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On The Springs, in Wakefield Central
What it's like at WF1 1PU: every home that has sold on The Springs 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.
Sales and extensions on The Springs; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
6 of the 19 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 4, The SpringsOther | Jul 2025 | £440,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6, The SpringsOther | Dec 2023 | £85,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 9, The SpringsTerraced | Feb 2026 | £120,000 | – | – | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Wakefield Kirkgate, about a 10-minute walk (650 m), with 612k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is The Springs B, 50 m away, with a bus about every 8 minutes on weekdays (routes 103, 102, 59, 157); 268 departures an hour from the 43 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 9 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
43% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is St Austin's Catholic Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (500 m); 51% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Outwood Academy City Fields, 1.4 km away; Attainment 8: 38.8 · 7.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Trinity Academy Cathedral (2 km) and Horbury Academy (4.2 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Heckmondwike Grammar School (11.7 km).
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 100 m away; Sasans Shop (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Podocare Podiatry & Chiropody Service (150 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (100 m).
For a haircut, True Beauty Salon is under 50 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Pinderfields Hospital, 1.0 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 59% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 66% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 63 restaurants and cafés and 28 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
O'Snacks Hub is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and Shooter Pool Bar the nearest pub (100 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (30 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 407 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 44 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 50% flats and 10% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
It's growing: about 236 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is The Green, 500 m away; for exercise, Sun Lane Leisure (200 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 13.3 µg/m³).
71 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 19 and 21, Kirkgate | II | 20 m |
| 17, Kirkgate | II | 30 m |
| 11 and 13, Kirkgate | II | 30 m |
| Cathedral Church of All Saints | I | 100 m |
| Railings on the Northern Boundary of the Cathedral Grounds | II | 110 m |
| 8, Westmorland Street | II | 130 m |
| 4 and 6, Westmorland Street | II | 140 m |
| 2-10 Northgate | II | 160 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.
Wakefield and Rothwell constituency: Simon Lightwood MP (Labour (Co-op)), since June 2022. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 9,346 (23.0%), turnout 54%. Vote shares: Labour 44%, Reform UK 21%, Conservative 18%, Liberal Democrat 8%.
51 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 WF1 1PU →
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 23 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 63 km.
Many neighbours rent: 37% of households rent privately and 26% socially.
It's young: 22% of residents are aged 15–29.
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.
Nearest 8 shown. Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Wakefield 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 19 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.6% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 76.6% | 94.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 22.9% | 3.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.2% | 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.
Nearest: Cleethorpes · about 81 min
Nearest: Ilkley Swimming Pool · about 57 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.