22 Higher Drive, Purley CR8 2HE

Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 129 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £2,000 · £2,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1715.8 yrs+5.4 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1287.8 yrs+4.1 pts · reaches C
Low energy lighting(optional, beyond C)£75£710.0 yrs+0.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£3,500 – £5,500£15828.4 yrs+5.0 pts
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£13337.6 yrs+4.2 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

£1,962
per year at grade D
£1,364
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £299 a year — a 14.9% annual return on £2,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2020, states £1,234 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

24 November 2020£660,000
23 January 1998£181,000

Estimated today: £668,800 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Higher Drive: 227 sales since 1995 · £636,696 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Beaumont Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Harris Primary Academy KenleyPrimary0.6 mi
Margaret Roper Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Thomas More Catholic SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
Woodcote High SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.07 · average (2023/24)
The John Fisher SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.28 · above 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.

6.3
crimes a month
63
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 40% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01001073, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Higher Drive

How this home sits against its street.

203
graded homes
71.5
average score
B
most common grade
-11.5
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.