72 Monastery Drive, Solihull B91 1DP

Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 135 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

FD for £2,300 · £1,150 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£30£1940.2 yrs+4.4 pts · reaches E
Draughtproofing£120£1910.6 yrs+4.4 pts
Floor insulation£1,200 – £200£2273.1 yrs+5.2 pts
Heating controls£450£835.4 yrs+1.9 pts
Cavity wall insulation£1,500 – £500£1705.9 yrs+3.9 pts · reaches D
Low energy lighting(optional, beyond D)£60£106.0 yrs+0.2 pts
Band A condensing boiler(optional, beyond D)£3,000 – £0£14010.7 yrs+3.2 pts
Solar water heating(optional, beyond D)£6,000 – £0£17617.0 yrs+4.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond D)£8,000 – £0£21019.0 yrs+4.8 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

£3,497
per year at grade F
£2,096
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £865 a year — a 37.6% annual return on £2,300.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2017, states £2,319 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

4 September 2017£462,000

Estimated today: £595,519 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Monastery Drive: 83 sales since 1995 · £575,357 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Oak Cottage Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Tudor Grange Primary Academy LangleyPrimary0.3 mi
Our Lady of Compassion Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Langley SchoolSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 +0.29 · above average (2023/24)
Lode Heath SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.25 · above average (2023/24)
Alderbrook SchoolSecondary1.4 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.

6.9
crimes a month
55
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 29% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01010173, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Monastery Drive

How this home sits against its street.

48
graded homes
62.9
average score
D
most common grade
-26.9
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.