29 Lakeside, Darlington DL1 5TH

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 130 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £13,740 · £13,740 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1546.5 yrs+4.9 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1158.7 yrs+3.6 pts
Low energy lighting£240£735.5 yrs+0.2 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£12041.8 yrs+3.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£14345.5 yrs+4.5 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

£2,320
per year at grade D
£1,781
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £539 a year — a 3.9% annual return on £13,740.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2015, states £1,613 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

12 February 2019£222,000
5 February 2016£219,950
24 July 2000£82,000

Estimated today: £292,163 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Lakeside: 52 sales since 1995 · £242,904 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Skerne Park AcademyPrimary0.3 mi
Polam Hall SchoolAll-through0.4 miProgress 8 -0.05 · average (2023/24)
St Augustine's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Carmel CollegeSecondary1.3 miProgress 8 +0.38 · above average (2023/24)
Hummersknott AcademySecondary1.5 miProgress 8 -0.48 · below average (2023/24)
St Aidan's Church of England AcademySecondary1.6 miProgress 8 -0.96 · well 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.

18.4
crimes a month
202
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 33% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01012358, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Lakeside

How this home sits against its street.

23
graded homes
62.2
average score
D
most common grade
-6.2
this home vs street
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