3 Highdene Road, Cambridge CB1 9YD

Detached flat · Built 1967-1975 · 59 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £1,200 · £1,200 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£900 – £1,500£1517.9 yrs+4.0 pts · reaches C

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

£1,023
per year at grade D
£872
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £151 a year — a 12.6% annual return on £1,200.

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

Sold prices

29 September 2021£260,500
6 August 2014£195,000
31 July 2000£81,000

Estimated today: £251,707 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Highdene Road: 15 sales since 1995 · £262,625 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Bewick Bridge Community Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Cherry Hinton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Colville Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
St Bede's Inter-Church SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +1.02 · well above average (2023/24)
The Netherhall SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.10 · 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.

10.3
crimes a month
103
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 38% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017963, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Highdene Road

How this home sits against its street.

17
graded homes
67.6
average score
C
most common grade
+0.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.