The Towers Upper Armley, Leeds

2 addresses across 2 postcodes (LS12), about 260 m long. USRN 23032319.

  • Sales: 12 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £346,000 across 1 sale.
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 Headingley, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Hill Top Moor, is about 150 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 104 to 110 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 2 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Dr G Lees & Partners, about 820 m (0.5 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 480 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 64% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 166 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
20211£346,000£346,000£346,000
20162£180,000£125,000£235,000
20081£170,000£170,000£170,000
20061£194,955£194,955£194,955
20051£329,000£329,000£329,000
19981£100,000£100,000£100,000
Most recent sales (12)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Aug 202129 LS12 3SQTerraced£346,000
20 May 202119 LS12 3SQOther£200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 May 202119 LS12 3SQOther£200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 May 202119 LS12 3SQOther£200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 May 202119 LS12 3SQOther£200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Aug 202025 LS12 3SQTerraced£325,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Nov 201627A LS12 3SQTerraced£125,000
8 Nov 201627 LS12 3SQTerraced£235,000
18 Feb 200835 LS12 3SQSemi-detached£170,000
12 May 200633 LS12 3SQSemi-detached£194,955
19 Aug 200531 LS12 3SQSemi-detached£329,000
30 Nov 199827 LS12 3SQTerraced£100,000

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

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.

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£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 (35% of about 1,350 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 2.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): A4D01.
  • 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.

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 2 addresses are between 104 m and 110 m above sea level (107 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 3EN100%100%100%0%
LS12 3SQ100%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 stationsHeadingley 391,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Burley Park 756,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Bramley (West Yorkshire) 336,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 58 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Armley Ridge Road220 m
Bus or coach stationPudsey Bus Station3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Car parksParking Space to rent Leeds1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA8.2 km (5.1 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dr G Lees & Partners820 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Armley Pharmacy310 m
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery270 m
HospitalSt Mary's Hospital580 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationElland Road Police Station3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cockshott Lane Stores Ltd, Armley Cashzone660 m (0.4 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 garden7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hill Top Moor 7,920 m²150 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Armley Park 13 ha780 m (0.5 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 580 m²560 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha190 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,430 m²350 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 7 parks and gardens, 18 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Armley House (Gott's Park), a registered park or garden (Grade II), 590 m (0.4 miles) north. 24 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Armley House (Gott's Park)Registered park or garden, Grade II590 m (0.4 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Ridge WoodWood710 m (0.4 miles) north-east
The GoitLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Cunliff WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Gamble Hill ValeValley1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Kirkstall GoitLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Post HillHill2.3 km (1.4 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)14.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

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 5512

1 of the street's 2 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), 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
Christ Church Upper Armley Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11530 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Dixons Unity AcademySecondary11–16570 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whingate Primary SchoolPrimary3–11680 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Armley Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Christ The King Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Greenhill Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Raynville AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Bartholomew's CofE Voluntary Controlled Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Ryecroft AcademyPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) 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
Five Lanes Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kirkstall Valley Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong 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 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
Hillcrest Residential Home LS12 3SGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 m5 Very good10 Oct 2024
Family Choice LS12 3RFRetailers - other220 m5 Very good20 Nov 2008
Town Street News LS12 3RFRetailers - other220 m4 Good29 Oct 2012
Armley Stores LS12 3RFRetailers - other220 m5 Very good30 May 2003
MeloCoffee LS12 3PYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good17 Jan 2026
KFC (Pudsey) LS12 3NWTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m5 Very good17 Sep 2025
Travellers Rest LS12 3PYPub/bar/nightclub310 m5 Very good11 Oct 2024
Luckys LS12 3NPRetailers - other310 m4 Good3 Feb 2016
Zen Tea House & Bento Kitchen LS12 3NPTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m5 Very good10 Oct 2025
Abs Kitchen LS12 3SBOther catering premises330 mAwaiting inspection
Puglian Pizza Cafe/Gyro Gusto-Armley LS12 3RARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good4 Jul 2024
Whingate Methodist Church And Community Centre LS12 3EJRetailers - other340 m5 Very good12 Sep 2022
Armley Grange School LS12 3QHSchool/college/university350 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
The Spinney LS12 3QHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m5 Very good20 Jan 2026
Roma Cafe And Restaurant LS12 3RARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m5 Very good23 Oct 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.

166 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences81
Other theft17
Criminal damage and arson13
Vehicle crime13
Public order12
Burglary10
Drugs7
Other crime5
Anti-social behaviour5
Possession of weapons2
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Back Saint Ives Mount (25); On or near Back Moorfield Terrace (23); On or near Armley Ridge Close (21); On or near Saint Ives Mount (16); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (13).

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: 484 residents in 215 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 age4040
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright38%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented25%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)82%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 6 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 3EN: 1 address of 30 in the postcode
  • LS12 3SQ: 1 address of 22 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Stanningley Road · St Andrews Grange · Armley Grange View · Tower Mews · Armley Grange Walk · Moorfield Street · Moorfield Crescent · Tower Lane · Halliday Drive · Tower Grove · Armley Grange Avenue · Moorfield Grove

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.