7 Luard Close, Cambridge CB2 8PL

Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 235 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EC for £23,405 · £11,703 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£100 – £350£2420.9 yrs+3.6 pts
Low energy lighting£80£223.6 yrs+0.3 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£3128.3 yrs+4.6 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£5079.9 yrs+7.5 pts · reaches D
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£47013.8 yrs+6.9 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£54916.4 yrs+8.1 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

£4,161
per year at grade E
£2,060
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £2,101 a year — a 9.0% annual return on £23,405.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £2,953 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

18 January 2017£1,775,000

Estimated today: £2,012,086 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Luard Close: 7 sales since 1995 · £1,515,913 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Morley Memorial Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Queen Edith Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Fawcett Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Trumpington Community CollegeSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.61 · well above average (2023/24)
Cambridge Academy for Science and TechnologySecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.45 · above average (2023/24)
Coleridge Community CollegeSecondary1.0 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.

5
crimes a month
40
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 32% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01035520, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Luard Close

How this home sits against its street.

7
graded homes
70.7
average score
D
most common grade
-24.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.