157 School Road, Hockley Heath, Solihull B94 6RD

Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 169 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

ED for £5,923 · £5,923 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £30£750.3 yrs+3.5 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£8711.4 yrs+4.1 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£3212.6 yrs+1.5 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£8150+ yrs+3.8 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating(optional, beyond D)£4,000 – £6,000£6850+ yrs+3.2 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

£1,911
per year at grade E
£1,568
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £275 a year — a 4.6% annual return on £5,923.

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

16 December 2022£818,000

Estimated today: £816,380 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

School Road: 97 sales since 1995 · £586,863 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Tudor Grange Primary Academy Hockley HeathPrimary0.4 mi
St Patricks Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary1.7 mi
Cheswick Green Primary SchoolPrimary2.1 mi
ArdenSecondary2.8 miProgress 8 +0.59 · well above average (2023/24)
St Peter's Catholic SchoolSecondary3.5 miProgress 8 +0.32 · above average (2023/24)
Tudor Grange Academy, SolihullSecondary3.5 miProgress 8 +0.75 · well 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.

13.7
crimes a month
151
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 32% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01010183, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

School Road

How this home sits against its street.

49
graded homes
65.4
average score
B
most common grade
-21.4
this home vs street
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