8 Pertwee Drive, Chelmsford CM2 8DZ

Detached house · Built 1967-1975 · 125 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EB for £14,670 · £4,890 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£20£111.9 yrs+0.3 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£2,700 – £700£3385.0 yrs+8.7 pts · reaches D
Heating controls£450£895.0 yrs+2.3 pts
Cavity wall insulation£1,500 – £500£1835.5 yrs+4.7 pts
Band A condensing boiler£3,000 – £0£15010.0 yrs+3.9 pts
Floor insulation£6,000 – £0£24512.2 yrs+6.3 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£6,000 – £0£19015.8 yrs+4.9 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £0£22717.6 yrs+5.9 pts · reaches B

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

£2,460
per year at grade E
£1,027
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,433 a year — a 9.8% annual return on £14,670.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2018, states £1,561 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

8 February 2019£445,000
31 May 2001£177,500

Estimated today: £529,132 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Pertwee Drive: 45 sales since 1995 · £433,172 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Larkrise Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Baddow Hall Infant SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Baddow Hall Junior SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Great Baddow High SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +0.03 · average (2023/24)
The Sandon SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.15 · average (2023/24)
Moulsham High SchoolSecondary1.2 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.

6.6
crimes a month
59
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 54% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021566, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Pertwee Drive

How this home sits against its street.

28
graded homes
62.1
average score
D
most common grade
-13.1
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.