282 Simmons Drive, Birmingham B32 2UP

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1976-1982 · 76 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £5,500 · £5,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£3231.2 yrs+4.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£4050+ yrs+5.3 pts · reaches B
Solar water heating(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £6,000£3350+ yrs+4.4 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

£967
per year at grade C
£862
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £72 a year — a 1.3% annual return on £5,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2019, states £609 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

20 March 2020£134,950

Estimated today: £179,816 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Simmons Drive: 66 sales since 1995 · £132,591 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
World's End Junior SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
World's End Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Nonsuch Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Hillcrest School and Sixth Form CentreSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.46 · above average (2023/24)
Lift Four Dwellings SecondarySecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.22 · above average (2023/24)
Bartley Green SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 -0.46 · 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.

14.3
crimes a month
157
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 50% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009258, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Simmons Drive

How this home sits against its street.

94
graded homes
68.4
average score
C
most common grade
+3.6
this home vs street
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