3 Blackwood Road, Sutton Coldfield B74 3PH

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 128 m² · Rented (Private) · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £18,250 · £18,250 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solid wall insulation£7,500 – £11,000£7550+ yrs+5.4 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£6550+ yrs+4.6 pts · reaches B

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

£1,421
per year at grade C
£1,281
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £140 a year — a 0.8% annual return on £18,250.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill.

Sold prices

27 March 2015£234,950
21 July 2006£229,000

Estimated today: £415,446 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Blackwood Road: 72 sales since 1995 · £494,957 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Blackwood SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
St Anne's Catholic Primary School, StreetlyPrimary0.1 mi
Manor Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
The Streetly AcademySecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.05 · average (2023/24)
St Francis of Assisi Catholic CollegeSecondary1.5 miProgress 8 +0.10 · average (2023/24)
Barr Beacon SchoolSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 +0.19 · 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.

9.4
crimes a month
103
in the last 12 months
Other theft
most common · 46% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01010388, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Blackwood Road

How this home sits against its street.

42
graded homes
60.5
average score
D
most common grade
+14.5
this home vs street
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