3 Briar Road, St. Albans AL4 9TH

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 135 m² · Rented (Private) · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation(optional, beyond C)£800 – £1,200£1287.8 yrs+4.1 pts
Cavity wall insulation(optional, beyond C)£500 – £1,500£9610.4 yrs+3.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£3,500 – £5,500£11937.9 yrs+3.8 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

£2,716
per year at grade C
£2,373
per year at grade C

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £2,243 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

16 September 2005£393,500
20 February 2004£286,000

Estimated today: £939,094 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Briar Road: 50 sales since 1995 · £732,636 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Skyswood Primary & Nursery SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
St John Fisher Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyPrimary0.3 mi
Oakwood Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Sandringham SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +1.06 · well above average (2023/24)
Beaumont SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.89 · well above average (2023/24)
Verulam SchoolSecondary1.0 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.

5.1
crimes a month
41
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 34% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023711, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Briar Road

How this home sits against its street.

24
graded homes
68.8
average score
C
most common grade
+0.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.