Unity Close Harrogate, North Yorkshire

11 addresses across 1 postcode (HG1), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 16604761.

  • Sales: 15 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £190,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6).
  • 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 North Yorkshire costs £2,544 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Harrogate, about 1.3 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 290 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 107 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 Church Avenue Medical Group, about 190 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 250 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 58% of households owned their home and 43% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 185 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20212£190,500£187,000£194,000
20191£184,950£184,950£184,950
20141£159,000£159,000£159,000
20081£160,000£160,000£160,000
20076£167,500£156,000£205,250
20051£135,000£135,000£135,000
19972£53,475£51,950£55,000
Most recent sales (15)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Aug 20216 HG1 2PDTerraced£194,000
27 Aug 20214 HG1 2PDTerraced£187,000
8 Nov 20195 HG1 2PDSemi-detached£184,950
27 Sep 20195 HG1 2PDSemi-detached£190,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 May 20144 HG1 2PDTerraced£159,000
23 Jan 20083 HG1 2PDTerraced£160,000
9 Oct 20078 HG1 2PDTerraced£170,000
19 Sep 20076 HG1 2PDTerraced£167,500
14 Sep 20077 HG1 2PDTerraced£167,500New build.
6 Aug 20075 HG1 2PDSemi-detached£165,000New build.
27 Jul 20074 HG1 2PDTerraced£156,000
23 Feb 20071 HG1 2PDTerraced£205,250
31 Jan 20052 HG1 2PDSemi-detached£135,000
19 Dec 19971 HG1 2PDTerraced£51,950
5 Dec 19971 HG1 2PDTerraced£55,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from December 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 67 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (3); House, mid-terrace (2); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 2003-2006 (2); 2007-2011 (2); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in North Yorkshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,544 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,696£1,979£2,262£2,544£3,110£3,675£4,241£5,089

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (33% of about 580 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 1.0 km

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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 5 October 2026 to 6 October 2026: NORTH YORKSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (minor works)

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

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.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 107 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
HG1 2PD100%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 stationsHarrogate 1.9 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km
Starbeck 267,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km
Hornbeam Park 458,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m, 52 within 800 m; nearest Roberts Crescent Bilton70 m
Bus or coach stationBus Stn Stand 4 Harrogate1.2 km
Car parksJubilee Multi Storey Car Park1.2 km
EV charging points11 within 1.6 km; nearest Harrogate Civic Centre530 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA17.4 km

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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Church Avenue Medical Group190 m
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Cohens Chemist270 m
NHS dentists12 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Harrogate Spa Dental Care400 m
HospitalNHS Nightingale Hospital Yorkshire And The Humber910 m
Police stationHarrogate Police Station1.4 km
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m; nearest Morrisons Daily - Harrogate King Edward Dri, Bilton Cashzone270 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 7,000 m²290 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 2.5 ha570 m
Play area4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,060 m²240 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 8,650 m²650 m
Allotments2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2.9 ha110 m

Within 800 m: 3 parks and gardens, 5.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St John, a listed building (Grade II*), 400 m north. 16 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Parish Church of St JohnListed building, Grade II*400 m north
Grove HouseListed building, Grade II*450 m south-east
29 and 30, Regent ParadeListed building, Grade II*910 m south-east
Valley GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.0 km south-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Red Cat HillHill850 m north
Knox HillHill1.0 km north-west
Willow WoodWood1.3 km north
Viaduct WoodWood1.9 km north
Irongate Bridge ReservoirLake or reservoir2.3 km south-west
Rudding BottomsValley2.6 km north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)7.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.9205
Particles (PM10)9.04015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
Under 551111

None of the street's 11 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road or rail traffic.

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
Harrogate, Bilton Grange Primary SchoolPrimary4–11150 m No published inspection
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Harrogate, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary4–11450 m Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Coppice Valley Primary SchoolPrimary3–11460 m Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Harrogate, Grove Road Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11480 m No published inspection
Richard Taylor Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11640 m No published inspection
New Park Primary AcademyPrimary3–11810 m No published inspection
St Robert's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Harrogate High SchoolSecondary11–161.3 km Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Saltergate Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.5 km Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Saltergate Infant SchoolPrimary2–71.5 km No published inspection
St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km No published inspection
Western Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.8 km No published inspection

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Kendalls Farm Butchers HG1 4LJRetailers - other50 m5 Very good2 Dec 2025
Harrogate Fisheries HG1 4LJTakeaway/sandwich shop50 m5 Very good10 Feb 2026
Bilton Working Mens Club HG1 4LLPub/bar/nightclub70 m5 Very good23 May 2024
Majestic Wine Warehouse HG1 4LJRetailers - other90 mExempt
Co-Op Food HG1 4PSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets110 m5 Very good2 Feb 2026
China Garden HG1 2AWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m4 Good16 Sep 2025
Bilton Grange Primary School HG1 3BASchool/college/university160 m5 Very good11 Feb 2026
The Harrogate Hive Childrens Club HG1 3BARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good27 Jan 2022
Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd HG1 5JQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets170 m5 Very good7 Jan 2025
Twisted Cakes HG1 5JGRetailers - other170 m5 Very good24 May 2023
Avenue Bakery HG1 4HGFarmers/growers190 m5 Very good26 Nov 2025
Bob’s Ices HG1 2AYMobile caterer190 mAwaiting inspection
Gurkha Nimto HG1 5JGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good18 Jun 2025
Little Breads HG1 5JGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good7 May 2026
Roots & Fruits HG1 4HLRetailers - other240 m5 Very good2 Jul 2024

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.

185 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting87
Violence and sexual offences31
Anti-social behaviour23
Criminal damage and arson9
Vehicle crime8
Other theft8
Robbery4
Drugs3
Other crime3
Public order3
Burglary2
Bicycle theft2
Possession of weapons2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Warren Place (48); On or near Supermarket (39); On or near Dawson Terrace (24); On or near Skipton Street (13); On or near Petrol Station (11).

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: 250 residents in 110 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 age3840
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)58%61%
Owned outright23%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented36%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work78%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van37%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle22%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)76%65%
Work 30 km or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)43%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification0%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.

  • HG1 2PD: 11 addresses of 13 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Unity Grove · Back Unity Grove · Grange Avenue · Back Unity Grove · Roberts Square · King Edward's Drive · Back Unity Grove · The Old Stables · Dawson Terrace · Church Avenue · Bar Place · Cecil Place

All the streets in HG1 and across North Yorkshire.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.