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On School Lane, in Walton, Woolley & Bretton
What it's like at WF2 6PQ: every home that has sold on School Lane 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on School Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 55 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 4, School LaneTerraced | Mar 2024 | £180,000 | 78 m² | £2,308/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 - 7, School LaneOther | Jun 2019 | £128,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 6, School LaneTerraced | Feb 2021 | £120,000 | 67 m² | £1,791/m² | 4 |
| 8, School LaneTerraced | Jul 2025 | £170,000 | 96 m² | £1,771/m² | 2 |
| 9, School LaneTerraced | May 1997 | £31,500 | 46 m² | £685/m² | 3 |
| 10, School LaneTerraced · company-owned | Jun 2022 | £130,000 | 68 m² | £1,912/m² | 2 |
| 13, School LaneTerraced | Nov 2001 | £39,000 | 38 m² | £1,026/m² | 3 |
| 15, School LaneTerraced | Jul 2001 | £50,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 16, School LaneTerraced | Oct 2020 | £130,000 | 65 m² | £2,000/m² | 3 |
| 19, School LaneTerraced | Mar 1999 | £96,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 20, School LaneTerraced | Aug 2002 | £67,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 22, School LaneTerraced | Mar 2000 | £44,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 24, School LaneSemi-detached | Jan 1999 | £45,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 26, School LaneTerraced | Oct 2022 | £112,000 | 67 m² | £1,672/m² | 2 |
| 28, School LaneTerraced | Mar 2011 | £100,000 | 65 m² | £1,538/m² | 1 |
| 30, School LaneTerraced | Dec 2025 | £152,000 | 66 m² | £2,303/m² | 7 |
| 32, School LaneDetached | Dec 2019 | £259,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 32a, School LaneDetached | Sept 2019 | £249,995 | 120 m² | £2,083/m² | 1 |
| 34, School LaneDetached | May 2025 | £364,000 | 125 m² | £2,912/m² | 2 |
| 34a, School LaneDetached | Feb 2021 | £369,950 | 125 m² | £2,960/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Sandal & Agbrigg, a short drive or bike ride (1.6 km), with 202k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is School Lane, 50 m away, with a bus about every 17 minutes on weekdays (routes 195, 196); 37 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
This is car country: only 10% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Walton Primary Academy, about a 5-minute walk (600 m); 71% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Crigglestone Dane Royd Junior and Infant School (2 km).
The nearest secondary is St Thomas à Becket Catholic Secondary School, A Voluntary Academy, 1.5 km away; Attainment 8: 46.3 · 10.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Horbury Academy (5.1 km) and Trinity Academy Cathedral (5.1 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Heckmondwike Grammar School (14.6 km).
The nearest supermarket is Aldi, 1.9 km away, with Walton Sports & Social Club closer still (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Maybush Medical Centre (2.5 km), with Bamboo Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (800 m).
For a haircut, En Route Hair & Beauty is under 50 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Pinderfields Hospital, 7.3 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 20 restaurants and cafés, 3 pubs and bars.
Mel's Little Sunshine Cafe/Mel's Cakes is the closest café or restaurant (800 m), and The New Inn the nearest pub (400 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 49 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 111 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 43% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
Bungalow country: 23% of homes are bungalows.
The nearest park is Walton Nature Reserve, 1.2 km away; for exercise, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing (2.8 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.4 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 29 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 60 km.
10 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gate piers and flanking walls in front of Elmwood House and at entrance to farm | II | 180 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.
Normanton and Hemsworth constituency: Jon Trickett MP (Labour), since February 1996. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 6,662 (18.3%), turnout 48%. Vote shares: Labour 48%, Reform UK 29%, Conservative 14%, Green Party 6%.
7 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 WF2 6PQ →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 47% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 27% are 65 or over.
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 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 55 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Hathersage Outdoor Swimming Pool · about 66 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 38 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 3 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.4% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.4% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 84.5% | 94.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 6.6% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.4% | 3.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 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.