Thorn Crescent Leeds

48 addresses across 1 postcode (LS8), about 170 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 23012127.

  • Sales: 3 recorded sales since 1995; in 2013 the median was £70,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 24 homes have an energy certificate (C: 12, D: 11, E: 1).
  • 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 A; 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 Cross Gates, about 3.4 km (2.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 15.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 69 to 84 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 48 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bellbrooke Surgery, about 530 m (0.3 miles) away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 12% of households owned their home and 15% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 213 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
20131£70,000£70,000£70,000
20011£22,000£22,000£22,000
19951£28,495£28,495£28,495
Most recent sales (3)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 Mar 20139 LS8 3NBSemi-detached£70,000
7 Dec 20012 LS8 3NBTerraced£22,000
14 Jul 199525 LS8 3NBSemi-detached£28,495

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

24 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 70 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (16); Flat (6); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1930-1949 (14); 1950-1966 (10). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (19); rented (private) (2); owner-occupied (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (85% of about 880 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): A4D01.
  • 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 27 October 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, New service connection, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 13 October 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, New service connection, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 26 August 2026 to 1 September 2026: NORTHERN POWERGRID (YORKSHIRE) PLC, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 17 August 2026 to 20 August 2026: YORKSHIRE WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

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 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 48 addresses are between 69 m and 84 m above sea level (76 m on average); the ground rises about 15 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
LS8 3NB100%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 stationsCross Gates 474,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Leeds 27 million journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Burley Park 756,000 journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 39 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Foundry Ave Thorn Crescent Gipton90 m
Bus or coach stationLeeds City Bus Station Leeds City Centre2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Car parksBeckett Street Car Park1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station660 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA12 km (7.5 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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bellbrooke Surgery530 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies15 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Harehills Pharmacy530 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery630 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalSt James' Hospital1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationKillingbeck Police Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Misha Food & Wine 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 gardenUnnamed 2.2 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 290 m²380 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 11 ha320 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Foundry Avenue Allotments 1.8 ha150 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of the Epiphany, a listed building (Grade I), 650 m (0.4 miles) east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of the EpiphanyListed building, Grade I650 m (0.4 miles) east
Beckett Street CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Late prehistoric enclosed settlements in Gipton Wood, at the southern end of Oakwood DriveScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Roundhay ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km (1.8 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gipton WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Gledhow Valley WoodsWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
The LakeLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Waterloo LakeLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) north
The GorgeValley3.5 km (2.2 miles) north
Miles HillHill3.8 km (2.4 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)15.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.8205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

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 554748

1 of the street's 48 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
Co-op Academy OakwoodPrimary3–11260 m Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Co-op Academy WoodlandsPrimary3–11270 m Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11340 m No published inspection
Hovingham Primary SchoolPrimary2–11630 m (0.4 miles) Requires improvement (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Harehills Primary SchoolPrimary3–11800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Nicholas Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11810 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wykebeck Primary SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Co-op Academy NightingalePrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Co-op Academy BrownhillPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Bankside Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 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: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Victoria Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Patrick Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection

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
Gipton Convenience Store LS8 3LURetailers - other230 m5 Very good12 May 2016
Oak Tree Lodge LS9 6BTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good15 Jul 2025
Cooperative Academy Woodlands LS9 6DASchool/college/university330 m5 Very good5 Jan 2026
Catering Leeds (St Augustines Catholic Primary) LS8 3PFSchool/college/university340 m5 Very good14 Nov 2025
Harehills Park Bowling Club LS9 6NETakeaway/sandwich shop360 mAwaiting inspection
Misha Food And Wine LS9 6BLRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good10 Nov 2014
Harehills Liberal Club LS9 6BJPub/bar/nightclub450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Jan 2016
Arizona Chicken House & Desserts LS9 6BBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Apr 2025
Delicious Dishes LS9 6ABRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Apr 2025
Best Baba Jaga Ltd LS9 6ABRetailers - other500 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory28 Apr 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.

213 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences104
Other theft20
Anti-social behaviour16
Burglary14
Public order13
Criminal damage and arson12
Drugs10
Other crime7
Vehicle crime6
Possession of weapons4
Robbery3
Shoplifting3
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near St Wilfrids Garth (53); On or near Briarsdale Mews (46); On or near Briarsdale Garth (35); On or near Thorn Grove (12); On or near Thorn View (12).

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: 311 residents in 126 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 age3240
Children under 1527%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)12%61%
Owned outright0%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented83%17%
Private rented4%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work45%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)14%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)14%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)8%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus25%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)15%34%
No qualifications35%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)83%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: VIRGIN MEDIA: New service connection, 27 October 2026 to 28 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: VIRGIN MEDIA: New service connection, 13 October 2026 to 15 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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.

  • LS8 3NB: 48 addresses of 49 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Thorn View · Thorn Drive · Thorn Drive · Thorn Grove · Briarsdale Garth · Briarsdale Mews · Briarsdale Croft · Thorn Walk · Foundry Avenue · St Wilfrids Garth · Beech Avenue · Foundry Approach

All the streets in LS8 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.