3 Jakes View, Penn Road, St. Albans AL2 2RH

Detached house · Built 2003-2006 · 209 m² · Boiler and underfloor heating, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £300 · £300 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£200 – £400£933.2 yrs+3.0 pts · reaches C
Low energy lighting(optional, beyond C)£240£550+ yrs+0.2 pts
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£8450+ yrs+2.7 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£9,000 – £14,000£10050+ yrs+3.2 pts

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

£2,261
per year at grade D
£1,979
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £93 a year — a 31.0% annual return on £300.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2012, states £1,325 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

1 June 2006£237,000

Estimated today: £535,045 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Jakes View: 6 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 SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Killigrew Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
The Marlborough Science AcademySecondary1.3 miProgress 8 -0.10 · average (2023/24)
Parmiter's SchoolSecondary2.1 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.

12.5
crimes a month
137
in the last 12 months
Other theft
most common · 53% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023718, 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.