53 Howard Road, Cambridge CB5 8QT

Semi-Detached flat · Built 1950-1966 · 85 m² · Owner-Occupied · Electric storage heaters

Upgrade Plan

ED for £1,530 · £1,530 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£30£1870.2 yrs+4.0 pts
High-retention storage heaters£3,000 – £0£4323.5 yrs+9.3 pts · reaches D
Cavity wall insulation(optional, beyond D)£1,500 – £500£1646.1 yrs+3.5 pts
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond D)£14,000 – £0£23729.5 yrs+5.1 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

£2,638
per year at grade E
£1,618
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £619 a year — a 40.5% annual return on £1,530.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2020, states £1,691 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

21 November 2008£140,000
30 October 1997£55,000
8 March 1995£47,500

Estimated today: £237,481 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Howard Road: 149 sales since 1995 · £386,555 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Fen Ditton Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Marleigh Primary AcademyPrimary0.6 mi
The Galfrid SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
North Cambridge AcademySecondary1.6 miProgress 8 +0.19 · average (2023/24)
Coleridge Community CollegeSecondary1.8 miProgress 8 +0.23 · above average (2023/24)
St Bede's Inter-Church SchoolSecondary1.9 miProgress 8 +1.02 · 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.

9.3
crimes a month
102
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 38% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017944, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Howard Road

How this home sits against its street.

79
graded homes
66
average score
D
most common grade
-21.0
this home vs street
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