Poplar Cottage, New Road, Tamworth B79 0BP

Semi-Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 223 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

FC for £30,320 · £10,107 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Draughtproofing£120£841.4 yrs+3.8 pts · reaches E
Room-in-roof insulation£2,700 – £700£13812.3 yrs+6.3 pts
Floor insulation£6,000 – £0£10030.0 yrs+4.5 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,500 – £500£9332.4 yrs+4.2 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating£6,000 – £0£7838.6 yrs+3.5 pts
Solid wall insulation£14,000 – £0£10850+ yrs+4.9 pts
Wind turbine£25,000 – £0£8350+ yrs+3.8 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

£2,598
per year at grade F
£1,914
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £684 a year — a 2.3% annual return on £30,320.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

15 January 2021£430,000

Estimated today: £504,188 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

New Road: 3 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Landau Forte Academy GreenacresPrimary1.6 mi
Garden Village Primary AcademyPrimary1.9 mi
Florendine Primary SchoolPrimary1.9 mi
Landau Forte Academy, AmingtonSecondary2.2 miProgress 8 -0.58 · well below average (2023/24)
Landau Forte Academy, QEMSSecondary2.7 miProgress 8 +0.06 · average (2023/24)
Lift RawlettSecondary3.0 miProgress 8 -0.44 · 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.

9.8
crimes a month
98
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 36% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01031035, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.