31 Alder Drive, Chelmsford CM2 9EZ

Semi-Detached house · Built 1967-1975 · 145 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £5,675 · £5,675 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Flat roof insulation£850 – £1,500£5521.2 yrs+4.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£6850+ yrs+4.9 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

£1,586
per year at grade C
£1,463
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £123 a year — a 2.2% annual return on £5,675.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2024, states £1,663 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

18 December 2024£526,000
29 October 2007£255,000
27 April 2001£134,995

Estimated today: £552,571 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Alder Drive: 53 sales since 1995 · £389,324 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Mildmay Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Moulsham Infant SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Moulsham Junior SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Moulsham High SchoolSecondary0.2 miProgress 8 +0.67 · well above average (2023/24)
Great Baddow High SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.03 · average (2023/24)
Hylands SchoolSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.86 · well below 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.

3.4
crimes a month
31
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 58% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021584, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Alder Drive

How this home sits against its street.

31
graded homes
65.5
average score
D
most common grade
+6.5
this home vs street
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