Squirrels, Spring Elms Lane, Little Baddow, Chelmsford CM3 4SD

Detached house · Built 1967-1975 · 184 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £4,700 · £2,350 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£1,200 – £200£1096.4 yrs+8.2 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £0£10139.5 yrs+7.6 pts · reaches B
Low energy lighting(optional, beyond B)£450£550+ yrs+0.4 pts
Wind turbine(optional, beyond B)£25,000 – £0£9150+ yrs+6.8 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

£2,018
per year at grade D
£1,712
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £211 a year — a 4.5% annual return on £4,700.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £1,429 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

16 April 2018£970,000

Estimated today: £1,165,865 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Spring Elms Lane: 35 sales since 1995 · £1,009,778 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St John Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School DanburyPrimary1.1 mi
Danbury Park Community Primary SchoolPrimary1.4 mi
Woodham Walter Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary1.7 mi
The Sandon SchoolSecondary3.2 miProgress 8 +0.15 · average (2023/24)
The Boswells SchoolSecondary3.9 miProgress 8 -0.16 · average (2023/24)
Plume SchoolSecondary4.2 miProgress 8 -0.37 · 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.

7
crimes a month
56
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 30% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021568, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Spring Elms Lane

How this home sits against its street.

26
graded homes
53.9
average score
E
most common grade
+13.1
this home vs street
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