7 City Road, Cambridge CB1 1DP

Mid-Terrace flat · Built 1991-1995 · 52 m² · Owner-Occupied · Room heaters, electric

Upgrade Plan

DC for £1,000 · £1,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
High-retention storage heaters£800 – £1,200£1845.4 yrs+8.6 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£9350+ yrs+4.4 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

£1,137
per year at grade D
£860
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £184 a year — a 18.4% annual return on £1,000.

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

Sold prices

14 October 2024£250,000
10 February 2014£157,500

Estimated today: £225,172 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

City Road: 71 sales since 1995 · £469,313 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Matthew's Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Park Street CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
St Alban's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Parkside Community CollegeSecondary0.1 miProgress 8 +0.80 · well above average (2023/24)
Chesterton Community CollegeSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +1.05 · well above average (2023/24)
Coleridge Community CollegeSecondary1.3 miProgress 8 +0.23 · 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.

49.1
crimes a month
540
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 27% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017983, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

City Road

How this home sits against its street.

40
graded homes
65.8
average score
D
most common grade
-1.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.