16 Douglas Way, Welwyn Garden City AL7 2LY

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1983-1990 · 56 m² · Electric storage heaters

Upgrade Plan

DC for £1,091 · £1,091 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £30£380.6 yrs+0.9 pts
Low energy lighting£18£29.2 yrs+0.0 pts
High-retention storage heaters£600 – £1,500£8811.9 yrs+2.2 pts · reaches C
Wind turbine(optional, beyond C)£1,500 – £4,000£3750+ yrs+0.9 pts
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£3550+ yrs+0.9 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£11,000 – £20,000£4150+ yrs+1.0 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

£1,161
per year at grade D
£920
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £128 a year — a 11.7% annual return on £1,091.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2011, states £536 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

26 November 2020£300,000
23 April 2004£157,000
1 December 2000£92,500
20 December 1996£59,500

Estimated today: £335,841 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Douglas Way: 44 sales since 1995 · £400,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Watchlytes Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Springmead Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Panshanger Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Ridgeway AcademySecondary0.4 miProgress 8 -0.47 · below average (2023/24)
Stanborough SchoolSecondary2.2 miProgress 8 +0.18 · average (2023/24)
Monk's Walk SchoolSecondary2.3 miProgress 8 +0.24 · 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.

9.9
crimes a month
109
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 31% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023952, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Douglas Way

How this home sits against its street.

11
graded homes
69
average score
C
most common grade
-1.0
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.