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On Greenbank Road, in Altofts
What it's like at WF6 2JU: every home that has sold on Greenbank 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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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 Greenbank Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
4 of the 44 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Greenbank RoadTerraced · company-owned | Apr 2015 | £75,500 | 95 m² | £795/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a, Greenbank RoadDetached | Jun 2004 | £195,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 2, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Mar 2022 | £125,000 | 64 m² | £1,953/m² | 4 |
| 3, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Nov 2019 | £105,000 | 72 m² | £1,458/m² | 4 |
| 4, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Jan 2010 | £100,000 | 64 m² | £1,563/m² | 4 |
| 5, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Sept 1998 | £42,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 6, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Jun 2000 | £34,000 | 60 m² | £567/m² | 1 |
| 7, Greenbank RoadTerraced · company-owned | Dec 2021 | £126,000 | 96 m² | £1,313/m² | 6 |
| 8, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Dec 2024 | £140,000 | 60 m² | £2,333/m² | 5 |
| 9, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Sept 2014 | £94,500 | 84 m² | £1,125/m² | 3 |
| 10, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Jun 2023 | £139,000 | 63 m² | £2,206/m² | 7 |
| 11, Greenbank RoadOther | Jun 2024 | £180,000 | 97 m² | £1,856/m² | 3 |
| 12, Greenbank RoadTerraced · company-owned | Mar 2016 | £65,000 | 60 m² | £1,083/m² | 1 |
| 13, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Jul 2023 | £165,000 | 87 m² | £1,897/m² | 2 |
| 14, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Oct 2020 | £110,000 | 63 m² | £1,746/m² | 3 |
| 15, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Mar 2026 | £165,000 | 91 m² | £1,813/m² | 5 |
| 16, Greenbank RoadTerraced | May 1997 | £32,000 | 58 m² | £552/m² | 1 |
| 18, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Nov 2025 | £150,000 | 63 m² | £2,381/m² | 6 |
| 19, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Feb 2023 | £175,000 | 89 m² | £1,966/m² | 4 |
| 20, Greenbank RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2001 | £39,474 | – | – | 1 |
| 22, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Dec 2025 | £165,000 | 64 m² | £2,578/m² | 3 |
| 24, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Jan 2000 | £29,500 | 63 m² | £468/m² | 1 |
| 25, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Jan 2019 | £105,000 | 87 m² | £1,207/m² | 5 |
| 26, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Nov 2025 | £164,000 | 73 m² | £2,247/m² | 4 |
| 27, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Jul 2003 | £77,000 | 119 m² | £647/m² | 2 |
| 29, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Apr 2024 | £168,000 | 114 m² | £1,474/m² | 5 |
| 31, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Nov 2015 | £80,000 | 110 m² | £727/m² | 1 |
| 32, Greenbank RoadTerraced · company-owned | Dec 2017 | £70,000 | 63 m² | £1,111/m² | 3 |
| 33, Greenbank RoadTerraced | May 2001 | £35,000 | 89 m² | £393/m² | 1 |
| 34, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Mar 2025 | £149,000 | 62 m² | £2,403/m² | 4 |
| 35, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Jan 1999 | £38,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 36, Greenbank RoadSemi-detached | Dec 1998 | £37,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 37, Greenbank RoadTerraced | May 1997 | £39,500 | 88 m² | £449/m² | 1 |
| 38, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Aug 2015 | £95,000 | 62 m² | £1,532/m² | 2 |
| 40, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Mar 2018 | £110,000 | 65 m² | £1,692/m² | 6 |
| 41, Greenbank RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2024 | £200,000 | 139 m² | £1,439/m² | 1 |
| 42, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Aug 2013 | £84,250 | 70 m² | £1,204/m² | 2 |
| 43, Greenbank RoadDetached | Jun 2019 | £256,000 | 139 m² | £1,842/m² | 2 |
| 44, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Jun 2019 | £120,000 | 90 m² | £1,333/m² | 3 |
| 46, Greenbank RoadTerraced | May 2022 | £140,000 | 88 m² | £1,591/m² | 4 |
| 48, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Feb 2007 | £80,000 | 122 m² | £656/m² | 2 |
| 50, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Jun 2023 | £147,500 | 96 m² | £1,536/m² | 2 |
| 52, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Sept 2021 | £146,000 | 97 m² | £1,505/m² | 5 |
| 54, Greenbank RoadTerraced | Aug 2026 | £130,000 | 134 m² | £970/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Normanton, about a 10-minute walk (650 m), with 202k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Drury Lane, 300 m away, with a bus about every 32 minutes on weekdays (routes 147, 187); 11 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Lee Brigg Infant and Nursery School, a few minutes' walk (300 m).
The nearest secondary is Outwood Academy Freeston, 1.6 km away; Attainment 8: 44.6 · 10.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Oulton Academy (3.8 km).
Few families with young children: only 14% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Lidl, 850 m away, with Upper Altofts Post Office closer still (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Patience Lane Surgery (150 m), with M&A Pharmacies the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, The Beach Hut is 800 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Pinderfields Hospital, 4.4 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: 7 restaurants and cafés, 6 pubs and bars.
Chilli Pepper (Wakefield) is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and The Brig WMC the nearest pub (350 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 52 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 5% flats and 29% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Newland Park, 950 m away; for exercise, Normanton Leisure (800 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.7 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 23 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 69 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 42% of households own their home outright.
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.
17 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.
Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley constituency: Yvette Cooper MP (Labour), since May 1997. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 6,630 (18.4%), turnout 48%. Vote shares: Labour 48%, Reform UK 29%, Conservative 15%, Green Party 5%.
15 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 WF6 2JU →
On this street: 0 of 38 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 | 1.6% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.5% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.8% | 94.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.3% | 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.
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Nearest: Cleethorpes · about 73 min
Nearest: Albert Avenue Pools · about 54 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 44 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.