Wakefield city itself splits into the Victorian terraces and villas round St John’s and Sandal, the big inter-war and post-war estates at Lupset, Eastmoor, Flanshaw and Portobello, and the 1960s to 1990s private housing at Sandal, Walton and Durkar. The post-war semis are the typical Wakefield roof: a plain gable, concrete tiles, eight to ten panels on the better pitch for a 3.5 kW system, and a garage or utility wall for the battery.
The former pit villages and towns across the district, Castleford, Pontefract, Normanton, Featherstone, Knottingley and Hemsworth, have long rows of red-brick terraces with slate or concrete roofs and, round every one of them, a ring of new-build estates from the last twenty years. The new estates are where the quickest installs happen: wide trussed roofs, modern consumer units, often a south-facing garden and the roof to match.
The district also has a lot of bungalows, especially in Ossett, Horbury, Crofton and Ackworth. A bungalow roof usually takes more panels than a retired couple needs, so the design question is not how many fit but how much you use, and whether a battery earns its place when someone is home in the day.