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Get upgrade quotesThis certificate lists these measures but records the same score with and without them, so there is no saving or rating gain to attribute to any one of them. That usually means the assessment was incomplete — here the assessor recorded no heating system at all. The costs below are real; a fresh assessment would be the way to find the gain.
| Measure | Grant | Net cost | Saving / yr | Payback | Grade effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Change of heating system | — | £5,000typical | — | — | — |
| Double glazing | — | £1,200 – £4,900typical | — | — | — |
| Solar water heating | — | £5,000typical | — | — | — |
| Hot water cylinder insulation | — | £23 – £300typical | — | — | — |
| Solid wall insulation | — | £9,000typical | — | — | — |
| Solar photovoltaic panels | — | £4,500 – £9,000typical | — | — | — |
Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges, except where marked typical, which this certificate did not price and which are taken instead from comparable homes of the same type.
Running costs
Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.
Sold prices
No sale recorded for this address since 1995.
Upton Road: 31 sales since 1995 · £214,465 average over 10 years
Schools nearby
The schools’ own performance — Progress 8 shows value added, not just raw results.
| School | Phase | Distance | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bidston Avenue Primary School | Primary | 0.2 mi | — |
| Co-op Academy Portland | Primary | 0.4 mi | — |
| Birkenhead High School Academy | All-through | 0.6 mi | Progress 8 +0.43 · above average (2023/24) |
| St Anselm's College | Secondary | 0.5 mi | Progress 8 +0.03 · average (2023/24) |
| Birkenhead Park School | Secondary | 0.7 mi | Progress 8 -0.55 · well below average (2023/24) |
| Ridgeway High School | Secondary | 1.3 mi | Progress 8 -0.16 · 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.
Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01007158, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.
Upton Road
How this home sits against its street.