5 Dibble Road, Smethwick B67 7PP

End-Terrace house · Built 1900-1929 · 75 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EC for £24,150 · £12,075 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Flue gas heat recovery£400 – £900£1893.4 yrs+7.5 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£715.7 yrs+2.8 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£11921.8 yrs+4.7 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£19425.7 yrs+7.7 pts · reaches D
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£18036.2 yrs+7.1 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£21042.9 yrs+8.3 pts · reaches C

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

£2,093
per year at grade E
£1,130
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £963 a year — a 4.0% annual return on £24,150.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £1,485 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

30 July 1999£23,000

Estimated today: £118,161 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Dibble Road: 195 sales since 1995 · £136,048 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Galton Valley Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Devonshire Junior AcademyPrimary0.3 mi
Devonshire Infant AcademyPrimary0.3 mi
Holly Lodge High School College of ScienceSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 -0.10 · average (2023/24)
Sandwell AcademySecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
Shireland Collegiate AcademySecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.38 · 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.

6.8
crimes a month
75
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 43% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01010049, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Dibble Road

How this home sits against its street.

104
graded homes
55.2
average score
D
most common grade
-16.2
this home vs street
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