Upper Croft Road Batley, Kirklees

26 addresses across 3 postcodes (WF17), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 19409677.

  • Sales: 34 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £155,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 4, D: 5, E: 3, F: 1).
  • Flood: 5 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Kirklees costs £2,441 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 79% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Batley, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Jessop Park, is about 80 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 89 to 104 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 12 of its 26 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Broughton House GP Surgery, about 470 m (0.3 miles) away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,110 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 70% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 120 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
20231£155,000£155,000£155,000
20211£170,000£170,000£170,000
20191£100,000£100,000£100,000
20161£125,000£125,000£125,000
20133£120,000£117,000£120,000
20111£109,000£109,000£109,000
20093£130,000£125,000£159,000
20071£149,000£149,000£149,000
20064£125,583£101,666£149,995
20052£77,500£75,000£80,000
20042£107,500£95,000£120,000
20031£75,000£75,000£75,000
Most recent sales (34)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 Aug 20238 WF17 7SXTerraced£155,000
5 May 20223B WF17 7SXTerraced£205,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Oct 202119 WF17 7SXDetached£170,000
25 May 20218 WF17 7SXTerraced£160,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Jul 201915 WF17 7SXTerraced£100,000
14 Jan 20191 WF17 7SXSemi-detached£80,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Apr 201621 WF17 7SXDetached£125,000
20 Nov 201316 WF17 7SXDetached£117,000
5 Nov 201319B WF17 7SXSemi-detached£120,000
4 Nov 201319A WF17 7SXSemi-detached£120,000
25 May 201111 WF17 7SXTerraced£109,000
27 Mar 20091 WF17 7SXSemi-detached£130,000
27 Feb 20093 WF17 7SXTerraced£159,000
26 Feb 20096 WF17 7SXSemi-detached£125,000
26 Jun 20073C WF17 7SXSemi-detached£149,000
10 Nov 20063A WF17 7SXTerraced£149,995
1 Nov 20063B WF17 7SXTerraced£149,500
27 Jan 20063B WF17 7SXTerraced£101,666New build.
27 Jan 20063A WF17 7SXTerraced£101,666New build.
19 Dec 20054 WF17 7SXSemi-detached£80,000
22 Aug 20054 WF17 7SXSemi-detached£75,000
10 Sep 20046 WF17 7SXSemi-detached£95,000
23 Apr 200416 WF17 7SXTerraced£120,000
8 Nov 20038 WF17 7SXTerraced£75,000
6 Sep 200216 WF17 7SXTerraced£95,000
12 Oct 20012A WF17 7SXTerraced£27,500
23 Aug 200114 WF17 7SXTerraced£43,500
16 Jan 200112 WF17 7SXTerraced£45,000
12 Dec 200010 WF17 7SXTerraced£47,000
29 Oct 199813 WF17 7SXTerraced£38,000
17 Jul 199819 WF17 7SXDetached£67,500
9 Jan 19983 WF17 7SXTerraced£39,000
20 Jun 19975 WF17 7SXTerraced£37,500
1 Mar 19967 WF17 7SXTerraced£30,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from May 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 94 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (5); House, semi-detached (4); House, mid-terrace (3). Built: 1900-1929 (5); 1967-1975 (3); 2003-2006 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (12 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Kirklees in 2026-27: Band D £2,441 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,627£1,899£2,170£2,441£2,984£3,526£4,068£4,882

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (69% of about 1,430 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: 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 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 5 at medium risk and 18 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
WF17 7SXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
WF17 7SUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 3 / 10 unlikely
WF17 7SYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 5 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 26 addresses are between 89 m and 104 m above sea level (97 m on average); the ground rises about 14 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
WF17 7SU100%100%100%0%
WF17 7SX100%79%79%0%
WF17 7SY100%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 stationsBatley 227,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Dewsbury 947,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Ravensthorpe 31,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 65 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Clerk Green Junction Batley70 m
Bus or coach stationBatley Bus Station740 m (0.5 miles)
Car parksCliffe Street Car Park2.2 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Henrietta Street Car Park GeniePoint640 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA17.2 km (11 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 Broughton House GP Surgery470 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mileusnic Chemist510 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mount Pleasant Dentist560 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalDewsbury & District Hospital-Combined Elective Surgical Hub1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationHeckmondwike Police Station2 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machinesPayzone880 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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Jessop Park 1.7 ha80 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 2.1 ha760 m (0.5 miles)
Play area11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 320 m²220 m
Playing field8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,080 m²150 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,010 m²410 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 5.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of All Saints, a listed building (Grade I), 640 m (0.4 miles) north-east. 31 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade I640 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Crow Nest ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Dewsbury CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II3 km (1.8 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Little WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Cliff WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north
Ridings WoodWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Castle HillHill2.8 km (1.8 miles) west
Dewsbury Flood Relief ChannelLake or reservoir3.3 km (2.1 miles) south
Holme Leas CloughValley4.2 km (2.6 miles) south-east

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)12.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)11.54015

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
65 to 6920
60 to 6410
55 to 5990
Under 551426

12 of the street's 26 addresses are 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 Kirklees: see them on the Kirklees page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Purlwell Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7530 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Mary's Catholic Primary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11550 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Batley Parish CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary3–11600 m (0.4 miles) Requires improvement (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Manorfield Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–7680 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
Staincliffe Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior SchoolPrimary7–11800 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Hyrstmount Junior SchoolPrimary7–11860 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Field Lane Junior Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–11870 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Healey Junior Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–11930 m (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Park Road Junior Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Upper Batley High SchoolSecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Carlinghow AcademyPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Batley Grammar SchoolAll-through3–161.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, 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 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Zam Zam Bakery WF17 7SEManufacturers/packers80 m4 Good4 Aug 2026
Healey Express WF17 7SURetailers - other130 m4 Good27 Nov 2024
Pappa Chai Ltd WF17 7SETakeaway/sandwich shop140 m4 Good15 Apr 2026
Linson Court Nursing Home WF17 5RUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises160 m5 Very good17 Jun 2026
Kooki Desserts, Kooki Ices WF17 5BHTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m5 Very good19 Mar 2025
B & M Retail Ltd WF17 8FURetailers - other360 m4 Good18 Dec 2024
Abubakr Supermarket WF17 8FURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets370 m2 Improvement necessary16 Jan 2025
Batley Community Outreach Centre WF17 5QLOther catering premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good30 Jan 2026
Darul Arqum Nursery WF17 7NQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Oct 2025
Mullaco WF17 7PJRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)Unknown10 Jun 2026
Pkwa Centre WF17 7BXOther catering premises470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Feb 2022

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.

120 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences64
Anti-social behaviour15
Criminal damage and arson10
Other theft9
Vehicle crime5
Drugs5
Public order4
Other crime4
Burglary3
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Wetherhill Street (25); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (20); On or near Gordale Close (11); On or near Barden Close (10); On or near Woodsome Estate (10).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,109 residents in 347 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 age3440
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)70%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications31%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)80%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all8%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 2 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.

  • WF17 7SX: 24 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • WF17 7SU: 1 address of 49 in the postcode
  • WF17 7SY: 1 address of 18 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Wetherhill Street · Clerk Green Street · Wetherhill Street · Kensington Close

All the streets in WF17 and across Kirklees.

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.