8 Forest Road, Hinckley LE10 1HB

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 109 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £26,800 · £26,800 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£900 – £1,200£6516.2 yrs+1.6 pts
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£13650+ yrs+3.4 pts
Solid wall insulation£7,500 – £11,000£14750+ yrs+3.7 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£12650+ yrs+3.2 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

£1,561
per year at grade C
£1,088
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £473 a year — a 1.8% annual return on £26,800.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill.

Sold prices

10 November 2006£163,000
20 March 1998£49,000

Estimated today: £290,028 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Forest Road: 112 sales since 1995 · £198,784 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Saint Peter's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyPrimary0.3 mi
Hinckley Parks Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
St Mary's Church of England Primary School, HinckleyPrimary0.8 mi
Hastings High SchoolSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.40 · above average (2023/24)
The Hinckley SchoolSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 -0.52 · well below average (2023/24)
Redmoor AcademySecondary1.5 miProgress 8 +0.23 · above 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.

5.2
crimes a month
52
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 38% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01025859, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Forest Road

How this home sits against its street.

46
graded homes
56.3
average score
D
most common grade
+12.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.