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On Airedale Heights, in Lupset
What it's like at WF2 8YF: every home that has sold on Airedale Heights 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Airedale Heights; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 50 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Airedale HeightsDetached | Feb 2025 | £328,000 | 108 m² | £3,037/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Airedale HeightsDetached | Sept 2023 | £262,000 | 75 m² | £3,493/m² | 1 |
| 6, Airedale HeightsSemi-detached | Aug 2022 | £195,000 | 69 m² | £2,826/m² | 3 |
| 8, Airedale HeightsSemi-detached | Feb 2005 | £125,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 10, Airedale HeightsDetached | Jun 2006 | £172,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 16, Airedale HeightsDetached | Jun 2006 | £184,500 | 93 m² | £1,984/m² | 2 |
| 18, Airedale HeightsDetached | Feb 2024 | £256,000 | 83 m² | £3,084/m² | 3 |
| 20, Airedale HeightsSemi-detached | Jan 2018 | £135,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 24, Airedale HeightsDetached | Oct 2007 | £169,000 | 109 m² | £1,550/m² | 3 |
| 26, Airedale HeightsDetached | Jun 2024 | £225,000 | 87 m² | £2,586/m² | 5 |
| 28, Airedale HeightsDetached | Oct 2019 | £185,000 | 112 m² | £1,652/m² | 5 |
| 30, Airedale HeightsDetached | Mar 2008 | £175,000 | 99 m² | £1,768/m² | 2 |
| 32, Airedale HeightsDetached | Aug 2005 | £145,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 34, Airedale HeightsTerraced | Nov 2024 | £147,500 | 59 m² | £2,500/m² | 6 |
| 36, Airedale HeightsTerraced | Sept 2010 | £85,000 | 56 m² | £1,518/m² | 3 |
| 38, Airedale HeightsTerraced · company-owned | Mar 1999 | £40,000 | 56 m² | £714/m² | 2 |
| 40, Airedale HeightsTerraced | Oct 2025 | £175,000 | 59 m² | £2,966/m² | 3 |
| 42, Airedale HeightsTerraced | Aug 2022 | £157,000 | 91 m² | £1,725/m² | 5 |
| 44, Airedale HeightsSemi-detached | May 2016 | £103,000 | 60 m² | £1,717/m² | 3 |
| 46, Airedale HeightsTerraced | Jun 2011 | £89,000 | 89 m² | £1,000/m² | 2 |
| 48, Airedale HeightsTerraced · company-owned | Dec 2020 | £111,000 | 57 m² | £1,947/m² | 3 |
| 50, Airedale HeightsTerraced | May 2004 | £84,000 | 54 m² | £1,556/m² | 4 |
| 52, Airedale HeightsTerraced | Jul 2000 | £44,750 | 59 m² | £758/m² | 2 |
| 54, Airedale HeightsTerraced | Dec 2005 | £102,000 | – | – | 5 |
| 56, Airedale HeightsTerraced | Jun 1998 | £44,000 | 60 m² | £733/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Wakefield Westgate, a short drive or bike ride (2.8 km), with 2.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Dacre Avenue Top, 150 m away, with a bus about every 33 minutes on weekdays (route 122); 21 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Wakefield Snapethorpe Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (800 m); 49% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Horbury Academy, 1.4 km away; Attainment 8: 48.7 · 12.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Trinity Academy Cathedral (1.3 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Heckmondwike Grammar School (9.6 km).
It's a family area: 24% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 1.0 km away, with The Little Bull closer still (700 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Lupset Health Centre (1.4 km), with Charles S Bullen Stomacare the closest pharmacy (700 m).
For a haircut, Lillywhite is 1.1 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Pinderfields Hospital, 3.6 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 5 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Harte Canteen is the closest café or restaurant (650 m), and Farmhouse Kitchen the nearest pub (1.0 km).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 138 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 12% flats and 11% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 53% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
It's growing: about 166 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Illingworth Park, 1.3 km away; for exercise, Total Fitness (950 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 11.4 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 23 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 61 km.
Most households own their home, 7% rent privately.
1 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.
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%.
11 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 8YF →
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 50 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Cleethorpes · about 78 min
Nearest: Ilkley Swimming Pool · about 53 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 40 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.8% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.7% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 97.8% | 94.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.3% | 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.