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On Sunset Drive, in Ilkley & Ben Rhydding
What it's like at LS29 8LS: every home that has sold on Sunset Drive 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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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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.
4 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Sunset Drive; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 28 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 3, Sunset DriveDetached | Apr 2006 | £272,500 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, Sunset DriveDetached | Mar 2005 | £345,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 7, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | Dec 1999 | £140,000 | 239 m² | £586/m² | 1 |
| 9, Sunset DriveTerraced | Oct 2001 | £185,000 | 236 m² | £784/m² | 3 |
| 11, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | Jan 2025 | £670,000 | 218 m² | £3,073/m² | 4 |
| 12, Sunset DriveDetached | Nov 2022 | £815,000 | 200 m² | £4,075/m² | 2 |
| 13, Sunset DriveTerraced | Aug 2022 | £650,000 | 232 m² | £2,802/m² | 3 |
| 14, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | Sept 2020 | £407,500 | 98 m² | £4,158/m² | 1 |
| 16, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2021 | £610,000 | 188 m² | £3,245/m² | 2 |
| 17, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | Sept 2021 | £365,000 | 82 m² | £4,451/m² | 1 |
| 18, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | Aug 2017 | £470,000 | 187 m² | £2,513/m² | 2 |
| 19, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | Apr 2022 | £550,000 | 170 m² | £3,235/m² | 4 |
| 22, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | Oct 2021 | £450,000 | 104 m² | £4,327/m² | 1 |
| 23, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | Aug 2020 | £417,500 | 141 m² | £2,961/m² | 3 |
| 24, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | Jul 2014 | £246,000 | 131 m² | £1,878/m² | 2 |
| 25, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | Jan 2000 | £81,500 | – | – | 3 |
| 27, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | Sept 2019 | £330,000 | 124 m² | £2,661/m² | 1 |
| 28, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | Feb 2025 | £410,000 | 88 m² | £4,659/m² | 1 |
| 30, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | Mar 2016 | £339,950 | 101 m² | £3,366/m² | 1 |
| 31, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | Nov 2012 | £227,500 | 128 m² | £1,777/m² | 1 |
| 32, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | May 2015 | £239,000 | 87 m² | £2,747/m² | 2 |
| 33, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | Feb 2006 | £217,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 35, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | Apr 2015 | £356,000 | 148 m² | £2,405/m² | 2 |
| 36, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | Jul 2014 | £358,000 | 146 m² | £2,452/m² | 2 |
| 37, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | Jul 2002 | £108,500 | 137 m² | £792/m² | 1 |
| 39, Sunset DriveSemi-detached | Jun 2004 | £176,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 41, Sunset DriveFlat | Apr 2007 | £138,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 43, Sunset DriveFlat | Jan 2022 | £179,950 | 50 m² | £3,599/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 47% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Ben Rhydding, about a 5-minute walk (600 m), with 219k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Valley Drive Parade, 150 m away, with a bus about every 40 minutes on weekdays (routes X84, SK3); 8 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 46 minutes away by public transport (25 by car).
The nearest primary school is The Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, a few minutes' walk (200 m); 58% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Ilkley Grammar School, 950 m away; Attainment 8: 56.5 · 19.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Ermysted's Grammar School (13.9 km) and Skipton Girls' High School (14.2 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 650 m away, with Premier Ilkley Convenience Store closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is LFW Podiatry (Chiropody) & Wellness Clinic (550 m), with Springs Lane - Pharmacy Plus Health the closest pharmacy (850 m).
For a haircut, Ilkley Beauty Clinic is 600 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Airedale General Hospital, 9.9 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 58% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 71% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 11 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 50 restaurants and cafés and 20 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Methodist Homes Retirement Living is the closest café or restaurant (450 m), and Hollygarth Social Club (Wet sales) the nearest pub (300 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 46 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Much of it is protected: 40% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Ilkley, Middleton).
There are 46 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 24% flats and 28% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is East Holmes Field, 950 m away; for exercise, The Hot Yoga Chapel (650 m).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.9 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
23 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 'Story of Wool' sculptural mural, International Development Centre, Valley Drive, Ilkley, West Yorkshire | II | 120 m |
| Milepost opposite 256, Leeds Road | II | 140 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.
Keighley and Ilkley constituency: Robbie Moore MP (Conservative), since December 2019. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 1,625 (3.5%), turnout 62%. Vote shares: Conservative 40%, Labour 37%, Reform UK 10%, Green Party 5%.
8 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 LS29 8LS →
On this street: 1 of 22 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 2 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.7% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.5% | 0.2% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 87.7% | 91.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.4% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 8.5% | 7.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 2.9% | 0.2% | 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.
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 12 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 70 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 48% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 29% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 52% of adults have a degree.
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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Bradford since 2011.
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 28 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
Nearest: Morecambe South · about 77 min
Nearest: Tropical World · about 35 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.