7 Clare Drive, Highfields Caldecote, Cambridge CB23 7UY

Detached house · Built 1996-2002 · 133 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £23,015 · £23,015 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£15£43.8 yrs+0.1 pts
Band A condensing boiler£1,500 – £3,500£5545.1 yrs+1.0 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£7050+ yrs+1.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£11,000 – £20,000£8450+ yrs+1.6 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

£1,723
per year at grade D
£1,510
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £213 a year — a 0.9% annual return on £23,015.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2011, states £1,050 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 March 2021£530,000
4 August 2014£435,000
6 December 2002£250,000
11 April 2001£233,995

Estimated today: £600,745 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Clare Drive: 159 sales since 1995 · £370,598 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Caldecote Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Hardwick and Cambourne Community Primary SchoolPrimary1.3 mi
The Vine Inter-Church Primary SchoolPrimary1.5 mi
Comberton Village CollegeSecondary2.2 miProgress 8 +0.42 · above average (2023/24)
Cambourne Village CollegeSecondary2.8 miProgress 8 +0.30 · above average (2023/24)
Swavesey Village CollegeSecondary5.8 miProgress 8 +0.55 · 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.

10.9
crimes a month
120
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 40% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01018231, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Clare Drive

How this home sits against its street.

60
graded homes
73
average score
C
most common grade
-8.0
this home vs street
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