6 Balvenie Way, Dudley DY1 3LY

End-Terrace house · Built 1996-2002 · 69 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £7,550 · £3,775 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Party wall insulation£300 – £600£479.5 yrs+3.8 pts · reaches C
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£5348.8 yrs+4.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£8050+ yrs+6.5 pts · reaches B
Solar water heating(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £6,000£6750+ yrs+5.4 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

£1,106
per year at grade D
£858
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £181 a year — a 2.4% annual return on £7,550.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2022, states £651 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

28 January 2011£122,000
21 May 2004£117,000
22 May 1998£60,000

Estimated today: £223,842 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Balvenie Way: 43 sales since 1995 · £177,750 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Wrens Nest Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Roberts Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Milking Bank Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Bishop Milner Catholic CollegeSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 -0.02 · average (2023/24)
Beacon Hill AcademySecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.04 · average (2023/24)
Ellowes Hall Sports CollegeSecondary0.9 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.

5.4
crimes a month
54
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 57% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009780, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Balvenie Way

How this home sits against its street.

12
graded homes
70.5
average score
C
most common grade
-2.5
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.