7 Filby Drive, Durham DH1 1LT

Semi-Detached bungalow · Built 1950-1966 · 71 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

EC for £7,000 · £3,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1168.6 yrs+7.5 pts · reaches D
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£8711.5 yrs+5.6 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£9050+ yrs+5.8 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£9,000 – £14,000£10850+ yrs+7.0 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

£1,218
per year at grade E
£817
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £293 a year — a 4.2% annual return on £7,000.

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

12 October 2012£125,000
12 February 2001£63,000

Estimated today: £179,398 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Filby Drive: 1 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Belmont Cheveley Park Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
St Thomas More Primary School, BelmontPrimary0.7 mi
Belmont CofE (Controlled) Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Belmont Community SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.15 · average (2023/24)
Framwellgate School DurhamSecondary2.5 miProgress 8 -0.05 · average (2023/24)
St Leonard's Catholic School, DurhamSecondary2.7 miProgress 8 +0.64 · well 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.

11.3
crimes a month
124
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 29% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01020690, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.