288 Straight Road, Colchester CO3 9DX

Semi-Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 82 m² · Electric storage heaters

Upgrade Plan

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting(optional, beyond D)£18£130.0 yrs+0.0 pts
Change of heating system(optional, beyond D)£3,000 – £7,000£3950+ yrs+0.6 pts
Solar water heating(optional, beyond D)£4,000 – £6,000£1150+ yrs+0.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond D)£11,000 – £20,000£1350+ yrs+0.2 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

£1,989
per year at grade D
£1,926
per year at grade D

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2011, states £922 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

16 April 2012£200,000
21 December 2011£150,000

Estimated today: £364,045 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Straight Road: 429 sales since 1995 · £369,462 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Gosbecks Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Prettygate Junior SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Prettygate Infant SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Paxman AcademySecondary0.5 miProgress 8 -0.17 · average (2023/24)
Philip Morant School and CollegeSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
The Stanway SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.07 · 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
crimes a month
24
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 50% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021690, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Straight Road

How this home sits against its street.

195
graded homes
60.8
average score
D
most common grade
-4.8
this home vs street
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