Silver Ash, Southend Road, Rettendon Common, Chelmsford CM3 8ED

Detached bungalow · Built 1983-1990 · 138 m² · Rented (Private) · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

ED for £14,900 · £14,900 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £6,000£9137.5 yrs+5.9 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£7050+ yrs+4.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£8450+ yrs+5.5 pts · reaches D

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

£1,566
per year at grade E
£1,321
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £245 a year — a 1.6% annual return on £14,900.

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

16 July 2018£740,000

Estimated today: £888,355 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Southend Road: 8 sales since 1995 · £725,625 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
East Hanningfield Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary1.4 mi
Rettendon Primary SchoolPrimary1.8 mi
St Peter's Church of England Primary Academy, West HanningfieldPrimary1.9 mi
Beauchamps High SchoolSecondary3.5 miProgress 8 -0.02 · average (2023/24)
William de Ferrers SchoolSecondary3.6 miProgress 8 -0.41 · below average (2023/24)
The Sandon SchoolSecondary3.6 miProgress 8 +0.15 · 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.

8.2
crimes a month
82
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 40% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021535, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Southend Road

How this home sits against its street.

9
graded homes
54.3
average score
E
most common grade
-14.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.