7 Forest Road, Witham CM8 2PF

End-Terrace house · Built 1983-1990 · 90 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £3,700 · £3,700 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£1,200 – £200£4416.0 yrs+5.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,500 – £500£4050+ yrs+4.8 pts · reaches B
Solar water heating(optional, beyond B)£6,000 – £0£3450+ yrs+4.0 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

£1,032
per year at grade C
£914
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £84 a year — a 2.3% annual return on £3,700.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2020, states £661 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

27 July 2020£257,000
12 July 2000£83,000
29 January 1999£66,000

Estimated today: £303,810 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Forest Road: 92 sales since 1995 · £220,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Templars AcademyPrimary0.4 mi
Elm Hall Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Acorn AcademyPrimary1.0 mi
Lift New RickstonesSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 -0.43 · below average (2023/24)
Lift MaltingsSecondary1.2 miProgress 8 -0.64 · well below average (2023/24)
Thurstable SchoolSecondary4.5 miProgress 8 -0.19 · 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.

10.6
crimes a month
117
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 50% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021420, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Forest Road

How this home sits against its street.

42
graded homes
65.3
average score
C
most common grade
+6.7
this home vs street
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