2 Howicks Green, Welwyn Garden City AL7 4RH

End-Terrace house · Built 1967-1975 · 57 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £13,250 · £6,625 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Flue gas heat recovery£400 – £900£5212.4 yrs+4.8 pts · reaches C
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£3350+ yrs+3.0 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£5450+ yrs+4.9 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£4250+ yrs+3.8 pts · reaches B
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond B)£5,000 – £8,000£5050+ yrs+4.5 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

£922
per year at grade D
£691
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £181 a year — a 1.4% annual return on £13,250.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2019, states £582 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

8 February 2019£340,000
9 June 2009£175,000

Estimated today: £407,678 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Howicks Green: 46 sales since 1995 · £372,962 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Commonswood Primary & Nursery SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Creswick AcademyPrimary0.7 mi
Swallow Dell Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Ridgeway AcademySecondary1.3 miProgress 8 -0.47 · below average (2023/24)
Stanborough SchoolSecondary1.5 miProgress 8 +0.18 · average (2023/24)
Onslow St Audrey's SchoolSecondary2.2 miProgress 8 -0.36 · below 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.

12.4
crimes a month
136
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 31% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023946, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Howicks Green

How this home sits against its street.

40
graded homes
66.1
average score
C
most common grade
+0.9
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.