39 Central Drive, St. Albans AL4 0UN

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 111 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £11,475 · £11,475 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£25£37.9 yrs+0.2 pts
Heating controls£450£2617.0 yrs+1.4 pts
Flat roof insulation£1,500 – £500£5518.1 yrs+2.9 pts
Floor insulation£6,000 – £0£7341.3 yrs+3.9 pts
Solar water heating£6,000 – £0£5650+ yrs+3.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £0£6750+ yrs+3.6 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

£1,318
per year at grade C
£1,037
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £281 a year — a 2.4% annual return on £11,475.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £935 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 June 2017£731,189
25 July 2008£350,000

Estimated today: £908,214 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Central Drive: 68 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Oakwood Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Fleetville Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Fleetville Junior SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Beaumont SchoolSecondary0.2 miProgress 8 +0.89 · well above average (2023/24)
Verulam SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.40 · above average (2023/24)
Nicholas Breakspear Catholic SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.75 · well above 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.

5.2
crimes a month
31
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 65% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023668, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Central Drive

How this home sits against its street.

42
graded homes
69
average score
C
most common grade
0.0
this home vs street
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