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On Hightown Road, in Hightown & Hartshead Moor
What it's like at WF15 8BN: every home that has sold on Hightown 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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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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Hightown Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 63 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 213, Hightown RoadSemi-detached | Jun 1997 | £50,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 215, Hightown RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2019 | £190,000 | 120 m² | £1,583/m² | 2 |
| 217, Hightown RoadSemi-detached | May 2024 | £230,000 | 105 m² | £2,190/m² | 1 |
| 219, Hightown RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2015 | £137,000 | 80 m² | £1,713/m² | 2 |
| 223, Hightown RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2019 | £190,000 | 83 m² | £2,289/m² | 4 |
| 223a, Hightown RoadDetached | Jun 2021 | £350,000 | 133 m² | £2,632/m² | 3 |
| 223b, Hightown RoadDetached | Jul 2005 | £249,950 | 132 m² | £1,894/m² | 3 |
| 227, Hightown RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2019 | £165,000 | 81 m² | £2,037/m² | 4 |
| 229, Hightown RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2015 | £135,000 | 84 m² | £1,607/m² | 2 |
| 231, Hightown RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2013 | £118,000 | 81 m² | £1,457/m² | 3 |
| 233, Hightown RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2025 | £240,000 | 75 m² | £3,200/m² | 3 |
| 235, Hightown RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2014 | £145,000 | 101 m² | £1,436/m² | 2 |
| 237, Hightown RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2002 | £79,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 239, Hightown RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2017 | £140,000 | 77 m² | £1,818/m² | 2 |
| 241, Hightown RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2005 | £136,950 | – | – | 3 |
| 243, Hightown RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2022 | £167,000 | 55 m² | £3,036/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Brighouse, a drive away (4.2 km), with 388k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Hightown School, 150 m away, with a bus about every 30 minutes on weekdays (routes 200, AL1, 263); 12 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Hightown Primary School, a few minutes' walk (100 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Whitcliffe Mount, A Share Academy, 1.5 km away; Attainment 8: 42.7 · 6.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Heckmondwike Grammar School (3.7 km) and The Crossley Heath School (10.2 km).
The nearest supermarket is Heron Foods, 1.3 km away, with Hightown Off Licence closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Parkview Surgery (1.1 km), with Spen Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.1 km).
For a haircut, Zoe Eures is 1.3 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Calderdale Royal Hospital, 8.9 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 9 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Casa Luli is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and Hightown Sports Club the nearest pub (300 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 99 per 1,000 residents a year.
There are 10 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 9% flats and 27% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Hightown Road Greenspace, 200 m away; for exercise, Clayborn (700 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.1 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 17 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 54 km.
Most households own their home, 14% rent privately.
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.
15 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Church of St Barnabas | II | 200 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.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Spen Valley constituency: Kim Leadbeater MP (Labour), since July 2021. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 6,188 (15.1%), turnout 57%. Vote shares: Labour 39%, Reform UK 24%, Conservative 24%, Green Party 6%.
18 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 WF15 8BN →
On this street: 0 of 44 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.5% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 97.7% | 93.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.9% | 4.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
Nearest: Formby · about 73 min
Nearest: Ilkley Swimming Pool · about 47 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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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 63 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.