68 Lockesley Drive, Orpington BR5 2AF

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 86 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £17,500 · £8,750 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£9810.2 yrs+4.8 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£13138.1 yrs+6.4 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£10249.2 yrs+4.9 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£12150+ yrs+5.9 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

£1,333
per year at grade D
£881
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £452 a year — a 2.6% annual return on £17,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2017, states £906 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

22 June 2021£426,000
29 January 2010£198,000

Estimated today: £483,698 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Lockesley Drive: 159 sales since 1995 · £436,479 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Perry Hall Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Poverest Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
St. Mary Cray Primary AcademyPrimary0.7 mi
Harris Academy OrpingtonSecondary1.2 miProgress 8 +0.15 · average (2023/24)
St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar SchoolSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 +1.27 · well above average (2023/24)
Newstead Wood SchoolSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 +1.05 · 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.

5.9
crimes a month
53
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 34% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01000734, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Lockesley Drive

How this home sits against its street.

97
graded homes
63.8
average score
D
most common grade
-1.8
this home vs street
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