4 Smithers Drive, Chelmsford CM2 7JP

Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 145 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

BA for £8,700 · £8,700 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£900 – £1,500£1697.1 yrs+2.6 pts
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£22733.1 yrs+3.4 pts · reaches A

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

£1,910
per year at grade B
£1,514
per year at grade A

The full plan saves £396 a year — a 4.6% annual return on £8,700.

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

Sold prices

19 October 2018£505,000

Estimated today: £599,762 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Smithers Drive: 22 sales since 1995 · £434,508 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Baddow Hall Infant SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Baddow Hall Junior SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Larkrise Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
The Sandon SchoolSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 +0.15 · average (2023/24)
Great Baddow High SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.03 · average (2023/24)
Moulsham High SchoolSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 +0.67 · 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.

6
crimes a month
48
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 35% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021561, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Smithers Drive

How this home sits against its street.

15
graded homes
64.7
average score
D
most common grade
+24.3
this home vs street
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