8 Lidster Close, Leicester LE5 1AD

Detached bungalow · Built 1950-1966 · 250 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

BA for £3,100 · £3,100 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£2903.5 yrs+3.3 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£5353.9 yrs+6.0 pts · reaches A
Floor insulation(optional, beyond A)£4,000 – £6,000£38812.9 yrs+4.4 pts
Solar water heating(optional, beyond A)£4,000 – £6,000£30116.6 yrs+3.4 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

£3,612
per year at grade B
£2,098
per year at grade A

The full plan saves £825 a year — a 26.6% annual return on £3,100.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £2,563 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

19 September 2003£60,000

Estimated today: £137,365 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Lidster Close: 6 sales since 1995 · £154,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Humberstone Junior SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Humberstone Infant AcademyPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Falcons Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Orchard Mead AcademySecondary1.1 miProgress 8 -0.69 · well below average (2023/24)
St Paul's Catholic School, a Voluntary AcademySecondary1.3 miProgress 8 +0.30 · above average (2023/24)
Crown Hills Community CollegeSecondary1.5 miProgress 8 +0.32 · 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.

8.6
crimes a month
95
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 41% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01013699, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Lidster Close

How this home sits against its street.

8
graded homes
75.5
average score
C
most common grade
+7.5
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.