8 Forest Approach, Woodford Green IG8 9BW

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 116 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £18,535 · £9,268 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£35£57.4 yrs+0.2 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1099.2 yrs+4.6 pts · reaches C
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£8112.3 yrs+3.4 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£8450+ yrs+3.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£10150+ yrs+4.2 pts · reaches B

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

£1,465
per year at grade D
£1,085
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £380 a year — a 2.1% annual return on £18,535.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2014, states £979 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 August 2010£530,000
30 June 2006£429,950

Estimated today: £1,123,984 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Forest Approach: 105 sales since 1995 · £780,413 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Churchfields Junior SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Churchfields Infants' SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Oakhill Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Woodford County High SchoolSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 +0.79 · well above average (2023/24)
Woodbridge High SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.38 · above average (2023/24)
Highams Park SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.08 · 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
60
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 32% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01003670, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Forest Approach

How this home sits against its street.

50
graded homes
58.9
average score
D
most common grade
+8.1
this home vs street
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