43 Forest Gate, Blackpool FY3 9BA

Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 186 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £4,500 · £4,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1845.4 yrs+4.1 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£676.0 yrs+1.5 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1387.3 yrs+3.0 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£2548.3 yrs+5.6 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£3,500 – £5,500£17126.4 yrs+3.8 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

£2,845
per year at grade D
£2,031
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £643 a year — a 14.3% annual return on £4,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2022, states £1,675 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

1 August 2023£390,000
23 January 2015£175,000
3 July 2007£207,000

Estimated today: £407,112 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Forest Gate: 216 sales since 1995 · £112,078 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Kentigern's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Devonshire Primary AcademyPrimary0.4 mi
Blackpool St John's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
St Mary's Catholic AcademySecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.70 · well below average (2023/24)
St George's School A Church of England AcademySecondary1.5 miProgress 8 +0.38 · above average (2023/24)
Blackpool Aspire AcademySecondary1.5 miProgress 8 -1.31 · 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.

20.1
crimes a month
221
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 38% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01012677, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Forest Gate

How this home sits against its street.

84
graded homes
67.3
average score
C
most common grade
-8.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.