3 Oakwell Drive, Ilkeston DE7 5GL

Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 207 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

ED for £18,200 · £18,200 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£100 – £300£4610.4 yrs+6.5 pts
Band A condensing boiler£1,500 – £3,500£3796.6 yrs+5.4 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£11,000 – £20,000£57127.1 yrs+8.1 pts · reaches D

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

£3,995
per year at grade E
£2,584
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £1,411 a year — a 7.8% annual return on £18,200.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2011, states £2,435 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

24 May 2019£332,000

Estimated today: £435,318 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Oakwell Drive: 24 sales since 1995 · £291,869 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Thomas Catholic Voluntary AcademyPrimary0.3 mi
Chaucer Infant SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Chaucer Junior SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise AcademySecondary0.2 miProgress 8 -0.41 · below average (2023/24)
Kirk Hallam Community AcademySecondary0.5 miProgress 8 -0.84 · well below average (2023/24)
Saint John Houghton Catholic Voluntary AcademySecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.21 · 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.

9.1
crimes a month
100
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 35% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01019673, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Oakwell Drive

How this home sits against its street.

12
graded homes
60
average score
D
most common grade
-17.0
this home vs street
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