Swale Approach Normanton, Wakefield

21 addresses across 2 postcodes (WF6), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41806144.

  • Sales: 44 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £127,750 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, D: 8, E: 2).
  • Flood: 4 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 D; 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 Normanton, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 210 m away, and Haw Hill Park (6.6 hectares) is about 760 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 22 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 21 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is King's Medical Practice, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 770 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 25 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
20252£127,750£97,500£158,000
20231£200,000£200,000£200,000
20222£116,250£80,000£152,500
20211£120,000£120,000£120,000
20201£117,000£117,000£117,000
20182£97,250£76,000£118,500
20142£90,000£74,000£106,000
20101£123,500£123,500£123,500
20082£113,500£109,000£118,000
20074£104,500£102,500£123,000
20065£87,000£70,000£131,950
20051£134,950£134,950£134,950
Most recent sales (44)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Aug 20251 WF6 1WUFlat or maisonette£97,500Leasehold.
10 Jan 20258 WF6 1WUTerraced£158,000
3 May 202315 WF6 1WUFlat or maisonette£58,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Jan 20234 WF6 1WUTerraced£200,000
18 Nov 202212 WF6 1WUTerraced£80,000Leasehold.
9 Feb 202224 WF6 1WUTerraced£152,500
8 Oct 20216 WF6 1WUTerraced£120,000
30 Oct 20208 WF6 1WUTerraced£117,000
1 Jun 20183 WF6 1WUFlat or maisonette£76,000Leasehold.
19 Mar 201818 WF6 1WUTerraced£118,500
7 Nov 20147 WF6 1WUFlat or maisonette£74,000Leasehold.
29 Oct 201414 WF6 1WUTerraced£106,000
17 Dec 20102 WF6 1WUTerraced£123,500
21 Apr 200824 WF6 1WUTerraced£118,000
7 Mar 20087 WF6 1WUTerraced£109,000Leasehold.
9 Nov 20079 WF6 1WUTerraced£105,000Leasehold.
5 Oct 20073 WF6 1WUFlat or maisonette£104,000Leasehold.
30 Mar 20078 WF6 1WUTerraced£123,000
9 Mar 200711 WF6 1WUFlat or maisonette£102,500Leasehold.
17 Nov 20066 WF6 1WUTerraced£118,000
10 Nov 200615 WF6 1WUFlat or maisonette£70,000Leasehold.
6 Nov 200611 WF6 1WUFlat or maisonette£87,000Leasehold.
23 Jun 200620 WF6 1WUTerraced£131,950
23 Jun 20061 WF6 1WUFlat or maisonette£87,000Leasehold.
28 Jan 20054 WF6 1WUTerraced£134,950
25 Nov 20047 WF6 1WUTerraced£79,950Leasehold.
19 Mar 20048 WF6 1WUTerraced£91,000
23 Jan 20045 WF6 1WUFlat or maisonette£83,950Leasehold.
22 Dec 20031 WF6 1WUFlat or maisonette£84,500Leasehold.
31 Oct 20039 WF6 1WUFlat or maisonette£84,000Leasehold.
1 Jul 200215 WF6 1WUFlat or maisonette£56,995New build. Leasehold.
28 Jun 200222 WF6 1WUTerraced£77,995
28 Jun 200224 WF6 1WUTerraced£67,495
28 Jun 20025 WF6 1WUFlat or maisonette£63,995New build. Leasehold.
28 Jun 20021 WF6 1WUFlat or maisonette£61,995New build. Leasehold.
21 Jun 200218 WF6 1WUTerraced£72,495New build.
21 Jun 200214 WF6 1WUTerraced£68,995New build.
20 Jun 200216 WF6 1WUTerraced£77,995New build.
31 May 200210 WF6 1WUTerraced£76,495New build.
31 May 20026 WF6 1WUTerraced£64,995New build.
31 May 20028 WF6 1WUTerraced£64,995New build.
17 May 20024 WF6 1WUTerraced£76,995New build.
17 May 20022 WF6 1WUTerraced£73,995New build.
28 Jun 200120 WF6 1WUTerraced£73,995New build.

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

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 55 m². Most common: Flat (8); House, mid-terrace (8); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1996-2002 (13); 2003-2006 (3); 1991-1995 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11); rented (private) (4); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (36% of about 1,040 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

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

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 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, 4 at medium risk and 3 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
WF6 1WUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WF6 1WNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 4 / 3 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 addresses are about 22 m above sea level.

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
WF6 1WN100%100%100%0%
WF6 1WU100%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 stationsNormanton 202,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Streethouse 26,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Featherstone 86,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Newfield Crescent Normanton210 m
Bus or coach stationCastleford Bus Station Coach Stop4.2 km (2.6 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest West Street Car Park GeniePoint1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA25.4 km (16 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 King's Medical Practice1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest M And A Pharmacies730 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The High Street Dental Practice1.2 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalCastleford & Normanton District Hospital3.2 km (2 miles)
Police stationWest Yorkshire Police1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machinesMFG - Normanton Cashzone840 m (0.5 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 3,890 m²210 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Haw Hill Park 6.6 ha760 m (0.5 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 270 m²250 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.3 ha570 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.8 ha760 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 7.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of All Saints, a listed building (Grade II*), 840 m (0.5 miles) west. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*840 m (0.5 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Haw HillHill890 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Mill HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Ackton Pasture WoodWood2.2 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Ruddings WoodWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) west
Goosehill PlantationWood2.3 km (1.5 miles) west
Fairies Hill CutLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.5 miles) north

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)10.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)12.44015

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 552021

1 of the street's 21 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 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
St. John the Baptist Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11520 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Outwood Academy FreestonSecondary11–16710 m (0.4 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
Normanton All Saints CofE Infant School Church of EnglandPrimary3–7870 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Normanton Common Primary AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Normanton Junior AcademyPrimary7–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Newlands Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Altofts Junior AcademyPrimary7–111.8 km (1.1 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

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
Baxterstorey @ Howdens WF6 1TDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good29 Jul 2026
Barnes Caterers/ Delicious Food Company WF6 1QTMobile caterer420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Mar 2025
Dolce WF6 2HZSchool/college/university500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Jun 2026
Super Star Sport Wakefield WF6 2HZSchool/college/university500 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

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.

25 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences15
Burglary4
Vehicle crime2
Other theft1
Criminal damage and arson1
Other crime1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Newlaithes Crescent (9); On or near Newfield Close (3); On or near Carnoustie Gardens (3); On or near Sunningdales (2); On or near Gleneagles Drive (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: 767 residents in 342 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4440
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright37%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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

Lakeside Park · Lakeside Court · Newfield Crescent · Kirkcaldy Fold · Newfield Close · Morris Fields · Gleneagles Court · Newlaithes Crescent · Hazeltine Court · Sunningdales · Newfield Avenue · Carnoustie Gardens

All the streets in WF6 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.