3 Peel Close, Blandford Forum DT11 7JU

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 126 m² · Owner-Occupied · Electric storage heaters

Upgrade Plan

DC for £13,575 · £13,575 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£75£710.2 yrs+0.2 pts
High-retention storage heaters£2,800 – £4,200£33210.6 yrs+8.8 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£16829.7 yrs+4.5 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£13138.3 yrs+3.5 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£5,000 – £8,000£15641.7 yrs+4.1 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

£2,653
per year at grade D
£1,859
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £638 a year — a 4.7% annual return on £13,575.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2017, states £1,479 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

25 July 2019£310,000

Estimated today: £379,975 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Peel Close: 27 sales since 1995 · £358,700 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Archbishop Wake Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Milldown CofE AcademyPrimary0.6 mi
Blandford St Mary Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary1.1 mi
The Blandford SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 -0.33 · below average (2023/24)
Queen Elizabeth's SchoolSecondary7.8 miProgress 8 -0.17 · average (2023/24)
Corfe Hills SchoolSecondary9.3 miProgress 8 +0.01 · 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.

8.6
crimes a month
95
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 33% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01020439, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Peel Close

How this home sits against its street.

9
graded homes
66.8
average score
C
most common grade
-11.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.