Flat 1, 18, Sutherland Drive, Birchington CT7 9XD

End-Terrace flat · Built 1983-1990 · 68 m² · Electric storage heaters

Upgrade Plan

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting(optional, beyond D)£15 – £30typical£45.0 yrs+0.1 pts
High-retention storage heaters(optional, beyond D)£1,000 – £1,500typical£2026.2 yrs+4.9 pts

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges, except where marked typical, which this certificate did not price and which are taken instead from comparable homes of the same type. 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

£1,579
per year at grade D
£1,373
per year at grade D

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2010, states £636 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

13 April 2012£109,000
17 February 2011£110,000
26 April 2002£79,000

Estimated today: £192,499 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Sutherland Drive: 108 sales since 1995 · £222,782 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Birchington Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
St Saviour's Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
St Crispin's Infant SchoolPrimary1.1 mi
King Ethelbert SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 -0.43 · below average (2023/24)
Ursuline CollegeSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 -0.19 · average (2023/24)
Hartsdown AcademySecondary2.4 miProgress 8 -0.39 · 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.

11.5
crimes a month
126
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 47% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01024641, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Sutherland Drive

How this home sits against its street.

34
graded homes
66
average score
C
most common grade
-5.0
this home vs street
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