7 Cant Way, Braintree CM7 3PU

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1950-1966 · 87 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £9,900 · £9,900 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£350 – £450£1822.0 yrs+2.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£4650+ yrs+5.4 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£3950+ yrs+4.5 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

£1,170
per year at grade C
£1,067
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £103 a year — a 1.0% annual return on £9,900.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2024, states £1,312 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

19 April 2024£285,000
16 January 2020£245,000
23 October 2015£190,000
12 April 2007£145,000
8 March 2002£79,500
18 April 1997£43,000

Estimated today: £297,417 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Cant Way: 26 sales since 1995 · £256,044 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Beckers Green Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Lyons Hall SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
John Ray Junior SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
Alec Hunter AcademySecondary0.1 miProgress 8 -0.10 · average (2023/24)
Notley High School and Braintree Sixth FormSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
Tabor AcademySecondary1.9 miProgress 8 -0.41 · 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.

26.5
crimes a month
292
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 45% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021368, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Cant Way

How this home sits against its street.

14
graded homes
63.8
average score
D
most common grade
+6.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.