2 Heracles Close, Park Street, St. Albans AL2 2JN

Detached bungalow · Built 1996-2002 · 94 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £14,500 · £14,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£4950+ yrs+4.1 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£5350+ yrs+4.4 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£4150+ yrs+3.4 pts · reaches B

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges. Savings are restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. Points per measure are estimated from 19.9 million certificates and rescaled to this home’s own certificate delta; the total is the register’s figure.

Running costs

£1,241
per year at grade C
£1,099
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £142 a year — a 1.0% annual return on £14,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £1,602 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

5 January 2024£745,000
12 October 2022£685,000
7 March 2003£324,250

Estimated today: £795,328 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Heracles Close: 7 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

The schools’ own performance — Progress 8 shows value added, not just raw results.

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
How Wood Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Park Street Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Killigrew Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
The Marlborough Science AcademySecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.10 · average (2023/24)
Parmiter's SchoolSecondary2.2 miProgress 8 +0.74 · well above average (2023/24)
Saint Michael's Catholic High SchoolSecondary2.2 miProgress 8 +0.13 · average (2023/24)

Schools from the DfE register, performance from the KS4 performance tables. Progress 8 is a GCSE measure, so primaries have none. Distance is straight-line from the postcode, not a catchment: admission is decided by the school, not by us.

Area context

Police-recorded crime for the wider neighbourhood, not this address. We grade homes, never neighbourhoods — so this is reported as a count, not a rating.

39.5
crimes a month
434
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 59% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023720, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.