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On Savile Road, in Central Halifax & Boothtown
What it's like at HX1 2BA: every home that has sold on Savile Road since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
Sales and extensions on Savile Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 20 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Savile RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2001 | £71,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a, Savile RoadDetached | Aug 2016 | £270,000 | 118 m² | £2,288/m² | 2 |
| 3, Savile RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2014 | £249,500 | 202 m² | £1,235/m² | 3 |
| 4, Savile RoadFlat | Mar 2023 | £208,000 | 145 m² | £1,434/m² | 2 |
| 4a, Savile RoadTerraced | Jun 2025 | £162,080 | 73 m² | £2,220/m² | 3 |
| 5, Savile RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2010 | £185,000 | 125 m² | £1,480/m² | 1 |
| 9, Savile RoadDetached · company-owned | Sept 2023 | £472,000 | 160 m² | £2,950/m² | 1 |
| 11, Savile RoadDetached | Apr 1999 | £99,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 15, Savile RoadDetached | Sept 2019 | £326,000 | 111 m² | £2,937/m² | 1 |
| 17, Savile RoadDetached | Nov 2017 | £285,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 19, Savile RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2018 | £195,000 | 99 m² | £1,970/m² | 1 |
| 21, Savile RoadSemi-detached | Aug 1998 | £77,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 23, Savile RoadTerraced | Sept 2002 | £150,000 | 23 m² | £6,522/m² | 1 |
| 25, Savile RoadDetached | Oct 2003 | £280,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 27, Savile RoadDetached | Aug 2010 | £265,000 | 126 m² | £2,103/m² | 2 |
| 2, Fern Bank, Savile RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2016 | £450,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Ashleigh, Savile RoadDetached | Sept 2011 | £375,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Beech Grove, Savile RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2006 | £365,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Grafton House, Savile RoadDetached | Sept 2021 | £680,000 | 487 m² | £1,396/m² | 2 |
| Savile Green, Savile RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2011 | £317,500 | 218 m² | £1,456/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Halifax, about a 10-minute walk (800 m), with 1.8m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Savile Green, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 546); 85 departures an hour from the 15 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 15 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
46% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is St Mary's Catholic Primary Academy, a few minutes' walk (250 m); 62% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Parkinson Lane Community Primary School (1.6 km).
The nearest secondary is The Crossley Heath School, 1.1 km away; Attainment 8: 74.5 · 47.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Trinity Academy Halifax (3 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Crossley Heath School (2.1 km) and The North Halifax Grammar School (3.5 km).
Few families with young children: only 15% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Asda Express PFS Halifax, 300 m away; Bebe Rose Boulangerie (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Boulevard Medical Practice (250 m), with Boulevard Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Robinson Field is 400 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Calderdale Royal Hospital, 2.5 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 85% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 76% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 10 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 101 restaurants and cafés and 35 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Coffee Barra is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and The Irish Centre the nearest pub (250 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (34 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 485 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 50% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Halifax Town Centre Conservation Area, Akroydon).
There are 147 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 47% flats and 5% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
59 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 17 and 19, Savile Road | II | 20 m |
| Number 21 (Western Portion) and Number 23 | II | 50 m |
| 1 and 3, Savile Road | II | 90 m |
| Numbers 1 to 21 and Attached Garden Walls and Railings | II | 110 m |
| 1-15, Trinity Place | II | 160 m |
| Garden house at rear of number 27 Savile Road | II | 170 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Halifax constituency: Kate Dearden MP (Labour (Co-op)), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 6,269 (15.6%), turnout 52%. Vote shares: Labour 35%, Conservative 20%, Reform UK 19%, Green Party 10%.
9 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near HX1 2BA →
It's growing: about 257 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Albert Park, 450 m away; for exercise, PureGym (850 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.6 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 20 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 50 km.
Many neighbours rent: 35% of households rent privately and 24% socially.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 20 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Formby · about 76 min
Nearest: Ilkley Swimming Pool · about 45 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 12 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.3% | 0.9% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.4% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 74.6% | 90.8% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.3% | 1.0% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 24.5% | 7.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.3% | 0.1% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
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