85 Hardwick Road, Hove BN3 8BS

Not Recorded flat · Built 1950-1966 · 52 m² · Rented (Private) · Room heaters, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £6,780 · £6,780 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£20 – £40£550.5 yrs+1.6 pts
Change of heating system£3,500 – £10,000£18336.9 yrs+5.5 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation(optional, beyond C)£5,000 – £10,000£6450+ yrs+1.9 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

£1,063
per year at grade D
£761
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £238 a year — a 3.5% annual return on £6,780.

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

Sold prices

No sale recorded for this address since 1995.

Hardwick Road: 119 sales since 1995 · £224,793 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
West Blatchington Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Hangleton Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Goldstone Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
King's SchoolSecondaryunder 0.1 miProgress 8 +0.84 · well above average (2023/24)
Blatchington Mill SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.30 · above average (2023/24)
Hove Park School and Sixth Form CentreSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.13 · 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.

11.9
crimes a month
131
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 47% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016885, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Hardwick Road

How this home sits against its street.

88
graded homes
71.4
average score
C
most common grade
-7.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.