8 Long Close Avenue, Coventry CV5 9GH

Semi-Detached flat · Built 1950-1966 · 66 m² · Owner-Occupied · No system present: electric heaters assumed

Upgrade Plan

FC for £5,685 · £1,895 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Flue gas heat recovery£400 – £900£3132.1 yrs+9.6 pts · reaches E
Low energy lighting£35£142.5 yrs+0.4 pts
Change of heating system£3,000 – £7,000£9195.4 yrs+28.0 pts · reaches C

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

£1,753
per year at grade F
£507
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £1,246 a year — a 21.9% annual return on £5,685.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

21 December 2021£98,000
29 September 2000£41,000

Estimated today: £101,326 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Long Close Avenue: 39 sales since 1995 · £118,430 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Allesley Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Allesley Hall Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Park Hill Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Coundon CourtSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.28 · below average (2023/24)
Cardinal Newman Catholic SchoolSecondary1.7 miProgress 8 +0.26 · above average (2023/24)
West Coventry AcademySecondary1.9 miProgress 8 -0.46 · 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.

8.9
crimes a month
89
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 46% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009531, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Long Close Avenue

How this home sits against its street.

21
graded homes
65
average score
D
most common grade
-29.0
this home vs street
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