16 The Leys, St. Albans AL4 9HD

Detached house · Built 1983-1990 · 109 m² · Owner-Occupied · Warm air, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £15,000 · £7,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£100 – £350£643.5 yrs+2.4 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £6,000£13525.2 yrs+5.1 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£12536.0 yrs+4.7 pts
Warm air unit replacement£1,250 – £2,500£4839.1 yrs+1.8 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£10547.7 yrs+4.0 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

£1,742
per year at grade D
£1,265
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £477 a year — a 3.2% annual return on £15,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £2,389 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

11 March 2024£777,500
4 March 2004£298,000
25 July 1996£127,500

Estimated today: £828,327 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

The Leys: 73 sales since 1995 · £460,745 average over 10 years

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
-6.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.