3 Slimbridge Close, Shirley, Solihull B90 4WF

Detached house · Built 1991-1995 · 127 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £19,500 · £9,750 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£350 – £450£478.6 yrs+1.7 pts · reaches C
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£7933.1 yrs+2.8 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£12839.1 yrs+4.6 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£9950+ yrs+3.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£11850+ yrs+4.3 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

£1,637
per year at grade D
£1,166
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £471 a year — a 2.4% annual return on £19,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2018, states £1,034 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

22 March 2021£524,000
24 August 1995£168,950

Estimated today: £594,811 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Slimbridge Close: 10 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Monkspath Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Widney Junior SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Cranmore Infant SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Tudor Grange Academy, SolihullSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.75 · well above average (2023/24)
St Peter's Catholic SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.32 · above average (2023/24)
Alderbrook SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.45 · 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.

5.9
crimes a month
53
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 40% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01010215, 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.