 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.