189 Forth Drive, Birmingham B37 6PR

Mid-Terrace flat · Built 1976-1982 · 49 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £2,500 · £2,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£1,200 – £200£1813.9 yrs+6.2 pts
Loft insulation£350£864.1 yrs+3.0 pts
Heating controls£450£666.8 yrs+2.3 pts
Cavity wall insulation£1,500 – £500£1357.4 yrs+4.7 pts · reaches C
Band A condensing boiler(optional, beyond C)£3,000 – £0£11113.5 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

£1,230
per year at grade D
£651
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £468 a year — a 18.7% annual return on £2,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2018, states £771 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

18 October 1996£23,000

Estimated today: £96,461 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Forth Drive: 70 sales since 1995 · £149,300 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Anthony's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
St Anne's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Windy Arbor Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
WMG Academy for Young Engineers (Solihull)Secondary0.3 miProgress 8 -1.29 · well below average (2023/24)
Tudor Grange Academy KingshurstSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 -1.28 · well below average (2023/24)
John Henry Newman Catholic CollegeSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 -0.25 · 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.

17.2
crimes a month
189
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 40% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01010139, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Forth Drive

How this home sits against its street.

56
graded homes
67.6
average score
C
most common grade
-12.6
this home vs street
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