1 The Leys, St. Albans AL4 9HD

Detached house · Built 1976-1982 · 113 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £11,500 · £11,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1029.8 yrs+4.3 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£7613.1 yrs+3.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£9447.6 yrs+4.0 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£7950+ 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

£1,536
per year at grade C
£1,184
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £352 a year — a 3.1% annual return on £11,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2024, states £1,613 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

28 June 2002£262,000

Estimated today: £736,566 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

The Leys: 73 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Skyswood Primary & Nursery SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
St John Fisher Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyPrimary0.4 mi
Oakwood Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Sandringham SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +1.06 · well above average (2023/24)
Beaumont SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.89 · well above average (2023/24)
Verulam SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.40 · 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.

12.1
crimes a month
121
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 53% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023735, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

The Leys

How this home sits against its street.

19
graded homes
69.7
average score
C
most common grade
-0.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.