Loading street…
Around Broomhill Place
Openly licensed photos from Wikimedia Commons, taken nearby; the link on each credits the photographer and its licence.
These only choose where you start. Every page and every lens is still one tap away.
Sign in to keep them on every device →Loading street…
In Knottingley. What's changing around Broomhill Place
Street View and the aerial view come from Google, which receives your IP address and may set cookies once you choose them. We'll remember your choice on this device.
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
| 5, Broomhill PlaceWF11 0EB | 2 Apr 2024 | £165,000 | Semi-detached |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Broomhill PlaceWF11 0EB | 27 May 2022 | £150,000 | Semi-detached |
| 5, Broomhill PlaceWF11 0EB | 10 Jul 2020 | £127,500 | Semi-detached |
| 2, Broomhill PlaceWF11 0EB | 15 Apr 2019 | £98,000 | Semi-detached |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Knottingley, a short drive or bike ride (1.8 km), with 156k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Broomhill Avenue Terminus, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 406); 1 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 44 minutes away by public transport (18 by car).
The nearest primary school is England Lane Academy, about a 10-minute walk (850 m); 85% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is De Lacy Academy, 650 m away; Attainment 8: 45.6 · 6.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsburys Local, 600 m away, with Broomhill Stores closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Ash Grove (850 m), with Fast Track Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (750 m).
For a haircut, Salon 9 is 350 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Pinderfields Hospital, 16 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: 13 restaurants and cafés, 5 pubs and bars.
Gaf's Restaurant is the closest café or restaurant (500 m), and Winston Hotel the nearest pub (350 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (14 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 143 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 15% flats and 12% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
The nearest park is field, 500 m away; for exercise, Iron Wolf Gym (1.6 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 11.9 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 33 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 79 km.
Most households own their home, 15% 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.
16 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.
Checked at WF11 0EB; a long street can cross an Article 4 boundary, so check the exact postcode.
Run the numbers: buy-to-let · HMO · flip · BRRR · strategy guides
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.8% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.1% | 94.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.2% | 3.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 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.
None of the 45 injury collisions in Knottingley over the same years were on Broomhill Place.
Police-reported collisions where someone was hurt (DfT STATS19), on the nearest named road within 30 m. A main road through the area naturally collects more than a side street.
HMO planning rules: unknown here. Wakefield has not published HMO Article 4 areas to the national planning data platform, so we cannot tell whether HMOs need planning permission here. Ask the council's planning team. About HMOs
Local Housing Allowance, Wakefield rental area, 2026-27, a month: Shared room £327 · 1 bed £500 · 2 beds £595 · 3 beds £725 · 4 beds £885. The most a tenant on Universal Credit or Housing Benefit gets towards rent here, set at the cheapest 30% of local rents in 2023 and frozen since April 2024.
Gross LHA yields at this neighbourhood's 2025 prices: 1-bed rate vs flats 6.65% · 2-bed vs terraced houses 4.08% · 3-bed vs semis 4.65%.
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. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Openly licensed photos from Wikimedia Commons, taken nearby; the link on each credits the photographer and its licence.